Assistant Professor December, 2018 - present
IIT Palakkad
Research Associate May, 2017 - November, 2018
TU Dresden, Germany
Summer Intern May, 2014 - July, 2014
NOKIA Networks, Bangalore
Education
Ph.D. in Electrical Communication Engineering, 2011-2017
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Advisor: Prof. Neelesh B. Mehta
M.E. in Signal Processing, 2009-2011
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
B.Tech. in Electronics and Communication Engineering, 2005-2009
College of Engineering, Trivandrum
Publications
Peer-reviewed Journals:
J. Francis and N. B. Mehta, Throughput-Optimal Scheduling and Rate Adaptation for Reduced Feedback Best-M Scheme in OFDM Systems," IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 65, no. 7, pp. 3053-3065, July 2017.
J. Francis, N. B. Mehta, and S. N. Ananya, Best-M Feedback in OFDM: Base-station-side Estimation and System Implications," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 15, no. 5, pp. 3616-3627, May 2016.
J. Francis and N. B. Mehta, Characterizing the Impact of Feedback Delays on Wideband Rate Adaptation," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 960-971, Feb. 2015.
J. Francis and N. B. Mehta, EESM-based Link Adaptation in Point-to-point and Multi-cell OFDM Systems: Modeling and Analysis," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol.13, no.1, pp. 407-417, Jan. 2014.
International Conferences:
J. Francis and N. B. Mehta, Throughput-optimal Rate Adaptation for Best-M Feedback in OFDM Systems," in Proc. ICC, pp. 1-6, May 2016.
R. K. Kona, N. B. Mehta, and J. Francis, A Tractable Analytical Framework for Evaluating Opportunistic Selection in Time-Varying Channels," in Proc. ICC, pp. 1-6, May 2016.
J. Francis, S. Kalyanasundaram, B. Natarajan, R. Agrawal, and N. B. Mehta, Downlink Interference Penalty Algorithm for Power Control, Scheduling, and User association," in Proc. WiOpt, May 2015.
J. Francis and N. B. Mehta, Impact of Feedback Delays on EESM-based Wideband Link Adaptation: Modeling and Analysis," in Proc. GLOBECOM, pp. 3703-3708, Dec. 2014.
J. Francis and N. B. Mehta, \EESM-based Link Adaptation in OFDM: Modeling and Analysis," in Proc. GLOBECOM, pp. 3703-3708, Dec. 2013.
Radio Resource Allocation and Cellular Network Optimization
- Joint design of radio access and transport networks
- Ensuring ultra-reliability via multi-connectivity
- Two-stage beamforming and cooperative uplink training for massive MIMO
- Network slicing in the access network
- Cost-optimized cell-free massive MIMO
Performance Analysis of Next-generation Cellular Systems
- Rate adaptation and scheduling in 5G cellular systems with reduced feedback from UEs
- Studying the impact of feedback delays using stochastic geometry
- Queuing theoretic models to understand the latency in the transport network
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