Wireless Communication Research Group

In a world of increasing mobility, there is a growing need for people to communicate with each
other and have timely access to information regardless of the location of the individuals or the
information. The demand for wireless communication systems of increasing sophistication and
ubiquity has led to the need for a better understanding of fundamental issues in communication
theory their implications for the design of highly-capable wireless systems. The Wireless
Communication Research Group of the Electronics department is investigating different kinds of
problems in wireless communications such as MIMO, OFDM, wireless sensor networks,
cognitive radios, cooperative communication, etc.
Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) is effectively a radio antenna technology as it uses
multiple antennas at the transmitter and receiver to enable a variety of signal paths to carry data,
choosing separate paths for each antenna to enable signal paths to be used which gives diversity
as well as multiplexing gains. Research work is going on performance analysis of MIMO
systems for large number of antennas. Sometimes the size of the mobile devices and the
requirement on the distance between antennas may limit the multiple antennas that can be
deployed. To overcome such drawbacks the concept of cooperative communication has been
proposed. The key idea is to form a virtual MIMO antenna array by utilizing a third terminal
called a relay node. Work is going regarding the performance evaluation of asynchronous
distributed space time block coded system for cooperative communication. Orthogonal
frequency division Multiplexing (OFDM) is a technique for the transmission technologies to be
able to cope with problems deriving from high-data rate transmissions over wireless channels
that are limited in bandwidth and power. Presently work is undergoing regarding the
performance analysis of diversity based communication systems under different fading
environments. Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) provide a bridge between real and virtual
worlds. WSNs deployed in Adhoc manner, comprised of numerous sensing nodes organized in a
network for the sake of checking and balancing the environmental factors. Energy harvesting is a
way of powering these WSNs by harvesting energy from the environment. Research is going on
optimization of environmentally powered wireless sensor networks for efficient energy
harvesting. In recent years, the demand of radio spectrum has been rapidly increased owing to
the dramatic growth of wireless applications. The spectrum is poorly utilized in many bands, in
spite of increasing demands for wireless communications. As a solution to this problem, the
concept of cognitive radios (CR) has been flourished. Presently work is undergoing in this area
regarding performance evaluation and analysis of power limited cognitive radios.
Following are the research scholars working in the area of wireless communication:
(1) Kavita Vij Bindra

(2) Amandeep Sharma

(3) Varsha Vimal

(4) Daljeet Singh

(5) Charu Singh

(6) Ashish Chawla