Electronics & Communication Engineering

Prof. Dr. Rajiv Kumar obtained his B.Tech. from the College of Technology, G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pant Nagar, India, in 1994. He earned his M.Tech. from NIT Kurukshetra (formerly REC Kurukshetra) in 2001 and completed his Ph.D. at NIT Kurukshetra in 2009. His teaching and research interests focus on networks and systems. With over 28 years of academic experience, he has contributed significantly to teaching, research, and academic development across multiple levels of engineering education.

Research Interests:

Network Reliability, Resilience, Service Level Agreement (SLA), QoS Routing, Service Reliability, Cyber-Physical Systems, Networked Control Systems, Wireless Sensor Networks, Internet of Things (IoT).

Education:

• Ph.D.(2009), National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra
  Area: Reliability and Resilience of Computer Communication Network
  Thesis Title: A Conceptual Framework for the Continuity of Mission- Critical Network Services.
• M.Tech.(2001), National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra,
  Area: Control Systems (dissertation work on network reliability)
  Dissertation Title: Performance Indexes of Flow Networks
• B.Tech.(1994), G.B. Pant University of Agriculture & Technology, Pant Nagar.

M.Tech. and Ph.D. Thesis

PhD Supervisor:
(Sole Guidance)
1) Ashutosh Sharma(Enrollment No.166001), titled "Risk-Aware Communication Network Architecture And Planning" (August, 2019)

(Joint Guidance)
1) Dinesh Sharma (Enrollment No. 176009), titled, "Proactive Connection Recovery Strategy for a Survivable Elastic Optical networks" (April, 2021)
2) Ratish Kumar (Enrollment No. 186001), titled, "Productive Controller Based Delay Compensation Approaches in Networked Control System" (November, 2021)
3) Shalni Sharma (Enrollment No. 216005), titled, "Quality of Service-Based Service Composition Optimization in Smart Agriculture" (December, 2024)

Current Doctoral Students:
1) MunishPatial (Enrollment No. 196004)
2) Vandana Devi (Enrollment No. 206001)
3) Aakanksha Sharma (Enrollment No. 206002)

M.Tech. Supervisor:
(Sole Guidance)
1) Ashutosh Sharma (Enrollment No.142006), titled "A Tuning based Multiconstrained Link weight Assignment for Optimized Data Transmission", 2016.
2) Poonam Koundal (Enrollment No. 142011), titled "Analysis of round trip delay and path, and routing protocol in wireless sensor network" , 2016.
3) Ashit Chander (Enrollment No.152008), titled, "Adaptation to Non-Critical Failure and Performance Analysis of Optical WDM Networks", 2017.

(Joint Guidance)
1) Swati Bhalaik (Enrollment No. 162006), titled, "Performance Analysis of Optical WDM Networks Using MATPLAN WDM", 2018
2) Aman Sharma (Enrollment No. 16200), titled, "Some Performance Aspects of Wavelength Division Multiplexing", 2018
3) Sanjay K. Singh (212055), titled, “Orion – Interactive optical Network, May 2023.

Open Projects:

1. Title: Multi-utiliy ECE department app:

Brief Desription:

A multi-utiliy ECE department mobile app with the following features:
• Students can connect with each other and faculty members
• All the information of students is linked to their account
• All department related common announcements will be made on the app
• Every student’s webkiosk data is available on the app (registered courses, attendance for each course)

2. Title: Multi-Robot Coordination

Brief Desription:

Using Robot Operating System (ROS), create a simulation where a drone recognises particular objects from its bird’s eye view and sends the location of those objects to a mobile robot (UGV). The mobile robot should be able to reach that object’s location autonomously.

3. Title: detection for autonomous driving

Brief Desription:

Create a simulation of a non-holonomic (2 wheeled or 4 wheeled) robot that can detect lanes visually and plan its path accordingly