Dr. Jobin Francis
Assistant Professor
jobinfrancis@iitpkd.ac.in
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Biosketch
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
Research
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 study the latency in the transport network
Teaching
EE4503 Wireless Communications
Research Area
Wireless communication
5G Cellular networks
Additional Information
Title
Assistant Professor
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