Organized by Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Kanpur

Supported by MHRD under GIAN (Global Initiative of Academic Networks)

September 1st-10th , 2016

Short Course on
Cognitive Radio and Wireless
Communication -
Theory, Practice and Security

Cognitive radio (CR) systems and networks are a revolutionary new concept
in wireless communications. Built on the novel software defined radio (SDR)
architecture, they have powerful signal processing capabilities to sense spec-
trum underutilization. The cognitive abilities in the embedded processors
emulate the human brain by continuously analyzing the radio scene through
an aggregation of external radio stimuli. These networks can thus dynamical-
ly allocate spectrum to multiple users thereby easing network congestion to
meet the growing wireless broadband demands of billions of users world-
wide. The 10-Day course under the GIAN (Global Initiative of Academic
Important Dates Networks) scheme of MHRD (Ministry of Human Resource and Develop-
ment), Govt. of India, will comprehensively cover several different aspects
Course Dates of CR systems and SDR transceivers through lectures on Spectrum Sensing,
September 1st - 10th, 2016 MIMO-OFDM Based CR, Optimization, Game Theory, Dynamic Spectrum
Allocation and cybersecurity. Internationally renowned expert Prof. Pramod
Last Date for Registration
K. Varshney will deliver several key modules as part of the GIAN course.
August 10th, 2016
About foreign expert Prof. Pramod K. Varshney:
Venue Prof. Pramod K. Varshney received the B.S. degree
Seminar Hall, in electrical engineering and computer science (with
highest honors), and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in
Pioneer Batch Building,
electrical engineering from the University of Illinois
Visitors Hostel, at Urbana-Champaign. Since 1976 he has been with
IIT Kanpur Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY where he is cur-
rently a Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engi-
neering and Computer Science and the Director of
Contact CASE: Center for Advanced Systems and Engineer-
Prof. Aditya K. Jagannatham ing. He was elected to the grade of Fellow of the IEEE in 1997, received the
Third Millennium Medal from the IEEE in 2000, the Chancellors Citation
Department of
for exceptional academic achievement at Syracuse University and IEEE
Electrical Engineering 2012 Judith A. Resnik Award. He is on the editorial boards of Journal on
IIT Kanpur Advances in Information Fusion and IEEE SP Magazine. His current re-
Kanpur 208016 search interests are in distributed sensor networks, data fusion, physical layer
UP, India security and cognitive radio.

Target Audience
Ph.D scholars pursuing research in Wireless Technologies
E-mail M.Tech/B.Tech students doing thesis/projects in Wireless Technologies
cog.iitk@gmail.com ECE/EEE Faculty of Government and Private engineering colleges/
universities
Engineers from Wireless Industry and R&D Institutions

IIT Kanpur For more details and registration information, visit the website
http://www.iitk.ac.in/mwn/cognitive