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20172025
most citedConnecting the Unconnected: Towards Frugal 5G Network Architecture and Standardization

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cs.NI2025

ITU-T Y.2325: NGN Evolution Towards Future

Rashmi Kamran, Shwetha Kiran, Pranav Jha +3

International Telecommunications Union (ITU) defined Next Generation Network (NGN) underlies most wireline and wireless packet-based telecommunications networks. A key design princ…

cs.NI2025

Energy-Aware 6G Network Design: A Survey

Rashmi Kamran, Mahesh Ganesh Bhat, Pranav Jha +3

6th Generation (6G) mobile networks are envisioned to support several new capabilities and data-centric applications for unprecedented number of users, potentially raising signific…

cs.NI2023

A Flexible Architecture for Broadcast Broadband Convergence in Beyond 5G

Rashmi Yadav, Rashmi Kamran, Pranav Jha +1

There has been an exponential increase in the usage of multimedia services in mobile networks in recent years. To address this accelerating data demand, mobile networks are experie…

cs.NI2023

An Architecture for Control Plane Slicing in Beyond 5G Networks

Rashmi Yadav, Rashmi Kamran, Pranav Jha +1

To accommodate various use cases with differing characteristics, the Fifth Generation (5G) mobile communications system intends to utilize network slicing. Network slicing enables…

cs.NI2023★ 3 cited

Applying SDN to Mobile Networks: A New Perspective for 6G Architecture

Rashmi Yadav, Rashmi Kamran, Pranav Jha +1

The upcoming Sixth Generation (6G) mobile communications system envisions supporting a variety of use cases with differing characteristics, e.g., very low to extremely high data ra…

cs.NI2022★ 1 cited

Leveraging Multi-Connectivity for Multicast Video Streaming

Sadaf ul Zuhra, Prasanna Chaporkar, Abhay Karandikar +1

Multi-connectivity has emerged as a key enabler for providing seamless connectivity in cellular mobile networks. However, its potential for improving the quality of multicast trans…

cs.NI2022★ 1 cited

A Flexible IAB Architecture for Beyond 5G Network

Shashi Ranjan, Pranav Jha, Abhay Karandikar +1

IAB is an innovative wireless backhaul solution to provide cost-efficient deployment of small cells for successful 5G adoption. Besides, IAB can utilize the same spectrum for acces…

cs.NI2020★ 2 cited

5G-Flow: Flexible and Efficient 5G RAN Architecture Using OpenFlow

Meghna Khaturia, Pranav Jha, Abhay Karandikar

Convergence of multiple access technologies is one of the key enablers in providing a diverse set of services to the Fifth Generation (5G) users. Though the 3rd Generation Partners…

cs.NI2020

Open5G: A Software-Defined Networking Protocol for 5G Multi-RAT Wireless Networks

Pradnya Kiri Taksande, Pranav Jha, Abhay Karandikar +1

Mobile Networks today comprise of multiple Radio Access Technologies (RATs), e.g., 4G LTE, Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN), and the upcoming 5G-New Radio (5G-NR). The access net…

cs.NI2020

Proportional Fairness through Dual Connectivity in Heterogeneous Networks

Pradnya Kiri Taksande, Prasanna Chaporkar, Pranav Jha +1

Proportional Fair (PF) is a scheduling technique to maintain a balance between maximizing throughput and ensuring fairness to users. Dual Connectivity (DC) technique was introduced…

cs.NI2019

Realizing the Frugal 5G Network

Meghna Khaturia, Pranav Jha, Abhay Karandikar

In order to make effective use of the Internet, broadband connectivity is a pre-requisite. However, in the majority of rural areas in developing countries, high-speed connectivity…

cs.NI2019★ 51 cited

Connecting the Unconnected: Towards Frugal 5G Network Architecture and Standardization

Meghna Khaturia, Pranav Jha, Abhay Karandikar

This article adopts a holistic approach to address the problem of poor broadband connectivity in rural areas by suggesting a novel wireless network architecture, also called the "F…

cs.NI2018

Dual Connectivity Support in 5G Networks: An SDN based approach

Pradnya Kiri Taksande, Pranav Jha, Abhay Karandikar

Dual Connectivity (DC) is one of the key techniques to harness the potential of heterogeneous cellular networks. However, 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) has introduced d…

cs.NI2018

SDN based Control and Management of WLANs in the 3GPP 5G Network

Pranav Jha, Abhay Karandikar

The exponential growth in mobile broadband usage [1] has catalyzed the need for high data rate communication systems. In this regard, activities for standardizing the next generati…