Dr. P Rajalakshmi Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Hyderabad
AP, India, 502205
Telephone: +91­40­2301 6004
Email: raji@iith.ac.in, Website: www.iith.ac.in/~raji
Professional Preparation
University of Madras, India
Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India
Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India
Appointments
August 2009 2001­2002
B.E. in Electronics and Communication Engineering (83%)
M.Tech. in Electrical Engineering (Communication Systems) (CGPA:8.3)
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering
(Communication Systems) (CGPA:8.3)
1999
2001
2009
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Hyderabad, India
Consultant, Ushamartin Institute Communication and Technology, Indian Institute of Technology Madras.
Research Output/Selected Publications
[1]
Raja vara Prasad Y,Rajalakshmi P, "Effect Of Relay Nodes And Transmit Power on
End­to­end Delay In Multi­hop Wireless Ad­hoc Networks", accepted for publication in
Indersciences IJSSC­2013
[2]
Raja vara prasad Y, Mirza sami Baig, Rahul K Mishra, P Rajalakshmi, U.B.Desai,
S.N.Merchant, “Real time wireless air pollution monitoring system,” ICTACT Journal on
Communication Technology, special issue on next generation wireless networks and
applications vol. 2, issue­2,June 2011, pp. 370 ­ 375
[3]
P. Rajalakshmi and Ashok Jhunjhunwala, “Re­routing at critical nodes to enhance
performance of wavelength reassignment in all­optical WDM networks without
wavelength conversion,” IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, vol. 26, issue 17,
Sept. 2008, pp. 3021­3029.
[4]
P. Rajalakshmi and Ashok Jhunjhunwala, “Analytical performance computations for
optical networks with wavelength conversion,” IETE Journal of Research, vol. 54, issue 1,
2008.
[5]
P. Rajalakshmi and Ashok Jhunjhunwala, “Wavelength Reassignment Algorithms for
All­Optical WDM Backbone Networks,’’ Elseviers Optical Switching and Networking
Journal, vol. 4, issue 3/4, pp. 147­156, November 2007.
[6]
P. Rajalakshmi and Ashok Jhunjhunwala, “Routing, wavelength and timeslot
reassignment algorithms for TDM based optical WDM networks,” Elseviers Computer
Communications Journal, vol. 30, issue 18, pp. 3491­3497, 2007.
Conferences:
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Rajavara Prasad, P Rajalakshmi, ‘Analytical Model of Adaptive CSMA/CA MAC for Reliable and Timely Clustered Wireless Multi­hop Communication’, Accepted for publication in IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things, WF­IoT 2014, Seoul, South Korea, 6­8 March 2014.
M.P.R. Sai Kiran, P. Rajalakshmi, K. Bharadwaj and A. Acharyya, "Adaptive Rule Engine Based IOT Enabled Remote Health Care Data Acquisition and Smart Transmission System" Accepted for publication in IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things, WF­IoT 2014, Seoul, South Korea, 6­8 March 2014.
Amarlingam M, P Rajalakshmi, Adithyan I, Nishimura Y, Yoshihara K, Masay Yoshida, ‘Deployment Adviser Tool for Wireless Sensor Networks’, Accepted for publication in IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things, WF­IoT 2014, Seoul, South Korea, 6­8 March 2014.
Thejaswini M, P Rajalakshmi, U B Desai, ‘Novel Sampling Algorithm for Levy­Walk Based Mobile Phone Sensing’, Accepted for publication in IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things, WF­IoT 2014, Seoul, South Korea, 6­8 March 2014.
Thejaswini M, P Rajalakshmi, U B Desai, ‘Walk Based Multi­Hop Data Forwarding Protocol for Opportunistic Mobile Phone Sensor Networks,' International Conference on Information, Communications and Signal Processing (ICICS), Taiwan, 10­13 December 2013.
S. Maheshwari, A. Acharyya, P. Rajalakshmi, P. E. Puddu and M. Schiariti, "Accurate and
Reliable 3-Lead to 12-Lead ECG Reconstruction Methodology for Remote Health Monitoring
Applications"; 15th IEEE International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and
Services (Healthcom, 2013), 9-12 October, 2013, Portugal, 2013.
Maaz Mohiuddin , T. Adityan, P Rajalaksmi, “EEDF­MAC: An Energy Efficient MAC
Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks“, Green Networks and Distributed Systems
GNDS 2013, India, August 2013. [14] Mirza Sami Baig, Rajalakshmi P, "CR Based WSAN for Field Area Network in Smart
Grid", IEEE ICACCI 2013, India, August 2013.
[15] Adithyan R, P Rajalakshmi, Yasutaka Nishimura, Kiyohito Yoshihara, ‘Deployment
Advisor Tool for Wireless Sensor Networks’, accepted for publication in IEEE
International Conference on Computer Communication Networks, ICCCN 2013,
Bahamas, August 2013
[16] Rajavara Prasad, P Rajalakshmi, ‘Context Aware Building Energy Management
System with Heterogeneous Wireless Network’, International conference on Wireless
and Mobile Networking Conference, WMNC ­2013, Dubai, April 2013
[17] Rajavara Prasad, P Rajalakshmi, ‘ Effect Of Relay Nodes On End­to­end Delay In Multi­
hop Wireless Ad­hoc Networks’ ,IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information
Networking and Applications, AINA, March 2013, Barcelona, Spain
[18] Saambavi, P Rajalakshmi, SSSP Rao, ‘Design of feature extraction circuit for speech
recognition applications ', IEEE TENCON, Taiwan, 19­22 Nov 2012
[19] Saambavi, P Rajalakshmi, 'Hard software codesign for AES in FPGA', ICACCI, India,
16 May 2012 [20] G V Chaitanya, P Rajalakshmi, U B Desai, "Real Time Hardware Implementable
Spectrum Sensor for Cognitive Radio Applications", SPCOM, Bangalore, July 2012. [21] Raja vara prasad Y, Bharathi, Alok Kumar, P Rajalakshmi,U B Desai, ”WSN based
power monitoring in smart grids,” proceedings of Seventh IEEE International
Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing
(ISSNIP), Dec 2011 Adelaide, Australia pp. 401­406 [22] Lamling Venus Shum, P Rajalakshmi, Ayo Afonja,Graeme McPhillips, Russell Binion,
Lawrence Cheng, Stephen Hailes "On the Development of a Sensor Module for real­
time Pollution Monitoring", International Conference on Information Science and
Applications (ICISA) 2011, SouthKorea.
[23] P. Rajalakshmi and Ashok Jhunjhunwala, “Load balanced routing to enhance the
performance of optical backbone networks,” Proceeding of IEEE International conference
on Wireless and Optical Communications Networks, WOCN 2008, Surabaya, Indonesia.
[24] P. Rajalakshmi and Ashok Jhunjhunwala, “Analytical model for wavelength
convertible optical networks,” Proceedings of IEEE International conference on
Communications, ICC 2007, ONS, Scotland, UK, pp. 2318­2323, June 2007.
[25] P. Rajalakshmi and Ashok Jhunjhunwala, “Analytical tool to achieve wavelength
conversion performance in no wavelength conversion networks,” Proceedings of IEEE
International conference on Communications, ICC 2007, ONS, Scotland, UK, pp. 2436­2441,
June 2007.
[26] P. Rajalakshmi and Ashok Jhunjhunwala, “Wavelength Reassignment Algorithms for
optical WDM networks,” Proceedings of 13 th National Conference on Communications,
NCC 2007, India, pp. 121­126, January 2007.
[27] P Rajalakshmi and Ashok Jhunjhunwala, ‘Reassignment Algorithms for TDM­WDM
networks’, Photonics 2006, India
[28] P. Rajalakshmi and Ashok Jhunjhunwala, “Routing, wavelength and timeslot
reassignment algorithms for TDM­WDM networks ­ Multirate traffic,” Proceedings of
IEEE International Conference on Networking, ICON 2006, Singapore, pp. 274­279, Sept.
2006.
[29] P. Rajalakshmi and Ashok Jhunjhunwala, “Fixed Routing, intelligent wavelength and
timeslot reassignment algorithms for TDM based Optical WDM networks – Single rate
traffic,” Proceedings of 12th National Conference on Communications, NCC 2006, India, pp.
414­418, January 2006.
[30] P. Rajalakshmi and Ashok Jhunjhunwala, “Intelligent routing, wavelength and
timeslot reassignment algorithms for TDM based Optical WDM networks,”
Proceedings of SPIE OptoElectronics and Communications Conference, OECC 2005, Seoul,
Korea, pp. 128­129, July 2005.
Research Interests
Wireless communications, Wireless Sensor Networks, Embedded Systems, Cyber Physical Systems/Internet of Things, Green communications, Optical Networks
Honors/Awards/ Achievements
 My journal paper entitled, “Analytical Performance Computation for the Optical
Networks with wavelength converters“, receives IETE­M N SAHA MEMORIAL
AWARD for the best application oriented paper of the year 2009.
 Secured University rank during B.E. program
On­going Projects:
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Principal Investigator in “Mobile Sensor Networks Technologies” funded by KDDI Japan, Period: March 2011 to April 2015
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Principal Investigator in “IoT for Smarter Healthcare” funded by Department of Information and Technology (DeiTy) India
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Co­Investigator in “Cyber Physical Systems” funded by Department of Information and Technology (DeiTy) India
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Co­Investigator in “IoT­eHealth” funded by DST under IUATC project
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Co­Investigator in “Pervasive Sensor Environment” Project funded by Department of
Science and Technology (DST) India and EPSRC (UK) under IUATC
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Co­Investigator in “Cognitive Radio” Project funded by Department of Information and Technology (India)