Journals:

[J29] Joint Multi-Target Estimation in ISAC-Enabled OFDM Systems, accepted for publication in IEEE Communication Letters (early access), 2025. [pdf-link]

Naveed Anjum, Ekant Sharma

[J28] Target detection for OTFS-aided cell-free MIMO ISAC system, accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 2025. [pdf-link]

Shivani Singh, Amudheesan Nakkeeran, Prem Singh, Ekant Sharma, Jyotsna Bapat

[J27] Full-Duplex Massive MIMO Relaying over Spatially Correlated Rician Channel with Phase Shifts, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, volume 74, no. 6, June 2025. [pdf-link]

Priya Gupta, Malay Chakraborty, Ekant Sharma, Debashis Ghosh

[J26] Optimized Algorithms for FPGA Implementation of PDCCH Chain for 5G-NR Base Station, accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, vol. 72, no. 7, pp. 3474-3487, July 2025. [pdf-link]

Harsha rudramuniyappa, Samudrala Soujanya, Prem singh and Ekant Sharma

[J25] The Spectral vs. Energy Efficiency Trade-Off in Dynamic User Clustering Aided mmWave NOMA Networks, IEEE Transactions on Communications, volume 73, no. 6, June 2025. [pdf-link]

Sudhakar Rai, Ekant Sharma, Aditya K Jagannatham, and Lajos Hanzo

[J24] Analysis and Optimisation of RIS-Assisted Cell-Free Massive MIMO NOMA Systems, IEEE Transactions on Communications, volume 73, no. 4, April 2025. [pdf-link]

Malay Chakraborty, Ekant Sharma, Himal Suraweera, Hien Ngo

[J23] Energy Efficiency Optimization of FBMC/OQAM-based Massive MIMO Systems Subject to Electromagnetic Exposure Constraints, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, volume 73, no. 11, November 2024. [pdf-link]

Sudhakar Rai, Prem Singh, Ekant Sharma, Aditya K Jagannatham, Lajos Hanzo

[J22] Spatially Correlated Multi-Pair Massive MIMO Relaying with Rician Channel and Phase Shifts, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 72, no. 4, pp. 4844-4850, April 2023. [pdf-link]

Priya Gupta, Dharmendra Prajapati, Ekant Sharma, Debashis Ghosh

[J21] Hardware Impaired RIS Assisted Multi-Pair FD Communication With Spatial Correlation, IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 26, no. 9, pp. 2200-2204, September 2022. [pdf-link]

Sreenivasulu Reddy Kudumala, Ashutosh Kumar Dubey, Priya Gupta, Saakshi Gupta, Ekant Sharma

[J20] UAV-Enabled Hardware-Impaired Spatially Correlated Cell-Free Massive MIMO Systems: Analysis And Energy Efficiency Optimization, IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 70, no. 4, pp. 2722-2741, April 2022. [pdf-link]

Venkatesh Tentu, Ekant Sharma, Dheeraj Naidu Amudala, Rohit Budhiraja

[J19] Full-Duplex Cell-Free Massive MIMO Systems: Analysis and Decentralized Optimization, IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, vol. 3, pp. 31-50, December 2021. [pdf-link]

Soumyadeep Datta, Dheeraj Naidu Amudala, Ekant Sharma, Rohit Budhiraja and Shivendra S. Panwar

[J18] Hardware-Impaired Rician-Faded Massive MIMO FD Relay: Analysis And Optimization, IEEE Transactions on Communications, to appear (early access).[pdf-link]

Sauradeep Dey, Ekant Sharma, and Rohit Budhiraja

[J17] Energy-Efficient Spatially-Correlated Hardware Impaired Massive MIMO FD Relaying, IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 69, no. 3, pp. 2028-2046, March 2021. [pdf_link]
Dheeraj Naidu Amudala, Ekant Sharma, and Rohit Budhiraja

[J16] Energy-Efficient Massive MIMO Multi-Relay NOMA Systems With CSI errors, IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 68, no. 12, pp. 7410-7428, Dec. 2020. [pdf_link]

Vikalp Mandawaria, Ekant Sharma and Rohit Budhiraja

[J15] WSEE Optimization Using Asynchronous ADMM For Massive MIMO Two-Way Relaying, IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 24, pp 2255 - 2259, Oct. 2020. [pdf-link]

Tentu Venkatesh, Ekant Sharma, and Rohit Budhiraja

[J14] Hybrid Massive MIMO Two-Way Relaying With Users And Relay Hardware Impairments , IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 27, pp 486 - 490, Feb. 2020. [pdf-link]

Ekant Sharma, Neha Gupta, Sauradeep Dey and Rohit Budhiraja

[J13] Energy Efficiency Optimization of Massive MIMO FD Relay With Quadratic Transform, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 19, pp 1429 - 1448, Feb. 2020. [pdf-link]

Ekant Sharma, Dheeraj Naidu Amudala, and Rohit Budhiraja

[J12] Decentralized WSEE Optimization for Massive MIMO Two-Way Half-Duplex AF Relaying, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 19, pp 1397 - 1414, Feb. 2020. [pdf-link]

Ekant Sharma, Swadha Chauhan, and Rohit Budhiraja

[J11] Spectral Efficiency Optimization of Spatially-Correlated Multi-Pair Full-Duplex Massive MIMO Relaying, IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 67, pp 8346 - 8364, Dec. 2019. [pdf-link]

Dheeraj Naidu Amudala, Ekant Sharma, and Rohit Budhiraja

[J10] Transceiver Design for Massive MIMO Two-Way Half-Duplex AF Hybrid Relay With MIMO Users, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 68, pp 8759 - 8774, Sept. 2019. [pdf-link]

Ekant Sharma, Arpita Chauhan, and Rohit Budhiraja

[J9] WSEE Maximization of mmWave NOMA Systems, IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 23, pp 1413 - 1417, Aug. 2019. [pdf-link]

Vikalp Mandawaria, Ekant Sharma and Rohit Budhiraja

[J8] Scaling Analysis of Hardware-Impaired Two-Way Full-Duplex Massive MIMO Relay, IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 23, pp 1249 - 1253, Aug. 2019. [pdf-link]

Sauradeep Dey, Ekant Sharma and Rohit Budhiraja

[J7] Massive MIMO multi-pair two-way half-duplex AF FDD relaying:channel estimation , CSI Transactions on ICT, March 2019. [pdf-link]

Dheeraj Naidu Amudala, Anupama Rajoriya, Ekant Sharma, Sauradeep Dey and Rohit Budhiraja

[J6] Weighted Sum Energy Efficiency Optimization for Massive MIMO Two-Way Half-Duplex AF Relaying, IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, vol. 8, pp 25-28, Feb. 2019. [pdf-link]

Ekant Sharma, Swadha Siddhi Chauhan, and Rohit Budhiraja

[J5] Spectral- and Energy-Efficiency of Massive MIMO Two-Way Half-Duplex Hybrid Processing AF Relay, IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, vol. 7, pp 876 - 879, Oct. 2018. [pdf-link]

Ekant Sharma, Ashish Shukla, and Rohit Budhiraja

[J4] CFO and Channel Estimation for Frequency Selective MIMO-FBMC/OQAM Systems, IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, vol. 7, pp 844 - 847, Oct. 2018. [pdf-link]

Prem Singh, Ekant Sharma, K Vasudevan and Rohit Budhiraja

[J3] Full-Duplex Massive MIMO Multi-Pair Two-Way AF Relaying: Energy Efficiency Optimization, IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 66, pp 3322-3340, Aug. 2018. [pdf-link]

Ekant Sharma, Rohit Budhiraja, K Vasudevan and Lajos Hanzo

[J2] PAPR Analysis of Superimposed Training Based SISO/MIMO-OFDM Systems With Orthogonal Affine Precoder, Elsevier Physical Communications, Aug. 2017. [pdf-link]

Ekant Sharma, Himanshu B Mishra, K Vasudevan and Rohit Budhiraja

[J1] BER Efficient Interleaved OFDM System, Wireless Personal Communications, Springer, 98, no. 1 (2018): 1531-1546. [pdf-link]

Ekant Sharma, Sahil Rane, and K Vasudevan

Conferences:

[C40] Secure Hybrid Precoding in mmWave MIMO OTFS System in the presence of Transmitter IQI, accepted for publication in IEEE GLOBECOM 2025 Workshop, Taipei, Taiwan.

Anand Mehrotra, Priyanka Maity, Ekant Sharma, Prem Singh and Aditya K Jagannatham

[C39] Urban Cell Planning: An AI-Driven Convex Optimization Approach with Field Measurements, accepted for publication in IEEE ANTS 2025, Delhi, India.

Rajat Badaria, Aman Tiwari, Abhay Kumar Sah and Ekant Sharma

[C38] Design of Compact 1-Bit Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface for Enhancing Wireless Coverage, accepted for publication in IEEE MAPCON 2025, Kerala, India.

Praween Kumar Nishad, Ekant Sharma and Prem Singh

[C37] 3.5 GHz Operated Fractal Based Linearly Polarized Antenna for Wireless Applications, accepted for publication in IEEE MAPCON 2025, Kerala, India.

Subhasish Pandav, Praween Kumar Nishad and Ekant Sharma

[C36] Multi-Target Full-Duplex Massive MIMO Integrated Sensing and Communication System, accepted for publication in IEEE GLOBECOM 2025, Taipei, Taiwan.

Abhilash Ranjan and Ekant Sharma

[C35] RIS-Assisted Secure Cell-Free Massive MIMO Under Imperfect Hardware and EMI, accepted for publication in IEEE GLOBECOM 2025, Taipei, Taiwan.

Sowrabh Banik, Malay Chakraborty and Ekant Sharma

[C34] Hardware Efficient CRC Algorithm for 5G-NR, accepted for publication in IEEE Future Networks World Forum, 10-23 Novermber, 2025, Bangalore, India.

Samudrala Soujanya, Prem Sing and Ekant Sharma

[C33] Joint Active and Passive Beamforming Design for RIS-Aided D2D Communication in Downlink Underlay Cellular Communication, accepted for publication in 2025 IEEE 101st Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2025-Spring),

Adrija Bhaduri, Ranjay Hazra, Devendra S. Gurjar and Ekant Sharma

[C32] RIS-Aided Fronthaul Constrained Cell-Free Massive MIMO Systems With Hardware Impairments, IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), 24-27 March 2025, Italy, 2025, pp. 1-5.

Malay Chakraborty, Sowrabh Banik, Ekant Sharma, Himal A Suraweera, Hien Ngo

[C31] Low Complexity Precoding for OTFS-Aided Cell-Free mMIMO ISAC System, IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), 24-27 March 2025, Italy, 2025, pp. 1-5.

Dwikul Jyoti Das, Abhilash Ranjan, Ekant Sharma, Prem Singh

[C30] STAR-RIS Assisted Massive MIMO ISAC System With Partial Zero-Forcing Precoding, IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), 24-27 March 2025, Italy, 2025, pp. 1-5.

Ashwani Kumar, Malay Chakraborty, Dwikul Jyoti Das, Abhilash Ranjan, Ekant Sharma

[C29] Energy Efficient Massive MIMO IoT Network: A Power and MSE Constrained Approach, 2024 International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications (SPCOM), Bangalore, India, 2024, pp. 1-5.

K. P. Rajput, E. Sharma, P. Singh and B. S. Mysore Ramarao

[C28] Dynamic User Clustering for mmWave-Based NOMA Networks, IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications (APCC), 2024.

Sudhakar Rai, Ekant Sharma, Neeraj Varshney, Aditya K Jagannatham

[C27] Implementation of Channel Deinterleaver for 5G NR PUCCH Channel, IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications (APCC), 2024.

Samudrala Soujanya, Arjun Menon K, Prem Singh, Ekant Sharma

[C26] OTFS Aided Full-Duplex Cell-Free Massive MIMO , IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), 21–24 April 2024.

Dwikul Jyoti Das, Sai Teja Kollimarla, Ekant Sharma, Prem Singh

[C25] Impact of Rician Phase Shifts on Multi-Pair Two-Way Full-Duplex Massive MIMO Relaying , IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), 21–24 April 2024.

Malay Chakraborty, Priya Gupta, Ekant Sharma, Debashis Ghosh

[C24] Two-Fold Physical Layer Security for OTFS-aided RIS Communication, IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), 21–24 April 2024.

Shaik Suhail Farhaan, Samudrala Soujanya, Prem Singh, Ekant Sharma

[C23] FPGA Implementation and Architecture Design of Polar Encoder for 5G-NR, 2023 IEEE Region 10 Conference (TENCON), 2023, pp. 535-540.

H. Rudramuniyappa, S. Soujanya, R. Jain, N. Anjum, P. Singh and E. Sharma

[C22] FPGA Implementation of Rate Matching in 5G NR PDSCH, 2023 IEEE Region 10 Conference (TENCON), 2023, pp. 1-6.

R. Jain, N. Anjum, S. Soujanya, H. Rudramuniyappa, A Jain, A. Bisht and E. Sharma and P. Singh

[C21] Downlink Spectral E_ciency of RIS-Assisted Cell-Free Massive MIMO-NOMA Systems With CSI Errors, 2022 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), 2022, pp. 1016-1021.

Malay Chakraborty, Sivapavan Kumar Vasa, Ekant Sharma and Himal A Suraweera

[C20] Analysis of Statistical CSI-based Optimized Phase-Shift IRS-aided FD mMIMO System, 2021 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), 2021, pp. 1-6.

Nitish Vikas Deshpande, Sauradeep Dey, Dheeraj Naidu Amudala, Ekant Sharma and Rohit Budhiraja

[C19] FD Cell-Free mMIMO: Analysis and Optimization, to appear in IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Jun 2021.

Soumyadeep Datta, Ekant Sharma, Dheeraj Naidu Amudala, Rohit Budhiraja and Shivendra Panwar

[C18] UAV-Enabled Hardware-Impaired Cell-free Massive MIMO With Spatially-Correlated Rician Fading, to appear in IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Jun 2021.

Venkatesh Tentu, Dheeraj Naidu Amudala, Ekant Sharma and Rohit Budhiraja

[C17] Max-Min Fairness for Wireless-Powered Spatially Correlated Massive MIMO Multi-way Relaying, to appear in IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Jun 2021.

Aditya Gupta, Dheeraj Naidu Amudala, Ekant Sharma and Rohit Budhiraja

[C16] Dynamic Resolution ADC/DAC Massive MIMO FD Relaying System Over Correlated Rician Channel, Proceedings of IEEE EUSIPCO 2020, Amsterdam, Netherlands, pp. 1-6, Jan. 2021.

Sauradeep Dey, Ekant Sharma, and Rohit Budhiraja

[C15] Spectral Efficiency for Massive MIMO Multi-Relay NOMA Systems with CSI errors, Proceedings of IEEE EUSIPCO 2020, Amsterdam, Netherlands, pp. 1-6, Jan. 2021.

Vikap Mandawaria, Ekant Sharma, and Rohit Budhiraja

[C14] Impact of User and Relay Hardware Impairments on Spectral Efficiency of HD Massive MIMO Relay, Proceedings of IEEE SPCOM 2020, Bengaluru, India, pp. 1-6, July. 2020.

Sauradeep Dey, Ekant Sharma, and Rohit Budhiraja

[C13] Spatially-Correlated Hardware-Impaired Massive MIMO FD Relaying With MIMO Users, Proceedings of IEEE ICC, 2020, Dublin, Ireland, pp. 1-6, Jan. 2020.

Dheeraj Naidu Amudala, Ekant Sharma and Rohit Budhiraja

[C12] Energy Efficient Multi-Pair Massive MIMO Two-Way AF Relaying: A Deep Learning Approach, Proceedings of IEEE COMSNETS, 2020, Bengaluru, India, pp. 1-6, Jan. 2020.

Venkatesh Tentu, Dheeraj Naidu Amudala, Anupama Rajoriya, Ekant Sharma and Rohit Budhiraja

[C11] Power Scaling for Massive MIMO UAV Communication System, Proceedings of IEEE COMSNETS, 2020, Bengaluru, India, pp. 1-6, Jan. 2020.

Soumyadeep Datta, Ekant Sharma and Rohit Budhiraja

[C10] Multi-Pair Two-way Full-Duplex Massive MIMO Relaying with Non-Ideal Hardware, Proceedings of IEEE Globecomm 2019, Hawai, USA, pp. 1-6, Dec. 2019.

Sauradeep Dey, Ekant Sharma, and Rohit Budhiraja

[C9] Energy Efficiency Optimization of Massive MIMO FD Relay Using Quadratic Programming, Proceedings of IEEE SPAWC 2019, Cannes, France, pp. 1-6, Jul. 2019. [pdf-link]

Ekant Sharma, Dheeraj Naidu Amudala, and Rohit Budhiraja

[C8] Spectral Efficiency of Multi-pair Two-Way Massive MIMO Relay With Correlated Hardware Distortion, Proceedings of IEEE SPAWC 2019, Cannes, France, pp. 1-6, Jul. 2019. [pdf-link]

Neha Gupta, Ekant Sharma, Sauradeep Dey, and Rohit Budhiraja

[C7] QoS-Constrained Energy-Efficient AF Two-Way Full-Duplex Relaying with Massive Antennas, Proceedings of IEEE SPCOM 2018, IISc Bangalore, India, pp. 1-6, Jul. 2018. [pdf-link]

Ekant Sharma and Rohit Budhiraja

[C6] Hybrid Block Diagonalization for Massive MIMO Two-Way Half-Duplex AF Hybrid Relay, Proceedings of IEEE SPCOM 2018, IISc Bangalore, India, pp. 1-6, Jul. 2018. [pdf-link]

Arpita Chauhan, Ekant Sharma, and Rohit Budhiraja

[C5] Spectral- and Energy-Efficiency for Massive MIMO Two-Way Full-Duplex Hybrid Processing AF Relay, Proceedings of IEEE SPCOM 2018, IISc Bangalore, India, pp. 1-6, Jul. 2018. [pdf-link]

Ekant Sharma, Ashish Kant Shukla, and Rohit Budhiraja

[C4] Multi-Pair Two Way AF Full-Duplex Massive MIMO Relaying with ZFR/ZFT Processing, Proceedings of IEEE PIMRC 2017, Montreal, QC, Canada, October 8-13, 2017. [pdf-link]

Ekant Sharma, Rohit Budhiraja and Kasturi Vasudevan

[C3] PAPR Analysis of Superimposed Training Based MIMO-OFDM Systems using an Orthogonal Affine Precoder, IEEE 13th International Conference INDICON, Bengaluru, India, Dec 2016. [pdf-link]

Ekant Sharma, H. B. Mishra, and K Vasudevan

[C2] Training Sequence Optimization for Estimating the Channel in the Presence of Colored Interference for MIMO-OFDM Systems, IEEE Region 10 Conference (TENCON), Singapore, Nov 2016. [pdf-link]

Ekant Sharma, H. B. Mishra, and K Vasudevan

[C1] PAPR and BER Minimized OFDM Systems with Low Complexity Channel Independent Precoders, 22nd IEEE Symposium on Communications and Vehicular Technology in the Benelux (SCVT), Luxembourg, Nov 2015. [pdf-link]

Ekant Sharma and K Vasudevan