DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION
INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE
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Ekant Sharma
Assistant Professor
ekant[at]ece.iitr.ac.in
+91-8960545002
https://ekant.ece.iitr.ac.in/
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Research Interests
Beyond 5G/6G communication, Practical massive MIMO, Cell-fee massive MIMO, Intelligent reflecting surfaces, Non-orthogonal multiple access, Full-duplex, Multi-cell and multi-hop communication, Unmanned aerial vehicles/Drones, Energy-efficient systems
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Educational Details
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
2011
M.Tech, Signal Processing and Communication (EE)
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
2020
Ph.D., Signal Processing and Communication (EE)
Professional Background
Associate Software Engineer
05 Jul 2011 - 09 Jul 2012
IBM
Project Executive Officer
01 Aug 2019 - 31 Jan 2021
IIT Kanpur
Research
Projects
TOPIC START DATE FIELD DESCRIPTION FINANCIAL OUTLAY FUNDING AGENCY OTHER OFFICERS
Tera Hertz Communication: Prototype Development and Algorithm Design 01 Jan 2025 5G, 6G 334 Lakhs Department of Telecommunications, IIIT Bangalore and IIT Dhanbad, India
UAV Communications for 5G and Beyond: A Smart Anti-UAV design 01 Oct 2021 Drone, 5G 20 Lakhs IIT Roorkee
3GPP Complaint PUCCH design for 5G NR User 01 Mar 2022 5G standards 23.6 Lakhs Spanidea Systems Private Limited
RIS Assisted Cell-free NOMA system for 5G and Beyond Communication 13 Oct 2022 6G 30.9 Lakhs Science and Engineering Research Board, Govt. of India
5G Advanced ORAN Massive MIMO Base Station 01 Jun 2022 Hardware/Software 125 Lakhs IIITB COMET Foundation
Design and Development of New Prototype for RIS-aided Communication 01 Dec 2022 6G 157 lakhs IIITB COMET Foundation




Publications

Journals:

[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:

[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

Honors And Awards
Honors
IIT Kanpur
2020
Outstanding PhD Thesis Award for the best thesis in Electrical department
IEEE
2020
Best Doctoral Dissertation Award (Honorable Mention) at IEEE SPCOM conference
Qualcomm
2020
Finalist for Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship
Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute
2017
Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute scholarship
IIT Kanpur
2018
Outstanding teaching assistant award by Electrical department
Students
SuperVisions
Waveform design for Beyond 5G/6G Communication
25 Jul 2021 - Present
Other Supervisors: , Scholar: Dwikul Jyoti Das
5G NR Physical layer implementation
01 Jul 2021 - Present
Other Supervisors: , Scholar: Ashutosh Bisht
5G/NR - CSI RS Codebook Design
20 Dec 2021 - Present
Other Supervisors: , Scholar: Naveed Anjum
Integrated Sensing and Communication for 6G
25 Jul 2021 - Present
Other Supervisors: , Scholar: Sneha Singhal
Distributed MIMO and Intelligent reflecting surface for 6G communication
28 Jul 2021 - Present
Other Supervisors: , Scholar: Malay Chakraborty
Miscellaneous
Events
Workshop on LabVIEW and Basics of Data Acquisition System
01 Dec 2022 - 03 Dec 2022
COMET IIITB Foundation
Invited talk at Workshop on “Radio Frequency Front End Design and Solutions for Advanced Wireless and Space Communication”,
01 Jul 2022 - Present
Visits
Cannes, France
2019-07-02
IEEE SPAWC conference
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
2018-07-16
IEEE SPCOM conference
Quebec, Canada
2017-10-08
IEEE PIMRC conference
Singapore
2016-11-22
IEEE TENCON conference
IISc Bangalore
2015-07-20
Joint Telematics Group/IEEE Information Theory Society Summer School on Signal Processing Communications and Networks
Luxembourg
2015-11-22
IEEE Symposium on Communications and Vehicular Technology
Administrative Positions
Department academic program committee (DAPC)
01 Jul 2021 - Present
ECE
ANSYS fellowship Committee
01 May 2022 - Present
IITR
Departmental high-performance computing (HPC) Committee
01 May 2022 - Present
ECE
DST Sathi proposal committee
01 Jul 2022 - Present
ECE
Anti ragging committee
01 Jul 2022 - Present
IITR
Faculty advisor for MTech CNSP group
01 Jul 2022 - Present
IITR