Welcome to the Multimedia Wireless Networks (MWN) Lab at IIT Kanpur. Members of MWN are involved in carrying out research at the cutting edge of Multimedia Transmission and Wireless Networks. The aim of the lab is to develop robust algorithms for reliable high fidelity multimedia content transmission over contemporary and next generation mobile wireless cellular, local area and sensor networks. The projects being carried out are related to solving high impact challenging issues related to video coding and communication, which can then be rapidly prototyped for baseband ASIC implementation in mobile wireless clients. Some of the salient research areas at MWN are listed below.

Research Areas @ MWN

  • LTE/WiMAX Based 4G Wireless.
  • MIMO/OFDM Wireless Systems.
  • H.264/SVC Based Scalable Video Coding.
  • Next Generation Cognitive Radio Wireless.
  • Wireless Sensor Networks.
  • Multimedia Transmission Over Wireless.
  • Resource Allocation in Wireless Networks.
  • TCP and HARQ for Low Latency over Wireless.

News @ MWN

  • Naveen Kumar Venkategowda has been awarded the student travel grant for the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2012) for his work titled "WR based Semi-Blind Channel Estimation for Frequency-Selective MIMO MC-CDMA Systems".
  • Naveen Kumar Venkategowda has been awarded the TCS Research Scholarship.
  • Shreyans Parakh has been awarded the Student Travel Grant to present his paper at ATNAC 2011.
  • Ram Manohar Kudupudi has been adjudged to be the Best Teaching Assistant of the Department of Electrical Engineering in the 1st semester of academic year 2011-2012.

Current Research

  • N. Venkategowda and A.K. Jagannatham, "WR based Semi-Blind Channel Estimation for Frequency-Selective MIMO MC-CDMA Systems", In Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2012), Paris, France.

  • Pratibha and Aditya K. Jagannatham, "Power Allocation for MIMO-OFDM based CR with Spatial Constraints and CSI Uncertainty", Accepted for publication in the 7th IEEE sensor array and multichannel signal processing workshop to be held at Hoboken, New Jersey, USA.

  • Adarsh Patel and Aditya K. Jagannatham, "SOCP based Robust Detector for Cooperative Spectrum Sensing in MIMO Cognitive Radio", Accepted for publication in the 7th IEEE sensor array and multichannel signal processing workshop to be held at Hoboken, New Jersey, USA.