RESUME
1.
Name
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
2.
Date of Birth
June 22, 1953
3.
Present position & Official address
Professor
Department of Electrical Engg.
Indian Institute of Technology
Madras - 600 036.
4.
Positions held
Employer
Period
Designation
Department of Electrical Engg.
IIT Madras 600 036
1990 – Present
Professor
Department of Electrical Engg.
IIT Madras 600 036
August 1998-July 2001
Head
Electrical Engg. Department
IIT Madras 600 036
1981 – 1990
Asst. Professor
Electrical Engg. Department
Washington State Univ. USA
1979 – 1981
Asst. Professor
Telecommunications, Computer
Networks and Fibre Optics
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Research Area
6.
Academic Qualifications
S.No.
Degree
University
Year
1.
B.Tech
IIT Kanpur, India
1975
2.
M.S.
University of Maine, USA
1977
3.
Ph.D.
University of Maine, USA
1979
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Research Guidance
: See Appendix I
8.
Research Publications
: See Appendix II
9.
Projects
: See Appendix III
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10.
Awards & Fellowship
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1st Prof.S.N.Mitra Memorial Award, IETE, 1995
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Awarded Finalist Best of the Show for NovaSwitch 2400 Ex, InterOp + Networld'96,
Las Vegas, USA
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Awarded the Prize and Trophy for the Best Product on Fibre Optics Educator Kit at
Elecrama 1996, Bombay
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Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering, India since 1994
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Fellow of Indian National Science Academy (INSA), New Delhi since 1999
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Fellow of The National Academy of Science, Allahabad since 1999
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Governor, International Council for Computer Communication Inc., (ICCC),
1999 - 2005
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Awarded Dr.Vikram Sarabhai Research Award for the year 1997 towards the
contributions and achievements in the field of Electronics, Informatics, Telematics &
Automation
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Awarded For the Sake of Honour Award by Rotary Club of Madras Central for the
year 1998-99 towards the achievements in the field of Electronics,
Telecommunications.
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Awarded Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award for outstanding contributions in the field
of Engineering Sciences for the year 1998.
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Awarded Distinguished Alumnus by IIT Kanpur, September 1999
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Awarded Millennium Medal by CSIR during Indian Science Congress held in
January 2000 at Pune
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Awarded Dr.P.Sheel Memorial Lecture Award for the year 2001 by The National
Academy of Sciences.
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Awarded “Rajasthan Shree” Award by Rajasthani Association, August 2001
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Awarded Silicon India Leadership Award 2001 for Excellence and Promise in
Business & Technology Academics.
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Awarded Padma Shri Award 2002 for distinguished service in science and
engineering, telecommunications.
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Awarded H.K.Firodia Award for excellence in Science & Technology for the year
2002
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Awarded Dataquest IT Pathbreaker Award for the year 2003 on 19th December 2003
at New Delhi.
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Awarded the Outstanding Academician Award 2003 Instituted by Sarsawathi Ammal
Educational Trust at Arunai Engineering College, Thiruvannamalai on 26th
December 2003.
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Awarded the “Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry” (FICCI)
Award for the year 2002-03 for the significant work in the category of “Outstanding
Contribution to Knowledge Based Industries” by the Hon’ble President of India,
Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam at FICCI’s 76th Annual General Meeting, New Delhi on 7th
January 2004.
Committee Membership
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Member on TIFAC committee for the panel on Electronics & Communication, New
Delhi, 1995-96
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Member of the Task Force on Future Technology Forecast for India for 2020,
TIFAC, New Delhi, 1995-96
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Member on the Sectional Committee on Electronics & Communications of Indian
National Academy of Engineering (INAE), New Delhi, 1997-98
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Member of Expert Committee in the area of Optoelectronics/Photonics, Department
of Electronics, New Delhi, 1993 – 1996
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Member of Research Council Committee, CEERI, Pilani, 1994 – 2000
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Member of the Task Fource on Telecommunications, Technology Information,
Forecasting and Assessment Council (TIFAC), New Delhi, 1995 – 1996
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Member of Research Advisory Committee, K.K.Birla Academy, New Delhi, 1995 –
Present
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Member of 9th Plan Study Team on Electronics Materials, Department of Electronics,
New Delhi, 1996 – 1998
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Treasurer – PPST Foundation, 1985 – 2000
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Member of the Working Group on “HRDE”, Department of Electronics, New Delhi,
December 1996 – 1997
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Member of Board of Studies in Electronics & Communication Engineering for Andhra
University, Visakhapatnam, 1996 – Present
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Member of the Engineering Sciences Research Committee, CSIR, New Delhi, 1998
– Present
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Member of the Centre for Telecom Policy Studies (CTPS), IIM, Ahmedabad, 1998 Present
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Member of Selection Committee for the Swarnajayanti Fellowships Award, 1999 –
2000
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Member of Programme Advisory Committee (PAC) of Electrical, Electronics, and
Computer Engineering, DST, New Delhi, 1999 – Present
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Member of IT Task Force for Uttranchal, Dehradun, 1999 – 2000
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Member of the Board of Studies, University of Madras, 1999 – 2002
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Member of the Knowledge Network for Augmenting Grassroots Innovation
(KnowNet-Grin), IIM Ahmedabad, 2000 – Present
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Member of the Working Group on Information Technology for Masses, MIT, New
Delhi, 2000.
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Chairman of the Steering Committee of the Photonics Development Programme of
MIT, New Delhi, 2000 - Present
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Chairman of the National Advisory Committee of ISRO, Ahmedabad 2001 PresentMember in the Research Advisory Committee, Centre for Indian Knowledge
Systems, Chennai, 2001 - Present
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Member of Committee contituted to evolve a Mission on Information Security by the
Principal Scientific Advisor (PSA), Govt. of India, 2001 - Present
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Member of Development Council for Telecom Sector, Ministry of Communications,
New Delhi, 2001 - Present
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Member of the Advisory Committee for Technology Information, Forecasts and
Assessment Cell of the MIT, New Delhi, 2001 - Present
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Member of the Task Force for Information Technology, Government of Tamil Nadu,
Chennai, 2001 - Present
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Member of the Working Group on Information Technology Sector for the Tenth Five
Year Plan (2002-2007)
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Member of the Working Group on Telecom Sector for the Tenth Five Year Plan
(2002-2007)
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Chairman of the Advisory Committee, Information Technology Institute for the Tribes
of India (ITITI) Dehradoon, 2001 – Present
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Member of the Task Group for Industry-academia level links in Telecommunication
between India and UK (2001 – 2006)
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Chairman of Inter Departmental of Technical group for Satellite Systems  IT Task
force.
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Chairman of the Confederation of Indian Industry Tamil Nadu Task Force on
Industry-Institute-Interaction, 2003-2004
Board of Directorship in the Companies
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Sasken Communications Ltd., Bangalore
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Banyan Networks Pvt. Ltd., Chennai
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Polaris Software Lab Ltd., Chennai
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Jataayu Software (P) Ltd., Bangalore
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n-Logue Communicatons Pvt. Ltd., Chennai
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HTL Ltd., Chennai
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Shyam Telecom, New Delhi
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Enmail.com, Chennai
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Tejas Networks Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore
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NMSWorks Private Limited
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BSNL
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VSNL
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Midas Communication Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
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I-softech Private Limited
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Advisory board/Governing council
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Member of the Governing Council of AU-KBC Centre for Internet & Telecom
Technologies, Anna University, Chennai, 2000 – Present
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Member of the Panel of Experts for the Investment of UTI Venture Capital Fund,
Bangalore, 2000 – 2002
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Member of the Apex Committee of the Incubation Centre at IIT Kanpur, 2000 –
Present
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Member of Advisory Council of Nadathur S. Raghavan Centre for Entrepreneural
learning (NSRCEL), IIM Bangalore, 2001-present.
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Member of the Technical Advisory Board of Media Lab Asia, IITKanpur, 2001-present
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Member of the ICICI Venture’s Advisory Board, Mumbai, 2001
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Member of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). Governing Body,
Department of Science and Industrial Research (DSIR), Delhi.
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Advisor on the Information Technology Committee of Directors of Punjab National
Bank – September, 2002
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Member of the Advisory Committee for Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize (2002) in
engineering Sciences.
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Member of the Advisory Committee for the book titled “Disruptive Technologies :The
Indian Contribution” – Tata sons Limited, Mumbai, October, 2002.
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Member of an Inter- Ministerial Advisory Committee, Universal Service Fund (USF),
Department of Telecommunications, New Delhi, December, 2002
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Member of the Working Group on Flow of Credit to SSI Sector, Reserve Bank of
India, Mumbai, 2003-04
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Patents Taken
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Direct-In-Diallers for Decadic-Pulsing Telephone System, Patent Nos.173914
and 173916
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A Long Range DECT System, Patent Nos.AN:333/MAS/97 dated 19th February 1997
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A Long Range Relay Base DECT System, Patent No.AN:332/MAS/97 dated 19th February 1997
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LAN Trainer Lab Apparatus, Patent Nos.928 dated June 5, 1999
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A Direct Internet Access System, Patent Nos.25/MAS/2000 dated 8th May 2000
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High Bit Rate Digital Subscriber Line Switch, Patent Nos.600/MAS/2000 dated 28th
July 2000
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Filed for “New Monics” an intelligent e-mail client, along with Raymie Stata of Analog
Devices Inc, USA
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Filed for “Broadband Internet Connectivity”, 2003.
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Academic & Research Experience
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taught for 20 years at IITM and 2 years at Washington State University.
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38 papers in Indian and foreign journals, over 100 National and International
Conference papers, 6 books / chapters in books and 6 patents
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6 Ph.D. guidance and 50 M.S guidance, large number of M.Tech and B.Tech
guidance
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Major contributions in the Telecom and Optical Networks area
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Major product development including corDECT Wireless in Local Loop (which is
deployed in 11 countries), Direct Internet Access System and Fibre in the loop
system.
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More than 25 sponsored and consultancy projects with total value exceeding Rs.15
crores.
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Two educational experimentor developed and commercialised (one being used in
over 500 colleges all over the world)
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Administrative Experience
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Head, Guidance and Counselling unit, IITM, 1983-85
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Head, Telecommunications and Computer Network group.The group constitutes of
11 faculty members over 100 project staff and about 100 Ph.D./ MS/ M.Tech/
B.Tech students + 300 engineers from industry : 1987 – present
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Head, Department of Electrical Engineering, IITM: 1998-2001
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In-charge of several Computerisation work at IITM at various times including Library
Computerisation, Academic Record Computerisaion and Telephone Bill
Computerisation.
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In-charge of Telecom facility on IIM Campus for several years.
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Chairman of several National Advisory and R & D committees including the National
Advisory Committee on Communications and Information Technology
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Member, Development Council of Department of Telecommunications and
Department of Information Technology, Government of India
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Member of Governing Board of six limited companies
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Advisory/Governing board member of several institutes including JNU, CEERI, Pilani
and Anna University KBC Center
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Advisory/Governing board member of several Centers including Centre for Policy
Studies, Centre for Science & Environment, Centre for Indian Knowledge Systems,
and Lok-Swasthya Parampara Samwardhan Samiti (LSPSS).
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Advisory Board member of several Venture funds
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Advisory Board Member of Treasurer, Patriotic and People Oriented Science and
Technology (PPST) Foundation: (1983 – present)
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15.
Contributions
(a) Academic
Dr.Ashok Jhunjhunwala has made significant contributions to the area of Surface
Acoustic Wave Theory and Applications in the early years of his research career. He has
now expanded his interests also to the areas of Communication Networks, Fibre Optic
Communications, and Optical Signal Processing. While doing his Ph.D. research and in
subsequent years, Dr.Jhunjhunwala proposed a theory on Spectrum of Acoustic Waves
excited by an IDT on a piezoelectric crystal. Later, working with his Ph.D. students, he
has extended the analysis to planar bulk acoustic wave response.
Later, Dr.Jhunjhunwala branched out into the areas of Communication Networks and
Fibre Optic Communications. One of his Ph.D. students investigated the Design of a
High Speed Integrated Packet Switched Network, which represents the type of
technology required in the future packetised voice-data communication network. In the
area of fibre-optic communications, he has shown how voice communication can be
easily added on the widely-deployed Ethernet Network. In the paper on Implementation
Considerations in a Fibre Optic Bus Network, he has discussed the design
considerations involved in fibre-optic bus networks.
In recent years, Dr.Jhunjhunwala has proposed a variant of the Symbolic Substitution
Technique, which could significantly improve the efficiency of its application in Optical
Signal Processing. Further, A Design Tool for Symbolic Substitution has been developed
which enables design of complex Optical Signal Processing systems.
Over the last few years, Dr.Jhunjhunwala and his students have been looking at the use
of enhanced Telecommunications and Signaling to significantly improve the throughput
in a Railway Network. It is believed that on existing track and with training at current
speed, it is possible to enhance the carrying capacity of Railways by a factor of about 5.
A significant piece of work, led by Dr. Ashok Jhunjhunwala, over the last decade, is an
in-depth look at costs and affordability of various components of the Telecommunications
and Internet Network, especially in the context of developing countries. Concluding that
the access part of the network is the key bottleneck in rapid expansion in these
countries, Dr.Jhunjhunwala has focussed his work on examining the appropriate
interfaces between the Access Network and Backbone Network and different options to
build a cost-effective network. His work includes an in-depth look at Wireless Access
Networks and DSL (Digital Subscriber Loop) access networks as well as V5.2 interface
and Internet bypass in the access network.
(b) Administrative Responsibilities / Leadership
At the beginning of his career at IIT Madras, Prof.Jhunjhunwala was Head of Guidance
and Counseling Unit (1983-85) and virtually created this organisation. In 1985 he
became Head of Optical Communication Lab and in 1987 of Telematics Lab in the
Electrical Engineering Department. In late 80’s he took charge of communication
facilities at IIT M and took the lead in providing telephones to all faculty at homes and
offices. For the last six years, he has been the head of TeNeT Group of IIT Madras and
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has built the group to have nine faculty member, about 120 staff and a number of
associated industries together, the research group’s strength today is 400 and
Dr.Jhunjhunwala provided the overall leadership. From August, 1998, Dr.Jhunjhunwala
heads the department of Electrical Engg. at IIT Madras and has taken an initiative to
make it one of the most cohesive department of the institute.
As a part of Dr. Jhunjhunwala’s administrative responsibilities, he took an initiative with
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Analog devices – USA and instituted a chair in the Electrical Engineering
Department of IITM in the name of “Analog Devices Chair” for $140,000.
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Mr. Thomas Alexander, IITM alumns in the area of “Telecommunications and
Computer Networking” in the name of “N.T. Alexander” for $1,25,000.
(c) Contributions to Education
Dr.Ashok Jhunjhunwala recognised that the key to strengthening India is imparting of
wide-scale high-quality education to students around the country. Realising the crying
need for demystification and providing a learning tool for fibre-optic communications,
Dr.Jhunjhunwala and his colleagues developed a fibre-optic experimentor, which is now
being used widely in engineering colleges throughout the country and in many colleges
of the world including USA, Singapore and Australia. The product was awarded Best
Product Prize at Elecrama’96 exhibition in Bombay in January 1996. Dr.Jhunjhunwala
participated in the development of a similar educator kit on Digital Modulation
Techniques and more recently that of a Computer Networking Educator. The latter aims
to enable students to learn and implement various networking protocols in a variety of
network topologies. All the three kits are being manufactured commercially today.
Dr.Jhunjhunwala has participated in and organised over the years a number of shortterm courses for industry personnel, and teachers of engineering colleges, in the area of
fibre-optics, wireless communications, computer networking and telematics. Besides
offering such courses in several parts of India, he has also helped organise a couple of
courses in Malaysia and a course in Vietnam under the sponsorship of International
Centre for Science and High Technology (ICST). He played a key role in the formation of
Joint Telematics Group (JTG) of the five IITs and IISC, about 14 years back. This group
has been organising short-term courses every six months in the area of Telematics at
different IITs and IISc, aimed specially at college teachers, but also involving a large
number of industry participants. The group also developed a set of comprehensive video
courses in this area.
Over the last decade, the demand for large-scale engineering education has resulted in
the emergence of a large number of private engineering colleges, especially in South
India. A large number of students are graduating from these colleges especially in the
area of Telecommunication and IT. Unfortunately many of these students, even though
they are bright and hardworking, have not received adequate training because of poorquality teaching and inadequate infrastructure in many of these colleges. Recognising
that the industry badly needs trained personnel, Dr.Jhunjhunwala took the initiative in
establishing Usha Martin Academy of Communication Technologies (UACT), currently
located at IITM. This joint venture between Usha Martin Industries and IITM is a finishing
school to provide intensive training over a thousand engineers every year, on
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sponsorship from industry. Using Internet based education, the group aims to provide
quality training to a much larger number of young graduates in future. A similar initiative
has been taken up in setting up IITM – Analog Devices DSP Learning Center at IIT
Madras. This center plans to train a large number of engineers in programming on Digital
Signal Processing the engine of today’s telecom systems.
(d) Contributions in building a Telecom Community
Dr.Jhunjhunwala has taken a number of initiatives in tying together the Communications
and Networking community to enhance education and engineering practice. He works
closely with IETE and played a key role in organising its annual Technical convention at
Madras in 1989. He was on the editorial board of Journal of IETE and has also edited
special issues of Journal of Scientific and Industrial Research (January 1995) and
Journal of IETE (upcoming issue on wireless communications). He played a key role in
organising a conference on Telecommunications Technology Alternatives and Policy on
behalf of Indian National Academy of Engineering in 1996 in Delhi and National
Conference on Communications in 1997 at IIT Madras. In March 2000 he envisaged and
organised at Chennai an International Conference “Commsphere 2000 : Affordable
Telecom and IT Solutions for Developing Countries” sponsored by International Radio
Science Union (URSI). This conference brought together a number of scientists and
practising engineers from all over the world.
Dr. Jhunjhunwala is a fellow of INAE, INSA. Indian National Academy of Science, and
Governor of International Council for Computer Communications.
The most successful initiative in networking that Dr.Jhunjhunwala has contributed to, is
the formation of Joint Telematics Group (JTG) of the five IITs and IISc. This group
consists of all telecommunications faculty at the five IITs and IISc and has spearheaded
spread of education in telecommunications and promotion of industry-academic
interaction in the country. Besides organising a short-term course for engineering college
teachers and industry personnel every six months on rotation basis at different IITs and
IIsc, the group also organises National Conference on Communications (NCC) at
different IITs and IISc every year. This is a unique occasion bringing together the best of
academia and industry in India. The group also interacts with various government bodies
and gives its inputs with regards to telecom policies in the country.
Another significant aspect of the community building effort led by Dr.Jhunjhunwala is the
emergence of a group called TeNeT (Telecommunications and Computer Networking
Group) at IIT Madras. The group consists of twelve faculty members at IIT Madras
belonging to both the Electrical Engineering as well as Computer Science and
Engineering department. The faculty in the group works without a hierarchy and is
committed to development of education and telecommunications sector in the country. It
is rare that such a large group works together in academic institutes today.
(e) Contributions in promoting academic-industry interaction
Dr.Jhunjhunwala has made a unique contribution in the area of academic-industry
interaction, especially in the area of Telecom and IT industry. He works very closely with
numerous Indian industries including Crompton Greaves, ITI, ECIL, HTL, Shyam
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Telecom, HFCL, Usha Martin, BPL, Satyam Infoway, Reliance Telecom, Dishnet, ARM
and Benchmark Systems. He and his group advices these industries in a variety of
aspects including technology trends, Research and Development, product development
and international collaboration. His group has collaborative projects with all these
industries and has brought to the tune of Rs.10 crores of industrial funding at IIT.
Besides, Dr.Jhunjhunwala has been pushing these industries to adapt itself in the postliberalisation era to standup with the very best in the world. Many industry leaders today
look up to Dr.Jhunjhunwala for guidance.
Dr.Jhunjhunwala has also established strong linkages with international industry and
have projects with Analog Devices, USA and Acacia Networks, USA, Siemens, Hp R&D
Labs, USA and in IT Media Labs.
(f) Contributions on Policy matters
Over the last five years, Dr.Jhunjhunwala has put forward a vision that India should have
200 million telephones and Internet connections at the earliest to enable its people on a
large scale. He has examined the bottlenecks and pushed for policy changes that can
make this possible. He works closely with Department of Telecommunications, Ministry
of Information Technology, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India and Department of
Science and Technology towards this. He was a committee member for the working
group on “IT for Masses” set up by Ministry of Information Technology and was earlier a
member of various task forces contributing to Vision 2020 document. He is a member of
number of committees at MIT and DST.
Dr. Jhunjhunwala works closely with groups at IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Bangalore and IIM
Lucknow in evolving telecom policies, which would benefit the country. He is a advisory
committee member of “KnowNet-Grin“ (Knowledge Network for Augumenting Grassroots
Innovations) at IIM Ahmedabad and also various institutes like Centre for Telecom Policy
Studies (CTPS), Patriotic & People Oriented Science & Technology, and Center for
Policy Initiatives. He is also an advisor to CII and a number of other organisations.
Dr. Jhunjhunwala has recently taken initiative titled “Sustainable Access in Rural Area
(SARI), which is a joint project involving Jeffery Sach’s “Center for International
Development at Harvard , MIT Media Lab, McKinsey and TeNeT group at IITM. The
project intends to provide Internet Access in every village in two dishnets of India and
build a commercial model which could be replicated to provide Internet to every village in
India.
(g) Incubation Support
Dr. Jhunjhunwala recognised quite early that encouraging students and alumni to
become entrepreneurs, specifically in high technology areas, is a key goal of the IITs. In
the 80s, he helped incubate a company called “Benchmark Systems” formed by some
IITM alumni. From mid-nineties such effort was taken up in a much more focussed
manner and five companies were incubated in the department of Electrical Engineering
at IITM. In 1995 nine students of IIT got together to form “Midas Communication
Technologies Pvt Ltd”, which carried out development of Wireless in Local Loop along
with IIT Madras. A couple of years later, Banyan Networks was incubated with some
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IITM students to develop Computer Networking products. Similarly AdventNet (Vembu
Systems), Nilgiri Networks, NMS works, Chennai Kavigal and n-Logue were started with
the help of TeNeT group – all focussed on providing telecom and Internet in India.
Today, Dr.Ashok Jhunjhunwala is working to set up an R&D park in vicinity of IITM in the
model of Stanford Research Labs.
Dr. Jhunjhunwala is closely working with several Venture Capital Funds to promote R &
D and entrepreneurship in India, with a belief that India could become a Design house
for the world. He has also taken an initiative to set up a R&D Park associated with IIT
Madras with the support of IITM alumni.
(h) Development Initiatives
As a natural outflow of his research interest in the area of communication systems and
computer networks, Dr.Jhunjhunwala has built one of the finest groups called
Telecommunications and Computer Networks (TeNeT) in the country developing fullfledged products for the Indian as well as International markets. Over the last few years,
the system development efforts in his laboratory have snowballed, resulting in major
technology developments. Currently he works with eight other faculty members and 400
engineers and technicians, developing low-cost telecom and network products for India
and other developing countries. They have developed corDECT Wireless in Local Loop,
which provides 35/70 Kbps Internet and simultaneous voice conversation at a cost much
lower than that of any other WLL product. Digital Internet Access Switches (DIAS) is a
DSL on copper product providing 144 Kbps or 2 Mbps Internet plus simultaneous voice.
optiMA Fibre in the Loop system provides SDH fibre back-haul and lowest cost
telephony. The CygNet Network Management System enables management of telecom
as well as Internet network using a tiered approach. The products have been developed
in partnership with companies like Midas Communications, Banyan Networks, Nilgiri
Networks and Vembu Systems. These companies were formed by alumnus of IITM and
incubated in TeNeT Lab at IITM.
Dr.Jhunjhunwala today is leading a movement to make India a premier design house for
telecom and IT products with his vision to enable India to have 200 million telecom and
Internet connections in India. He has helped IIT incubate a number of Telecom and IT
companies. He has led the development of products, which are amongst the best in the
world and specially suitable for developing countries. He has contributed at policy level
to enable India to expand its telecom network. He has worked with the key telecom and
network Industry leaders in putting forward a vision that developing countries need
lower-cost affordable technologies. He has worked to take telecom and Internet to small
towns and rural areas in India. The Wireless Local Loop system developed in his lab
today is being deployed in Argentina, Brazil, Tunisia, Madagascar, Kenya, Angola,
Nigeria, Yemen, Fiji and Iran besides India.
(i) Advanced Research
One of the key beliefs of the TeNeT group is that all the latest technological
developments worldwide have to be brought to bear on its mission of enhancing telecom
and Internet in India. While systems developed abroad for a different market may have
only limited application in India, the technologies incorporated in them, with appropriate
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re-design, give rise to systems that are more affordable and better suited to our
requirements. It is therefore imperative for the TeNeT group to be at the forefront of
research in wireless and optical technologies, system design and ASIC development,
communication protocols, audio, video and image processing, and international
standardisation efforts.
Dr. Jhunjhunwala has encouraged the faculty of the TeNeT group, along with the
research scholars they guide, to be active in the all the areas mentioned above. Many of
the research scholars also work part-time on product development. There is thus much
two-way flow between these two important streams of activity in the TeNeT group.
TeNeT faculty and their students routinely publish in international journals, present their
work in conferences, and give tutorials on the latest technological developments. A
number of leading companies have sought to establish laboratories at IITM to work with
the TeNeT group. Among these are Intel, HP, TI, and Cisco. A Centre for Intelligent
Optical Networks, (CION) set up with support from Sycamore Networks and its founder
and IITM alumnus Dr. Deshpande, is fast coming up. MIT Media Lab works closely with
the TeNeT group today, and plans to set up a Media Lab Asia Centre at Chennai with
affiliation to the TeNeT Group.
Recently, TeNeT faculties have teamed up with their colleagues from other institutions
and from industry to form a forum for developing the next-generation wireless technology
in India. The aim is to move forward from merely following international standards, to
driving them and creating Indian-owned essential IPR. This is the logical next step in the
evolution of IT technology development in India.
The dream of Dr. Jhunjhunwala and TeNeT group is to not only see a couple of hundred
million telephone and Internet connections in India, but also to make India a technology
leader in research, product development, and services in the IT field. The group believes
that with its focussed approach built on teamwork, and by uniting with the efforts all
those who are striving towards this goal, this dream will soon become a reality.
(J) Contribution to Society
Dr.Jhunjhunwala has been active for a number of years in organisations like Patriotic
and People Oriented Science and Technology (PPST) group, Centre for Policy Studies,
Centre for Science and Environment, Centre for Indian Knowledge System and LokSwasthya Parampara Samvardhan Samiti (LSPSS).
The current mission that Dr.Ashok Jhunjhunwala leads is to enable every village of India
to have telecom and Internet connections. Recognising that Internet is power,
Dr.Jhunjhunwala and his colleagues have helped formation of the operators company nLogue Communications Pvt. Ltd., focussed on providing telephone and Internet in every
village. The work to provide such connections is going in Madurai and Cuddalore District
of Tamil Nadu, Dhar district of Madhya Pradesh, Bagru in Rajasthan and Sangarur
district in Punjab. The objective is to provide 1 million connections in Indian small towns
and rural areas in the next three to three and a half years.
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APPENDIX I
Research Guidance
Ph.Ds guided
Name of the student
Title of Thesis
Year of Award
Elizabeth Elias
Theoretical Analysis of Planar Bulk
Acoustic Wave Devices
1989
R. Krishna Thilakam
Design, Flow Control, and
Simulation fo a High Speed Broad
band Integrated Network
1989
K.V. Krishnamurthy
Some Issues in Processing Short
Segments of Speech Signals
1991
R.K. Sanghi
Integrated Voice-Data
Communication on Some High
Speed Fibre Optic Networks
1995
Ranjani Parthasarathy
Some Arithmetic Algorithm and
Implementation Considerations for
Electronic and Optical Computing
1996
P.R.Goundan
Enhancing Throughput of Railway
Network using information &
communication technology
2002
D. Manjunath
An Ethernet Interface for Tiered
Networks
1989
Alok Raj
A User-Microprogrammable BitSlice Processor to Emulate 16-Bit
Processors
1989
Raghu Raghu
An Optical Slotted Ring Netwrok for
Point to Point and Packet Switched
Communications
1989
R. Narayanaswamy
Computer Software Security
Products
1990
K. Vidyashankar
A Fibre Optic-Token Bus Networks
for Factory Automation
Environments
1990
Mathew Thomas
A Packet-Switched Wireless Data
Network
1991
Aradhana Mehta
ISDN in Indian Context
1992
Sanjay Gupta
Design of a Remote Station Unit for
a TDM-TDMA Wireless
Communication System
1993
M.S. guided
13
Name of the student
Title of Thesis
Year of Award
Archana Rao
A Fault Tolerant Fibre-Optic
Counter-Rotating Ring Network for
Process Contrl
1993
Mahabir Prasad
Micro controller based Instruments
for Manufacturing Industries
1994
Roopini
Design and implementation of
Second Generation optiMA Fibre
Access Network System
2003
Ravindra Bhilave
Fail-sage Multiplexer System for
Ralilways
1994
K. Vijayalakshmi
DSP Based System For
1996
Implementation of JPEG Still Image
Coding
R. Laksminarasimhan
Drop & Insert Multiplexer
1996
J. Magdalene Ratna
DSP Based Design of R.111
Multiplexer and Sixty Channel
ADPCM Transcoder
1996
J. Sowdhamini
Interconnecting Ethernet LANs
using Bridges
1996
G. Kalimani Venkatesh
ISDN Signalling Protocols
Implementation and Application to
LAN Interconnection
1997
Correya Oswald
Architecture for DECT Wallset and
Base Station
1997
Vasudev Nambakkam
Statistical Multiplexer for Variable
Bit-rate Voice Signals
1997
Abhay A. Joshi
Non-Coherent Receivers for DECT
Air Interface Standard
1997
N. Ramesh
Distributed Control Network Using
LON works
1997
R. Thirumurthy
Design And Analysisof FDDIEthernet Bridges
1998
N.P. Manoj
Design of the 8-port Ethernet MAC
ASIC and the FDDI Uplink for
Novaswitch, An Ethernet Switch
1998
E. Elwin Stelzer
Design of RMON for Large LAN
Switches
1998
P.Dheenadeyalan
Design & Performance of HDLC
based Ring Network
1999
S.Marutha Nayagam
Analysis, Design & Development of 2000
a Base Station Distributor (BSD) for
DECT WLL
14
Name of the student
Title of Thesis
Year of Award
R.Ravi Kumar
Internet Communications in
corDECT Wireless Local Loop
System
2000
S.Durgesh
Design of a Wireless PBX as a
Seamless Adjunct to a Wired PBX
2000
D.Sanjeev
Implementation on Validation of
Link Layer Protocols in Access
Devices
2000
S.Shankar
A Low cost, Compact Bedside ECG 2000
Monitor
R.Sivan
Analysis and Design of Relay Base
Station for DECT WLL
2000
R.Kumar
Mobility Management in the
corDECT Voice/Data Network
2000
S. Mohamed Rabeek
Internet Access in corDECT
Multiwallset
2001
S. Koteeswaran
Design and Implementation of a
low cost flexible remote access
switch with modem
2001
15
APPENDIX II
List of Research Publications
In Refereed Indian Journals
Full Name of All Authors
Title
Name of Journal, Volume,
Year and Page
Ashok Jhunjhunwala,
M. Mukunda Rao, V.
Rajendran,
S. Kalyanaraman and Varun
Jeoti
Effect of Ocean Surface on
Optical Communication
from Satellite to Submarine
Special Issue on Optical
Communication, Journal
of IETE, Vol.32, No.4,
July/August, 1986, pp
331-337
B.B.Jha, V.Rajendran,
Ashok Jhunjhunwala and
M.Mukunda Rao
Development of an
Und33erwater Laser
Communication Receiver
Journal of Optics, Vol.15,
No.3, April, 1986, pp 7987
G. Uma Maheswari, R.C.
Sekar, Ashok Jhunjhunwala
and C. Eswaran
A Signal Processing
Workstation on the VME
Bus
IETE Journal, Vol.34,
No.6, 1988, pp 435-440
R.K. Sanghi and
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Implementation
Consideration in Fibre Optic
Bus Network
IETE Techincal Review,
Vol.6, No.2, March-April,
1989, pp 97-110
Varun Jeoti, Elizabeth Elias
and Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Techniques for the Search
of Optimum Planar Bulk
Acoustic Wave Devices
IETE Journal, Vol.35,
No.5, September, 1989,
pp 298-304
R. Krishna Thilakam and
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Simulation Studies on
proposed design of a broad
band integrated network
IETE Journal, Vol.36,
Nos.5&6, 1990, pp 446445
Aradhana Mehta and
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
ISDN in Indian Context
Journal of IETE, Vol.39,
No.2, March-April, 1993,
pp 69-75
Ashok Jhunjhunwala and
RanjaniParthasarathy,
Jegannathan
Computer Implementation
of the Straight Division
Algorithm
Journal of IETE, Vol.39,
No.5, SeptemberOctober, 1993, pp 317322
Mathew Thomas,
Bhaskar Ramamurthi and
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Design & Performance
Evaluation of a Low BitRate Packet Radio
Networks
Journal of IETE, Vol.39,
No.5, SeptemberOctober, 1993, pp 281290
Sanjay Gupta and
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Fibre Optic Local Loop
Journal of Optics, Vol.22,
No.2, 1993, pp 43-50
C.D. Malleswar and
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Exploiting Inter-Processor
Communication for Fault
Diagnosis in Multiprocessor
Systems
Defense Science Journal,
Vol.44, No.2, April, 1994,
pp 99-104
16
Full Name of all authors
Title
Name of Journal,
Volume, Year and Page
Ranjani Parthasarathy and
Ashok jhunjhunwala
Implementation
Considerations of Symbolic
Substitution in Digital
Optical Computing
Journal of Scientific and
Industrial research,
Vol.54, January, 1995, pp
75-90
R.K. Sanghi and
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Fibre Optics Ethernet
Network for Voice & Data
Communication
Journal of IETE, Vol.41
(2), March-April. 1995, pp
119-128
Bhaskar Ramamurthi and
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Wireless in Local Loop :
Some Key Issues
Journal of IETE, Vol.12,
Nos. 5&6, SeptemberDecember, 1995, pp 309314
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Can Telecom and IT be for
the Disadvantaged?
Journal of Rural
Development, Vol.17(2),
pp.321-337 (1998), NIRD,
Hyderabad
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Looking Beyond NTP ’99,
Journal of Bitcom India,
Vol.I, No.1, January 2000,
New Delhi.
Ashok Jhunjhunwala,
Devendra Jalihal and
K.Giridhar
Wireless in Local Loop –
Some Fundamentals
Journal of IETE, Vol 46,
No 6, NovemberDecember 2000.
Ashok Jhunjhunwala and
P.R.Goundan
Enhancing throughput of
existing Railway Networks
using Information and
Communication Technology
(ICT)
National Connectivity
Vision : Surface
Transportation and
Communication, 20th
January 2001
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Challenges in Rural
Connectivity for India
ASCI Journal of
Management, Vol
31(1&2); March 2002
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Drivers of Telecom in India
IETE Technical Review,
Vol.20, No.4, July-August
2003, pp 279-287
V.B. Jipson, J.F. Vetelino,
Ashok Jhunjhunwala and J.C.
Field
Lithium Iodate – A New
Material for Surface
Acoustic Wave Applications
Proc. IEEE 64, April,
1976, pp 568-569
Ashok Jhunjhunwala,
J.F. Vetelino, and J.C. Field
Temperature Compensated
Cuts with Zero Power Flow
in T13 VS4 and Tl3 TaSe4
Electronics Letters 12,
No.25, December, 1976,
pp 683-684
In Refereed Foreign Journals
17
Full Name of all authors
Title
Name of Journal,
Volume, Year and Page
W. Soluch, A. Duracz, R. Lec,
Ashok Jhunjhunwala, J.F.
Vetelino and J.C. Field
On the Temperature
Coefficient of Delay for
Surface Acoustic Waves in
LIO3
Proc. IEEE 65, 1093
(1977)
Ashok Jhunjhunwala,
J.F. Vetelino, and J.C. Field
Berlinite a temperature –
compensated material for
surface acoustic wave
applications
Journal of Applied
Physics 48, 887 (1977)
J. Melngailis, Ashok
Jhunjhunwala,
J.F. Vetelino, T.B. Road,
R.E. Fahey, and E. Stern
Surface Acoustic Wave
Properties of Fresnoite,
Ba2Si2Ti08
Applied Physics Letters
32, 203 (1978)
G. Uma Maheswari, C.
Eswaran
and Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Signal Processing
Implementation with a DualBank Memory
Microprocessor and Micro
Systems, Vol.12, No.4,
May, 1988, pp 206-210
Elizabeth Elias and
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Analysis of Planar Bulk
Acoustic Wave Devices
Electronic Letters, Vol.24,
No.4, February, 1988,
pp 240-242
R. Krishna Thilakam and
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Proposed High Speed
Packet Switch for Broad
band Integrated Networks
Computer
Communications, Vol.12,
No.6, December, 1989
Elizabeth Elias and
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Theoretical analysis of
planar bulk acoustic wave
response
IEEE, Trans. UFFC,
Vol.37, No.1, January,
1990, pp 2-12
Elizabeth Elias and
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
New Orientation for Bulk
Acoustic Wave Devices
IEEE Trans, UFFC,
Vol,37, No.3, May, 1990,
pp 230-32
Varun Jeoti and
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
A Volume Perturbation
Approach to the Problem of
Ray leigh Wave S*cattering
at a rectangular groove
IEEE Trans, UFFC,
Vol.39, No.1, January,
1992,
pp 127-137
R. Krishna Thilakam and
Ashok Jhunwala
The Design and Flow
Control of a High Speed
Integrated Packet Switched
Network
Computer Networks and
ISDN systems, Vol.25,
1992,
pp 241-257
M. Archana Rao, B.
Murugesh, Timothy A.
Gonsalves, Bhaskar
Ramamurthi and
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
A Reliable Fibre-Optic Ring International Journal of
Network for Process Control Optoelectronics, Vol.8,
No.4, 1993, pp 477-491
Ranjani Parthasarathi and
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Symbolic Substitution by
means of one-of many
coding
18
Optical Engineering,
Vol.34(5), May, 1995,
pp 1456-1463
Full Name of all authors
Title
Name of Journal,
Volume, Year and Page
Ranjani Parthasarathi and
Ashok Jhuhjhunwala
Modified Straight Division: A
Computer Implementation
of Multiple Precision
Division
Euromicro Journal of
Microprocessing,
Vol.41(3), June, 1995, pp
193-209
Ranjani Parthasarathi and
Ashok Jhuhjhunwala
Techniques for Efficient
Implementations of
Symbolic Substitution using
one of may Coding
Optical Engineering,
Vol.35, No.10, October,
1996, pp 2830-2837
Ranjani Parthasarathi and
Ashok Jhuhjhunwala
Design Tool for Symbolic
Substitution
Optical Engineering,
Vol.35, No.11, November,
1996, pp 3313-3322
Ranjani Parthasarathi and
Ashok Jhuhjhunwala
Multiple-Precision SquareRoot using the Straight
Square-Root Algorithm
Journal of Systems
Architecture, Vol.44,
1997,
pp 143-158
Ashok Jhunjhunwala,
Bhaskar Ramamurthi
The Role of Technology in
Telecom Expansion in India
IEEE Communication
Magazine, 0163-6804/98,
November 1998
Ashok jhunjhunwala and
P.R.Goundan
Evaluation of Relative
Merits/Demerits of different
Signalling schemes used at
a Railway Station for an
approaching train in Indian
Railways today
IEEE Transactions on
Vehicular Technology,
1999
Presented in International Conferences
Ashok Jhunjhunwala, J.F.
Vetelino and J.C. Field
Berlinite, A Temperature
Compensated Material for
Surface Acoustic Wave
Applications
Proc. 1976 IEEE
Ultrosonics Symposium,
20 September-1 October,
1976, Annapolis, MD, pp
523-527
Ashok Jhunjhunwala, J.F.
Vetelino and J.C. Field
The Surface Acoustic Wave
Properties of Bismuth Silicon
Oxid
Proc. 1977 IEEE
Ultrosonics Symposium,
26-28 October, 1977,
Phoenix, Arizona,
pp 675-678
P.H. Carr, Ashok
Jhunjhunwala, L.A. Veilleux,
J.F. Vetelino and
J.C. Field
New Low Loss High
Coupling Mode upto 1 GHz
on LiNb03
Proc. 1977 IEEE
Ultrosonics Symposium,
26-28 October, 1977,
Phoenix, Arizona,
pp 679-682
19
Full Name of all authors
Title
Name of Journal,
Volume, Year and Page
Ashok Jhunjhunwala,
J.F. Vetelino, D. Harmon, and
W. Soluch
Theoretical Examination of
Surface Skimming Bulk
Wave
Proc. 1978 IEEE
Ultrosonics Symposium,
25-27 September, 1978,
Cherry Hill, N.J.,
pp 670-674
Ashok Jhunjhunwala and
J.F. Vetelino
Spectrum of Acoustic Waves
Excited by an IDT on a
Piezoelectric Crystal
Proc. 1979 IEEE
Ultrosonics Symposium,
26-28 September, 1979,
New Orleans, Louisiana
W. Soluch, R. Ksiezopolski,
and J.F. Vetelino and
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
The Piozoelectric and
Surface Acoustic Wave
Properties of
Bi12 Si020 Crystal
Proc. 1979 IEEE
Ultrosonics Symposium,
26-28 September, 1979,
New Orleans, Louisiana
R.S. Raghavan, J.F. Vetelino
and Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Temperature Compensation
with Metallic Overlay films on
Quarts
Proc. 1979 IEEE
Ultrosonics Symposium,
26-28 September, 1979,
New Orleans, Louisiana
Ashok Jhunjhunwala,
H.N. Mahabala, M. Mukunda
Rao and Thomas Alexander
Infrared Light Beam Link of
Two Distant Computers
International Symposium
on Data Communication
and Computer Network,
17-18 October, 1985,
Madras, India
R. Krishna Thilakam and
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
A Fibre Optic Network for
Integrated Voice/Data
Transmission
SPIE O-E/Fibres 87
Conference on Fibre
Optic Networks, 16-21
August, 1987, San Diego
Ashok Jhunjhunwala, R.K.
Sanghi and D. Manjunath
Fibre Optic Bus Network for
Voice and Data
Transmission in a Ship
SPIE O- E/Fibres 87
Conference Fibre Optic
Systems for Mobile
Platforms, 16-21 August,
1987, San Diego
R. Krishna Thilakam and
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
An optical Fibre Wide Area
Network for Integrated
Voice/Data Transmission
International Symposium
on Elect. Devices
Circuits and Systems,
16-18 December, 1987,
IIT, Kharagpur
Ashok Jhunjhunwala, R.K.
Sanghi, D. Manjunath
Optical Local Area Network
for Voice/Data Integration
International Symposium
on Elect. Devices
Circuits and Systems,
16-18 December, 1987,
IIT, Kharagpur
20
Full Name of all authors
Title
Name of Journal,
Volume, Year and Page
K. Vidyashankar and
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Fibre Optic Token Bus
Network for Automation
Environments
International Conference
on CAD and Robotic
Applications, 19-29
December, 1987, IIT,
New Delhi, pp 786-797
Ashok Jhunjhunwala and
Varun Jeoti
On the bulk wave excitation
by scattering of SAW at a
groove: An interior
perturbation approach
IEEE Ultrasonics
Symposium, 3-6
October, 1989, Montreal,
Canada
Raghu and
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
A Low Cost Optical Slotted
Ring Network for RS-232
Based Communications
IEEE Region 10
International Conference
Information Technologies
for the 90s. Proc. Of
TENCON 89, 22-24
November, 1989,
Bombay
Ashok Jhunjhunwla,
S. Krishnan and R.K. Sanghi
A new Architecture for
Metropolitan Area Networks
Conference on Signal
Processing
Communications and
Networking, 23-26 July,
1990, Bangalore
Ashok Jhunjhunwala and
R.K. Sanghi
Placing Highways in
Manhattan Street Network
SPIE Conference on
Emerging Optoelectronic
Technologies, 16-20
December, 1991,
IISc, Bangalore
Ranjani Parthasarathi and
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
A New Implementation of
Symbolic Substitution using
Triple Rail Coding
Conference on
Engineering OptoElectronic techniques
(CEOT 94), July, 1994,
Bangalore
Ashok Jhunjhunwala, P.R.
Goundan
A DECT-based Integrated
Train Radio System for
Railways
Malaysia International
Conference on
Communication (MICC
95), 1995, Malaysia
P. Dheenadhyalan,
Timothy A. Gonsalves,
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Design & Performance of
HDLC based Ring Networks
International Conference
on Computer Networks
(NETWORKS 96), 3-5
January, 1996, Bombay
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Telecommunications in India
International Symposium
on Infrastructure of the
Future, November 25-29,
1996, Bangalore
21
Full Name of all authors
Title
Name of Journal,
Volume, Year and Page
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Access Networks for India
International Symposium
on New Horizons in
Communications,
Jan 21-22, 1997
P.R. Goundan,
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Intermediate Block Signalling
(IBS) A cost Effective
Method to increase
throughput of Railways
48th Vehicular
Technology Conference
(VTC’98), Canada
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
A Real Information
Revolution in India
International Conference
on Computers & Devices
for Communication
(CODEC’98), January
13-17, 1998, Calcutta
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Cost-Effective Wireless
Local Loop for Developing
Countries
International Conference
on Commsphere Afrique
‘98, July, 20-22, 1998,
Dakar, Senegal
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Lead Talk: An Overview of
Computer Telephony
Integration Technologies
Telematics ‘98,
International Seminar on
Computer Telephony
Integration – The
Emerging Technology,
21-22 August, 1998,
IISc., Bangalore
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Affordable Fibre Access
Network for India and other
Developing Countries
Photonics’98,
International Conference
on Fibre Optics and
Photonics, 14-18,
December 1998, New
Delhi
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Local Entrepreneurship for
sustainable telecentres:
Case studies from Indian
Villages”
Acacia Conference,
South Africa, April 15,
2003
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Rural Wireless Local Loop
Technologies
Acacia Conference,
South Africa, April 15,
2003
22
Full Name of all authors
Title
Name of Conference, Place
and Year (Int’l)
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Affordable Fibre Access
Network for Developing
Countries
OFC ‘99 & IOOC, San Diego
Convention Centre, 21-26th
February. 1999, San Diego,
USA
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Access Technologies for
Telecom Expansion in India
Seminar at Lucent
Technologies, 5th March,
1999, USA
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Telecom and Information
Technology to Bridge the
Gap between Rich and Poor
Nations
The South Asia Forum at
MIT, 3rd March 1999, USA
Ashok Jhunjhunwala,
P.R.Goundan
Axle Counter Based Block
Signalling for Safe and
Efficient Train Operations
IEEE Vehicular Technology
Conference (VTC)-99, FALL,
Amsterdam, Sept’99
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Role of Fibre Access
network for the Developing
World
Invited paper at OFC’2000
Conference on Optical Fibre
Communication Optical
Society of America, 5-10,
March, 2000, Baltimore, USA
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
The Indian Information
Technology Miracle : Boom
or Bubble?
MIT South Asia Forum and
MIT India Program, 15,
March, 2000, MA, USA
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Unleashing the net in
Developing Countries
XVII World
Telecommunications
Congress/ISS 2000,
International Convention
Centre,7th – 12th May, 2000
Birmingham, UK
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Connecting the Developing
World
2nd World Engineering
Congress 2002, 21st – 25th
July 2002, Kuching, Malaysia
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
TeNeT Group’s Learnings
Venture-University, Venture
2002: Asian Forum on
Venture Business, 3 - 4
September 2002, Osaka,
Japan
23
Full Name of all authors
Title
Name of Conference, Place
and Year (Int’l)
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Connecting Rural Areas of
Developing Nations
Workshop on Regional and
Rural Policy and Community
Networking, Universite Du
Quebee (UQAM), 9th October
2002, Montreal
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
The Future of Community
Networking:Civic
Empowerment through
Broadband Initiatives,
Wireless, Mixed Media
Global Congress on
Community Networking 2002,
10th October, Montreal.
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Initiative to Connecting Rural
India
ICEO-TIE Conference at JW
Marriott in Pennsylvania
Avenue, USA 12th October
2002.
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
University based Ventures
PAN-IIT Conference, at JW
Marriott, J.W. Marriott Hotel,
1331 Pennsylania Avenu,
USA. 13th October 2002.
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Indian Telecom and
Disruptive Technologies
Media Lab Asia, MIT, USA.
18th October 2002
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Panel Discussion (Video
Conferencing from Chennai
to France) on Telecom in
India and R & D
World Telecommunication
Congress (WTC2002), 26th
September 2002, France.
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
CorDECT WLL
“Designed to connect
developing countries” at the
Multisource Telecom
Workshop, Eskom Megawatt
Park, South Africa. 14th April
2003
24
Full Name of all
authors
Title
Name of Conference, Place
and Year (Int’l)
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Acacia Conference, in
Session III “Universal
Access: Beyond
Telecentres”
“Local Entrepreneurship for
sustainable telecentres: Case
Studies from Indian Villages”,
South Africa on 15.04.03
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Acacia Conference on
Session V “Innovative ICTs
for Development”
“Rural Wireless Local Loop
Technologies”, South Africa
on 16.04.03
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
“The Constance F and
Arnold C Pohs Symposium
on Connecting in a Wireless
World: Bridging Global,
Cultural and Economic
Divides”
“Towards Doubling Rural
GDP”, University of Michigan,
U.S.A.,Ann Arbor, 2nd May 03
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
“Academic – Institute
Colloboration-Perspectives
on Technological
Innovation”,
“India and Technological
Innovation”, The Asia Center,
Harvard, USA., 7th May 2003
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
“The Stuart Gannes Digital
Vision Fellowship Program”
“Towards Connecting Rural
India to Enhance Rural GDP”,
Stanford, USA, 16th May 2003
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
TiE meeting on Succeeding
with New Realities
“Serving the next tier market”,
Silicon Valley, California, 16th
May 2003
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
India – Israel Telecom
Conference
CII Telecom Delegation to
Israel, on “Driving Innovation
in India towards emerging
Markets”, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
July 7 2003.
25
Full Name of all authors
Title
Name of Conference, Place
and Year (Int’l)
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
“What infrastructure are
required for territorial
development?”
World Summit of Cities and
Local Authorities on the
Information Society, Lyon,
France, 4th December 2003.
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
“From Principle to Practice:
Country Presentations
Promoting ICTs”
Global Symposium of
Regulators, Geneva,
Switzerland 9th December
2003.
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
“What Technologies are
suitable for the South?”
“Scientific Cooperation:
Balancing Social Demands
with Technological
Challenges North-South
sustainable developmentwhat is at Stake?“, EPFL,
Lausanne, Switzerland. 13th
February 2004.
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Drivers & Inhibitors for
Mobile Growth in South Asia
How ill our life change in the
mobile information society?,
ITU/MIC workshop on
shaping the Future Mobile
Information Society at Seoul,
March 2004
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Connecting Rural India
Videoconferencing seminar
on Technology can make
telecenters services more
affordable addressing World
Bank staff and clients
organised by the
eDevelopment Services
Thematic Group of the World
Bank at Chennai, March 2004
Presented in National Conferences
Full Name of all authors
Ashok Jhunjhunwala,
Krishna Thilakam, and
A. Augustine
Title
A 16 bit bit-slice processor
26
Name of Conference, Place
and Year
IETE Symposium on Digital
Techniques for Control and
Instrumentation, 23-24
December, 1985, Madras
Full Name of all authors
Title
Name of Conference, Place
and Year
Ashok Jhunjhunwala and
S. Chander
Non Volatile Solid State Disk
Emulator
IETE Symposium on Digital
Techniques for Control and
Instrumentation, 23-24
December, 1985, Madras
Ashok Jhunjhunwala,
Raghu Raghu and P.
Sridhar
Optical Networks for
computers
IETE Symposium on Digital
Techniques for Control and
Instrumentation, 23-24
December, 1985, Madras,
India
27
Full Name of all authors
Title
Name of Conference, Place
and Year
Ashok jhunjhunwala,
M.S. Sekar and P. Bhatia
A Numerically Controlled
Table
IETE Symposium on Digital
Techniques for Control and
Instrumentation, 23-24
December, 1985, Madras
Ashok Jhunjhunwala,
Sandhya Dwarkadas and
Sanjay Gupta
Microprocessor aced IC
Tester
IETE Symposium on Digital
Techniques for Control and
Instrumentation, 23-24
December, 1985, Madras
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
A Terminal for the Blind
IETE Symposium on Digital
Techniques for Control and
Instrumentation, 23-24
December, 1985, Madras
Ashok Jhunjhunwala and
K. Vidyashankar
Fibre Optic Token Bus
Network for Automation and
Environments
International Conference on
CAD and Robotic Applications,
19-20 December, 1987, IIT,
New Delhi, pp 786-797
Ashok Jhunjhunwala and
Sai Ramesh
Multiprotocol Network
Controller Card For Personal
Computers
32nd Annual Technical
Convention of IETE, 26-27,
May, 1989
Ashok Jhunjhunwala and
V.P. Badri
Asynchronous Adapter for
64 kbps Slot In A 1 mbps
Link
32nd Annual Technical
Convention of IETE, 26-27,
May, 1989
Ashok Jhunjhunwala and
Raghu Sastry
An Optical TDM Ring Design
for RS232 Interconnection
32nd Annual Technical
Convention of IETE, 26-27,
May, 1989
Ashok Jhunjhunwala,
B. Murugesh,
G. Uma Maheswari
A Fibre Optic Slotted Ring
Network For Voice Data
Communication
32nd Annual Technical
Convention of IETE, 26-27,
May, 1989
Ashok Jhunjhunwala,
V.VR. Bala Kuteswar,
Mudit Mathur
Design of TDMA Wan
Supporting Remote
Programmability And Omni
Bus Channels
32nd Annual Technical
Convention of IETE, 26-27,
May, 1989
Ashok Jhunjhunwala,
K. Vidyashankar
Fibre Optic Token Bus
Network
32nd Annual Technical
Convention of IETE, 26-27,
May, 1989
28
Full Name of all authors
Title
Name of Conference, Place
and Year
Ashok Jhunjhunwala,
Lt. Atul Khanna
Development of a High Bit
Rate Packet Switch
32nd Annual Technical
Convention of IETE, 26-27,
May, 1989
Ashok Jhunjhunwala,
S. Chitra, Sudeep Kumar,
R. Sriram and J.P. Raina
Fibre Optic Network for
Power Stations
32nd Annual Technical
Convention of IETE, 26-27,
May, 1989
Ashok Jhunjhunwala,
Sanjay Gupta and
P. Senthilnathan
A Trainer-aid for Fibre
Optic Digital
Communication
32nd Annual Technical
Convention of IETE, 26-27,
May, 1989
Ashok Jhunjhunwala, and
Aradhana Mehtar
A Simple Versatile
Network Interface Card for
Personal Computers
IETE Seminar on “Telematics in
the year 2000”, 17-18
December, 1990, Madras
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Multiplexing Aspects of
SONET
IETE Seminar on “Telematics in
the year 2000”, 17-18
December, 1990, Madras
Ashok Jhunjhunwala,
Mathew Thomas and
Bhaskar Ramamurthi
A Low Bit Rate Data
Network
IETE Seminar on “Telematics in
the year 2000”, 17-18
December, 1990, Madras
Ashok Jhunjhunwala,
Ranjani Parthasarathy and
S. Jegannathan
Computer Implementation
of ‘Straight Division
Algorithm’
Workshop on Current Research
in Indian Mathematics and
Astronomy, 6-7 March, 1992,
MIT, Madras
B.R. Shankar, S.
Jegannathan
andAshok Jhunjhunwala
A new variation of the
Aryabhata Algorithm for
Solution of Linear
Congruences
Workshop on Current Research
in Indian Mathematics and
Astronomy, 6-7 March, 1992,
MIT, Madras
Ashok Jhunjhunwala and
Sanjay Gupta
Fibre Optic Local Loop
Seminar on Holography & Fibre
Optics, 11-12 January, 1992,
Madras
B.R. Shankar, S.
Jegannathan and
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
A new Variation of the
Aryabhata Algorithm for
Solution of Linear
Congruences
Workshop on Current Research
in Indian Mathematics and
Astronomy, 6-7 March, 1992,
MIT, Madras
Ashok Jhunjhunwala and
Sanjay Gupta
Fibre Optic Local Loop
Seminar on Holography & Fibre
Optics, 11-12 January, 1992,
Madras
Ranjani Parthasarathy and
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Recent Research in Indian
Integral Algorithms
Congress on Traditional
Sciences and Technologies of
India, 28 November-3
December, 1993, IIT, Bombay
29
Full Name of all authors
Title
Name of Conference, Place
and Year
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
An Introductory Tutorial on
Indian Mathematic
Congress on Traditional
Sciences and Technologies of
India, 28 November-3
December, 1993, IIT, Bombay
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Wireless in Indian Telecom
Network
Infocom 94, December 1994,
Bombay
Ranjani Parthasarathi,
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
A Simulator for Symbolic
Substitution
National Conference on
Communications (NCC 95),
March, 1995, IIT, Kanpur
Rolland Enoch, J.
Sowdhamini,
Timothy A. Gonsalves,
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
The Confluence of
Telecom and Computer
Networks
National Conference on
Communication 96 (NCC 96),
17-18 February, 1996,
IIT Bombay
N. Ramesh, N.P. Manoj,
Ravichandran,
Timothy A.Gonsalves,
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Implementation of
LON_TALK – based
Network for distributed
Control System
National Conference on
Communication 96 (NCC 96),
17-18 February, 1996,
IIT Bombay
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Innovative Use of
Emerging Technologies for
Rapid Expansion of
Telecom Networks
Indian National Academy of
Engineering (INAE) Conference
on: Telecommunications
Technology Alternatives and
Policy, 29-30 March, 1996,
New Delhi
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Expanding Telecom &
Information Network in
India
Computer Society of India,
September, 1996, Bangalore
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Access Network
Seminar on Telecom in 21st
Century, 3 January, 1997,
New Delhi
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Relevance of Elite
Educational Institutes in
India
Seminar on Engineering
Education for the 21st Century,
January, 1997, IIT Madras
30
Full Name of all authors
Title
Name of Conference, Place
and Year
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Cost Effective Rural
Communication System for
India
First All People Technology
Congress, AIPTC, January,
1997, Calcutta
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Telematics for Indian
Society
Plenary Session on
Telecommunications,
84th Session of Indian Science
Congress, January 3-8, 1997,
New Delhi
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Towards A Hundred Million
Telephones in India
National Conference on
Communications (NCC 97), 31
January-2 February, 1997, IIT,
Madras
Rolland J. Enoch,
N.P. Manoj, C. Sanjay,
Umesh, J. Sowdhamini,
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
NovaSwitch  - A Large
High Performance
Ethernet Switch
National Conference on
Communications (NCC 97), 31
January-2 February, 1997, IIT,
Madras
E.Elwin Stelzer,
R. Lakshmi Narasimhan,
D.N. Rajan,
Timothy A. Gonsalves
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Computer Telephony
Integration
National Conference on
Communications (NCC 97), 31
January-2 February, 1997, IIT,
Madras
Ashok Jhunjhunwala,
C.Mathiazhagan,
S.F.Joseph Reddy, et.al
A Low-Cost Cordless
EPABX Solution
National Conference on
Communications (NCC 97), 31
January-2 February, 1997, IIT,
Madras
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Rural Information Network
Wisitex Telecom Summit, 13th to
15th March, 1997, Delhi
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Wireless Communication
for Cost-Effective Voice &
Data Connectivity in Indian
Urban & Rural Areas
Symposium on Progress in
Science, INSA, Hyderabad,
November 1-3, 1997
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Use of LON Works for
Industrial Automation
National Symposium on
Advances in Industrial
Instrumentation and
Measurement Engineering
(AIIME 2000), December 28-30,
1997, Madras
Ashok Jhunjhunwala,
P.R. Goundan
Rail Transport Telematics
for Improved Train
Operations & Safety
National Conference on
Communication’98 (NCC 98),
January 29-31, 1998, IISc.,
Bangalore
31
Full Name of all authors
Title
Name of Conference, Place
and Year
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Development of
Indigeneous WLL
Technology
Plenary session on
Telecommunications, 85th
Session of Indian Science
Congress, January 3-7, 1998,
Hyderabad
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Technological and
Management Issues
involved in corDECT
development
Seminar at Indian Institute of
Management, March 12, 1998,
Ahamedabad
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Wireless Access
Technology
Conference on Networks’98,
June 3-6, 1998, Bangalore
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Micro Cell/Macro cell and
TDMA/CDMA – A
Comparison
Conference on Spread
Spectrum Theory and
Application, MIT Campus, 18-19
September 1998, Anna
University, Chennai
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
corDECT WLL – A costeffective Wireless in Local
Loop Technology for
developing countries
WLL Conference, 23-25,
September 1998, New Delhi
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
The Role of Technology in
Telecom Expansion in
India
IT.Com’98, International
Technology Park, 2-4 November
1998, Bangalore
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
R&D Tasks for Indian
Telecom Scientists
National Conference on
Communications – 99, 31st Jan.,
1-2 Feb., 1999, IIT Kharagpur
Ashok Jhunjhunwala, S.
Durgesh
Interconnecting corPBX to
Existing Wired PBX
National Conference on
Communications – 99, 31st Jan.,
1-2 Feb., 1999, IIT Kharagpur
Ashok Jhunjhunwala,
R. Ravi Kumar
Internet Access on
corDECT WiLL
National Conference on
Communications – 99, 31st Jan.,
1-2 Feb., 1999, IIT Kharagpur
Ashok Jhunjhunwala, S.
Durgesh, T.A. Gonsalves,
Prakash B. Khawas
Interconnecting corPBX to
Existing Wired PBXs
National Conference on
Communications – 99, 31st Jan.,
1-2 Feb., 1999, IIT Kharagpur
Ashok Jhunjhunwala,
P.R.Goundan
Information Technology
Based Solutions For Traffic
Congestion Problems at
Station Yards of Railway
Network
National Conference on
Communications – 99, 31st Jan.,
1-2 Feb., 1999, IIT Kharagpur
32
Full Name of all authors
Title
Name of Conference, Place
and Year
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Access Technologies for
Telecom Expansion in
India
Emerging Communication
Technologies and the Society,
INSA 15-16 March, 1999,
New Delhi
Ashok Jhunjhunwala,
Bhaskar Ramamurthi,
T.A. Gonsalves
“Indian Telecom and
Internet Tangle” – What is
the way-out?
Emerging Communication
Technologies and the Society,
INSA 15-16 March, 1999,
New Delhi
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Looking Beyond NTP ‘99
Conference on Telecom Policy
Initiatives: The Road Ahead, 2829, August, 1999, IIM,
Ahmedabad
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
WLL – corDECT
Seminar on “Subscriber Access
Technology”, BRBRAITT, 8-9
Sep., 1999, Jabalpur
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Developing of Network for
Digital Information
Resource Sharing
READIT’99, Indira Gandhi
Centre for Atomic Research,
28th-29th October 1999,
Kalpakkam
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Indian R&D WiLL &
Internet Technologies
Pune IT.COM’99, International
Seminar on 27th Oct. 1999, Pune
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Hundred Million
Telephones and Internet
Connections
National seminar sponsored by
AICTE at Shunmuga
Engineering College, 30th
October 1999, Thanjavur
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Affordable Telecom
Technologies from India
Seminar on “Technologies from
India” on November 18, 1999 at
Pragati Maidan, New Delhi
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
“Looking Beyond NTP’99”,
International Conference on
Equity Diversity and Information
Technology (EDIT), IISc., 3rd –
4th Dec.’99, Bangalore
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Future of Indian R&D
Conference on HiPC’99, 17th –
20th Dec., Calcutta
Ashok Jhunjhunwala,
B.Ramamurthi,
T.A.Gonsalves,
H.A.Murthy, B.Madhavi,
K.Gupta, H.Solanki
CygPlan: an installation
planner for telecom access
networks
National Conference on
Communications – 2000, 28th –
30th Jan., 2000, IIT New Delhi
33
Full Name of all authors
Title
Name of Conference, Place
and Year
Ashok Jhunjhunwala,
B.Ramamurthi,
T.A.Gonsalves,
P.R.Goundan
Use of existing copper
cable and optical fibre in
the railway network to
provide telecom services in
small towns
National Conference on
Communications – 2000, 28th –
30th Jan., 2000, IIT New Delhi
Ashok Jhunjhunwala,
T.A.Gonsalves,
H.A.Murthy, H.Selvarajan
CygNeT: Integrated
management for modern
telecom networks
National Conference on
Communications – 2000, 28th –
30th Jan., 2000, IIT New Delhi
Ashok Jhunjhunwala,
P.R.Goundan
Mobile train radio
communication for Indian
railways – some key
issues
National Conference on
Communications – 2000, 28th –
30th Jan., 2000, IIT New Delhi
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Telecom and Internet in
Developing Countries –
Bottle necks and Solutions
International Conference on
“Affordable Solutions in Telecom
and Internet Solutions for
Developing Countries
(Commsphere 2000), URSI, 28th
February– 2nd March, Chennai,
India
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Universal Access at
Affordable Prices
Seminar on PTCIF, 25th March,
New Delhi
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Telecom and Internet in
Developing Countries –
Bottlenecks and Solutions
ITU-Seminar on IP, 29 – 31st
March, 2000, Bangalore
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Enabling Indian Rural
Areas and small towns
through Telecom and
Internet
Seminar on Rural
Telecommunications
Infrastructure Development in
India, 18th April, 2000, New Delhi
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
“WiLL Technology” for
Development of
Telecommunications
Infrastructure
National Telematics Forum,
Chennai Chapter, 26th May,
2000, Chennai
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Competitiveness of Indian
Information,
Communication &
Entertainment companies
in the International market
Forum on Information,
Communication, Entertainment
(ICE), Indo-Amercian Chamber
of Commerce, 24th July, 2000,
Chennai
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Rural Telephony –
Technological trends,
Options & Solutions
Rural Telephony 2000 –
Technologies, Trends and
Options, Exhibitions India Pvt.
Ltd., 5th – 6th September, 2000,
New Delhi
34
Full Name of all
authors
Title
Name of Conference, Place
and Year
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Indian Innovations in
Broadband
Communications
CSI 2000 Annual Convention,
CIO Meet, 15th Sep’2000,
Chennai
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Technology & Business
Seminar on Venture Capital,
Indo American Chamber of
Commerce, 29th Sep’2000,
Chennai.
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Barriers to Growth of
Knowledge Industry:
Creating the Indian Hassle
Free Dot Com
National Conference on Inhouse R&D in Industry, DSIR &
FICCI, 9th –10th , November
2000, New Delhi
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Affordable Access :
Options for India
ITWorld2000/COMDEX India, 6th
– 9th Dec’2000, New Delhi
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Facilitating e-Governance :
Backbone & Infrastructure
3rd National Conference on EGovernance & Democracy in the
New Millennium : Challenges &
Opportunities, AMIC-India, 11th –
12th Dec’2000, Chennai
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Telecom Technology
Trends and the Impact on
Indian Lifestyle
Future Shock International
Advertising Convention, 19th
January 2001, Chennai.
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Enhancing throughput of
existing Railway Networks
using Information and
Communication
Technology (ICT)
National Connectivity Vision :
Surface Transportation and
Communication, 20th January
2001, Hyderabad
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Telecom and IT for the
Masses
Asia & Pacific Region
MicroCredit Summit Meeting of
Councils, 4th February 2001,
New Delhi
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Indian Innovations in
Broadband
Communications
Technology Summit – Nasscom
2001, Nasscom, 7th February
2001 Mumbai
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Wireless Solution for
Developing Countries
Wireless Internet Conference,
8th February 2001, Mumbai
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Affordable Telecom and IT
Solutions
Seminar on Wireless Multimedia
Communications, IETE, 16th
February 2001, Mumbai.
35
Full Name of all
authors
Title
Name of Conference, Place
and Year
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Enabling Small Towns and
Rural Areas of India
through Telecom and
Internet
Workshop on Role of
Information & Communications
in Technology in Rural
Development, 19th April 2001,
MIT, Delhi
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Making Telecom and IT
Revolution Work for us
Special Talk at “Technology
Day”, Dept. of Science &
Technology, 11th May 2001,
New Delhi
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Connecting Rural India
with Telecom and Internet
National Workshop on
Strategies for applying ICT for
Rural Development by
Tamilnadu Veterinary & Animal
Science University, 17th May,
2001
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Making Telecom and
Internet Revoluiton Work
for us
National Symposium on Satellite
Communication, 25th May 2001,
Bangalore
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Connecting Rural India
with Telecom and Internet
Conference on “Achieving
Connectivity for the Rural Poor
in India”, May 31 – June 3, 2001
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Mobile & Fixed Wireless
Access
Connect 2001 international
Conference on IT,
Communication Technologies
and Bioinformatics,
Nandambakkam, Chennai,
September 14, 2001
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Connecting Rural India
with Telecom and Internet
Seminar on “Inforamtion
Communication Technology at
E-Governane, IIIT Allahabad,
July 28, 2001
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Connecting Rural India
using corDECT WiLL
IIR’S 6th International India
Telecommunications Summit
2001, September 11, 2001, New
Delhi
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Connecting Rural India for
e-governance
Conference on “Change
Management and Process
Reengineering at EGovernance, Napoleon Hall, Le
Meridien, New Delhi, September
21, 2001
36
Full Name of all
Authors
Title
Name of Conference, Place
and Year
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Making the Telecom and
IT Revolution work for us
Sheel Memorial Award Lecture
on 5th October, 2001 at the
National Academy of Sciences,
Pune.
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Connecting Rural India
using corDECT WiLL
SIDBI program and GIFT School
of e-commerce & e-governance
organised by Department of
Management Studies, IIT Delhi,
November 2, 2001
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Telecom Technology and
Policy for India
Seminar on Convergence issues
and Opportunities in the Indian
Telecom Sector, New Delhi,
November 2 & 3, 2001
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Telecom and Internet
Connectivity for India
Plenary lecture in the Plenary
Session VII entitled “Indian
Excellence
in
Global
Competitiveness in Information
Technology at 89th Indian
Science Congress, Lucknow,
January 7, 2002
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Strengthening Gyandoot
and moving ahead
Workshop on Development and
Implementation of IT based
Methodologies for Rural Science
Education at IIIT Hyderabad,
January 11-12, 2002
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Telecom and Internet
Connectivity for India
Plenary lecture in the Plenary
Session VII entitled “Indian
Excellence
in
Global
Competitiveness in Information
Technology at 89th Indian
Science Congress, Lucknow,
January 7, 2002
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Strengthening Gyandoot
and moving ahead
Workshop on Development and
Implementation of IT based
Methodologies for Rural Science
Education at IIIT Hyderabad,
January 11-12, 2002
37
Title
Full Name of all authors
Name of Conference, Place
and Year
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Bridging the Digital Divide
World Telecommunication
Development Conference - 02”
at Le-Meridien Hotel on 13th
February 2002, New Delhi.
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
IT & India
Indo – US Science and
Technology Forum, 18-19th
March 2002, Grand Hyatt,
Vasant Kunj, New Delhi
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Rural Communication:
Challenges and
Opportunities
8th Annual Conference PTC
India Foundation, 22-23 March
2002, India Habitat Centre, New
Delhi
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Connecting Rural India
Elitex 2002 Conference, 30th
April 2002, India Habitat Centre,
New Delhi
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Wireless Telecom to
Connect Rural India
Institute for International
Research (IIR)”, 9th May 2002,
Maurya Sheraton Hotel, New
Delhi.
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Connecting Rural India
National Seminar on Regulating
Cyberspace: Implications for
New Media Professionals, The
Role of Journalists in Bridging
the Digital Divide, 1st August
2002, AMIC-India, Chennai
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Plenary Session-IV “Rural
Connectivity” at
Connect 2002, 2nd International
Conference on IT,
Communication Technologies
and Bio-informatics, 19th
September 2002, Chennai
Trade Centre, Chennai
Dr. Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Telecom Infrastructure and
Rural Applications
2nd National Workshop on “IT
Applications in E-Governance,
Administrative Staff College of
India, 20th September 2002,
Hyderabad.
Dr. Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Brainwave Lecture on
Connecting Rural India
Using Wireless
CSA Showcase 2002, 21st
September, IISc Bangalore
38
Full Name of all authors
Title
Name of Conference, Place
and Year
Dr. Ashok Jhunjhunwala
State of Telecom in India –
Poised for Growth
Indo-British Workshop on
Collaborative Research in
Telecomunications, 24th
September IIT Delhi
Dr. Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Technology Development
for India and Rural
Connectivity”
DA-IICT, 5th October 2002,
Ahamedabad,
Dr. Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Connecting Rural India
Computer Society of India, 8th
October 2002, Pune
Dr. Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Connecting Rural India
37th CSI National Convention,
Indian Institute of Science, 30th
October 2002, Bangalore
Dr. Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Providing Internet and
Telephony on a
Commercial basis to
600,000 villages of India
Telecom Conference 2002 at
Hotel Taj Man Singh, New Delhi
on 18th November 2002
Dr. Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Management of Change
Innovation
Seminar on Banking and IT,
Reserve Bank Staff College,
Chennai on 27th November 2002
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Opportunities for India in
Telecom
The International Conference on
“Communications
Convergence”, 13th December
2002, Mumbai.
Dr. Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Connecting 600,000
villages with telephone and
Internet
CIT 2002 Conference,
December 23, 2002,
Bhubaneswar.
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Fibre Access Network
International Conference on
Photonics, TIFR Auditorium,
Mumbai.
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Ventures in India in the
field of Telecom
Seminar on Management of
Technology to Achieve Business
Competitiveness, 15the January
2003. IIT Bomaby
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Indian Telecom – Current
Status and Future
Scenario
National Seminar on “India’s
Telecom Sector – The Way
Ahead”, 29th January 2003,
Mumbai.
39
Full Name of all authors
Title
Name of Conference, Place
and Year
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
“National Cost Convention
– 2003”
“Emerging Technologies and
Business Innovation as India
poise for growth“, Le-Meridian,
Chennai on 4th January 2003
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
“Management of
Technology to Achieve
Business Competitiveness”
“Ventures in India in the field of
Telecom”, IIT Bombay on
15.01.03
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
“Indian Telecom – Current
Status and Future
Scenario”
National Seminar on “India’s
Telecom Sector – The Way
Ahead”, Mumbai on 29.01.03
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
National Conference on
Communications 2003
(NCC-03) from 31st January to
2nd February 2003 organised by
the Joint Telematics Group of
the IITs/IISC at Indian Institute of
Technology Madras
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
201M Connections in India
by 2010 – Making a
Business Case
National
Conference
Communications
2003,
st
Madras on 1 Feb’03.
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Rural Market Opportunities
and Challenges
5th CII Telecom Summit 2003,
New Delhi on 6th February 2003
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
R & D for India: Creating
New Telecom and IT
Ventures
National Centre for Biological
Sciences, Bangalore, 16.02.03
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Financing the Rural Sector
Social Initiative GroupWorkshop – ICICI, Mumbai,
22.02.2003
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
“Industry-Academia
Partnership – Future
Directions”
Felicitation of Prof. Raju at IC &
SR, IIT Madras,
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Statistics and
Communication Revolution
Institute of Mathematical
Sciences, 28.02.03 National
Science Day
40
on
IIT
Full Name of all authors
Title
Name of Conference, Place
and Year
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Revolution through Internet
services and Mobile
telephony
“Pan IIT-Movement”, IC & SR,
IIT Madras, 01.03.03
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Telecom poises for growth:
Opportunity for India
“N. Rama Rao Distinguished
Lecture Series”, IIT Kanpur,
05.03.03
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
“Internet in Every Village”
“Think Policy” conference by
TATA in association with the
school of public policy, George
Mason University and Indian
Institute of Technology, School
of Management Bombay,
09.03.2003
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
“Business case for fixed
connections in the midst of
mobile hype”
“Wireless Communications”, at
the 11th Convergence India
Conference 2003, New Delhi,
11.03.2003
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Telecom poises for growth
“Opportunity for India” at Wipro
Technologies, Chennai 13.03.03
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Telecom and Rural
Networking
“The road to Universal Access”
at the Plenary Session on
Telecom Sector, Summit on
Integrated Infrastructure
Development (SUMINFRA), CII,
Chennai, 20.03.03
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
As telecom poises for
growth opportunity for
India
“Technotsav 2003”, IIT
Guwahati, 29.03.03
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Economical Wireless
Solution using Railway
station as Communication
Hub
“Emerging Technologies in
safety and customer
Satisfaction”, Vigyan Bhawan,
New Delhi. 14th June 2003
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Education and Publishing
for children in India
“Reaching the Unreached”
organized by Tulika Publishers
at the Asian College of
Journalism, Chennai, 22nd June
2003
41
Full Name of all authors
Title
Name of Conference, Place
and Year
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Communication
Technology in Banking
Industry
Network Administration
Programme at Reserve Bank
Staff College, Chennai. 30th
June 2003
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Towards Doubling Rural
GDP in India
IEE All India Seminar on
Information and Communication
Technology
Connectivity
in
every village – “Commercial
Internet” at Agartala, 17th August
2003.
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Driving Innovation in India
towards emerging Market
“Leadership Summit – SSI in
Focus” by Swadeshi Jagaran
Foundation, New Delhi, 20th
August’03.
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
National Seminar on Rural
Upliftment through IT
“Commercial Internet
Connectivity in every village –
Towards Rural Prosperity” at
Coimbatore, 19th Sept’03.
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
“Bringing the Net Effect to
One Billion Indians”
“Wireless India-The 2nd Freedom
Movement” organised by Intel
Corporation, New Delhi. 20th
October 2003.
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Let us Integrate Rural India
into mainstream Economy
4th Foundation Day of the
URDIP, CSIR at Pune. 23rd
October 2003
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
“IT and Common Man”
“Bringing the Net Effect to 700
million Rural Indians” as a Guest
Speaker during the Inaugural
Session of Bangalore IT.COM
2003 in Bangalore.
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
“IT and Common Man”
“Bringing the Net Effect to 700
million Rural Indians” HP Labs,
HP ISO Bangalore, 7th
November 2003
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
“Internet and India: Vision
and opportunities”
“Internet Broadband and IP
services” at Telecom India 2003,
Mumbai. 13th November 2003.
42
Full Name of all authors
Title
Name of Conference, Place
and Year
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
IT and Common Man:
Bringing the Net Effect to
700 million Rural Indians
Implementing
Rural
Connectivity
(Issues
and
Solutions) at the Seventh
National Conference on eGovernance, Chennai. 13th
November 2003.
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
“Tele-Medicine in Rural
India”
Inauguration of the Diabetic
foot clinic organised by the
Diabetic
Foot
Therapy,
Research
and
Education
Center, Sundaram Medical
Foundation,
Chennai.
14th
November 2003.
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
“Financing the Technology
Business”
Indo American Chamber of
Commerce at Chennai. 14th
November 2003.
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
“Symposium on Emerging
trends in Communication
Technologies”
69th Annual meeting of Indian
Academy of Sciences, at IIT
Guwahati. 23rd December 2003
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
“Connecting Rural India:
towards wealth generation”
Micro finance IT Seminar on
Progressive
Paradigm
organised by i4D at Delhi 23rd
December 2003.
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
“Using Internet towards
doubling per capita Rural
GDP in ten years”
“Information Science in the
Future of India: Five Ideas that
can transform India” at the 91st
Science Congress, Science
and society in the Twenty First
Century: Quest for Excellence
in Chandigarh. January 3,
2004.
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Internet Affordability,
Management and Security”
2nd Asia IT Ministers Summit in
Hyderabad. January 12,2004.
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
“Harnessing ICT for Social
Development”
CIT 2004 conference in the
Session on Harnessing IT for
Enterprise
&
Social
Development
at
IIM
Ahmedabad. January 16, 2004.
43
Full Name of all authors
Title
Name of Conference, Place
and Year
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
“Can Internet be need to
double the rural GDP over
the next ten years”
Science City’s “Popular Lecture
Series”, Chennai. 3rd February,
2004.
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Indian Minds
HCL get-together at Hotel Taj
Coromandel, Chennai. 10th
February, 2004.
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
“From Cassette to CD
ROM: Is Digital a
Revolution?”
Indian
National
Science
Academy (INSA), New Delhi.
27th February, 2004.
Ashok jhunjhunwala
Doubling the Rural GDP in
India
14th
Commodore
Garg
Memorial Lecture organised by
Institution of Naval Architects
(Delhi Chapter) at IIT Delhi,
March 2004
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Connecting Rural India –
Profitability
Foundation Day Lecture at
National Academy of Telecom
Finance and Management at
Hyderabad, March 2004
Invited Talks
Title
Conference
Wireless in Local Loop: Some Key Issues
IETE Annual Technical Convention, 30
September –1 October, 1995, Pune
Wireless in Local Loop
IEE Conference on Telecom : Technology
Update & Strategies For Growth, 20-21
October, 1995, Anna University, Madras
R&D Response to Growing Telecom
Need in India
IETE Technical Convention, New
Opportunities & Challenges in Telecom, 5
November, 1995, Bangalore
Telecommunications in India
Telecommunications Seminar at British
Council Division, 8 January, 1996, New Delhi
Challenging Problems in Ground
Communication Over the Next Decade
International Conference on Frontiers of Radio
Science (INCURSI 96), 16-18 January, 1996,
Calcutta
The DECT System for India
Indo-Italian Workshop on the Physics and
Technology of Communications, 21-23 March,
1996, Bombay
44
Title
Conference
Data Communication in Remote
Monitoring
Technical Development program on Remote
Monitoring and Unattended Operation from
October 24-26, 1996 at BHEL Corporate R&D,
Hyderabad
Expanding Telecom & Information
Network in India
31st Annual Convention, Computer Society of
India (CSI 96), 30 October-3 November, 1996,
Bangalore
Towards a Hundred Million Telephones in
India
International Symposium on “Infrastructure of
the Future”, November, 1996, Bangalore
Wireless Local Loop
Seminar cum Exhibition on Information
Technology Trends (INFOTEX’97), January
17-19, 1997, New Delhi
Drivers for Telecom in India
34th IETE Mid- Term Symposium” on Wireless
and wireline Future Scenario” Vikram Sarabai
Memorial Lecture, Mumbai
Title
Conference
Telematics for Indian Society
Plenary Session on Telecommunications, 84th
Session of Indian Science Congress, 3-8
January, 1997, New Delhi
Rural Information Network
Telecom Summit, Wisitex Telecom Summit,
13-15 March, 1997, Delhi
Fibre Optic Link Design
International Centre for Science & High
Technology, September 14, 1997, Vietnam
Wireless Communication for CostEffective Voice & Data Connectivity in
Indian Urban & Rural Areas
Symposium on Progress in Science, INSA,
November 1-3, 1997, Hyderabad
Development of Indigenous WLL
technology
Plenary session on Telecommunication, 85th
Session of Indian Science Congress, January
3-7, 1998, Hyderabad
A Real Information Revolution in India
International Conference on Computers &
Devices for Communication (CODEC’98),
January 13-17, 1998, Calcutta
Technological and Management Issues
involved in corDECT Development
Seminar at Indian Institute of Management,
March 12, 1998, Ahmedabad
Communication Technologies for
Computer Networks
Seminar on Advanced Topics in Parallel
Computing, June 22, 1998
Wireless Access Technology
Networks ’98, June 3-6, 1998, Bangalore
45
Title
Conference
Micro cell/Macro cell and TDMA/CDMA –
A Comparision
Spread Spectrum Theory and Applications,
M.I.T. Campus, 18-19, September 1998, Anna
University, Chennai
CorDECT WLL – A cost-effective
Wireless in Local Loop Technology for
developing coutnries
WLL Conference, 23-25 September, 1998,
New Delhi
The Role of Technology in Telecom
Expansion in India
IT.Com. ’98, International Technology Park, 24 November, 1998, Bangalore
Affordable Fibre Access Networks for
India and other Developing countries
Photonics ’98, International Conference on
Gibre Optics and Photonics, 14-18 December,
1998,
IIT Delhi
R&D Tasks for Indian Telecom Scientists
National Conference on communications 99,
31 Jan, 1-2 Feb. 1999, IIT Karagpur
Access Technologies for Telecom
Expansion in India
Emerging Communication Technologies and
the Society, 15-16 March, 1999, INSA New
Delhi
WLL – corDECT
Seminar on “Subscriber Access Technology”,
BRBRAITT, 8-9 Sep., 1999, Jabalpur
Developing of Network for Digital
Information Resrouce Sharing
READIT’99, Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic
Research, 28th – 29th October 1999,
Kalpakkam
Affordable Telecom Technologies from
India
Seminar on “Technologies from Inida” on 18th
November 1999 at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi
Indian R&D in WiLL & Internet
Technologies
Pune IT.COM’99, International Seminar, 27
Oct. 1999, Pune
100 Million Telephones and Internet
Connections
AICTE Sponsored National Seminar,
Shanmuga Engg. College, 30th October – 1st
November 1999
Future of Indian R&D
Conference on HiPC’99, 17th – 20th Dec.,
Calcutta
Emerging Access Technologies
Short course on Mobile Radio Communication
Networks, Oct. 25-4 Nov., 1999, IIT Kanpur
Towards Hundred to Two Hundred Million
Telephones and Internet Connections in
India
Plenary Session on New Millennium Lecture
Series : Celebration of Science, 87th Indian
Science Congress, 3rd - 7th January 2000
Globalisation and Indian Telecom
Technology
Globalisation and Development – XIV NIAS
Course for Senior Executive, 10-22 January
2000,
46
Title
Conference
Universal Access at Affordable Prices
Seminar on PTCIF, 25th March 2000, New
Delhi
Enabling Indian Rural Areas and Small
towns through Telecom and Internet
Seminar on Rural Telecommunications
Infrastructure Development in India, 18th April
2000, New Delhi
WiLL Technology for Development of
Telecommunications Infrastructure
National Telematics Forum, Chennai Chapter,
26th May 2000, Chennai
Competitiveness of Indian Information,
Communication & Entertainment
companies in the International Market
Forum on Information, Communication,
Entertainment (ICE), Indo American Chamber
of Commerce, 24th July 2000, Chennai
Telecom & IT in India
Distinguished Lecture Series by IIM
Ahmedabad, 9th August 2000, Ahmedabad
Enhancing throughput of existing Railway
Networks using Information and
Communication Technology (ICT)
Seminar on “National Connectivity Vision :
Surface Transportation and Communication,
20th January 2001, Hyderabad
Telecom Technology Trends and the
Impact on Indian Lifestyle
Future Shock International Advertising
Convention, 19th January 2001, Chennai.
Title
Conference
Affordable Telecom and IT Solutions
Seminar on Wireless Multimedia
Communications, IETE, 16th February 2001,
Mumbai.
Making Telecom and IT Revolution Work
for us
Special Talk at “Technology Day”, Dept. of
Science & Technology, 11th May 2001, New
Delhi
Trends in Communication Technology
Ahmedabad Management Association, 12th
May 2001, Ahmedabad.
Making the Telecom and IT Revolution
work for us
Sheel Memorial Award Lecture on 5th October,
2001 at the National Academy of Sciences,
Pune.
Urban-Rural Connectivity
Talk at Hi-Tech Pune Conference, Pune,
December 13-14, 2001
Telecom and Internet Connectivity for
India
Plenary lecture in the Plenary Session VII
entitled “Indian Excellence in Global
Competitiveness in Information Technology at
89th Indian Science Congress, Lucknow,
January 7, 2002
47
Title
Conference
Strengthening Gyandoot and moving
ahead
Workshop
on
Development
and
Implementation of IT based Methodologies for
Rural Science Education at IIIT Hyderabad,
January 11-12, 2002
Telecom and Internet Connectivity for
India
Plenary lecture in the Plenary Session VII
entitled “Indian Excellence in Global
Competitiveness in Information Technology at
89th Indian Science Congress, Lucknow,
January 7, 2002
Strengthening Gyandoot and moving
ahead
Workshop on Development and
Implementation of IT based Methodologies for
Rural Science Education at IIIT Hyderabad,
January 11-12, 2002
Bridging the Digital Divide and
Preparation
World Telecommunication Development
Conference - 02” at Le-Meridien Hotel on 13th
February 2002
Towards Doubling Rural GDP
The Stuart Gannes Digital Vision Fellowship
Program, Stanford, USA, 16th May, 2003
48
Keynote Address
Title
Conference
Wireless Access in Densely Populated
Areas – Is there enough Frequency
Spectrum
National Seminar on Wireless Technologies, 3-4
August, 1995, Bangalore
Telecom Efforts Required in India over
the Next Decade
Symposium on Communication – 2001, 1
December, 1995, Chandigarh
Technology
Industrial Economics, Park Sheraton, 25th March,
1998, Chennai
The Role of Technology in Telecom
Expansion in India
Technology Summit and Technology Platform ‘98,
Hotel Park Royal, Nehru Place, 28th – 29th October,
1998, New Delhi
Making Telecom and Internet
Revolution Work for us
National Symposium on Satellite Communication,
25th May 2001, Bangalore
Indian Imperatives and Optical
Networks
CII Seminar on Advanced Communication
Technologies – Optical Fibre Communications, 5th
July 2001, Park Sheraton, Chennai
Trends in Wireless Communication
National Conference on Mobile Computing, 10-12
December 2001, CSI Hyderabad, Hyderabad.
Rural Communication and Connectivity
in India
Confederation of Indian Industry, 18th May 2002,
Hotel Kings Kourt, Mysore,
Telecom Growth in India
Indian Railways Institute of Signal Engg. &
Telecommunications, Secunderabad, 24th
November 2002.
Can Academic Institutions Start
Ventures?
16th National Conference on in-house R & D in
Industry, at Dept. of Scientific & Industrial
Research (DSIR), 9th December 2002, Delhi,
Panel Discussion
Title
Conference
Emerging Technologies towards cost
effective Telecom & Internet Services
CommsIndia’98 Conference, Pragati Maidan, 9-11
December 1998, New Delhi
Future of Indian HiPC R&D
HiPC’99, 17th – 20th Dec. 1999, Calcutta
Enabling Indian Rural Areas and small
towns through Telecom and Internet
Seminar on Issues in Rural Telecom Infrastructure
Development in India, April 18, 2000, New Delhi
US-INDIA Startups and Investments:
The Success Factors
Silicon India Annual Conference and Leadership
Awards 2001 at California, November 16, 17 2001
49
WorkShop and Tutorials
Internet Infrastructure in Small Towns &
Rural Areas
Workshop on E-Commerce, Indian Institute
of Technology, 4th & 5th June 2001, Mumbai.
CorDECT WLL
Multisource Telecom Workshop, Eskom
Megawatt Park, South Africa, April 4th, 2003
Academic-Institute CollaborationPerspectives on Technological Innovation
Edited
Chaired
Workshop on “India and Technological
Innovation”, The Asia Center, Harvard, USA,
May 7th, 2003

Special issue on Telematics for Journal of IETE,
Vol.39, No.5, March-April, 1993

Special issue of Journal of Scientific & Industrial
Research, January, 1995

Special Issue of the IETE Journal of Research on
Wireless Technologies, 2001

A Session in SPIE Conf. on Emerging
Optoelectronic Technologies, 16-20 December,
1991, IISc., Bangalore

A Session in Symposium on New Horizons in
Communications, 21-22 January, 1997, Bangalore

A Session on Communications Theory &
Techniques : Advances & Directions, 21st and 22nd
Jan.'97, IISc., Bangalore

A
Session
in
National
Conference
on
Communications (NCC'97), Jan.31 – Feb.3 '97, IIT
Chennai

A Session on Technology, Organised by Industrial
Economist, 25th May, 1998, Chennai

A Session in Seminar on Technologies from India
50

A Session on Wireless Communications in ELITEX
2000 – Seminar 31st Jan, - 1st Feb., 2000, New Delhi

A Session on Telecom R&D in India in 2nd Global
Telecom Summit 2002, 27th September 2002
Bangalore.

Session on “Entrepreneurship at Grass Roots” at
TieCon – 2002, Bangalore on 30th October 2002

One Day workshop on 201M Connections in India
by 2010 – Making a Business Case in the National
Conference on Communications, Feb.1, 2003, IIT
Madras.
Continuing Education and Conference Organised

Short Term Course on Microprocessor

Fibre Optics for DRDO, January, 1985

Fibre Optics for BHEL, January, 1986

Internation Workshop on Optical Communication,
March 1984 Short Term course in Malaysia for Fibre
Optics, Organised by COSTED, 1986

Short Term Course on Fibre Optic Application in
Service Sector, April 1988

Principles of Telematics: Intensive Course on Digital
Technology, December, 1988

Short Term Course on Cellular
Communication, January, 1989

Short Term Course on Digital Modulation Technique,
December 1991

Short Term Course on Fibre Optics Communication in
Malaysia, June, 1994

Short Term Course on Telematics, December 1995

National Conference on
January-2 February, 1997

Short Term Course on System Software and
Communications – I, organised by Usha Martin,
Calcutta, May, 1999

Short Term Course on System Software and
Communications – II, organised by Usha Martin,
Calcutta, August, 1999

International Workshop on Equity Diversity and
Information Technology (EDIT), NIAS, Bangalore,
December 1999
51
Radio
Mobile
Communications,
31
Number of Text Books / Monographs Authored or Co-authored
Name of Author
Title of Text Book
Monography
Publishing
Company
Year of
Publication
A.Jhunjhunwala
Fibre Optic Educator User
Manusal
Comptec Electronics
Pvt. Ltd., Madras
1988
A.Jhunjhunwala
Indian Mathematics – An
Intoduction
Wiley Eastern
1993
A.Jhunjhunwala
Chapter on “Indian Telecom &
Internet Tangle – What is the
Way Out?”, in Emerging
Communication Technologies
And Society, p.nos.29-42,
Narosa Publishing
House, New Delhi.
1999
A.Jhunjhunwala
Towards Enabling India through
Telecom and Internet
Connections, New Millennium
Lectures : Celeberation of
Science, CSIR, pp. 81 – 108,
2000
National Institute of
Science
Communications,
New Delhi.
2000
Ashok
Jhunjhunwala
Towards Enabling India through
Telecom and Internet
Connections
New Millennium
Lectures :
Celeberation of
Science, CSIR, pp.
81 – 108,
2000
Ashok
Jhunjhunwala
“Looking Beyond NTP’99”,
page No.210, India
Infrastructure report 2001 by
IDFC, IIM and IIT Kanpur.
IDFC, Chennai
2001
A.Jhunjhunwala
Telecommunications Reform in
India “Strategies for Rapid
Telecommunications and
Internet Growth”
Greenwood
Publishing Group,
Inc. USA
2002
A.Jhunjhunwala
Telecommunications Reform in
India “Strategies for Rapid
Telecommunications and
Internet Growth”
Greenwood
Publishing Group,
Inc. USA
2002
A.Jhunjhunwala
Taking Internet Connections to
Rural India
Book titled
Technology Enabled
Flexible Education &
Development
2002
52
APPENDIX III
Sponsored Projects
Title of the Project
Feasibility studies on the
Application of
Blue/GreenLaser for
Underwater Comm
Duration
Sponsoring-Agency
Value of
Project in
lakhs
Investigator/
Co-ordinator
1984-88
Department of
Electronics, New Delhi
Rs. 15.95
Co-ordinator
Development of TDMA for
1988-92
Rural Communication Radio
Systems
TRC/ Centre for
Development of
Telematics , Bangalore
Rs.41
Co-ordinator
Fibre Optic Systems for
Service Sector Application
1986-92
Department of
Electronics, New Delhi
Rs.90
Co-ordinator
Development of some
Optical Couplers
1986-91
A.R.D.B.
Rs.46.80
Investigator
Development of 8 nos.
Engineered version of Fibre
Optic Communication
System
1986-91
D.R.D.O.
Rs.32.20
Investigator
Development of 1553
Compatible Fibre Optic
Data Bus
1987-91
A.R.D.B.
Rs.38.66
Co-ordinator
Telematics
1986-94
Ministry of HRD
Rs.75.0
Co-ordinator
Model for study of Optical
Scattering at Airwater
Interface
1989-90
N.S.T.L.
Visakapattinam
Rs.1.22
Co-ordinator
Foundation of Mathematics
in Indian Tradition
1991-94
Department of Science
and Technology
Rs.5.34
Co-ordinator
Fibre Optics Railway
Signalling and
Communication System
1993-94
Department of
Electronics, New Delhi
Rs.17.0
Co-ordinator
Mangrove Ecosystem
Information Services
1993-94
M.S. Swaminathan
Research Foundation,
Madras
Rs.1.5
Co-ordinator
FDDI Station Management
Protocols & Ethernet Bridge
1993-94
Department of
Electronics, New Delhi
Rs. 27.0
Co-ordinator
A Peer-to-peer 802.11b
based Mesh Network for
Rural Communities
(Phase I)
2002-04
Media Lab Asia
Rs.48.0
Co-ordinator
Title of the Project
PLDs for Access Devices
Duration
2003-05
Sponsoring-Agency
Media Lab Asia
53
Value of
Project in
lakhs
Rs.114.6
Investigator/
Co-ordinator
Co-ordinator
HP Lab for Technology for
Developing Markets
Title of the Project
2001-04
Duration
HP India Software
Operations Ltd.
Sponsoring-Agency
Rs.48.17
Value of
Project in
lakhs
Investigator
Investigator/
Co-ordinator
Intelligent Optical Networks
2001-04
IITM Alumni
Association, USA
Rs.48.0
Investigator
Design of Satellite Modems
and Transcoders for Sparse
Area Communication
System
2003–05
ISRO, Ahmedabad
Rs.159.85
Investigator
Driving Applications on
Wireless Internet in Rural
India
2003-05
Intel,USA
Rs.45.78
Investigator
54
Research Based Industrial Consultancy Projects
Title of the Poject
Duration
Sponsoring Agency
Value
(Rs. In
Lakhs)
Development of Fibre Optic
replacement of PLCC
1986-90
W.S.Industries,
Bangalore
Rs.5.00
Development of 32 Channel Fibre
Optic Mux-Demux for RS232 Interface
1987-89
Electronics
Corporation of India
Limited, Hyderabad
Rs.2.50
A versatile Fibre Optic Time Division
Multiplexed Voice and Data Network
1989-91
Electronics
Corporation of India
Limited, Hyderabad
Rs.5.00
Wirless Multi-access Messaging
System
1989-91
Intelligent Commn,
Equipment Pvt. Ltd.,
Hyderabad
Rs.2.60
Development of Drop Insert PCM
equipment
1989-91
Indian Telephone
Industries, Naini
Rs.2.5
1553 B Data Bus Network Analysis
through Simulation Modelling
1989-90
Aeronomy
Development
Agency, Bangalore
Rs.1.0
Development of EKB with LCD
Display
1990
Hindustan
Teleprinters Ltd.,
Madras
Rs.1.0
Telephone Sharing System
1990-91
Innovation Commn
Systems,
Hyderabad
Rs.1.4+R
Development of Digital
Communication Educator Kit
1990-91
Universal
Instruments,
Bangalore
Rs.0.75+R
Development of EKB Concentrator
1990
Hindustan
Teleprinters Ltd.,
Madras
Rs.1.0
Fibre Optic Based Double Ring
Telemetry System
1991-92
Instrumentation
Limited, Kota
Rs.5.5
Fibre Optic Communicator
1990
Benchmark System,
Madras
Rs.5.5
Development of an Electronic
Totalizer Unit for Conveyor Belt
Weighing System
1990-91
Gillanders,
Arbuthnot & Co,
Ltd., Calcutta
Rs.0.15
G732 Compatible Mux with Drop and
Insert Capability
1991-91
W.S.Industries
(India) P. Ltd.
Rs.3.24
Operator Console for EPABX
1991-92
W.S.Industries
(India) P. Ltd.
Rs.1.25
Title of the Poject
Duration
Sponsoring –
Agency
Value
(Rs. In
Lakhs)
Failsafe Signal Multiplexer Systems
for Railways
1991-92
Crompton Greaves
Ltd., New Delhi
Rs.5.5
Development of R111 Compatible
Multiplexer for Telegraph & Data
Transmission
1991-92
Unitel
Communications
Limited,
Bhubaneswar
Rs.2.5
Simulation of Study of High Quality
Wideband Audio Compression
Techniques
1991-92
Indchem Research
& Development
Laboratory, Madras
Rs.0.80
DSP Based PLCC System
1992-93
W.S.Industries
(India) P. Ltd.
Rs.4.00
Development of a Neuron-based
Distributed Control SCADA System –
Phase II
1993-94
Alacrity Electronics,
Chennai
Rs.15.0 + R
Integra-SQL Based Software
Development
1992-93
Grasim Industries,
Calicut
Rs.1.00
Ethernet Driver and Monitor
1992-93
Zenith
Technologies,
Bombay
Rs.0.40
PC-Based Ethernet Bridge
1992-93
Mulitmedia Inc.,
Madras
Rs.1.00
6 Channel ADPCM Mux with D&I for
Rlys and 60 Channel ADPCM
Transcoder
1993-94
W.S.Telesystems,
Bangalore
Rs.7.5 +R
Development of New DSP Based
Products
1993-99
Analog Devices,
USA
Rs.7.875
Design & Development of Bedside
ECG Monitor
1993-94
Siemens, Madras
Rs.6.0
Ethernet Twisted Pair Remote Bridge
1993-94
Citi Bank, Madras
Rs.2.5
Networked Library Information System
1993-94
International Ocean
Institute, Malta
Rs.1.5
Digital Telephony Answering Machine
1993-2000
Analog Devices,
USA
R
Wireless in Local Loop
1993-2000
ADI,USA Westel
Rs.800 +R
Wireless, Bangalore,
ECIL, Hyderabad,
Shyam Telecom
Ltd., New Delhi
Title of the Poject
Duration
56
Sponsoring –
Agency
Value
(Rs. In
Lakhs)
Computer Networking Activity
1995-2000
Acacia Networks,
USA
Rs.160 + R
Two Port Local and Remote Ethernet
Bridge
1995-99
Excellent
Computers, Madras
R
Development of ISDN Terminals
1996-98
Tata Telecom,
Gandhinagar
Rs.4.0 + R
ISDN Interface for Paradigm
Exchange
1996-97
Tata Telecom,
Gandhinagar
Rs.9.0 + R
E1 Circuit Multiplier
1996-97
Shyam Telecom
Ltd., New Delhi
Rs.1.5 +
2.5% R
Development of a Neuron-based
Distributed Control SCADA System –
Phase II
1997-98
Alacrity Electronics,
Chennai
Rs.18.0 + R
Fibre in Local Loop
1997-2000
HFCL & Shyam
Telecom New Delhi
Rs.90.0 + R
Study of Development of Simulation
for Multi-carrier Satcom Modem
1997-98
ISRO, Ahmedabad
Rs.2.0
Co-channel Signal Recovery
1997-98
Ericsson, USA
Rs.8.0
Design of LANfone System
1998-99
BPL Telecom Ltd.,
Bangalore
Rs.1.3
Digital Internet Access System
1998-99
ARM-Hyderabad
HFCL, & Shyam
Telecom, Delhi.
Rs.100.0 + R
ADI-IITM DSP Learning Centre
Analog
Devices,
USA
2001-2004
Rs.10.0
Cygplan Access Network Planner
2001-2
Nilgiri Networks,
Ooty
Rs.1.0 + R
Minnow
2001-3
Nilgiri Networks,
Ooty
Rs.3.5 + R
Consultancy Projects
Title of the Poject
Duration
Sponsoring – Agency
Value
(Rs. In
Lakhs)
Ventureast TeNeT Fund
2000-1
APIDC Ventureast
Advisors, Hyderabad
Rs.2.40 + R
Integrated SoftTech Solutions Pvt. Lot
2002
IsoftTech, Chennai
Rs.1.20
Title of the Poject
Usha Comm.
Duration
2001
57
Sponsoring – Agency
Usha Comm.,
Calcutta
Value
(Rs. In
Lakhs)
Rs.0.96
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