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Dr. S Ravi Shankar

Visiting Professor

Educational Qualification

B.E (Hons) (Electronics),BITS, Pilani

M.Tech IIT Kharagpur.(Microwave Communication & Radar),Ph.D IIT Madras

Experience

Teaching: 13 years

Industry / R&D : 33 years

Area of Interest

Electro Magnetics, Wireline & wireless broadband, Underwater Communication

Email ID

ravishankars@rvce.edu.in

 

Date of Joining at RVCE : 30 Jan 2004

Subjects Handled : Communication Systems, Digital Communication, Advanced Digital

Communication, Broadband Communication

No. of PhDs guided: 8

List of PhD thesis completed under VTU

Year Completed Student Name Title of PhD thesis
2009 B V Uma Crosstalk Mitigation in Two Wire ADSL Interference Environment
2010 K V Padmaja Bit Loading Algorithm with Power Management for ADSL/ VDSL Systems
2011 H V Kumaraswamy Analysis and Design of Lens based Smart Antenna for Mobile Communications
2013 M Bharathi Single Ended Loop Probing and Performance Estimation of Digital Subscriber Lines
2014 K UshaRani Broadband Communications for Power Line Applications
2015 Prakash Biswagar Analysis of Shaped Dielectric Lens Antennas for Mobile Broadband Systems
2016 K S Shushrutha Modal Analysis and Beam Steering of Spheroidal Dielectric Lens-Array Antenna
2016 Mahesh A A New Hybrid Analytical Method for Radiation through Dielectric Lenses

No of PG projects guided : 10

No of UG projects guided : 20

List of funded projects

Project Title Funding Agency Duration & Amount
A cost effective Smart Antenna for Mobile Broadband Applications ISRO - Respond

2005 – 2009

Rs 7 lakhs

A study and Analysis of Active Array antennas embedded in Hemispherical shaped Dielectric lenses for Airborne Mobile communications ERIPR – CABS – DRDO

2006 – 2008

Rs 15 Lakhs

Design and Development of Dielectric Lens based on active smart array antenna for surface communication of Underwater vehicles NRB - DRDO

    2007 – 2010

Rs 40 lakhs

Development of Communications using Multicarrier Modulation over wired media for a Communications Buoy and for Underwater Wireless Communications NRB - DRDO

        2013 – 2016   

Rs 50 lakhs

Discrete Multitone cable communication Modem for Sonar Data acquisition and Telemetry applications NPOL - DRDO

               2013 – 2017             

  Rs 54 lakhs

Development of a Metamaterial Insulated Compact Array Antenna for Defense  Applications ERIPR – LRDE - DRDO

2017 

Rs 49.6 Lakhs

Development of P-Band SAR Antenna with Beam Steering

ISRO Rs 40 Lakhs (2018-20)

List of consultancy projects

Consultancy Project Title Funding Agency Amount and Duration
Steered Antenna for Short range wireless mm- wave Communications’ INTEL - India 2016, 20 lakhs

National CCTV Protocol

Bureau of Police R&D, Karnataka State Police

2018

Publication Details

List of IEEE publications

Papers Published in National and International Journals:

  1. P.N. Jayanthi and Dr. S.Ravishankar,"Optimization Driven Beam Forming in 2D Linear Array for MIMO Systems”, International Journal of Innovative Technology and Exploring Engineering (IJITEE) ,January 2019.
  2. P.N. Jayanthi and Dr. S.Ravishankar "Model-based compressed sensing algorithms for MIMO- OFDM channel estimation",International Journal of Engineering & Technology(IJET),Vol. 7, April 2018,pp 5-9.
  3. Narasimhan, M.; Ravishankar, S,”Radiation from aperture antennas radiating in the presence of a dielectric sphere”, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, Volume: 30 Issue: 6 Nov 1982, Page(s): 1237- 1240

  4. Narasimhan, M.; Ravishankar, S,” Probe uncompensated near-field to far-field transformation for scanning over an arbitrary surface”, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, Volume: 33 Issue: 4 Apr 1985, Page(s): 467- 472

  5. Narasimhan, M.; Ravishankar, S. “Multiple scattering of EM waves by dielectric spheres located in the near field of a source of radiation”, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, Volume: 35 Issue: 4 Apr 1987, Page(s): 399- 405

  6. Ravishankar, S.; Biswagar, Prakash “Analysis of Dielectric Lens - Adaptive Array Antennas for Shaped Beam Applications”, Sarnoff Symposium, 2006 IEEE 27-28 March 2006, Page(s): 1-4 Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/SARNOF.2006.4534746

  7. S.Ravishankar & M.S.Narasimhan, “The Effect of probe Directivity in spherical Near Field Antenna Measurements” April – June 1982, Vol 2, No 2, Electromagnetics Journal.

  8. S.Ravishankar “EM Scattering by bodies of arbitrary shape and unknown Constitution” April 1993. EMC Test and Design, IEEE EMC/ ESD Conference Proceedings, Denver Colorado.

International and National Conference:

  1. Dr.S. Ravishankar ,Nethravathi K.A “channel modeling and analysis with minerology based spectroscopic Dielectric model” 2nd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES FOR CONVERGENCE OF TECHNOLOGY (I2CT), Pune,India April 6,7,8 2017

  2. Ravishankar, S.; Rukmini, T.S.; Kumaraswamy, H.V.; Sunit, S.; Karthik, Y.; Vinay, P.; Ravishankar, A,”Analysis of hemispherical Dielectric lens antennas for wireless applications”, Applied
    Electromagnetics, 2007. APACE 2007. Asia-Pacific Conference on 4-6 Dec. 2007, Page(s): 1-6. Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/APACE.2007.4603917

  3. Ravishankar, S.; Padmaja, K.V.; Uma, B.V, “Implementation of Novel Bit Loading Algorithm with Power
    Cut-Back in ADSL Transmitter on DSP”, International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Multimedia Applications, 2007, Volume: 1 13-15 Dec. 2007, Page(s): 570-574, Digital Object Identifier .1109/ICCIMA.2007.139

  4. Ravishankar, S.; Uma, B.V.; Shreeprasad, M, “Rate-reach performance improvements in ADSL
    interference environment using adaptive wavelet threshold”, International Conference on Wavelet Analysis and Pattern Recognition, 2008. ICWAPR '08, Volume: 2 30-31 Aug. 2008, Page(s): 634-638, Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/ICWAPR.2008.4635856

  5. Ravishankar., S; Padmaja., K.V; Sridhar, Santosh, “Implementation of dual latency operation in VDSL2 with downstream power back off on DSP chip”, International Conferece on Signals and Electronic Systems, 2008. ICSES '08, 14-17 Sept. 2008 Page(s): 427-430 Digital Object Identifier 0.1109 /ICSES.2008.4673456

  6. Ravishankar, S.; Uma, B. V.; Shreeprasad, M. “Application of wavelet for improvement of rate-reach performance in ADSL interference environment”, International Conference on Communication
    Technology, 2008. ICCT 2008. 11th IEEE 10-12 Nov. 2008, Page(s): 565-568 Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/ICCT.2008.4716124

  7. Ravishankar, S.; Uma, B.V.; Padmaja, K.V,”Realization of Adaptive Filters for NEXT Crosstalk Mitigation in Two Wire ADSL on DSP”,Conference on Computational Intelligence and Multimedia Applications, 2007. International Conference on Volume: 1 13-15 Dec. 2007, Page(s): 567-569
    Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/ICCIMA.2007.136

  8. Dr. Ravishankar S, Mahesh A," Spherical Mode Analysis of patch array antenna", Conference on IEEE sponsored International conference on Antenna & Wave propagation, Barcelona, Spain, April 12-16 2010.

  9. Dr. Ravishankar S, Mahesh A," Gain enhancement of micro strip array antenna with dielectric lens antenna: comparative study", Conference on IEEE-AEMC, kolkata, India, Dec-14-16 2009.

  10. Dr. Ravishankar S, Mahesh A," Design of 2X2 microstrip patch array antenna embedded in hemispherical dielectric lens for airborne mobile communications", Conference on IEEE Sponsored International Radar symposium IRSI 2009, India, Dec 8-11, 2009.

  11. Dr. Ravishankar S, S.K.Thakur ,Mahesh A," Collimation Properties of Micro strip Patch Fed Dielectric Lens Antenna for Broadband Mobile Communication", Conference on IEEE sponsored International Conference on Future Computer and Communication, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Pages 522-526 Year of Publication: 2009 ISBN:978-0-7695-3591-3, India, Dec 8-11, 2009.

  12. Dr. Ravishankar S, Mahesh A, Sushrutha K S" Spherical modal analysis of the shape dielectric lens antenna excited by rectangular patch antenna for surface communication of underwater vehicles", Conference on IEEE International symposium on Microwaves, Bangalore, India.

  13. Dr. Ravishankar S, M.Bharathi,Usha Rani.," Capacity Estimation Using Frequency Domain Based SELT", Conference on Advances in Computers Control and Telecommunication Technologies (ACT 2009), 26-28 Dec 2009.

  14. Dr. Ravishankar S, M.Bharathi,Usha Rani.," Frequency domain SELT approach for line length estimation", Conference on Second International conference on signal and image processing, Vidya Vikas Institute of Technology, Mysore, 12-14 Aug 2009.

International Workshop:

  1. Ravishankar, S, “Analysis of shaped beam dielectric lens antennas for mobile broadband applications”, IEEE International Workshop on Antenna Technology: Small Antennas and Novel Metamaterials, 2005. IWAT 2005, 7-9 March 2005 , Page(s): 539- 542, Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/IWAT.2005.1461135.

International Symposium:

  1. Ravishankar, S.; Biswagar, P, “Spherical modal analysis of shaped dielectric lens antennas for mobile broadband applications (MBS)” Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, 2005 IEEE Volume: 2A 3-8 July 2005, Page(s): 454- 457 vol. 2A

  2. S.Ravishankar & M.S.Narasimhan, “Near Field to Near Field Transformations - Spherical Modal Approach” IEEE International Radar Symposium India - 83, Oct 1983.

  3. S.Ravishankar, “The Effects of antenna Mounted Bodies on the Radiation from VSAT Earth Station Antennas”, Sept 1993, The Third IEEE/URSI International Symposium on antennas and EM Theory, NANJING, Peoples Republic of China.

Patents:

Sl No Patent Description Patent Number & Status Assignee
1 Method of compensation for angle of arrival  in a lens based antenna. Under Filing Assigned to RVCE
2 Single Ended Loop Topology Estimation using CTDR and FDR Indian Patent Filing 201641003122, dated 28 Jan 2016 Assigned to RVCE
3 Determining Distance to Echo Points on a wireline medium

US 0083860 A1,

April 21, 2005

Assigned to Texas Instruments
4 Antennas Supporting High density of Wireless Users in Specific Directions
US 7180456 B2

Feb 20, 2007

Assigned to Texas Instruments

Book Citation:

My IEEE Publications are now quoted as the most accurate method for scattering by dielectric spheres in the following advanced book – “Dielectric and Dielectric loaded Antennas”, by Prof. Rajeswari Chatterjee. IEE Electronic and Electrical Engg series, Published by John Wiley.

Teaching Award:

  1. Excellency award from RSS Trust on 26 Jan 2006 in the annual get together function.

  2. Best Faculty award for the year 2010 from RVCE-Cognizant Technologies

Interaction with outside world:

  1. Member of VTU BOS for EC and TC 2016 – 2019.
  2. Member of Academic Council at Dayanand Sagar University
  3. Member of Academic Council at  MSR University of Applied Sciences.
  4. Member of Electronic Systems Validation Committee of Karnataka Police, Office of Director General of Police, Bangalore.
  5. Member of Camera Committee for Pre-matric and Post- Matric Girls Hostels under Dept of Social Welfare,  Office of the Commissioner of Social Welfare , Govt of Karnataka, Bangalore.