1. Wireless Networks

1. Scheduling in Networks, Cognitive Radio, Internet of Things, Social Networks, Big Data Analytics

1. Research Grants:

2. 1. DST SERB Core Research Grant of INR 81.07528 Lakhs for the project "Detection and Diagnosis of Intentional Electromagnetic Interference Attack on Critical Network," (PI) during 2020-2023.

3. 2. DST ICPS Research Grant of INR 35 Lakhs for the project "Performance Evaluation and Modeling of Multi Agent Based Smart Manufacturing Integrated with Swarm Intelligence and IoT," (Co-PI) during 2018-2021.

5. Awards:

6. DST Young Scientist Travel Grant award for Allerton 2009 (INR 76,000)

7. CSIR Travel Grant award for Allerton 2009 (full air-fare approx INR 60,000)

8. IEEE Student Travel Grant award for Infocom 2008 (USD 1,000)

9. Microsoft Research Student Travel Grant award for Infocom 2008 (INR 25,000)

10. Bravo Award for best performance by Motorola India in 2003

11. Gold medal for securing first rank in the BE/ECE class of 1993 - 1997

12. Meritorious candidate for securing high position in SSLC examination in 1991

Teaching

1. Associate Professor at SSN College of Engineering, Chennai, India. (Jun. 2012 - Jun. 2014)

Research

1. Post Doctoral Research Fellow at Hamilton Institute, National University of Ireland Maynooth, Ireland (Nov. 2010 - Jun. 2012)

2. Systems Analyst, Satyam Computer Services Ltd., Bangalore, India. (Jan. 2005 - Jul. 2005)

3. Project Associate at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India (Sep. 2003 - Jan. 2005)

Industry

1. Software Engineer, Motorola India Electronics (P) Ltd., Bangalore, India. (Aug. 2001 - Sep. 2003)

2. Software Engineer, Infosys Technologies Ltd., Chennai, India. (Aug. 1997 - Dec. 1998)

1. Reviewer: ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, International Journal of Wireless and Mobile Computing (IJWMC), Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability, a Springer journal

2. TPC Member: ICCVE 2014, WCNC 2014, ICCVE 2013, WCNC 2013, WiOpt 2013

1. [J10] M. Santhoshkumar and K. Premkumar, “Energy Efficient Opportunistic Spectrum Access in Multichannel Cognitive Radio Networks,” IEEE Networking Letters, 2022 (accepted for publication).

2. [J09] Dony J. Muttath, M. Santhoshkumar, and K. Premkumar, “Timely-Throughput Optimal Scheduling with Delayed CSIT for Chase Combining HARQ,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 71, no. 11, pp. 12425–12430, Nov. 2022.

3. [J08] Dony J. Muttath and K. Premkumar, “Minimum Age Scheduling in Fading Channels with Delayed CSIT and Energy Constraints,” IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, vol. 11, no. 9, pp. 1865–1869, Sep. 2022.

4. [J07] M. Santhoshkumar, Dony J. Muttath, and K. Premkumar, “Throughput Optimal Opportunistic Channel Switching in Cognitive Radio Networks,” IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, vol. 10, no. 9, pp. 2046–2050, Sep. 2021.

5. [J06] P. Durga Prasad, S. Muthuswamy, and K. Premkumar, “Identification and Classification of Materials Using Machine Vision and Machine Learning in the Context of Industry 4.0,” Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, vol. 31, no. 5, pp. 1229–1241, Jun. 2020.

6. [J05] K. Premkumar, Xiaomin Chen, and Douglas J. Leith, “Proportional Fair Coding for Wireless Mesh Networks,” IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 269–281, Feb. 2015.

7. [J04] K. Premkumar, Venkata K. Prasanthi, and Anurag Kumar, “Delay Optimal Event Detection on Ad Hoc Wireless Sensor Networks,” ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 12:1-12:35, Mar. 2012.

8. [J03] Anurag Kumar et al., “Wireless Sensor Networks for Human Intruder Detection,” Journal of the Indian Institute of Science, Special issue on Advances in Electrical Science, vol. 90, no. 3, pp. 347-380, Jul. - Sep. 2010 (invited).

9. [J02] V. Sharma, K. Premkumar, and Raghava N. Swamy, “Exponential Diversity Achieving Spatio-Temporal Power Allocation Scheme for Fading Channels,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 54, no. 1, pp. 188-208, Jan. 2008.

10. [J01] K. Premkumar, and A. Chockalingam, “Performance Analysis of RLC/MAC and LLC Layers in a GPRS Protocol Stack,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 53, no. 5, pp. 1531-1546, Sep. 2004.

1. [C23] A. K. Mondal, P. Kumar, P. Saxena, and K. Premkumar, “A Planar Log Periodic Dipole Array Antenna For IEMI Detection,” 2022 IEEE MAPCON, Bangalore, India, Dec. 2022.

2. [C22] A. K. Mondal, P. Kumar, P. Saxena, and K. Premkumar, “Modified Planar Log Periodic Dipole Array Antenna for IEMI Detection,” 2022 IEEE INDICON, Cochin, India, Nov. 2022.

3. [C21] B. Abirami, P. Saxena, and K. Premkumar, “A Miniaturized Interdigital Bandpass Filter for Intentional Electromagnetic Interference Applications,” 2021 National Conference on Communications (NCC), Kanpur, India, Jul. 2021.

4. [C20] M. Santhoshkumar and K. Premkumar, “Energy-Throughput Tradeoff with Optimal Sensing Order in Cognitive Radio Networks,” 2020 12th International Conference on Communication Systems & Networks (COMSNETS), Bengaluru, India, Jan. 2020.

5. [C19] M. Gowri, B. S. Vineeth, and K. Premkumar, “Optimal Downlink Scheduling and Power Allocation with Reconfiguration Delay,” 2020 12th International Conference on Communication Systems & Networks (COMSNETS), Bengaluru, India, Jan. 2020.

6. [C18] Dony J. Muttath and K. Premkumar, “Packet Scheduling in Multihop Networks with Individual Packet Delay Constraints,” IEEE Region 10 Annual Conference (IEEE TENCON), Kochi, India, Oct. 2019.

7. [C17] Sulthana Shams, M. Santhoshkumar, Dony J. Muttath, and K. Premkumar, “Distributed Detection in Cognitive Radio Networks with Unknown Primary User’s Traffic,” IEEE Region 10 Annual Conference (IEEE TENCON), Kochi, India, Oct. 2019.

8. [C16] Dony J. Muttath, M. Santhoshkumar, and K. Premkumar, “Energy Optimal Packet Scheduling with Individual Packet Delay Constraints,” IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems (ANTS), Indore, India, Dec. 2018.

9. [C15] M. Santhoshkumar, Dony J. Muttath, and K. Premkumar, “Joint Distributed Sensing and Channel Access in Cognitive Radio Networks,” IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems (ANTS), Indore, India, Dec. 2018.

10. [C14] S. T. V. Pasca, V. Srividya, and K. Premkumar, Energy Efficient Sleep/Wake Scheduling of Stations in Wireless Networks, International Conference on Communication and Signal Processing (ICCSP), Chennai, India, pp. 382-386, Apr. 2013.

11. [C13] K. Premkumar, Xiaomin Chen, and Douglas J. Leith, Utility Optimal Coding for Packet Transmission over Wireless Networks - Part II: Networks of Packet Erasure Channels, Forty-Ninth Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Monticello, IL, USA, pp. 1600-1606, Sep. 28 - Sep. 30, 2011.

12. [C12] K. Premkumar, Xiaomin Chen, and Douglas J. Leith, Utility Optimal Coding for Packet Transmission over Wireless Networks - Part I: Networks of Binary Symmetric Channels, Forty-Ninth Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Monticello, IL, USA, pp. 1592-1599, Sep. 28 - Sep. 30, 2011.

13. [C11] K. Premkumar, Venkata K. Prasanthi, and Anurag Kumar, Delay Optimal Event Detection on Ad Hoc Wireless Sensor Networks, Forty-Eighth Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Monticello, IL, USA, pp. 1585-1588, Sep. 29 - Oct. 01, 2010 (invited).

14. [C10] K. Premkumar, Anurag Kumar, and Venugopal V. Veeravalli, Bayesian Quickest Transient Change Detection, 5th International Workshop in Applied Probability (IWAP), Madrid, Spain, Jul. 2010 (invited).

15. [C09] K. Premkumar, Anurag Kumar, and Joy Kuri, Distributed Detection and Localization of Events in Large Ad Hoc Wireless Sensor Networks, Forty-Seventh Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Monticello, IL, USA, pp. 178-185, Sep. 30 - Oct. 02, 2009.

16. [C08] M. M. Nadgir, K. Premkumar, Anurag Kumar, and Joy Kuri, CUSUM Based Distributed Detection in WSNs, Managing Complexity in a Distributed World (MCDES), an IISc Centenary conference, Bangalore, India, May 2008.

17. [C07] K. Premkumar and Anurag Kumar, Optimal Sleep/Wake Scheduling for Quickest Intrusion Detection Using Sensor Networks, IEEE INFOCOM, Arizona, USA, pp. 1400-1408, Apr. 2008.

18. [C06] K. Premkumar and Anurag Kumar, Optimum Association of Mobile Wireless Devices to a WLAN-3G Access Network, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Istanbul, Turkey, pp. 2002-2008, Jun. 2006.

19. [C05] K. Premkumar and S. H. Srinivasan, Diversity Techniues for Interference Mitigation between IEEE 802.11 WLANs and Bluetooth, IEEE PIMRC, Berlin, Germany, pp. 1468-1472, Sep. 2005.

20. [C04] K. Premkumar, A. Rangarajan, and V. Sharma, Exponential Diversity achieving Spatio-Temporal Power Allocation Scheme for MIMO Fading Channels, IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (IEEE ISIT), Chicago, IL USA, Jun. - Jul. 2004.

21. [C03] Beuttner M., Jayachandran B., and K. Premkumar, Design and Analysis of Smart Antennas with Multi User Detection, Motorola Antenna Symposium, Oct. - Nov. 2002 (authors names are in alphabetical order; the soft/hard copy shall not be provided as this is a Motorola classified document).

22. [C02] K. Premkumar and A. Chockalingam, Performance of LLC and TCP on GPRS Uplink with RLC Slot Level Retransmission, National Conference on Communications (NCC), IIT Bombay, Jan. 2002.

23. [C01] K. Premkumar and A.Chockalingam, Performance Analysis of RLC/MAC Protocol in General Packet Radio Service, National Conference on Communications (NCC), IIT Kanpur, Jan. 2001.