Assistant Professor

Dr Hema Kumar Yarnagula

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Interests

  1. Computer Networks
  2. Adaptive Multimedia Streaming in Mobile Networks
  3. Quality of Experience: Measurement, Modeling and Management

Education

2008

Indira Gandhi National Open University
New Delhi
India
Bachelor of Computer Application (BCA)

2022

Indian Institute of Technology
Guwahati
India
PhD in Computer Science and Engineering

2010

Indira Gandhi National Open University
New Delhi
India
Master of Computer Application (MCA)

2011

Indira Gandhi National Open University
New Delhi
India
Post Graduate Certificate in Cyber Law (PGCCL)

2013

Tezpur University
Assam
India
MTech in Information Technology

Research Interest

  • Computer Networks
  • Adaptive Multimedia Streaming
  • Video Streaming in Mobile Networks
  • Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP
  • Quality of Experience: Measurement, Modelling and Management
  • Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC)/5G
  • Virtual Reality (VR), 360 Degree Streaming, and Elastic Virtualized Content Delivery Networks (vCDN)
  • Multimedia Analytics for video surveillance and smart agriculture.

Awards & Fellowships

  • 2012 - UGC NET (Lectureship) - University Grants Commission (UGC)
  • 2016 - Best Paper Award - IEEE ANTS 2016
  • 2017 - Best Poster Award - COMSNETS 2017
  • 2016 - Student Travel Grant - COMSNETS 2016
  • 2019 - Student Travel Grant - COMSNETS 2019
  • 2020 - ACM SIGCOMM Travel Grant - COMSNETS 2020
  • 2014 - NCTU International Students Scholarship - NCTU Taiwan (Not Accepted)

Memberships

  • Member, ACM (Member Id: 1910794)
  • Member, IEEE (Member Id: 94021657)

Publications

Journals

  • Hema K. Yarnagula, P. Juluri, S. K. Mehr, T. Venkatesh, and Deep Medhi, QoE for Mobile Clients with Segment Aware Rate Adaptation Algorithm (SARA) for DASH Video Streaming, ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications, Volume 15, Issue 2, pp. 36:1-36:23, June 2019.[Impact Factor: 3.980 (2020)]
  • Hema K. Yarnagula, Sanjib K. Deka, and Nityanada Sarma, A Cross-Layer based Location-Aware Forwarding using Distributed TDMA MAC for Ad-Hoc Cognitive Radio Networks, Wireless Personal Communications (Springer), Volume 95, Issue 4, pp. 4517-4534, August 2017. [Impact Factor: 1.170 (2020)]
  • Sanjib K. Deka, N. Sarma, and Hema K. Yarnagula, A Power Allocation Strategy for Underlay Cognitive Radio Networks, Indian Journal of Discrete Mathematics, Volume 1, Issue 2, pp. 58-75, December 2015.

Conference Papers

  • Hema K. Yarnagula, and Venkatesh Tamarapalli, Score-based Objective Quality of Experience Assessment of DASH Adaptation Algorithms, 10th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems (IEEE ANTS '16), November 2016.
  • Hema K. Yarnagula, S. Luhadia, S. Datta, and Venkatesh Tamarapalli, Quality of Experience Assessment of Rate Adaptation Algorithms in DASH: An Experimental Study, The Eighth International Conference on COMmunication Systems and NETworkS (COMSNETS '16), January 2016.
  • Hema K. Yarnagula, Ram K. Vooda, and Venkatesh Tamarapalli, A Measurement Study of Energy Consumption and QoE Trade-offs for DASH in Mobile Devices, 10th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems (IEEE ANTS '16), November 2016.
  • Hema K. Yarnagula, and Venkatesh Tamarapalli, Adaptive Prefetching at Network Edge to Improve DASH QoE, 21st International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN '20), 4-7 January, 2020.
  • Midhul Varma, Hema K. Yarnagula, and Venkatesh Tamarapalli, WebRTC-based Peer Assisted Framework for HTTP Live Streaming, The Ninth International Conference on COMmunication Systems and NETworkS (COMSNETS '17), January 2017.
  • Hema K. Yarnagula, Sanjib K. Deka, and N. Sarma, Distributed TDMA based MAC Protocol for Data Dissemination in Ad-Hoc Cognitive Radio Networks, Seventh IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunication Systems (IEEE ANTS '13), December 2013.
  • Hema K. Yarnagula, Anandi R., and Venkatesh Tamarapalli, Objective QoE Assessment of DASH Adaptation Algorithms over Multipath TCP, The Eleventh International Conference on COMmunication Systems and NETworkS~(COMSNETS '19), 7-11 January 2019.
  • Hema K. Yarnagula, and Venkatesh Tamarapalli, The HTTP/2 Server Push and Its Implications on Mobile Web Quality of Experience, Twenty Fifth National Conference on Communications~(NCC 2019), 20-23 February 2019.
  • Sanjib K. Deka, N. Sarma, and Hema K. Yarnagula, A Power Allocation Strategy for Underlay Cognitive Radio Networks, National Workshop and Conference on Discrete Mathematics and its Applications (NWCDMA 2014), March 2014.

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