During my Master’s research at The University of British Columbia, I investigated resource management issues in heterogeneous networks (HetNets) focused particularly on femtocell and macrocell networks. Network performance was analyzed for energy efficiency and green communications. I proposed intrinsic trade-off optimization methods to obtain balance between important performance parameters such as network throughput, outage probability and power consumption. For resource optimization, the methods used were convex minimization, multi-objective optimization, geometric programming. The research was conducted under the supervision of Professor Vijay K. Bhargava.
Master’s thesis
Peer Reviewed Publication
Presentations
- S. N. Pradhan, R. Devarajan, S. C. Jha, and V. K. Bhargava, “Multi-objective optimization based power allocation schemes for heterogeneous networks”, 2013 ICICS/ECE/IEEE Workshop on Future Communication and Multimedia Systems, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, Mar. 2013.
- S. N. Pradhan, “Small cells to improve indoor wireless coverage”, Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition, MASc., Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, Feb. 2013. (Awarded First Place)
- S. N. Pradhan, R. Devarajan, S. C. Jha, and V. K. Bhargava, “Uplink power allocation schemes for heterogeneous cellular networks,” National Conference on Communications (NCC’13), Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India, Feb. 2013.
- S. N. Pradhan, R. Devarajan, S. C. Jha, and V. K. Bhargava, “Power control schemes for heterogeneous networks”, Canadian Utility Telecom Conference, Vancouver, Canada, Sep. 2012.
