Research Interests
Wireless Communication, 5G/6G Systems, Cell-free Massive MIMO, mmWave and THz Communications, Hybrid RF/VLC Systems, Applications of Deep Learning in Wireless Systems.
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Research
Energy Efficient Beamforming Optimization for Hybrid-RIS aided Massive MIMO Networks
2026
Debajit Choudhury and Abhay Kumar Sah | IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Communications
Journal: IEEE
Network-Assisted Full-Duplex RIS-aided Cell-Free Massive MIMO for Integrated Sensing and Communication
2026
Debajit Choudhury and Abhay Kumar Sah | IEEE
Journal: IEEE Transactions on Communications
Liquid Crystal Based Optical STAR-RIS for Enhancing VLC Connectivity in Indoor Workspaces
2026
Hari Shanker O K, Vivek K. Kandikuppa, Abhay Kumar Sah, and Sandeep K. Singh | IEEE (ICC)
Journal: IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2026
Deep Learning Driven 3GPP-Compliant Scheduler for 6G Networks
2026
Debajit Choudhury, Suhani Agarwal, and Abhay Kumar Sah | IEEE (ICC)
Journal: IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2026
Deep Reinforcement Learning based Scheduler for 5G Networks
2026
Tanvi Mathur, R. Chhangani, D. Choudhury, and Abhay Kumar Sah | IEEE (WCNC)
Journal: IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Scalable Implementation of LS and MMSE Channel Estimators for OFDM Systems on RF System-on-Chip
2026
Shweta Rai, L. Kolhe, J. Bahuguna, and Abhay Kumar Sah | IEEE (WCNC)
Journal: IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Uplink Channel Estimation in Virtual Full-Duplex Cell-free Massive MIMO Systems
2026
Santosh K. Singh, Rohit Saini, and Abhay Kumar Sah | IEEE (WCNC)
Journal: IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Low-Complexity KKT-Based Access Point Placement for Cell-Free Hybrid VLC/RF Network
2026
Shaifali Gupta, Abotula Iswarya, Abhay Kumar Sah, and A. Jaiswal | NCC
Journal: National Conference on Communications (NCC), Hyderabad
Beamforming Design for Active STAR-RIS-aided CF-mMIMO Networks under Non-Linear Hardware Impairments and Electromagnetic Interference
2025
Debajit Choudhury and Abhay Kumar Sah | IEEE
Journal: IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications Pages: 698–711 , Volumes: 25 ,
An Efficient Hybrid Cooperative Target Search for UAV Swarms
2025
S. Upadhyay, N. Prajapati, M. Kumar, and Abhay Kumar Sah | IEEE
Journal: IEEE Communications Letters Pages: 2875–2879 , Volumes: 29 (no. 12) ,
Analyzing Energy Efficiency Trade-offs in RIS aided Cell-Free Massive MIMO Networks
2025
Debajit Choudhury and Abhay Kumar Sah | IEEE
Journal: IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Communications Pages: 11512–11517 , Volumes: 7 (no. 7) ,
Analysis of Exponential Correlation Matrices for Massive MIMO Systems
2025
S. Dhuli, S. Kouachi, Abhay Kumar Sah, and S. Werner | IEEE
Journal: IEEE Communications Letters Pages: 1345–1349 , Volumes: 29 (no. 6) ,
Energy Efficient Joint Beamforming Design for Hardware-Impaired STAR-RIS Assisted CF-mMIMO Systems
2025
Debajit Choudhury and Abhay Kumar Sah | IEEE
Journal: IEEE Transactions on Communications Pages: 3849–3862 , Volumes: 73 (no. 6) ,
Distributed Beam combining in Cell-Free Massive MIMO Networks
2025
Santosh K. Singh and Abhay Kumar Sah | IEEE
Journal: IEEE Transactions on Communications Pages: 2077–2087 , Volumes: 73 (no. 3) ,
A CLDNN-Based Approach for Effective Automatic Modulation Classification at Low SNRs
2025
Gaurav Raghuvanshi and Abhay Kumar Sah | IEEE (ANTS)
Journal: IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems (ANTS), New Delhi, India
Urban Cell Planning: An AI-Driven Convex Optimization Approach with Field Measurements
2025
Rajat Badaria, Aman Tiwari, Abhay Kumar Sah, and Ekant Sharma | IEEE (ANTS)
Journal: IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems (ANTS), New Delhi, India
Deep Reinforcement Learning driven 3GPP-Compliant Scheduler for Cell-Free Massive MIMO Networks
2025
Tanvi Mathur, R. Chhangani, D. Choudhury, and Abhay Kumar Sah | IEEE (GLOBECOM)
Journal: IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Taipei, Taiwan
An Optical IRS-Aided Hybrid VLC/RF System for Dynamic Indoor Environment
2025
Hari Shanker O K, V. Fadia, and Abhay Kumar Sah | IEEE (GLOBECOM)
Journal: IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Taipei, Taiwan
An Improved Sparse Channel Estimation in RIS-assisted mmWave MIMO Systems
2025
Debajit Choudhury and Abhay Kumar Sah | NCC
Journal: National Conference on Communications (NCC), Delhi
Multi-User Pairing for NOMA Enabled VLC System
2024
Hari Shanker O K and Abhay Kumar Sah | IEEE
Journal: IEEE Communications Letters Pages: 1072–1076 , Volumes: 28 (no. 5) ,
Alternating Minimization Based Hybrid Precoder for Cell-free Massive MIMO Networks
2024
Santosh K. Singh and Abhay Kumar Sah | EAI (BODYNETS)
Journal: EAI International Conference on Body Area Networks (BODYNETS), Varanasi, India
Designing 5G PHY Layer Compliant Cell-Free Massive MIMO Simulator using Sounding Signal
2024
Santosh K. Singh, Lokesh Patidar, and Abhay Kumar Sah | IEEE (GLOBECOM Workshop)
Journal: IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) Workshop, Capetown, South Africa
An Element Selection based Phase-Shift Optimization in RIS-aided Vehicular Network
2024
Sruthi Ramachandran, Hari Shankar O K, and Abhay Kumar Sah | IEEE (GLOBECOM)
Journal: IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Capetown, South Africa
SWIPT-NOMA Enabled Hybrid VLC/RF System for Dynamic Indoor Workspaces
2024
Hari Shankar O K, Vanya Tiwari, and Abhay Kumar Sah | IEEE (ANTS)
Journal: IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems (ANTS), Guwahati, India
An Interference Aware User-Group Pilot Assignment for Cell-Free Massive MIMO Systems
2023
Santosh K. Singh, Yallammagari Chakravarthy, and Abhay Kumar Sah | IEEE
Journal: IEEE Wireless Communications Letters Pages: 1169–1173 , Volumes: 12 (no. 7) ,
Self-Interference Cancellation in a Full-Duplex MIMO Relay under Non-Linear Hardware Impairments
2023
Santosh K. Singh, Ankit Kumar, Aryan Dhiman, and Abhay Kumar Sah | IEEE (ELEX-COM)
Journal: IEEE International Conference On Electrical Electronics Communication and Computers (ELEX-COM), Roorkee, India
Churn Rate Aware Interference Management for Device-to-Device Communications in SDNs
2023
Hunny Saini, Santosh K. Singh, Abhay Kumar Sah, and S.K. Vankayala | IEEE (ICC)
Journal: IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Rome, Italy
Beam-combining in 5G-Open RAN Systems
2023
Santosh K. Singh, Abhay Kumar Sah, S.K. Vankayala, S. Parthasarthy, G.S.V. Uma, and S. Yoon | NCC
Journal: National Conference on Communications (NCC), Guwahati, India
Low-cost Beam-combining Architecture for O-RUs in mmWave Massive MIMO based 5G O-RAN System
2022
Abhay Kumar Sah, Santosh K. Singh, S.K. Vankayala, S. Parthasarthy, G.S.V. Uma, and S. Yoon | IEEE (GLOBECOM)
Journal: IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
An Untrained DNN Denoiser for Uplink Channel Estimation in Next-Gen Massive MIMO System
2022
Yatharth Bansal and Abhay Kumar Sah | IEEE (PIMRC)
Journal: IEEE 33rd Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC)
Beam Combining in Massive MIMO System under Non-Linear Hardware Impairments
2022
Sahaj Kumar Jha, Abhay Kumar Sah, and Sonia Aïssa | IEEE (WCNC)
Journal: IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), Austin, TX, USA
A Framework for Exploiting Hard and Soft LLRs for Low Complexity Decoding in VRAN Systems
2021
S.K. Vankayala, R. Gundeti, K.G. Shenoy, Abhay Kumar Sah, Swaraj K., and S. Yoon | IEEE (WCNC)
Journal: IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), Nanching, China
Beam alignment for mmWave using non-stationary bandits
2020
R. Gupta, K. Lakshmanan, and Abhay Kumar Sah | IEEE
Journal: IEEE Communications Letters Pages: 2619–2622 , Volumes: 24 (no. 11) ,
Analysis of Downlink NOMA in Full Duplex-Half Duplex Mixed Cell PPP System with Interference
2020
S. Parthasarthy, Abhay Kumar Sah, and S.K. Vankayala | IEEE (ANTS)
Journal: IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems (ANTS), New Delhi, India
Accelerated Detected Schemes for PSS in 5G-NR
2020
S.K. Vankayala, Javed Akhtar, Ashok Krishnan, and Abhay Kumar Sah | IEEE (5GWF)
Journal: IEEE 3rd 5G World Forum (5GWF), Bangalore, India
Generalized Block Based Spatial Modulation and Space Shift Keying
2019
Shyam Gadhai, Abhay Kumar Sah, R. Budhiraja, and A.K. Chaturvedi | IEEE (SPAWC)
Journal: IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), Cannes, France
New Block-based Spatial Modulation
2018
Shyam Gadhai, Abhay Kumar Sah, A.K. Singh, R. Budhiraja, and A.K. Chaturvedi | IEEE
Journal: IEEE Communications Letters Pages: 2016–2019 , Volumes: 22 (no. 10) ,
Bit-level Reduced Neighborhood Search for Low-complexity Detection in Large MIMO Systems
2018
Pushpender Mann, Abhay Kumar Sah, R. Budhiraja, and A.K. Chaturvedi | IEEE
Journal: IEEE Wireless Communications Letters Pages: 146–149 , Volumes: 7 (no. 2) ,
Sequential and Global Likelihood Ascent Search based Detection in Large MIMO Systems
2018
Abhay Kumar Sah and A.K. Chaturvedi | IEEE
Journal: IEEE Transactions on Communications Pages: 713–725 , Volumes: 66 (no. 2) ,
Likelihood Based Tree Search for Low Complexity Detection in Large MIMO Systems
2017
Saksham Agarwal, Abhay Kumar Sah, and A.K. Chaturvedi | IEEE
Journal: IEEE Wireless Communications Letters Pages: 450–453 , Volumes: 6 (no. 4) ,
An Unconstrained Likelihood Ascent based Detection Algorithm for Large MIMO Systems
2017
Abhay Kumar Sah and A.K. Chaturvedi | IEEE
Journal: IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications Pages: 2262–2273 , Volumes: 16 (no. 4) ,
An MMP based Approach for Detection in Large MIMO Systems using Sphere Decoding
2017
Abhishek, Abhay Kumar Sah, and A.K. Chaturvedi | IEEE
Journal: IEEE Wireless Communications Letters Pages: 158–161 , Volumes: 6 (no. 2) ,
Quasi-Orthogonal Combining for Reducing RF Chains in Massive MIMO Systems
2017
Abhay Kumar Sah and A.K. Chaturvedi | IEEE
Journal: IEEE Wireless Communications Letters Pages: 126–129 , Volumes: 6 (no. 1) ,
Stopping Rule based Iterative Tree Search for Low-Complexity Detection in MIMO Systems
2017
Abhay Kumar Sah and A.K. Chaturvedi | IEEE
Journal: IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications Pages: 169–179 , Volumes: 16 (no. 1) ,
Improved Sparsity Behaviour and Error Localization in Detectors for Large MIMO Systems
2016
Abhishek, Abhay Kumar Sah, and A.K. Chaturvedi | IEEE (GLOBECOM)
Journal: IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Washington DC, USA
Beyond Fixed Neighborhood Search in the Likelihood Ascent Algorithm for MIMO Systems
2016
Abhay Kumar Sah and A.K. Chaturvedi | IEEE (ICC)
Journal: IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Iterative Matrix Inversion Based Low Complexity Detection in Large/Massive MIMO Systems
2016
Vipul Gupta, Abhay Kumar Sah, and A.K. Chaturvedi | IEEE (ICC)
Journal: IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Improving the Reliability of Receivers for 5G Networks
2016
Abhay Kumar Sah and A.K. Chaturvedi | IEEE (COMSNETS)
Journal: IEEE International Conference on COMmunication Systems and NETworkS (COMSNETS), Bangalore, India
Reduced Neighborhood Search Algorithms for Low Complexity Detection in MIMO Systems
2015
Abhay Kumar Sah and A.K. Chaturvedi | IEEE (GLOBECOM)
Journal: IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), San Diego, California, USA
An Upper Bound on the Performance of K-best Detection for MIMO Systems
2014
Abhay Kumar Sah and A.K. Chaturvedi | IEEE (SPCOM)
Journal: IEEE Signal Processing and Communications (SPCOM), Bangalore, India
Performance of Dynamic MIMO Systems in Presence of Nakagami Fading
2010
Ravi Kumar, Rajiv Saxena, Abhay Sah, Saroj Gupta, and Tapesh Chandgothia | IEEE (CICSyN)
Journal: IEEE Computational Intelligence, Communication Systems and Networks (CICSyN), Liverpool, UK
Global Patents
1. S.K. Vankayala, R. Gundeti, Abhay Kumar Sah, A. Nigam, G.S.V. Umakishore, A. Kaithara, Joseph, S. Yoon, “Method and system for hierarchical decoding of data packets in cellular communication system” (WO2021080383A1).
2. S.K. Vankayala, Abhay Kumar Sah, A. Nigam, G.S.V. Uma, and T. Mittra, “Method and apparatus for enabling optimized decoding of data packet in harq based communication” (WO2021075888A1).
3. S.K. Vankayala, R. Gundeti, Abhay Kumar Sah, I. Kommineni, A. Nigam, S. Shetty, and G.S.V. Uma, “Methods and systems for optimizing computation of log-likelihood ratio (LLR) for decoding modulated symbols” (US20230042213A1). Granted
4. S.K. Vankayala, S. Madhurapantula, A. Nigam, A. Bhat, Abhay Kumar Sah, and Sudharsan Parthasarthy, “Method and system for channel quality status prediction in wireless network using machine learning” (US20220278728A1). Granted
5. S.K. Vankayala, J. Akhtar, Abhay Kumar Sah, N. Srinivasan, G.S.V. Uma, and R. Gundeti, “Methods and Systems for Detecting Primary Synchronization Signal (PSS) in a Wireless Network” (US20200313783A1). Granted
6. S.K. Vankayala, J. Akhtar, Abhay Kumar Sah, N. Srinivasan, G.S.V. Uma, and R. Gundeti, “Methods and Systems for Detecting Primary Synchronization Signal (PSS) in a Wireless Network” (EP3949181A4). Granted
National Patents
7. Abhay Kumar Sah, Shweta Rai, and Adarsh Patel, “A method for establishing the synchronization between multiple APs” (To file).
8. Abhay Kumar Sah, Santosh K. Singh, and Lokesh Patidar, “CSIRS design method for channel estimation and pre-coding processes in multi-connected cell-free network” (20251105154).
9. Abhay Kumar Sah and Debajit Choudhury, “A Methods for automatic modulation selection and recognition for the modern radio access networks” (202411081569)
10. Abhay Kumar Sah and Santosh K. Singh, “A grant-free random access method for cell-free networks” (202311045133/583614). Granted
11. S.K. Awasthi and Abhay Kumar Sah, “A system and method for estimating the location of a base station using RSSI available on the mobile station” (202211054392/580815). Granted
12. S.K. Vankayala, Abhay Kumar Sah, and G.S.V. Uma, “Hierarchical Coordinated Multi-point Processing for Uplink in 4G/5G/VRAN Systems” (201941043247).
13. Abhay Kumar Sah, S.K. Vankayala, and G.S.V. Uma, “Power Efficient and Low Complexity Receiver for a Wireless Communication and its Operating Method Thereof” (202041013448/482643). Granted
14. S.K. Vankayala, R. Gundeti, Abhay Kumar Sah, I. Kommineni, A. Nigam, S. Shetty, and G.S.V. Uma, “A Novel Iterative Method for LLR” (202041014792/475774). Granted
15. S.K. Vankayala, Abhay Kumar Sah, A. Nigam, G.S.V. Uma, and T. Mittra “Method for Optimal HARQ Chase Combining for 4G/5G/VRAN/CRAN Systems” (201941042232).
16. S.K. Vankayala, S. Madhurapantula, A. Nigam, A. Bhat, Abhay Kumar Sah, and Sudharsan Parthasarthy, “Base Station CQI prediction using ML” (201941047831/483330). Granted
17. Abhay Kumar Sah, S. K. Vankayala, Uma Kishore Godavarti, and Ashok K. Reddy Chavva, “Method and system for combining incoming signals” (202041004871).
18. S.K. Vankayala, J. Akhtar, Abhay Kumar Sah, N. Srinivasan, G.S.V. Uma, and R. Gundeti, “Methods and Systems for Detecting Primary Synchronization Signal (PSS) in a Wireless Network” (201941013045).
19. Abhay Kumar Sah and A.K. Chaturvedi, “Low Complexity Detection in Multiple Input Multiple Output Systems” (201811029113/518912). Granted
20. Abhay Kumar Sah and A.K. Chaturvedi, “A Neighborhood Search based Large Multiple Input Multiple Output Detector” (201811029143/478273). Granted