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Prof. Sainath Bitragunta

Associate Professor, Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus

Room No 2210-A, Faculty Division-II,
Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering,
Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani- 333031, Rajasthan. India.

Publications (Peer-reviewed Journals/Magazines)

  •  "Environment-Aware Green UAV-Assisted, CubeSat Communication Network Energy Efficiency and Outage Probability Analysis," B. Sainath and S. K. Tadinada, IEEE Journal on Miniaturization for Air and Space Systems, doi: 10.1109/JMASS.2024.3451011
  • "Estimation and Analysis of Maximum Energy Harvested in RF‑EH Wireless System Over Different Fading Channels," B. Sainath, Wireless Pers Commun, 2024.
  • "A Novel Hybrid Communication Policy Using Network Coding Based Post-Quantum Cryptography and Adaptive Neuro Fuzzy Inference System," R. Goyal, A. Pawar, R. Ravikumar, Sainath B., Wireless Pers Commun, 2024.
  •     Analysis of Adversarial Jamming From a Quantum Game Theoretic Perspective," S. K. Borah, S. Anand, R. V. Agarwal and S. Bitragunta, IEEE Systems Journal, 2022.doi: 10.1109/JSYST.2022.3184297. 
  •       An intelligent link selection mechanism for hybrid classical-quantum communication systems," Shantom Kumar Borah and Sainath Bitragunta, IEEE  Communications Letters, vol. 26, pp. 301--305, Feb. 2022.  doi: 10.1109/LCOMM.2021.3129792.
  • A minimal space interferometer configuration for imaging at low radio frequencies," 
    Jaini, A., Deshpande, A., & Bitragunta, S., Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 38, E040, (2021).  doi:10.1017/pasa.2021.34. 
  • "Optimal spectral resource allocation and pricing for 5G and beyond:a game theoretic approach," 
    P. Gorla, D. Paithankar, V. Chamola, S. Bitragunta and M. Guizani, IEEE Networking Letters, Vol. 3, pp. 119-123, Sep. 2021. doi: 10.1109/LNET.2021.3081496. 
  • "Study of different performance measures and their relations in satellite-based and terrestrial quantum communication,'' Avik Mukhopadhyay, Shantom Kumar Borah, Yashkal  p Sharma, Sainath Bitragunta, Vinay Chamola, IET Quantum Communications, Aug. 2021. https://doi.org/10.1049/qtc2.12016 
  • "UAV selection and link switching policy for hybrid tethered UAV-assisted communication," V. U. Pai and B. Sainath, IEEE Communications Letters,  Vol. 25, Jul. 2021, pp. 2410-2414,  doi: 10.1109/LCOMM.2021.3070197. 
  • "IoMT and DNN-enabled drone-assisted covid-19 screening and detection framework for rural areas," N. Naren, Vinay Chamola, Sainath Baitragunta, Ananthakrishna Chintanpalli, Puneet Mishra, Sujan Yenuganti and Mohsen Guizani, IEEE Internet of Things Magazine, Vol. 4, pp. 4-9, Jun. 2021. doi: 10.1109/IOTM.0011.2100053.  
  • "Time switching based, outage-constrained, energy harvesting and energy-efficient cooperative radio communication policy,'' Rahul Sharma, Sainath Bitragunta, Aparna M, IET Communications. Vol. 14, Apr. 2021, pp. 980-999. DOI: 10.1049/cmu2.12136. 
  • "A survey of energy and spectrum harvesting technologies and protocols for next generation wireless networks," A. Padhy, S. Joshi, S. Bitragunta, V. Chamola and B. Sikdar, IEEE Access, vol. 9, 2021, pp. 1737-1769. doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3046770. 
  • "Best beam selection and PHY switching policy for hybrid FSO/RF inter-satellite communication link," Apoorva, S. Bitragunta ,and S. Nitundil, IET Communications, Vol. 14, Nov. 2020,  pp. 3350-3362. doi: 10.1049/iet-com.2020.0515. 
  • "Optimal power adaptive decode-and-forward cooperative device-to-device communication policies,'' Rahul Sharma, Sainath Bitragunta, IET Communications, Vol. 14, Apr. 2020, pp. 2066–2073. doi: 10.1049/iet-com.2019.0529. 
  • "A probabilistic detect-and-forward relay selection policy for cooperative device-to-device wireless systems," Rahul Sharma, B. Sainath, Physical Communication, Vol. 34, Jun. 2019, pp. 210–219. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.phycom.2019.04.001 
  • "Energy efficient and delay-constrained sleep period optimization for green radio communication," B. Sainath, Satwik Prabhu K, Naman Gupta, Physical Communication, Vol. 30, Oct. 2018, pp. 26–32. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.phycom.2018.07.002 
  • "Power-constrained, spectral efficiency-optimal, green cooperative device-to-device communication systems," Sainath Bitragunta, IET Communications, Vol. 11, Sep. 2017, pp. 2066–2073.  https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-com.2016.1372. 
  • "Interference-constrained, optimal, power-adaptive amplify-and-forward relaying and selection for underlay  cognitive radios," B.Sainath and Neelesh B. Mehta, IEEE Trans. on Communications, Vol. 62,  Aug. 2014, pp. 2709-2720.  doi: 10.1109/TCOMM.2014.2337901. 
  • "Generalizing the amplify-and-forward relay gain model: an optimal SEP perspective," B. Sainath and Neelesh B. Mehta, IEEE Trans. Wireless Communications, Vol. 11, Nov. 2012, pp. 4118-4127. doi: 10.1109/TWC.2012.092112.120211. 

Conference

  • A. Misra and B. Sainath, "Energy Harvesting Analysis of SLIPT Over Visible Light Gamma-Gamma Distributed Channels," IEEE Workshop on Recent Advances in Photonics (WRAP), Prayagraj, India, 2023. (won best poster award in one of the tracks)
  • N. Agarwal, T. Sardana and S. Bitragunta, "Gaussian Approximation-Based, Deep Neural Network-assisted Precise Indoor Localization," in IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Computing and Communication Technologies (CONECCT), Bangalore, India, 2024, pp. 1-6.
  • T. Raja, R. Bhattacherjee and S. Bitragunta, "Optimal Path-Finding using Quantum Alternating Operator Ansatz with Grover’s Search for Multi-hop Wireless Sensor Networks," in IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Computing and Communication Technologies (CONECCT), Bangalore, India, 2024, pp. 1-6. (won best paper award in one of the tracks)
  • R. Chaturvedi, A. Misra, S. Bitragunta, A. Bhatia and K. Tiwari, "Simultaneous Quantum Information and Power Transfer-Based Green QKD Receiver Architectures," 2024 16th International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS), Bengaluru, India, 2024, pp. 782-785.
  • A. Bhatia, S. Bitragunta and K. Tiwari, "QC-Stack: A Layered Reference Model for Quantum Computers," 16th International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS), Bengaluru, India, 2024, pp. 962-967.
  • Vinay U. Pai, Sainath Bitragunta, "Optimal Adaptive Relay Gain Policy for Green UAV-Assisted Hybrid Cooperative Communication," presented in International Conference on Electronics, Computing and Communication Technologies (IEEE CONECCT), Bangalore, India, July 2023. 
  • Nipun Agarwal, Sainath Bitragunta, Puneet Mishra, and Pratham Arora, "Probabilistic Modeling and Outage Analysis for Smart Microgrid and Electric Vehicles Ecosystem," presented in 5th International Conference on Energy, Power and Environment (ICEPE 2023), National Institute of Technology Meghalaya, India, Jun. 2023. 
  • Bitragunta, S. (2023). Frobenius Norm-Based Radio Propagation Path Selection Policy and Performance Analysis. In: Barolli, L. (eds) Advanced Information Networking and Applications. AINA 2023. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol. 661. Springer, Cham. 
  • T. Jain, S. Bitragunta and A. Bhatia, "Relay Selection, Eavesdropper-Aware Relaying, PHY-Secrecy Capacity Analysis of Cooperative Wireless System over Hybrid Fading Channels," 2023 International Conference on Information Networking (ICOIN), Bangkok, Thailand, Jan. 2023.
  • Rohit Goyal, Arnav S Pawar, Rohith T Ravikumar and B. Sainath, "A Novel Hybrid Communication Policy using Network Coding Based Post-Quantum Cryptography and Fuzzy Inference System," presented at IEEE ANTS, IIT Gandhinagar, Dec. 2022. 
  • B. Sainath, "MMSE Estimation and Analysis of Maximum Harvested Energy in Green Cooperative Wireless System with Multiple Relays," presented at IEEE ANTS, IIT Gandhinagar, Dec. 2022.   
  • M. Bitragunta and B. Sainath, "Bayesian-based Projectile Angle Parameter Estimation, CRLB and Analysis," 2022 International Conference on Emerging Techniques in Computational Intelligence (ICETCI), Hyderabad, India, 2022, pp. 97-101, doi: 10.1109/ICETCI55171.2022.9921385.  
  • R. M. Shah, B. Sainath and A. Gupta, "Comparative Performance Study of CNN-based Algorithms and YOLO," IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Computing and Communication Technologies (CONECCT), Jul. 2022, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/CONECCT55679.2022.9865820. 
  • "Mathematical Modelling and Success Probability Analysis of Basketball Shots,'' Kaivalya Dabhadkar, Adeesh Bhargava and Sainath Bitragunta, Presented in 2nd International Conference on Sports Engineering, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India, Mar. 2022. (won best paper award in one of the sessions)
  • "Next Generation Tools, Technologies and Aesthetics for Effective Online Teaching and Remote Learning: An Engineering Faculty Perspective,'' Sainath Bitragunta, Proceedings of the International Conference on Best Innovative Teaching Strategies (ICON-BITS 2021), Feb. 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4027049.  
  • "Hybrid RIS-assisted Cooperative Communication Model Design and Performance Analysis,'' Abhilash Kumar Pandey, Amrith Aathmaram, and B. Sainath, IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC), Jan. 2022. doi: 10.1109/CCNC49033.2022.9700650. 
  • "Energy Efficiency Performance Analysis of Single and Multi-Receive Antenna Backscatter Communication System,'' Manoj Joshi, Gaurav Punjabi, and B. Sainath, 14th International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS), Bangalore, India, Jan. 2022. doi: 10.1109/COMSNETS53615.2022.9668401. 
  • "Comparative Performance Investigation of MIMO-OTFS and MIMO-OFDM using Deep Neural Network Modeling,'' Manoj Joshi, Gaurav Punjabi, B. Sainath, and Ananthakrishna Chintanpalli, IEEE 18th India Council International Conference (INDICON), IIT Guwahati, India, Dec. 2021. doi: 10.1109/INDICON52576.2021.9691490. 
  • "Secrecy Capacity of Hybrid, Outage-based Power Adaptive, Cooperative Relaying Networks with Imperfect CSI,'' Anuj Deshmukh, Devashree Paithankar, and B. Sainath, IEEE 18th India Council International Conference (INDICON), IIT Guwahati, India, Dec. 2021. doi: 10.1109/INDICON52576.2021.9691568.  
  • "Prototype Design of Science Traffic Shaper for Demonstration of Stratosphere Based Astronomical Observatory,'' Baranwal, Prerna & Taheran, Mahsa & Bitragunta, Sainath & Klinkner, Sabine,  72nd International Astronautical Congress (IAC), Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Oct. 2021. 
  • "Superdense Coding Through Repeaterless Hybrid Network of Depolarizing Quantum Communication Channels,'' Gokul Srinivasan, Shantom Kumar Borah, and Sainath Bitragunta, International Conference on Electronics, Computing and Communication Technologies (IEEE CONECCT), Bangalore, India, Jul. 2021.  doi: 10.1109/CONECCT52877.2021.9622362. 
  • Spectral Efficiency Optimization and Analysis of Time Switching-Based, Energy Harvesting Spectrum Sharing Cooperative Wireless System,'' Mohit Bohra, Dhruv Saith, and Sainath Bitragunta, International Conference on Electronics, Computing and Communication Technologies (IEEE CONECCT), Bangalore, India, Jul. 2021.  doi: 10.1109/CONECCT52877.2021.9622717. (won best paper award in intelligent technologies track) 
  • "Hybrid, SWIPT-Based, Green Cooperative Wireless System Design and Performance Analysis," D. Vasudevan and S. Bitragunta, IEEE 93rd Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2021-Spring), Helsinki, Finland, Apr. 2021. doi: 10.1109/VTC2021-Spring51267.2021.9448869.
  • "Green Satellite Communication Link Design, Optimization, and Performance Analysis,'' Nishant Gupta, Sainath Bitragunta, 7th IEEE Uttar Pradesh Section International Conference on Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering (UPCON), MNNIT, Prayagraj, Nov. 2020. doi: 10.1109/UPCON50219.2020.9376512. 
  • "Millimeter Wave Wireless System Modeling with Best Channel Selection Policy,'' Tooba M. S., Kartik Shrivastava, B. Sainath, IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems (ANTS) (WiE track), IIIT, New Delhi, Dec. 2020. doi: 10.1109/ANTS50601.2020.9342836. 
  • "Interference-Constrained Power Adaptive Decode-and-Forward Relaying Policy: Design and Performance Analysis,'' Rahul Sharma, B. Sainath, IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems (ANTS), IIIT, New Delhi, Dec. 2020. doi: 10.1109/ANTS50601.2020.9342802.
  • "A Comparative Error Performance Study of Power Adaptive Regenerative Relaying Policy, and Benchmark Relaying Policies," Rahul Sharma, B. Sainath, 17th IEEE India Council International Conference INDICON Conference, Netaji Subhas University of Technology (NUST), New Delhi, Dec. 2020. doi: 10.1109/INDICON49873.2020.9342075.
  • "STPAP: Source Transmit Power Adaptation Policy for Collaborative Wireless Systems," Vidit Jha, Sainath Bitragunta, IEEE TENCON, OSAKA, JAPAN, Nov. 2020. doi: 10.1109/TENCON50793.2020.9293885.
  • "Positioning Outage Probability Analysis for Navigation Satellite Communication over Fading Channels," Sainath Bitragunta, IEEE TENCON, OSAKA, JAPAN, Nov. 2020. doi: 10.1109/TENCON50793.2020.9293779. 
  • "Spectrally Efficient Cooperative Visible Light Communication with Adaptive Power Sharing for a Generalized System," Umang Garg, Nithin Rahav J. K, B. Sainath, 29th Wireless and Optical Communications Conference (WOCC), Newark, NJ, USA, Jun. 2020. doi: 10.1109/WOCC48579.2020.9114946.
  • "Fading-Averaged Symbol Error Probability Analysis of Millimeter Wave Downlink over Nakagami Fading," D. R. Mulgaonkar, N. Chandra and S. Bitragunta, IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems (ANTS), GOA, Dec. 2019. doi: 10.1109/ANTS47819.2019.9118154. "A Novel Hybrid FSO/mmWave/RF System Design and Analysis for Next Generation Wireless Communication,"  K. Swaminathan, A. Saini and S. Bitragunta, 2019 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems (ANTS), GOA, Dec. 2019. doi: 10.1109/ANTS47819.2019.9118029. 
  • "Application of Game Theory to Cooperative Underlay Cognitive Radio IoT,"  S. M. Kanadje, V. Miglani and S. Bitragunta, IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems (ANTS), GOA, Dec. 2019. doi: 10.1109/ANTS47819.2019.9118023.
  • "Deep Fade Event's Probability Performance Analysis of Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access Scheme Realization in Power Domain," Sainath Bitragunta, IEEE TENCON, Cochin, Kerala, India, Oct. 2019. doi: 10.1109/TENCON.2019.8929233. 
  • "Fading-Averaged Spectral Efficiency Analysis of Millimeter Wave Communication Links over Nakagami Fading Channels," Kaivalya Dabhadkar, Adeesh Bhargava and Sainath Bitragunta, International Conference on Electronics, Computing and Communication Technologies (IEEE CONECCT), IIIT Bangalore, India, Jul. 2019. doi: 10.1109/CONECCT47791.2019.9012872.
  • "Doubly Constrained Underlay Cognitive Radio System: Optimization and Analysis," Aniruddha Paturkar,  Vibhuti Goel, B. Sainath, European Conference on Networks and Communications, Valencia, Spain, June 2019. doi: 10.1109/EuCNC.2019.8802006.
  • "Energy Harvesting Cooperative Wireless Systems: Probabilistic Modeling and Statistical Analysis," M. Aparna and S. Bitragunta, IEEE Wireless Power Transfer Conference (WPTC), London, United Kingdom, Jun. 2019. 10.1109/WPTC45513.2019.9055600.
  • "Optimizing Fading-Averaged Bandwidth Efficiency of Underlay Cognitive Radio System by Transmit Power Adaptation," Anubhav Sachan, Rakshith S, and B. Sainath, 11th IEEE International Conference on  COMmunication Systems and NETworkS (COMSNETS), Bengaluru, India, Jan. 2019. doi: 10.1109/COMSNETS.2019.8711471.
  • "Novel Insights into Probability of Success of Random Access Scheme in 5G Millimeter Wave Cellular Network," Shilpi Varshney, Shreya Tyagi, and Sainath Bitragunta, IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems (ANTS), IIT Indore, India, Dec. 2018. doi: 10.1109/ANTS.2018.8710051. (won best paper award in women in engineering track) 
  • "Power Constrained, Power Adaptive, Decode and Forward Relay Selection Policy Design and Performance Analysis," Rahul Sharma, Sainath Bitragunta, IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems (ANTS), IIT Indore, India, Dec. 2018. doi: 10.1109/ANTS.2018.8710098.
  • "Energy Harvesting, Hybrid, Cooperative Wireless System Modeling and Outage Performance Analysis," Praphul Samavedam M, Bindu Priya Kalathuru, Sainath Bitragunta, Conference on Information and Communication Technology, IIITDM Jabalpur, India, Oct. 2018. doi: 10.1109/INFOCOMTECH.2018.8722354.
  • "A Comparative Study of Noise Cancellation Using Least Mean Squares Adaptive Filter and Recurrent Neural Network Filter," Aakriti Agrawal, Rohitkumar Arasanipalai, Sainath Bitragunta, International Conference on Energy Power and Environment, NIT Meghalaya, India, Jun. 2018. doi: 10.1109/EPETSG.2018.8658938.
  • Optimizing the Order of Modulation for Minimized Distortion in Green Communication Networks," Sarthak Jain, Sayan Rudra Pal, B. Sainath,  International Conference on Electronics, Computing and Communication Technologies (IEEE CONECCT), Bangalore, India, Mar. 2018. doi: 10.1109/CONECCT.2018.8482362. (won best paper award in Networking Protocols and Communication track) 
  • "Fading-Averaged Symbol Error Probability Analysis of Full Duplex Amplify-and-Forward Relaying over Rayleigh Fading Channels," Rahul Shrotey, B. Sainath, Gaurav Sharma, National Conference on Communications (NCC), IIT Hyderabad, India, Feb. 2018. doi: 10.1109/NCC.2018.8600158. 
  • "Fading Averaged-Spectral Efficiency Analysis of Average Interference-Constrained, Cooperative Device-to-Device Communication System,"  B. Sainath, Rahul Gupta, Pratik Devikar, IEEE INDICON, IIT Roorkee, India, Dec. 2017. doi: 10.1109/INDICON.2017.8487660.
  • "Energy Harvesting Relay Outage Probability Analysis of Cooperative Communication System over Small and Large Scale Fading Channels," B. Sainath, Santosh A and Jagadeesh K,  IEEE International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications, and Informatics (ICACCI), Manipal, Karnataka, India, Sep. 2017. doi: 10.1109/ICACCI.2017.8125904. 
  • "A Novel Interference-Aware, Optimal Gain Adaptation Policy For a Non-regenerative, Underlay Cognitive Radio Relay,"  B. Sainath and Neelesh B. Mehta, IEEE Intl. Conf. on Communications (ICC), Sydney, Australia, Jun. 2014. doi: 10.1109/ICC.2014.6884168. 
  • "SEP-optimal Adaptive Gain and Transmit Power Amplify-and-Forward Relaying," B. Sainath and Neelesh B. Mehta, IEEE Intl. Conf. on Communication Systems, Singapore, Nov. 2012 (Invited paper) doi: 10.1109/ICCS.2012.6406142.