Dr. Sanjeev Sharma

Assistant Professor
Department/School/Unit Name
Department of Electronics Engineering IIT(BHU), Varanasi
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Email: sanjeev.ece@iitbhu.ac.in
Area of Interest: Wireless Communication, Signal Processing, Deep Learning/Machine Learning-based Wireless Communication Systems Design

Dr. Sanjeev Sharma is working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronics Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi. He has completed Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India  in 2018. He had worked in the Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia,  as a Postdoctoral Fellow. His current research interests are in developing physical layer techniques for the next-generation wireless communication networks, and applications of deep learning to the design of wireless communication systems. During his Ph.D. thesis, he has worked on the sparse signal processing techniques for wireless communications.

Journal Articles:

A. Singh, S. Sharma, K. Deka, V. Bhatia “DL-based OTFS Signal Detection in Presence of
Hardware Impairments,”IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, 2023 (accepted).

A. Thomas, K. Deka, S. Sharma, and N. Rajamohan “IRS-Assisted OTFS System: Design and Analysis,”IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 2022.

M. Hemanta, S. Sharma, K. Deka, and M. Thottappan “Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces Assisted Hybrid NOMA System,”IEEE Communications Letters, 2022

S. Sharma, K. Deka, and V. Bhatia “Intelligent Reflecting Surface Aided Downlink SCMA,”IEEE Systems Journal, 2022

S. Sharma, K. Deka, V. Bhatia, and A. Gupta “Joint Power-domain and SCMA-based NOMA System for Downlink in 5G and Beyond,” IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 23, no. 6, pp. 971-974, 2019.
S. Sharma, V. Bhatia, K. Deka, and A. Gupta “Sparsity-based Monobit UWB Receiver Under Impulse Noise Environments,” IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 849-852, 2019.
S. Sharma, A. Gupta, and V. Bhatia, “Compressed Sensing based UWB Receiver using Signal- Matched Sparse Measurement Matrix,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 68, no.1, pp. 993-998, 2018.
S. Sharma, V. Bhatia, and A. Gupta, “Joint Symbol and ToA Estimation for Iterative Transmitted Reference Pulse Cluster UWB System,” IEEE Systems Journal, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 2629-2640, 2018.
S. Sharma, V. Bhatia, and A. K. Mishra, “Effects of Impulsive RFI on Wireless Consumer Electronic Devices,” IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 56-61, 2019.
S. Sharma, A. Gupta and V. Bhatia, “IR-UWB Sensor Network using Massive MIMO Decision Fusion: Design and Performance Analysis,” IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 18, no. 15, pp. 6290-6302, 2018.
S. Sharma, A. Gupta, and V. Bhatia, “Impulse Noise Mitigation in IR-UWB Communication using Signal Cluster Sparsity,” IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 558-561, 2018.
S. Sharma, V. Bhatia and A. Gupta, “Noncoherent IR-UWB Receiver using Massive Antenna Arrays for Wireless Sensor Networks,” IEEE Sensors Letters, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 1-4, 2017.
S. Sharma, V. Bhatia and A. Gupta, “Sparsity-based Narrowband Interference Mitigation in Ultra-wideband Communication for 5G and beyond,” Elsevier Computers and Electrical Engineering, vol. 64, pp. 83-95, 2017.
S. Sharma and V. Bhatia, “UWB Pulse Design Using Constraint Convex Sets Method,” Wiley International Journal of Communication Systems, vol. 30, no. 14, pp. e3290, 2017.
S. Sharma, A. Gupta, and V. Bhatia “A New Sparse Signal-matched Measurement Matrix for Compressive Sensing in UWB Communication,” IEEE Access, vol.4, pp. 5327-5342, 2016.
N. Kumar, S. Sharma and V. Bhatia, “Performance Analysis of OFDM-based Nonlinear AF Multiple-relay Systems,” IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 122-125, 2016.

Conference Papers: 
S. Sharma, K. Deka, and Y. Hong, “User activity detection-based large SCMA system for uplink grant-free access,” in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Communications, Shanghai, China, 20-24 May 2019.
S. Sharma, K. Deka, and V. Bhatia, ‘Hybrid Modulation Scheme and Modified Energy Detector for Molecular Communications,” in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems, Goa, India, 16-19 Dec. 2019.
M. Thakur, S. Sharma, and V. Bhatia, ‘Weighted Higher Order Detector for Diffusion based Molecular Communications,” in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems, Goa, India, 16-19 Dec. 2019.
S. Sharma, V. Bhatia, A. Gupta, and K. Deka, “Design of Sub-Nyquist Receiver for Sparse and Localized UWB Signals,” in Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems, Oulu, Finland, 27-30 Aug. 2019.
M. Thakur, S. Jain, S. Sharma, and V. Bhatia, “Nonlinear Receiver for Diffusion-Based Molecular Communications,” in Proc. IEEE Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), Istanbul, Turkey, 8-11 Sep. 2019.
S. Sharma, K. Deka, V. Bhatia, and A. Gupta, “SCMA codebook based on optimization of mutual information and shaping gain,” in Proc. IEEE GLOBECOM, Abu Dhabi, UAE, 9-13,Dec. 2018.
S. Sharma and V. Bhatia, “Distributed detection over wireless sensor networks using sparse active sensors estimation,” in URSI Asia Pacific Radio Science Conference, 2019.
M. Thakur, S. Sharma, and V. Bhatia, “Noncoherent detection for dynamic transmitter and receiver in molecular communication,” in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems (ANTS), IIT Indore, India, 16-19 December 2018.
S. Sharma, A. Bishnu, A. Gupta, and V. Bhatia, “Improved noncoherent receiver for joint range and symbol estimation,” in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications (SPCOM), Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore, 16-19 July 2018.
S. Sharma, V. Bhatia, and A. Gupta, “An iterative transmitted reference UWB receiver for joint ToA and data symbols estimation,” in Proc. IEEE ICC, Kansas City, MO, USA, 20-24 May 2018.
S. Sharma, A. Gupta, and V. Bhatia, “Joint estimation of ToA and data symbols in UWB communication in presence of impulsive interference,” in Proc. IEEE GLOBECOM, Singapore, 4-8 Dec. 2017.
S. Sharma, A. Gupta, and V. Bhatia, “A simple modified peak detection based UWB receiver for WSN and IoT applications,” in Proc. IEEE 85th Veh. Technol. Conf. (VTC)-Spring, Sydney, Australia, 4-7 June 2017.
S. Sharma, V. Bhatia, and A. Gupta, “A non-coherent UWB receiver using signal cluster sparsity,” in Proc. IEEE National Conference on Communications (NCC) , IIT Madras, India, 2-4 March 2017.
S. Sharma and V. Bhatia, “Performance analysis of filtered PSM signal using non-matched receiver for UWB communication,” in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems (ANTS), IISc Bangalore, India, 6-9 Nov. 2016.
S. Sharma, A. Gupta, and V. Bhatia, “Sparsity based UWB receiver design in additive impulse noise channels,” in Proc. IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), Edinburgh, UK, pp. 1-5, 3-6 July 2016.
S. Sharma, A. Sharma, and V. Bhatia, “Performance of pulse position modulation using various UWB pulses,” in Proc. IEEE International Advance Computing Conference (IACC), Banglore, India, pp. 1-5, 12-13 June 2015.

I am looking for highly motivated graduate students who are interested in pursuing research in wireless communications, machine learning, signal processing for wireless communications. Prospective students should apply for PhD position@IIT BHU.

1. M Hemant Kumar (submitted)
2. Rahul Kumar (ongoing)

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