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INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE
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Abhay Kumar Sah
Associate Professor
abhaysah[at]ece.iitr.ac.in
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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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IIT Kanpur, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India
2017
PhD, Wireless Communication (Large/Massive MIMO Systems)
Professional Background
Associate Professor
18 Mar 2025 - Present
IIT Roorkee, Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India
Assistant Professor
18 Mar 2020 - 17 Mar 2025
IIT Roorkee, Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India
Lead Architect
16 Sep 2019 - 16 Mar 2020
Radisys India Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore, India
Technical Lead
04 Jan 2018 - 13 Sep 2019
Samsung R&D Institute India, Bangalore, India
Research
Projects
TOPIC START DATE FIELD DESCRIPTION FINANCIAL OUTLAY FUNDING AGENCY OTHER OFFICERS
RIS-enabled Hybrid RF/VLC System for Improving QoE 16 Mar 2025 Hybrid RF/VLC System 229.11 Lakhs TCOE, Department of Telecommunications, New Delhi, India Prof. Sandeep Kumar Singh
Inter-AP Co-ordinated Cell-Free 6G Communication for Ubiquitous Connectivity Nov 01 Oct 2025 6G Networks 201.45 Lakhs TCOE, Department of Telecommunications, New Delhi, India Prof. A. Patel, IIT Mandi
Cell-Free 6G Access Points 01 Oct 2024 6G Networks 82 Lakhs C-DoT, Department of Telecommunications, New Delhi, India Prof. A. Patel, IIT Mandi
System Level Simulation of CF Massive MIMO for Use in 6G 01 Nov 2023 6G Communication 35.5 Lakhs MathWorks Inc., USA, India None
Power-on Pilot IC for Ultra-low Power Wireless IoT Devices 01 Jul 2025 IoT Devices 411 Lakhs Meity, SRIC, IIT Roorkee, IIIT Bangalore, NIT Uttarakhand, NIT Goa, India Prof. S. Dasgupta and others
5G Technology & IoT 01 Jan 2024 5G & IoT NA Coursera, United States Of America Prof. M. Rawat, Prof. E. Sharma, Prof. S. Khanna, Prof. D. Kumar
Realizing Cell-Free Massive MIMO for Beyond 5G Systems 14 Jan 2022 6G Communication 32.59 Lakhs Startup Research Grant, SERB, New Delhi, India None
Deep Learning for Ultra Massive MIMO Systems 23 Sep 2021 Intelligent Wireless Systems 20 Lakhs Faculty Initiation Grant, SRIC, IIT Roorkee, India None
Demystifying CF Communication for 6G&B Systems 01 May 2023 6G Communications 6.64 Lakhs Karyashala, SERB, New Delhi, India
Co-existence of CF Massive MIMO with B5G Technologies 01 May 2023 6G Communications 1.5 Lakhs Vritika, SERB, New Delhi, India
5G Use Case Lab 01 Oct 2023 5G Communications 90 Lakhs TCIL, New Delhi, India Prof. E. Sharma and others
THz Characterization System 01 Oct 2022 THz Communications 650 Lakhs SMILE, SRIC, IIT Roorkee, India Prof. N. P Pathak and others




Publications
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
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
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: no. 6, pp. 1345-1349 , Volumes: 29 ,
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: no. 6, pp. 3849-3862 , Volumes: 73 ,
Distributed Beam combining in Cell-Free Massive MIMO Networks
2025
Santosh K. Singh and Abhay Kumar Sah | IEEE
Journal: IEEE Transactions on Communications Pages: no. 3, pp. 2077-2087 , Volumes: 73 ,
Multi-User Pairing for NOMA Enabled VLC System
2024
Hari Shanker O K and Abhay Kumar Sah | IEEE
Journal: IEEE Communications Letters Pages: 28 , Volumes: no. 5, pp. 1072-1076 ,
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: no. 7, pp. 1169-1173 , Volumes: 12 ,
Beam alignment for mmWave using non-stationary bandits
2020
R. Gupta, K. Lakshmanan, and Abhay Kumar Sah | IEEE
Journal: IEEE Communications Letters Pages: no. 11, pp. 2619-2622 , Volumes: 24 ,
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: no. 10, pp. 2016- 2019 , Volumes: 22 ,
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: no. 2, pp. 146-149 , Volumes: 7 ,
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: no. 2, pp. 713-725 , Volumes: 66 ,
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: no. 4, pp. 450-453 , Volumes: 6 ,
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: no. 4, pp. 2262-2273 , Volumes: 16 ,
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: no. 2, pp. 158-161 , Volumes: 6 ,
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: no. 1, pp. 126-129, Feb , Volumes: 6 ,
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: no. 1, pp. 169-179 , Volumes: 16 ,
Designing 5G PHY Layer Compliant Cell-Free Massive MIMO Simulator using Sounding Signal
2024
Santosh K. Singh, Lokesh Patidar, and Abhay Kumar Sah | IEEE
Journal: IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) Workshop, Capetown, South Africa
Alternating Minimization Based Hybrid Precoder for Cell-free Massive MIMO Networks
2024
Santosh K. Singh and Abhay Kumar Sah | EIA International Conference
Journal: 19th EAI International Conference on Body Area Networks (BODYNETS), Varanasi, India
An Improved Sparse Channel Estimation in RIS-assisted mmWave MIMO Systems
2025
Debajit Choudhury and Abhay Kumar Sah | NCC, Delhi
Journal: National Conference on Communications (NCC), Delhi
An Element Selection based Phase-Shift Optimization in RIS-aided Vehicular Network
2025
Sruthi Ramachandran, Hari Shankar O K, and Abhay Kumar Sah | IEEE
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
Journal: IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems (ANTS), Guwahati, India
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
Journal: IEEE International Conference On Electrical Electronics Communication and Computers (ELEX-COM), Roorkee
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
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
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
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 A¨ıssa | IEEE
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
Journal: IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), Nanching, China
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
Journal: IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems (ANTS), New Delhi
Accelerated Detected Schemes for PSS in 5G-NR
2020
S.K. Vankayala, Javed Akhtar, Ashok Krishnan, and Abhay Kumar Sah | IEEE
Journal: , Proc. IEEE 3rd 5G World Forum (5GWF 2020), Bangalore,India
Generalized Block Based Spatial Modulation and Space Shift Keying
2019
Shyam Gadhai, Abhay Kumar Sah, R. Budhiraja, and A.K. Chaturvedi | IEEE
Journal: 20th IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC 2019), Cannes, France
Improved Sparsity Behaviour and Error Localization in Detectors for Large MIMO Systems
2016
Abhishek, Abhay Kumar Sah, and A.K. Chaturvedi | IEEE
Journal: Proc. 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 | ICC
Journal: Proc. 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
Journal: Proc. 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 | COMSNETS
Journal: Proc. Eighth 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 | GLOBECOM
Journal: Proc. 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
Journal: Proc. IEEE Signal Processing and Communications (SPCOM), Bangalore, India
Performance of Dynamic MIMO Systems in Presence of Nakagami Fading Channel
2010
Ravi Kumar, Rajiv Saxena, Abhay Sah, Saroj Gupta, and Tapesh Chandgothia | IEEE
Journal: Proc. IEEE Computational Intelligence, Communication Systems and Networks (CICSyN), Liverpool, UK
Patents

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 and Santosh K. Singh, “CSIRS design method for channel estimation and pre-coding processes in multi-connected cell-free network” (To file).

8. Abhay Kumar Sah and Debajit Choudhury, “A Methods for automatic modulation selection and recognition for the modern radio access networks” (To file)

9.    Abhay Kumar Sah and Santosh K. Singh, “A grant-free random access method for cell-free networks” (202311045133).

10.  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).

11.  S.K. Vankayala, Abhay Kumar Sah, and G.S.V. Uma, “Hierarchical Coordinated Multi-point Processing for Uplink in 4G/5G/VRAN Systems” (201941043247).

12. 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

13.  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

14.  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).

15. S.K. Vankayala, S. Madhurapantula, A. Nigam, A. Bhat, Abhay Kumar Sah, and Sudharsan Parthasarthy, “Base Station CQI prediction using ML” (201941047831/483330). Granted

16.  Abhay Kumar Sah, S. K. Vankayala, Uma Kishore Godavarti, and Ashok K. Reddy Chavva, “Method and system for combining incoming signals” (202041004871). 

17.  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).

18. Abhay Kumar Sah and A.K. Chaturvedi, “Low Complexity Detection in Multiple Input Multiple Output Systems” (201811029113/518912). Granted

19.  Abhay Kumar Sah and A.K. Chaturvedi, “A Neighborhood Search based Large Multiple Input Multiple Output Detector” (201811029143/478273). Granted