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Dr. Kirthiga S.

Associate Professor, Electronics and Communication Engineering, School of Engineering, Coimbatore

Qualification: BE, M.E, Ph.D
s_krithiga@cb.amrita.edu
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Research Interest: Cooperative Communications, Millimeter Wave MIMO systems, MIMO, Signal Processing Techniques for Cognitive Radio

Bio

Dr. Kirthiga S. currently serves as Associate Professor at the department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore Campus. She joined Amrita Vishwa Vidyapaeetham in 2003. She pursued her B. E. Electronics and Communication in 1996 from Coimbatore Institute of Technology. Later, she worked in the capacity of R&D Engineer in Embedded Systems division of Tata Elxsi, Bangalore for 4 years from1996 to 2000. Dr. Kirthiga then pursued her M. E. in Communication Systems in 2003 from PSG College of Technology.

She successfully defended her Ph. D. in the field of Millimeter Wave Communication and obtained Ph.D in 2015 from Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham. Her research interests include Signal processing techniques for Cognitive Radio, MIMO, Cooperative Communications, Millimeter Wave MIMO systems. Presently Dr. Kirthiga is working on the multidimensional channel modelling, estimation and prediction of channel parameters for polarized MIMO for land mobile satellite applications. She is a member of Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers.

 

Publications

Conference Paper

Year : 2017

Cooperative MIMO with relay selection for LTE advanced system

Cite this Research Publication : U. S. H. Varma, Nikhil, M. V. S., Manikanta, G. S. S. K., Kiran, T. B. S., and Kirthiga, S., “Cooperative MIMO with relay selection for LTE advanced system”, in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Circuit, Power and Computing Technologies, ICCPCT 2017, 2017.

Publisher : Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Circuit, Power and Computing Technologies,

Year : 2017

Compressive sensing based channel estimation for millimeter wave MIMO

Cite this Research Publication : S. Kirthiga, “Compressive sensing based channel estimation for millimeter wave MIMO”, in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Circuit, Power and Computing Technologies, ICCPCT 2017, 2017.

Publisher : Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Circuit, Power and Computing Technologies,

Year : 2016

Review of Parametric Radio channel prediction schemes for MIMO system

Cite this Research Publication : M. S. Kumar and Kirthiga, S., “Review of Parametric Radio channel prediction schemes for MIMO system”, in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Circuit, Power and Computing Technologies, ICCPCT 2016, 2016.

Publisher : Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Circuit, Power and Computing Technologies, ICCPCT 2016, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.

Year : 2015

An adaptive threshold method for energy based spectrum sensing in Cognitive Radio Networks

Cite this Research Publication : adaptive threshold, adaptive threshold detection algorithm, Bandwidth, Cognitive radio, cognitive radio networks, Detectors, energy based spectrum sensing, energy detection, image binarization technique, measurement, probability, Probability of detection, Probability of false alarm, Signal detection, Signal to noise ratio, Spectrum sensing, standard deviation threshold, Standards

Publisher : IEEE

Year : 2015

An adaptive threshold method for energy based spectrum sensing in cognitive radio networks: A practical implementation using a blind spectrum sensing method

Cite this Research Publication : A. Muralidharan, Venkateswaran, P., Ajay, S. G., D. Prakash, A., Arora, M., and Dr. Kirthiga S., “An adaptive threshold method for energy based spectrum sensing in cognitive radio networks: A practical implementation using a blind spectrum sensing method”, in 2015 International Conference on Control Instrumentation Communication and Computational Technologies, ICCICCT 2015, 2015, pp. 8-11.

Publisher : Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc

Year : 2014

Transmit beamforming using singular value decomposition

Cite this Research Publication : Dr. Kirthiga S., Govindankutty, A., Krishnan, S., and Nair, S. P., “Transmit beamforming using singular value decomposition”, in Electronics and Communication Systems (ICECS), 2014 International Conference on, 2014.

Publisher : Electronics and Communication Systems (ICECS), 2014 International Conference on

Year : 2011

Study of 2×2 Spatial Multiplexed System in 60 GHz Indoor Environment

Cite this Research Publication : D. S. Manojna, Dr. Kirthiga S., and Jayakumar, M., “Study of 2x2 Spatial Multiplexed System in 60 GHz Indoor Environment”, in Process Automation, Control and Computing (PACC), 2011 International Conference on, Coimbatore, 2011.

Publisher : IEEE

Conference Proceedings

Year : 2016

Superimposed pilot based channel estimation for MIMO systems

Cite this Research Publication : S. .S, .R, J., and Dr. Kirthiga S., “Superimposed pilot based channel estimation for MIMO systems”, Joint International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Evolutionary Computations in Engineering Systems. SRM University, Kattankulathor, Chennai, 2016.

Publisher : Joint International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Evolutionary Computations in Engineering Systems, SRM University, Kattankulathor, Chennai.

Research Expertise

PG project

  • Multidimensional channel modelling, estimation and prediction of channel parameters for polarized MIMO for land mobile satellite applications

UG project

  • Superimposed pilot based channel estimation for MIMO systems

Proposed research opportunities for prospective researchers

  • Realization of spectral efficient coded modulation techniques in Cooperative Communication
  • Spectrum Sensing in Cognitive Radio
  • Power efficient algorithms for Green Communications
  • MIMO for Land Mobile Satellite Applicaitons
  • Millimeter Wave MIMO systems for 5G
Teaching
  • Wireless Communication
  • Mutlicarrier and MIMO systems
  • Software Defined Radio
  • Millimeter Wave Personal Communication Systems
  • Digital Communication
  • Digital Signal Processing
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