Manav of IIT Delhi, New Delhi, India

Abstract: In recent years, free space optical (FSO) communication has emerged to imprint its valuable contribution in high speed wireless communication society due to its manifold advantages. FSO systems have immense potential for providing high-data-rate communication link and can be easily deployed over wide ranges of applications. However, reliable communication cannot be assured in security-constrained protocol-based FSO applications (especially in military platforms) due to technical constraints imposed on FSO system design and deployment (like high field-of-view, confined optical wavelengths). Under such technical circumstances, the FSO system may become vulnerable as it can be hampered by intentional or unintentional jammer that cannot be easily avoided by the legitimate sources. So, it becomes crucial to investigate different protocol based FSO systems to explore the performance statistics in presence of detrimental jamming activity and also to develop communication strategies to alleviate the impact of jamming during the data transmission between the authorized users.

Biography:

Dr. Manav Bhatnagar is currently a Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Delhi, New Delhi, India, where he is also a Brigadier Bhopinder Singh Chair Professor. He holds a global rank of 517 in the area of Networking & Telecommunications among the top 2% scientists in a global list compiled by the prestigious Stanford University. He is a Fellow of INAE, NASI, IET, IETE, and OSI.  He has received prestigious NASI-Scopus Young Scientist Award, Shri Om Prakash Bhasin Award, and Dr. Vikram Sarabhai Research Award. He has been an Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications during 2011-2014. Currently, he is an Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Communications. He has published more than 120 high quality IEEE journal papers out of which 10 are single-authored. His research interests include signal processing for MIMO systems, free-space optical communication, molecular communications, satellite communications, and machine learning.