Vidhyacharan Bhaskar (Charan)

Professor & Associate Dean

c/o T.R. Usha, Old No. 19, New No. 8, Sivaraman Street,
Mandaveli, Chennai 600028, INDIA.
Ph: (M) +91-9884661184
(H) +91-44-22236836, +91-44-22236986
Email: meetvidhyacharan@yahoo.com, vcharan@gmail.com
NATIONALITY: INDIAN
DATE OF BIRTH: December 30, 1972
GENDER: Male

EDUCATION:
Ph.D: Electrical Engineering, University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), March 2002.
M.S.E: Electrical Engineering, UAH (Non-thesis), Dec 2000.
M.E: Master of Engineering, Electrical and Communication Engineering, Indian Institute of Science,
Bangalore, INDIA, July 1997.
B.Sc: Bachelor of Science, Mathematics, D.G. Vaishnav College, Chennai, INDIA, June 1992.
Ph.D. Dissertation topic: Adaptive Rate Coding for Asynchronous Code Division Multiple Access
Communications over Slowly Fading Channels.
M.E. Thesis topic: Higher Order s-to-z Mapping Functions and Their Applications in Discretizing
Continuous-time filters.

PROFESSIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE:

Professor and Associate Dean of School of ECE (Jan 2007 present): S.R.M. University,
Kattankulathur, India.

Organizing secretary for the National Conference on Micro-Electronics and Communications

(NCMEC) held in August 2007, and the current edition to be held in April 2009,
Project Director for SRM Nano-satellite space launch program (working in collaboration with
Indian Space Research Organization), to be completed in mid 2010,
Submitted National level research proposals to obtain research grants from Funds for Improvement
of Science and Technology, and Institution of Engineers, India,
Masters Thesis Coordinator for Graduate students having specializations in Communication
systems and Digital Communications & Networking,
I have (a) organized short term training programs for the undergraduate students, (b) organized
National level symposiums and workshops for undergraduate and graduate level students, (c)
convened departmental faculty meetings for discussing about the academic and research
curriculum, (d) developed laboratory facilities in the ECE department, (e) made budget proposals
for improving the laboratory infrastructure, publication of journal articles/conference proceedings,
and (f) conducted smart classrooms for incorporating modern methods of teaching.
Established collaboration with Queen Mary university of London (QMUL) and Catholic institute
of Lille, France for prospective department-to-department collaboration (collaborative research
between SRM university and QMUL, and SRM university and the French university, faculty
exchange program, student exchange program, summer internship exchange program, post-doc
exchange program, distance learning program, joint Masters degree program, dual-degree Masters
program, joint supervision of a PhD student by faculties from SRM university and a foreign
university). This collaboration has led to a Memorandum of Understanding between SRM
university and the other two universities,
Invited world class researchers to give seminars on Research awareness program and cutting
edge research work.

Taught courses on Digital Communication Receiver, Multiuser detection, Mobile

Communication Systems and Standards, Simulation of Communication systems and Networks,
Spread Spectrum systems, Digital Communication Techniques, Error control coding, and
Laboratory classes like Communication and network, and Network Programming, and
Published several refereed journal papers, most of them as first authors (25 published/in press, 5
under review, and 5 under preparation), and 7 conference papers in International Conferences,
Currently supervising eight PhD students for their dissertation and convening research group
biweekly meetings,
Currently supervising three Masters students for their thesis and convening research group weekly
meetings, and
Pursuing research work and writing journal articles in the areas of (i) application of error control
coding for rate adaptation in W-CDMA systems, (ii) energy adaptation for wireless systems (WCDMA, and in future OFDM, UWB etc) with diversity incorporated over fading channels, (iii)
improvement of spectral efficiency for wireless systems (including diversity) over fading channels
under various channel adaptation policies, (iv) performance of wireless communication systems
with error control coding, (v) Markov modeling of fading channels with diversity, and (vi)
applications of queuing theory to computer architecture.

Associate Professor (Sep 2003 Dec 2006): Universit de Technologie de Troyes, France.
Taught courses on Mobile networks in the SPRING 2004, SPRING 2005 and SPRING 2006 semesters.
As an Associate Professor in the Universit de Technologie de Troyes (UTT), France, I published several
research papers in the areas of Wireless communications, Coding theory, Signal processing and Queuing
theory.
Post Doctoral fellow (July 2002 August 2003): University of Toronto, Canada.
My post doctoral research focused on the applications of punctured convolutional codes in a space-time
coding system. I published a conference paper in Canadian Workshop on Information theory (CWIT, May
2003)
Graduate Teaching/Research Assistant (Aug 1997 - May 2002): University of AL in Huntsville, USA.
Taught undergraduate Engineering courses in C Programming and Analog & Digital filter design and
laboratory courses in Electronic Instrumentation, Electrical Engineering, Digital Signal Processing, and
Digital Logic design. I also performed extensive research in wireless communications and coding theory.
Summer Intern (May 1996 - August 1996): Motorola India Electronics Limited, Bangalore, INDIA.
As a part of my training program, I learned the architecture and instruction set of the MOTOROLA 56000
family of microprocessors and implemented a speech coder using its assembly language.
Summer Intern (May 1995 - July 1995): Indchem R & D Labs, Chennai, INDIA.
As a part of my training program, I learned the architecture and instruction set of the ADSP - 2100 family of
microprocessors and implemented DSP algorithms using its assembly language.

RELEVANT COURSES (teaching and research):

Digital Communication
Communication networks
Digital Signal Processing
Digital Image Processing
Coding theory
Advanced Coding theory

Fiber Optic Communication

Queuing theory
Optical Communication
Speech Information Processing
Introduction to Radar Techniques Optimum Signal Processing
Advanced Radar Techniques
Random Processes
Digital Signal Compression
DSP Algorithms and Applications
Statistical theory of Communication

PUBLICATIONS:
Journal papers Published:

WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS

Vidhyacharan Bhaskar, and Laurie L. Joiner, Performance of Punctured Convolutional Codes in

Asynchronous Code Division Multiple Access Systems under Imperfect phase tracking conditions, To
appear in IEEE Transactions on Communications.
Vidhyacharan Bhaskar, Error probability distribution and density functions for Weibull fading channels
with and without Diversity Combining, To appear in International Journal of Wireless Information
Networks
Vidhyacharan Bhaskar, Capacity evaluation for Equal Gain Combining diversity schemes over Rayleigh
fading channels, Article in Press - International Journal of Electronics and Communications
Vidhyacharan Bhaskar, Error Probability for L-branch Coherent BPSK Equal Gain Combiners over
Generalized Rayleigh fading Channels, Article in Press - International Journal of Wireless Information
Networks, Springer Publication.
Chen Jie and Vidhyacharan Bhaskar, Error probability distribution and density functions for Rayleigh
and Rician fading channels with diversity, Article in Press - International Journal of Wireless Information
Networks, Springer Publication.
Vidhyacharan Bhaskar Finite-state Markov Model for Lognormal, Chi-square (central), Chi-square
(non-central) and K-distributions, International Journal of Wireless Information Networks, Springer
Publication, vol. 14, pages 237-250, Oct. 2007.
Vidhyacharan Bhaskar, Spectrum Efficiency Evaluation for MRC Diversity Schemes under different
adaptation policies over Generalized Rayleigh Fading Channels, International Journal of Wireless
Information Networks, Springer Publication, vol. 14, no. 3, Sep. 2007.
Vidhyacharan Bhaskar, Spectrum Efficiency Evaluation for MRC Diversity Schemes over Generalized
Rician Fading Channels, International Journal of Wireless Information Networks, DOI: 10.1007/s10776006-0051-0, Springer Publication.
Vidhyacharan Bhaskar, and Laurie L. Joiner, Adaptive Rate Coding using Forward Error Correction
Codes for Asynchronous Code Division Multiple Access Communications over Slowly Fading Channels.
Computers & Electrical Engineering Journal, vol. 31, pages 217-240, 2005 Elsevier publication.
Vidhyacharan Bhaskar, and Laurie L. Joiner, Variable Energy Adaptation for Asynchronous Code
Division Multiple Access Communications over Slowly Fading Channels, Computers & Electrical
Engineering Journal, vol. 31, pages 33-55, 2005 Elsevier publication.
Vidhyacharan Bhaskar, Fading margin analysis for A-CDMA systems, International Journal of
Wireless Information Networks, DOI 10.1007/s10776-005-0021-y, Springer publication.
Vidhyacharan Bhaskar, and Laurie L. Joiner Performance of Punctured Convolutional Codes in
Asynchronous Code Division Multiple Access Systems under Perfect phase tracking conditions.
Computers & Electrical Engineering Journal, vol. 30, pages 573-592, 2004 Elsevier publication.
Vidhyacharan Bhaskar, Soft decision decoding of punctured codes in Asynchronous Code Division
Multiple Access Systems under Perfect phase tracking conditions, International Journal of Wireless
Information Networks, DOI: 10.1007/s10776-006-0025-2, Springer Publication.

Vidhyacharan Bhaskar, Kondo Hloindo Adjallah and Laurie L. Joiner, Subspace based channel
estimation for downlink W-CDMA, International Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics, vol. 19,
no. 1, pages 41-51, 2005.
Journal papers currently under review:
Vidhyacharan Bhaskar, Variable Energy Adaptation for Asynchronous CDMA Systems over Slowly
Fading Channels Incorporating Diversity Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Communications
Vidhyacharan Bhaskar, Spectrum Efficiency Evaluation for Lognormal Fading Channels under Diversity
Combining for Different Adaptation Policies Submitted to IEEE Communication Letters
Vidhyacharan Bhaskar, Predicted Performance of Coded A-CDMA Systems in slow fading and timevarying Rician channels. Submitted to IEEE Communication Letters
Journal papers under preparation:
Vidhyacharan Bhaskar, Spectrum Efficiency Evaluation for Weibull fading channels under diversity
combining
Vidhyacharan Bhaskar, Variable Energy Adaptation for Wireless Systems over Weibull fading channels
with and without Diversity Combining.

Journal papers Published:

QUEUING THEORY

Vidhyacharan Bhaskar and Patrick Lallement, A Four-Input Three-Stage Queuing Network Approach to
Model an Industrial System To Paper in International Journal of Applied Mathematical Modeling,
Elsevier Publication.
Vidhyacharan Bhaskar, and Kondo Hloindo Adjallah, A Hybrid Open Queuing Network Model for
Multi-threaded Dataflow Architecture, To paper in International Journal of Computer Communications,
Elsevier Publication.
Vidhyacharan Bhaskar, A Closed Queuing Network Model with Multiple servers for Multi-threaded
architecture, To appear in International Journal of Computer Communications, Elsevier Publication.
Vidhyacharan Bhaskar and Patrick Lallement, Activity Routing in a Distributed Supply Chain:
Performance Evaluation with Two Inputs, Article in Press - International Journal of Network and
Computer Applications, Elsevier Publication. .
Vidhyacharan Bhaskar, and Laurie L. Joiner, A Closed Queuing Network Model with Single servers for
Multi-threaded architecture, To paper in International Journal of Applied Mathematical Modeling,
Elsevier Publication.
Vidhyacharan Bhaskar, and Kondo Hloindo Adjallah, A Hybrid Closed Queuing Network Approach to
Model Dataflow in Network Distributed Processors, International Journal of Computer Communications
(2007), DOI: 10.1016/j.COMCOM.2007.10.027
Vidhyacharan Bhaskar, State diagrams and steady-state balance equations for open queuing network
models, Computers & Electrical Engineering Journal, vol. 31, no. 7, 2005 Elsevier publication.
Vidhyacharan Bhaskar, A Hybrid Closed Queuing Network Model for Multi-threaded Dataflow
architecture. Computers & Electrical Engineering Journal, vol. 31, no. 8, 2005 Elsevier publication.

Vidhyacharan Bhaskar, and Laurie L. Joiner, Modeling scheduled data flow architecture: An open
queuing network model approach, International Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics, vol. 18, no.
3, 2005.
Vidhyacharan Bhaskar, Kondo Hloindo Adjallah and Laurie L. Joiner, Dataflow Modeling in
Distributed Diagnostic Processing Systems: A Closed Queuing network Model with Multiple servers,
International Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics, vol. 19, no. 1, pages 25-43, 2005.
Vidhyacharan Bhaskar, Kondo Hloindo Adjallah and Laurie L. Joiner, Dataflow Modeling in
Distributed Diagnostic Processing Systems: A Closed Queuing network Model with Single servers,
International Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics, vol. 19, no. 2, pages 137-156, 2005.
Journal papers currently under review:
Vidhyacharan Bhaskar and Patrick Lallement, Queuing Network Model of Uniformly Distributed
Arrivals in a Distributed Textile Manufacturing System with Subcontracting Submitted to International
Journal of Network and Computer Applications
Vidhyacharan Bhaskar and Patrick Lallement, A Two-input Queuing Network Model of Uniformly
Distributed Arrivals in a Textile Manufacturing System Submitted to International Journal of Queuing
Systems

Conference papers Published:

P.M. Rubesh Anand, G. Bajpai, Vidhyacharan Bhaskar, and Sam M. Job, Detection of the Malarial
Parasite infected blood images by 3-D analysis of the cell curved surface In the Proceedings of the 4th
Kuala Lumpur International Conference on Biomedical Engineering, Kuala Lumpur, June 2008.
Vidhyacharan Bhaskar, and Kondo Hloindo Adjallah, Finite-State Markov Model for Chi-square
(central) SNR distribution in A-CDMA systems International Conference on Communications, Internet
and Information Technology, Nov 2005.
Vidhyacharan Bhaskar, and Kondo Hloindo Adjallah, Modeling Scheduled Data Flow architecture in Ediagnosis networks: An Open Queuing network model approach. International Conference on Intelligent
Maintenance Systems, July 2004.
Vidhyacharan Bhaskar, and Kondo Hloindo Adjallah, Performance of Wireless Multiple Access
Communications using Punctured Codes over Slowly Fading Channels in Distributed Diagnostic Systems
International Conference on Intelligent Maintenance Systems, July 2004.
T. J. Lim and V. Bhaskar, Punctured Space-time Trellis Codes. Proc.2003 Canadian Workshop on
Information Theory, May 2003.
Vidhyacharan Bhaskar, and Laurie L. Joiner, Adaptive Rate Coding for Image Data Transmission.
Proc. Southeastern Symposium on System Theory, March 2002, pp.251-255.
Vidhyacharan Bhaskar, and Laurie L. Joiner, Adaptive rate coding for Wideband Code Division
Multiple Access Wireless Networks. Proc. IEEE Southeastcon '00, April 2000.
Books (Published):
Reza Adhami, Tabassum, and Vidhyacharan Bhaskar. (1998) MATLAB FOR ALL - A Manual on
MATLAB for undergraduate students.

PROJECTS UNDERTAKEN:
SMF28 (Single mode fiber) Optical communication design.
Scheduled Data-flow Architecture - An Open queuing network approach model
Punctured convolutional codes for image data transmission.
Simulation of a BPSK communication system - Plot BER vs. SNR
Coding theory approach to error control in Redundant Residue Number Systems
Electromagnetic theory approach to model multipath fading channels
Master/Slave Collective operations using MPI (Message Passing Interface).
Credit Card Transaction System - Designing and implementing a simplified Credit Card Transaction
system (CCTS).
Client-server model - Implementing a simple Client/Server application (using a socket interface), to
measure the network performance.
Routing Algorithm - This project would develop a routing engine implemented on the VME system.
Workload is randomly generated by programs on the PC's shipped to the VME system, routed to the
appropriate output processor, and sent back to the appropriate PC.
Back propagation as a learning algorithm in feed forward multilayer neural networks.
Wrote a MATLAB program to minimize the RMS error for a single and multi-class 2-D set using the
LBG and WLBG algorithms - A vector quantization approach.
COMPUTER SKILLS:
Programming Languages/Software
Tools
Assembly languages
Workstations
Operating systems
Word Processing / Reports

Proficient in C, C++, MATLAB

MSOffice, Visio Graphics, Electronic Workbench
ADSP-2100, MOTOROLA-56000, MOTOROLA 56300, and
MOTOROLA 68000, Intel 80xx series of microprocessors
Indy, IRIX, SUN, IBM
UNIX, DOS, Windows, Linux
MS-Office, LaTeX

REFERENCES:
Prof. Christian Lerminiaux, (Christian.Lerminiaux@utt.fr) or (president@utt.fr)
President,
Universit de Technologie de Troyes,
10010 Troyes Cedex, FRANCE.
Phone (O) : (33) 325-71-7611
Prof. Kondo Hloindo Adjallah, (adjallah@enim.fr) or (hloindo@gmail.com)
Ecole Nationale d'ingenieurs de Metz,
Laboratoire de Genie Industriel et Production de Metz,
Ile du Saulcy,
57045 Metz Cedex, FRANCE.
Prof. Patrick Lallement, (Patrick.Lallement@utt.fr)
Professor,
Charles Institut Delaunay,
Universite de Technologie de Troyes,
10010 Troyes Cedex, FRANCE.
Phone (O) : (33) 325-71-5680
Prof. Tharakesh Mukund, (tharakesh47@hotmail.com)
Professor,
Charles Institut Delaunay,
Universite de Technologie de Troyes,
10010 Troyes Cedex, FRANCE.

Prof. Laurie L. Joiner, (ljoiner@ece.uah.edu)

Associate Professor,
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
The University of Alabama in Huntsville,
Huntsville, AL 35899, USA.
Phone (O): (256) 824-6126
Prof. Reza Adhami, (adhami@ece.uah.edu)
Professor & Chair,
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
The University of Alabama in Huntsville,
Huntsville, AL 35899, USA.
Phone (O): (256) 824-6316 or (256) 824-3280
Prof. Teng Joon Lim, (limtj@comm.utoronto.ca)
Associate Professor,
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
10 Kings College Road,
Toronto, Ontario, CANADA M5S 3G4.
Phone (O): (416) 946-7585
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
Reviewer for Refereed Journals like IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on
Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions in Vehicular Technology, Elsevier Journal of Computer and
Electrical Engineering, and Elsevier Journal of Computer Communications.
Supervisor for students undergoing Summer Internships in Universit de Technologie de Troyes
Coordinator for a National level Technical festival conducted in September 2007 at SRM University,
Kattankulathur, Chennai.
AFFILIATIONS, AWARDS, ACHIEVEMENTS:
Intercollegiate Chess championships
St Louis Open, TROY Open, Tuskegee Open, South Alabama Open, UAH Open, MIEL Open, IISc
Open Chess Championships.
2nd place in the GATE (Graduate Aptitude Test for Engineers, 98.51 percentile)
2nd place in Mathematics in the Bachelor of Science program