Dr Vijay Subramanian
Contact informationE-mail: v-subramanian at northwestern.edu OR vjsubram at eecs.northwestern.edu . Phone: +1 847 467 5168. Fax: +1 847 491 4455. Mail: 2145 Sheridan Road, Tech L359, Evanston, IL 60208-3118, USA.
About me
I earned my degrees in two different continents: B. Tech. in Electronics Engineering in 1993 from the Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, India , M.Sc.(Engg.) in Electrical Communication Engineering in 1995 from the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 1999 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA. After graduating I worked in the research arm of the Networks Business Sector of Motorola in Arlington Heights, Illinois, USA until May 2006. While at Motorola I worked on enabling wireless data via the design and implementation of cutting-edge scheduling algorithms and proposing distributed interference and mobility management solutions. My work resulted in 10 patents and many papers. In May 2006 I returned back to an academia setting, to work on broader problems whilst still retaining the real-world focus gleaned from my industrial experience. I started with a move to the Hamilton Institute of the National University of Ireland, Maynooth as a Research Fellow. In the summer of 2010 I was a visiting reseacher at LIDS MIT. From November 2010 to October 2011 I was a Senior Research Associate in the EECS Department at Northwestern University. I am at present a Research Assistant Faculty in the EECS Department at Northwestern University.
Curriculum Vitae - Dec 2011.Communications Theory Workshop 2012
I am Posters Chair for IEEE Communications Theory Workshop, Hawaii, May 2012. Here is the flyer.
Research interests
My main research interests are in communications, information theory, stochastic modelling and applied mathematics. Most of my recent work has been on probabilitistic analysis of communication networks, especially analysis of scheduling and routing algorithms. I also have some interest in applications in immunology and coding of stochastic processes.
Teaching/Courses
EECS495 Stochastic Models for Web 2.0, Spring 2011, EECS Northwestern University.
Copyright notice
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Book chapters
Journal Papers Submitted
Journal Papers Accepted/Appeared
Funding/Travel Grants
Conference submissions
Working articles
Conference publications: Refereed and invited conference publications can be found here.
Presentations: Upcoming and recent presentations can be found here.
Miscellaneous
Tutorial on Scheduling in Wireless Networks.
Salient features of different opportunistic scheduling algorithms for broadcast
channels - pointing out how all known algorithms maximise a weighted-sum of
rates over current channel.
Tutorial at IEEE VTC 2005, Dallas, TX.
Analysis of Multiuser Diversity in Wireless Networks.
Analysis of different opportunistic scheduling algorithms.
Presentation at INFORMS 2002, Boca Raton, FL.
Abstract.
US Patent, Method and system for allocating subcarriers to subscriber devices,
#7586990, Sept. 2009.
US Patent, Method and apparatus for resource allocation and scheduling,
#7564820, Jul. 2009.
US Patent, Methods for dividing base station resources, #7558577, Jul. 2009.
US Patent, Variable reliability wireless communication transmission method and
apparatus, #7539214, May 2009.
US Patent, Method and apparatus for improved channel maintenance signaling,
#7492752, Feb. 2009.
US Patent, System and method for increased battery saving during idle mode in a
wireless communication system, #7471942, Dec. 2008.
US Patent, Method to facilitate determination of a data rate,
#7447154, Nov. 2008.
Japan/Korea Patent, Method and apparatus for resource allocation and
scheduling, #JP3950460, Jan. 2007.
European Patent, Method for packet scheduling and radio resource allocation
in a wireless communication system, #EP1227626, Oct. 2006.
US Patent, A method for packet scheduling and resource allocation in a
wireless communication system, #6987738, Jan. 2006.
IEEE 802.16e, Handover triggers, Association procedures, May-June 2005.
IEEE 802.16g, Network Reference Model, Oct. 2004.
Technical Program Committee work:
BroadWim 2004, IEEE WCNC 2006 PHY/MAC, RAWNET 2006 (along with WiOpt 2006), Globecom 2008 Wireless Networks Symposium, WICON 2008, MACOM 2009, ComNets 2010, INFOCOM 2010 WiP, ACM MobiHoc 2011.