R & D PROJECT- 5
2017-19 High-Density Wireless Access Coverage for Crowded Events & Locations (Ongoing) Funded by ISOC, Internet Society (Beyond the Net), USA
Project under $ 9000 USD per year ($27000 USD for Three Years)
 

Principal Investigator (s)

 Dr. Ajay K Sharma, Director, NIT Delhi and

Dr. Karan Verma, Central University of Rajasthan
 

 

 

 

Specific objectives of the project:

 •  Develop stronger IT security for India through technological adaptation.
•  Improve the quality of networking in India and develop the capacity and expertise to be a leader in networking.
•  How should a mobile hotspot be granted proper authentication?
•  Education and capacity building.
•  Provide High QoS wireless coverage for an event and other high population density events
 

 

 

The specific outcome of the project/Deliverables:

 

 Task 1.1: Defining an application specific QoE metric based on network attributes

Task 1.2: Devising a method to ensure fairness for users serviced by hotspot devices
Task 2.1: Protocol/Algorithm specification taking QoE demands and fairness metrics into account
Task 3.1: Protocol/Algorithm specification taking QoE demands and fairness metrics into account
Task 4.1: Handover decision- making for slave nodes

Task 4.2: Handover decision- making for master nodes

 

PROJECT- 4
 

2015-20

  

Special Manpower Development Programme for Chips to System Design (SMDP-C2SD) (Completed)

 Ministry of Communication & IT, New Delhi
Project Cost: 20 lacs
 

Principal investigator(s)

 Dr. Ajay K Sharma, Former Director, NIT Delhi, and Dr. Rikmantra Basu, Asstt. Prof, Dept of ECE, NIT Delhi
 

Specific objectives of the project:

 Project 1: Design of High-frequency High Power Amplifier for Wireless Communication (NIT Delhi Individual Project)
Project 2: Capsule Endoscope (Part of the Project proposed by IIT Delhi and to be Implemented by NIT Delhi
 

 

 

Specific outcome of the project:

 Lab Development The fund was utilized to develop the VLSI lab at NIT Delhi.
Special Manpower Development Capacity building in the area of VLSI/Microelectronics and Chip to System development

Knowledge exchange Programme
Ph.D. Ms. Preeti Verma, full-time Research Scholar working towards Ph.D. in the area of VLSI circuit designing.
R & D PROJECT- 3

 

2004-07 Designing and Simulation of High Data Rate Optical Fiber Transmission Systems (Completed) Funded by Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) Govt. of India, New Delhi (2004-2007), NIT, Jalandhar.
Project under R & D Vide Sanction order F26-14/2003 TS.V dated 14-01-2004, Amount Rs. 12 lacs.
Principal investigator(s) Dr Ajay K Sharma, Professor, NIT Jalandhar
 

 

 

Specific objectives of the project:

 To consider the issues related to physical impairments in high data rate optical transmission links and WDM networks like: chromatic & polarization dispersion, fiber nonlinearities.
Designing and simulation of high data rate in presence of physical impairments and their compensation.
Performance investigations of high data rate systems and networks using performance metrics BER, Q-factor and eye diagram etc.
The specific outcome of the project: The project completed and resulted in a number of publications at International Journals and National Journals
R & D PROJECT- 2
 

2000-03

 Studies on Dispersion and Fiber Nonlinearities for Optical Communication Systems and Networks (Completed) Funded by Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) Govt. of India, New Delhi (2000-2002)
Project under R & D Vide Sanction order F28-2/2000 TS.V dated 28-03-2001, Amount Rs. 6 Lacs
Principal Investigator Dr Ajay K Sharma, Assistant Professor, REC, Jalandhar
 

 

 

 

Specific objectives of the project:

 To investigate the dispersion and nonlinear factors degrading the overall performance of the optical communication systems and networks.
To analyze the impact of higher-order dispersion effects on WDM systems and networks.
To investigate the performance of WDM based systems and networks in the presence of homodyne cross talk.
To develop a wavelength re-routing algorithm for the dynamic traffic in WDM networks.
 

 

Specific outcome of the project:

 

  

Lab Development

  

The fund was utilized to develop the lab at NIT (Erstwhile REC) Jalandhar.
Ph.D. I have supervised one Ph.D. thesis under this project on the topic “Performance Analysis of Broadband Optical Communication Systems and Networks with Dispersion and Fiber Nonlinearities” to R S Kaler, Punjab Technical University.
R & D PROJECT- 1
 

1995-96

  

Studies on broadband optical communication systems (Completed)

  

All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), New Delhi, 1995-96, REC Hamirpur (HP)
Project under R & D 1996 completed in 1999, Amount Rs. 6 Lacs
The principal investigator(s)  

Dr R K Sinha, Assistant Professor, Applied Physics, REC, Hamirpur.

Ajay K Sharma, Electronics & Comm. Engg. REC, Jalandhar
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Specific objectives of the project:

 Investigations of various multiplexing techniques for optical communication systems and networks.
To study the criteria for WDM optical communication systems and to design parameters like calculation of channel separation, ISI-, crosstalk- and dispersion-calculation etc.
To investigate the dispersion compensation technique by differential time delay for broadband optical communication. Calculation of phase deviation and figure of merit will be taken up with a view of its implementation at laboratory scale.
To investigate the pulse compression technique for high bit-rate optical communication systems.
Development of bit delay (skew) correction algorithm for byte-wide WDM systems and its hardware development.
Design and development of video, voice, and data link using optical fiber.
To investigate the design and its development criteria for WDM based Optical Line Terminal Equipment (OLTE).
 

 

The specific outcome of the project:

 Lab Development The fund was utilized to develop the lab at REC Hamirpur.
Ph.D. I have completed my Ph.D. on the topic “Studies of Broadband Optical Communication Systems and Networks” under the supervision of Dr. R A Agarwala and Dr. R K Sinha.