Projects

• Principle Investigator of the Project titled “Efficient Deployment of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Wireless Networks” sponsored by Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) under grant No: EEQ/2020/000539, for the period December 2020 - December 2023.

• Principle Investigator of the Project titled “Design of Energy Heterogeneous Cognitive Radio System” Sponsored by NIT Andhra Pradesh under seed grant No: NITAP/SD-G/10/2020, for the period November 2020 - March 2023.

• Received research contingency grant of Rs. 10 Lakhs as a part of the TiHAN faculty fellowship supported by NMICPS TiHAN-IIT Hyderabad under grant no: TiHAN-IITH/13/2022-2023/338 for the period 2023-24.

Journal Articles (reverse chronological order)

• N. R. Banavathu, "Optimal Generic L-Out-of-M Counting Rule for Neyman-Pearson Test in Cognitive Radio Networks," in IEEE Networking Letters, doi: 10.1109/LNET.2023.3309537.

•  N. R. Banavathu and M. Z. A. Khan, "Optimization of N-out-of-K Rule for Heterogeneous Cognitive Radio Networks," in IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 445-449, March 2019.

• N. R. Banavathu and M. Z. A. Khan, ``Optimal Number of Cognitive Users in K -Out-of- M Rule," in IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, vol. 6, no. 5, pp. 606-609, Oct. 2017.

Conference Articles (reverse chronological order)

• Naveen Kumar and N. R. Banavathu, "Performance Analysis of UAV Assisted Underlay Cognitive STBC NOMA Systems”2023 IEEE 20th India Council International Conference (INDICON), Warangal, India, 2023, pp. 1-6 (accepted)

• Beulah Sujan and N. R. Banavathu, ``Cooperative Spectrum Sensing in a Cognitive Radio Network Using a Selective Soft-Information Fusion Scheme TENCON 2023 - 2023 IEEE Region 10 Conference (TENCON), Chiang Mai, Thailand, 2023, pp. 1-6 (accepted).

• N. R. Banavathu and M. Z. A. Khan, ``On Throughput Maximization of Cooperative Spectrum Sensing using the m-out-of-K Rule,"  in IEEE 89th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Spring), May 2019, pp. 1-5.

• N. R. Banavathu and M. Z. A. Khan, ``Joint Optimization of both m and K for the m-out-of-K Rule for Cooperative Spectrum Sensing," European Wireless 2018; 24th European Wireless Conference, Catania, Italy, 2018, pp. 1-6.

• N. R. Banavathu and M. Z. A. Khan, ``On cooperative spectrum sensing with improved energy detector over erroneous control channel," in 2016 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), April 2016, pp. 1-6.

• N. R. Banavathu and M. Z. A. Khan, ``On the throughput maximization of cognitive radio using cooperative spectrum sensing over erroneous control channel," in 2016  Twenty-Second National Conference on Communication (NCC), March 2016, pp. 1-6.

• N. R. Banavathu and M. Z. A. Khan, ``Optimization of cooperative spectrum sensing in cognitive radio over erroneous reporting channel," 2015 International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications (WPMC), Hyderabad, India, 2015, pp. 1-5.

• N. R. Banavathu and M. Z. A. Khan, ``Optimal n-out-of- K voting rule for cooperative spectrum sensing with energy detector over erroneous control channel," in 2015 IEEE 81st Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Spring)} May 2015, pp. 1-5.

Awards

• Recipient of prestigious faculty fellowship award from TiHAN - IIT Hyderabad for the period 2023-25.

• Certificate of research excellence from IIT Hyderabad.

• Recipient of a merit scholarship from Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) Limited, India during B.E (2005-09).

• Recipient of MHRD fellowship in Master's program during 2010-12, and Ph.D. program 2013-2018.