Dr Ajay Bhardwaj 
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
- Device-to-device communications
- Next Generation of Wireless Networks, 5G
- Internet of Things
Experience top of the world living and learning at SRM University-AP
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SRM University-AP, Neerukonda,
Mangalagiri Mandal, Guntur District, Andhra Pradesh - 522240
- June 2020 - November 2020 | Project Executive Officer, | Dept. of Electrical Engineering | Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
- March 2020 - May 2020 | Senior Project Engineer | School of Computing and Electrical Engineering | Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, Mandi, India
- May 2019 - January 2020 | Senior Project Engineer | School of Computing and Electrical Engineering | Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, Mandi, India
- Given an open seminar as a part of optimization seminar series at University of Lethbridge, Canada. 2020
- TPC Member: ACTS conference- 2020, NIT Silchar, India
- Reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
- Reviewer: IEEE Access
- Reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
- Reviewer: IEEE Wireless Communications Letters
- Reviewer: IET Communications
- Reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Communications
- Reviewer: IEEE Communications Letters
- The broad research interest lies in next generation of wireless networks 5G and beyond 5G. Current research topics includes device-to-device communications, resource allocation and optimization problems, and network selection strategies.
• Feasibility and resource management for Device-to-Device (D2D) multicast communication in underlay cellular networks. - • Modelling and simulation of sum-rate maximization problems in D2D-multicast communication.
- • Characterized the sum-rate behaviour of different underlay and overlay D2D networks
- • Analysed the trade-off between Energy efficiency and Spectral efficiency in D2D multicast communications.
- • Designed personalized handover schemes for seamless roaming in heterogeneous wireless network.
- Gate Qualified - 2011, 2012, 2013
- Awarded UGC-NET June 2012 & June 2013
- 2nd position in Oral presentation in Research Fair at IIT Mandi
- Received MHRD scholarship from Government of India during M.Tech. (2011 -2013).
- Received MHRD scholarship from Government of India during Ph.D. (2013 -2019).
- Awarded COMSNETS student travel grant for presenting the doctoral work at IEEE 8th International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS, January 5-9, 2016 | Bengaluru, India.
- Acted as Research Secretary (a member of IIT Mandi’s Senate) during 2016-17
- IEEE Member
BOOK CHAPTERS
- Devi, G., Kumar, M. and Bhardwaj, A., A Review on Estimation Methods of Scour Depth Around Bridge Pier. River Dynamics and Flood Hazards: Studies on Risk and Mitigation, pp.189-201, 2022.
- A. Bhardwaj and D. S. Gurjar, "Resource Allocation in D2D Communication", 5G and Beyond Wireless Systems: PHY Layer Perspective, in Springer, 2020
- A. Bhardwaj and S. Agnihotri, "Multicast protocols for D2D", Wiley 5G Ref, Eds R. Tafazolli, C.-L. Wang, and P. Chatzimisios, Wiley, 2019
- D. Gurjar, A. Bhardwaj and A. Singh, "Performance Estimation of Fuzzy Logic-Based Mobile Relay Nodes in Dense Multihop Cellular Networks,"Intelligent Computing, Networking, and Informatics. Springer, 2014.
JOURNALS
- A. Prathima, D.S. Gurjar, H.H Nguyen, A. Bhardwaj "Performance Analysis and Optimization of Bidirectional Overlay Cognitive Radio Networks with Hybrid-SWIPT", IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 69 (11), 13467-13481, 2020
- A. Sarthi, D. S. Gurjar, C. Sai, P. Pattanayak and A. Bhardwaj, "Performance Impact of Hardware Impairments on Wireless Powered Cognitive Radio Sensor Networks," in IEEE Sensors Letters, 4(6), (2020)
- A. Bhardwaj and S. Agnihotri, "D2D Multicasts in Underlay Cellular Networks", submitted to IEEE Systems Journal, arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.08866, 2020.
- A. Bhardwaj and S. Agnihotri,"D2D multicast in underlay cellular networks with exclusion zones", submitted to IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.00300, 2019.
- A. Bhardwaj and S. Agnihotri, "Energy- and spectral- efficiency tradeoff for D2D-multicasts in underlay cellular networks", IEEE Wireless Commun. Lett., 7 (4), (2018).
- A. Bhardwaj, and N. Purohit, "A Network Detection and Selection Scheme in Heterogeneous Wireless Network", in International Journal of Scientific & Engineering Research, Vol. 3, no. 12, ISSN 2229-5518, Dec. 2012.
CONFERENCE PAPERS
- A. Bhardwaj, D.S. Gurjar and A. Kumar, 2021, December. Spectral Efficiency Analysis of D2D-Enabled Massive MIMO Systems. in Proc. IEEE Advanced Communication Technologies and Signal Processing (ACTS) (pp. 1-6), Dec 2021
- A. Bhardwaj and D.S. Gurjar, "Solving the Incertitude of Network Selection in Het-Nets Using Graph Theory", in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Advanced Communication Technologies and Signal Processing (ACTS), NIT Silchar, India, Dec. 2020.
- A. Bhardwaj and S. Agnihotri, "Channel allocation for multipl D2D-Multicasts in underlay cellular networks using outage probability minimization", in Proc. IEEE National Conference on Communications (NCC), Hyd., India, Feb. 2018.
- A. Bhardwaj and S. Agnihotri, "Interference-aware D2D-Multicast session provisioning in LTE-A networks", in Proc. IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), San Francisco, USA, March 2017.
- A. Bhardwaj and S. Agnihotri, "Resource allocation scheme for multiple Device-to-Device multicast in cellular network", in Proc. IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), Qatar, April 2016.
- A. Bhardwaj "Resource Management for Device-to-Device Multicast in LTE-A Network," in Proc. International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS), Bangalore, Jan. 2016.
- A. Bhardwaj and S. Agnihotri, "A Resource Allocation Scheme for Device-to-Device Multicast in Cellular networks", in Proc. IEEE Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), Hong Kong, Aug. 2015.
- A. Bhardwaj, D. Gurjar and N. Purohit, "An Optimized Network Selection Scheme for Heterogeneous Wireless Networks", in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Contemporary Computing (IC3), Noida, India, Aug. 2013.
- E-mail id: ajay.b@srmap.edu.in