Wireless Communication, Cognitive Radio
Optical Communication

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Wireless Communication, Cognitive Radio, Spectrum Sensing, Optical Communication, Photonics Crystal Fiber Sensors

ACADEMIC RECORDS

THESIS TITLE:

Study of Spectrum Sensing Techniques for Cognitive Radio Systems

TEACHING, RESEARCH AND INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCE

1. Assistant Professor (Feb 2013 to till date)

Electronics and Communication Engineering Department, National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, Haryana, 136119, India

2. Research Associate (Feb 2012 to Feb 2013)

Evalueserve SEZ (Gurgaon) Private Limited

Key Responsibilities: Prior art search, Patentability search, White space analysis

3. Assistant Professor (July 2011 to Jan 2012)

Electronics and Communication Engineering Department, Ganpati Institute of Technology and Management, Bilaspur, Yamunanagar, Haryana, India

THESIS SUPERVISED

Phd: 02 Ongoing

M Tech: 08 Completed, 07 Ongoing

ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITIES

• Faculty-in-Charge, Institute Table Tennis Team (Jun 2019 to till date)
• Faculty-in-Charge, PG Club (Oct 2020 to till date)
• Hostel Warden (Dec 2014 to Jun 2019)
• Faculty-in-Charge, Institute Basketball Team (Jul 2014 to May 2017)

SUBJECTS TAUGHT

• Optical Fiber Communication
• Wireless Communication
• Control Systems
• Semiconductor Devices and Applications
• Basic Electronics

MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL BODIES

• Lifetime member of IETE, Membership Number: AM176655

CONFERENCE ORGANIZED

1. Conference Chair in “International Conference on Cutting-Edge Technologies in Computing and Communication Engineering” held during 06-07, Nov 2020, NIT Kurukshetra.
2. Conference Secretary in “International Conference on Advances in Data Computing, Communication And Security” held during 08-10, Sep 2021, NIT Kurukshetra

BOOKS EDITED

1. Editor, “Intelligent Computing and Communication Systems”, Algorithms for Intelligent Systems, Springer.
2. Editor, “Advances in Data Computing, Communication and Security”, Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies, Springer

SHORT TERM COURSES ORGANIZED

1. Course Co-cordinator in Short Term Course on ‘5G Wireless Communication Networks: Fundamental and Implementation Issues’  held from Jul. 10-15, 2017, organized by ECE Department, NIT Kurukshetra
2. Course Co-coordinator in Short Term Course on “Cognitive Radio: Fundamentals and Implementation Issues” held from Jul. 09-12, 2014, organized by ECE Department and Center of Computing and Networking, NIT Kurukshetra

SHORT TERM COURSES ATTENDED

1. ‘Cognitive Radio: A New Paradigm in Wireless’ held on Oct. 20-22, 2013 at IIT Kanpur.
2. ‘Convex Optimization for Wireless Communications’ held on Sep. 15-17, 2014 at IIT Kanpur.
3. ‘Detection Theory for Communications and Signal Processing’ held on Apr. 27-29, 2015 at IIT Kanpur.
4. ‘Telecom Management: Current & Emerging’ held from 20/08/2015 to 21/08/2015, 2015 at IIT Delhi

AWARDS/PRIZES

• Best paper award for the paper titled “Weighted Fusion Scheme for Cooperative Spectrum Sensing” in International Conference on Industry 4.0 Technology (I4Tech), Pune, India, pp. 186-190, 2020.
• Gold Medalist in AMIETE

EXPERT LECTURES DELIVERED

1. Delivered an expert lecture on ‘Cognitive Radio for Internet of Things’ in STC on Machine Learning and Internet of Things (MLIoT-2019) sponsored by TEQIP-III from 26-02-2019 to 02-03-2019 organized by GEC, Bharatpur
2. Delivered an expert lecture on ‘Energy Detection based Spectrum Sensing for Cognitive Radios‘ in STC on ‘5G Wireless Communication Networks: Fundamental and Implementation Issues’ from 10/07/2017 to 15/07/2017, organized by ECE Department, NIT Kurukshetra
3. Delivered an expert lecture on ‘Energy Detection based Spectrum Sensing for Cognitive Radios’ in STC on ‘Modeling and Simulation of Wireless Communication Systems’ from 20/06/2016 to 24/06/2016, organized by ECE Department, NIT, Kurukshetra

REVIEWER

1. Defense Science Journal, DRDO, India
2. International Journal of Swarm Intelligence, Inderscience Publishers Ltd.
3. Telecommunication Systems, Springer

RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS

International Journals

1. Kumar, P. Verma, P. Jindal , “Refractive index sensor for sensing high refractive index bioliquids at the THz frequency,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. B, vol. 38, 12, pp. F81-F89, 2021.
2. Kamboj, P. Jindal, P. Verma, “Machine learning-based physical layer security: techniques, open challenges, and applications”, Wireless Networks, vol 27, pp. 5351–5383, Nov 2021.
3. Kamboj, P. Jindal, P. Verma “Intelligent Physical Layer Secure Relay Selection for Wireless Cooperative Networks with Multiple Eavesdroppers”, Wireless Personal Communications, vol. 120, pp. 2449–2472, Apr 2021.
4. Kumar, P. Verma, P. Jindal, “Decagonal solid core PCF based refractive index sensor for blood cells detection in terahertz regime”, Optical and Quantum Electronics, vol. 53, 165, April 2021.
5. Verma, “Adaptive Threshold Based Energy Detection over Rayleigh Fading Channel”, Wireless Personal Communication, vol. 113, pp. 299-311, Jan 2020.
6. Verma and B. Singh, “Joint optimization of sensing duration and detection threshold for maximizing the spectrum utilization”, Digital Signal Processing, Elsevier, pp. 94-101, Vol. 74, 2018.
7. Verma and B. Singh, “On the decision fusion for cooperative spectrum sensing in cognitive radio networks,” Wireless Networks, Springer pp. 1-10, Vol. 23, 4, 2017.
8. S. Chauhan, P. Verma, M. Mathur, M. Agarwal and T. Gupta, “Physical layer security of MIMO STBC over Rayleigh fading channels in the presence of channel estimation error”, Optik-International Journal for Light and Electron Optics, Vol. 127, no. 19, pp. 7625–7630, Oct. 2016.
9. Verma and B Singh, “Overcoming sensing failure problem in double threshold based cooperative spectrum sensing”, Optik-International Journal for Light and Electron Optics, Vol. 127, no. 10, pp. 4200–4204, May 2016.
10. Verma and B Singh, “Throughput maximization by alternative use of single and double thresholds based energy detection method”, Optik-International Journal for Light and Electron Optics, Vol. 127, no. 4, pp. 1635–1638, Feb. 2016.
11. Vermaand B. Singh, “Threshold Optimization in Energy Detection Scheme for Maximizing the Spectrum Utilization”  Procedia Computer Science, vol. 93, pp.191-198, 2016.

Book Chapters

1. Verma, P. Jindal, B. Singh, “Sensing Techniques in Cognitive Radio Networks: An Appraisal”, Advanced Wireless Sensing Techniques for 5G Networks, Chapman and Hall/CRC pp. 57-72, 2018

Conferences

1. Rajpoot and P. Verma, “Optimization of Sensing Time for Efficient Spectrum Utilization in NOMA Based Cognitive Radio Networks”, Optical and Wireless Technologies, LNEE, Springer, Sep. 2021
2. Kamboj, P. Jindal, P. Verma, “Physical Layer Security-Based Relay Selection for Wireless Cooperative Networks: A Reinforcement Learning Approach”, Intelligent Computing and Communication Systems, Springer, pp. 115-122, June 2021
3. Rajpoot and P. Verma, “Optimization of Number of Secondary Users in CSS for Maximizing the Spectrum Utilization”, IEEE Students Conference on Engineering & Systems (SCES), Prayagraj, India, pp. 1-5, 2020.
4. Verma, “Weighted Fusion Scheme for Cooperative Spectrum Sensing”, International Conference on Industry 4.0 Technology (I4Tech), Pune, India, pp. 186-190, 2020.
5. Verma and B. Singh, “Weighted Eigenvalues based Spectrum Sensing for Cognitive Radio Systems” Proceedings of  International Conference on Big Data and Internet of Things Pages 61–64, BDIOT, Melbourne, Australia, August 2019.
6. Chauhan and P. Verma, “Performance Evaluation of Hybrid RF/FSO Communication System in High Speed Train”, International Conference on Intelligent Computing & Smart Communication (ICSC-2019), Tehri Garhwal, Apr. 20
7. Chauhan and P. Verma, “Throughput Maximization in High Speed Train using Hybrid RF/FSO Communication System”, International Conference on Optical and wireless Technologies (OWT-2019), MNIT Jaipur, Dec 2019
8. Bajwa and P. Verma “Effect of Different Atmospheric Conditions on the Performance of the FSO System at 1550nm” 5^th  International Conference on Signal Processing and Integrated Networks (SPIN) 2018.
9. Verma and B. Singh,” Performance Analysis of Various Eigenvalue-Based Spectrum Sensing Algorithms for Different Types of Primary User Signals”, Advances in Electronics, Communication and Computing, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, Springer, vol. 443, pp.389-397, Jan 2018
10. Kumar and P. Verma, “Comparative study of Mamdani & Takagi-Sugeno models for spectrum access in cognitive radio networks,” IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Computing Research (ICCIC), Madurai, pp. 1-5, Dec. 2015
11. Sharma and P. Verma, “On the cluster size of cognitive radio networks,” International Conference on Signal Processing, Computing and Control (ISPCC), Waknaghat, pp. 322-326, Sept. 2015
12. K. Mathew, S. Sharma and P. Verma, “An Adaptive Algorithm for Energy Detection in Cognitive Radio Networks,” Second International Conference on Advances in Computing and Communication Engineering, Dehradun, pp. 104-107, 2015.
13. K. Mathew and P. Verma, “Double threshold energy detection using sequential cooperative spectrum sensing in Rayleigh fading,” International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication (ICSC), Noida, pp. 83-87, Mar. 2015.
14. Verma and B. Singh, “Simulation study of double threshold energy detection method for cognitive radios,” 2nd International Conference on Signal Processing and Integrated Networks (SPIN), Noida, pp. 232-236, Feb, 2015.
15. Verma and B. Singh, “Throughput analysis in cognitive radio networks,” International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics (ICACCI), New Delhi, pp. 1199-1203, Sep. 2014.
16. K. Dhaka and P. Verma, “A relay based Cooperative Spectrum Sensing selecting maximum value of SNR in multi-channel Cognitive Radio,” International Conference on Recent Advances and Innovations in Engineering (ICRAIE-2014), Jaipur, 2014, pp. 1-4.