CNI Summer School 2021
The Centre for Networked Intelligence at Indian Institute of Science (IISc) is organizing its inaugural three-day CNI Summer School on 5-6-7th August 2021.
The fully online Summer School will include lectures by IISc faculty members as well as hands-on lab sessions on computer networks. The lecture sessions will consist of four lectures on advanced topics in Networks and Wireless Communications and one session on IoT MAC/chip design (along with a demo). Hands-on lab sessions will be conducted using a CNI’s cloud-based online lab platform.
The Summer School is targeted at 4th Year Bachelors’/dual-degree students or Masters’/PhD programs in engineering (ECE/CS/EE or related streams). A (free) registration is required for participation in the Summer School. Lecture participation will be through Zoom.
You may register for lecture sessions of the CNI Summer School by filling up the registration form. Registration for lab sessions is now closed.
Please email us at contact.cni@iisc.ac.in in case of difficulties in registering.
Schedule
Afternoons 2:00pm to 5:00pm

Lecture Topics schedule
Date and Time
Topic
Instructor
5th August 9:30am
Welcome and Introduction
5th August 9:40am – 10:55am
Parallel Server Systems
Prof. Parimal Parag
5th August 11:15am – 12:30pm
Control over networks
Prof. Vaibhav Katewa
6th August 9:30am – 10:45am
Learning and Control for networks
Prof. Rahul Singh
6th August 11am – 12:15pm
QCSMA and Max-Weight algorithm
Prof. Chandramani Singh
Session on IoT MAC and chip design (August 7)
Time
Topic
Instructor
2:00 pm – 3:25 pm
TSCH MAC (IEEE 802.15.4e) design for a radio chip
Prof. T V Prabhakar
3:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Demo on implementation of the MAC design on a hardware platform
Prof. T V Prabhakar
Lab sessions
Time and date
Topic
2:00 pm – 5:00 pm, August 5
Hands-on lab, session-1
2:00 pm – 5:00 pm, August 6
Hands-on lab, session-2
9:30 am – 12:30 pm, August 7
Hands-on lab, session-3