5G networks have recently been deployed all over the world. We have also designed a fully indigenous 5G cellular network in a project funded by the Department of Telecommunications (DoT), Govt of India. The entire hardware and software for all network layers of this 5G network were developed in-house. This 5G technology is now deployed at multiple places, including at IIT Kanpur, and was recently transferred to two companies - Tata-Tejas Networks and CDo. In this seminar, we will first briefly discuss the architecture of our indigenous 5G network. We will then show how AI/ML is used to address the problems that are specific to the design of 6G wireless networks. We will then discuss how we are contributing to the overall design of the first AI/ML-native 6G network, which will tentatively be deployed in 2030.
Rohit Budhiraja is currently a Professor with IIT Kanpur, where he recently led an effort to design the first indigenous 5G network. This 5G technology was transferred to the industry. He is now leading an Indian Government project from IIT Kanpur to design 5G+/6G standards. He also works closely with the industry, government organizations and R&D labs to investigate 5G+/6G wireless technologies. He is currently a vice chairman of Bharat 6G alliance and member of governing council of TSDSI, India’s standard develop organization, and. He has 25 years of experience in building 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G wireless systems. His current research interest is to design 5G+/6G wireless networks by using machine learning and optimization-based methods and then investigate their performance by prototyping them. He has received CNR Rao award from IIT Kanpur for architecting and designing the indigenous 5G network, IIT Kanpur Excellence in Teaching Award, Visvesvaraya Fellowship and Early Career Research Award from the Government of India.