Publications

Journals

Under preparation

Accepted

1. S. Gujral and S. Sarma, “Multi-Backscatter Assisted Wireless Powered Communication Network for Green IoT” Accepted in IEEE IoTJ, July 2025

Under revision

• S. Gujral and S. Sarma, “Relay Aided Bidirectional Tag-to-Device Communications for Green IoT ”

Published

1. S. Sarma, et al., “Energy-preserving Indirect-feedback for Wireless Power Transfer: Algorithms & Hardware Architecture ” in (early access) Transactions on Green Communications and Networking, Mar 2025. An initial draft of the manuscript can be found here arXiv

2. S. Gujral and S. Sarma, “Power Minimization in Multi-antenna Transmitter Aided Bidirectional Tag-to-Device Communications for IoT”, in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 71, no. 12, pp. 13105 ‐ 13119, 2022, doi: 10.1109/TVT.2022.3201402

3. S. Gujral and S. Sarma, “Wireless Powered Backscatter-aided Cooperative Communication Scheme for IoT”, in Springer Wireless Networks, vol. 28, pp. 1771 –1784 (2022), doi:10.1007/s11276-022-02941-x.

4. S. Sarma and K. Ishibashi, “Time-to-Recharge Analysis for Energy-relay-assisted Energy Harvesting ” in IEEE Access, vol. 7, pp. 139924 –139937, 2019, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2943562.

5. S. Sarma and J. Kuri, “SNR based Secure Communication via Untrusted Amplify and Forward Relay Nodes Using Artificial Noise” in Springer Wireless Networks, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 127 – 138, Jan. 2018 doi:10.1007/s11276-016-1318-8.

6. S. Sarma, K. Kandhway and J. Kuri, “Robust Energy Harvesting Based on a Stackelberg Game”, in IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, vol. 5, no.3, pp.336 – 339, doi: 10.1109/LWC.2016.2555901.

7. S. Sarma, K. Kandhway and J. Kuri, “Robust Power Allocation and Outage Analysis for Secrecy in Independent Parallel Gaussian Channels”, in IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, vol.5, no.1, pp.68 – 71, Feb. 2016, doi: 10.1109/LWC.2015.2497347

8. S. Sarma and J. Kuri, “QEP Based Solution for Power Allocation in Amplify and Forward Networks”, IEEE Communications Letters, vol.19, no.10, pp.1774 – 1777, Oct. 2015, doi: 10.1109/LCOMM.2015.2456921

9. S. Sarma, S. Agnihotri and J. Kuri, “Secure Communication in Amplify-and-Forward Networks with Multiple Eavesdroppers: Decoding with SNR Thresholds”, Springer Wireless Personal Communications, Volume 85, Issue 4 (2015), Page 1945 – 1956, doi:10.1007/s11277-015-2881-5.

10. A. Sunny, S. Sarma and J. Kuri, “Secure Transmission in Cooperative Networks with Weak Eavesdroppers”, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol.22, no.10, pp.1693 – 1697, Oct. 2015, doi: 10.1109/LSP.2015.2425043

11. S. Sarma and J. Kuri, “Optimal power allocation for protective jamming in wireless networks: A flow based model.” Elsevier Computer Networks 81(0) (2015) 258 – 271

Conferences

Under preparation

Published

1. S. Sarma, “Characterisation of the Time-to-Recharge of Battery-Free RF Energy Harvesting Devices in Wireless Powered Communication Networks ”, NCC2025

2. S. Gujral and S. Sarma, “Backscatter-NOMA Empowered Wireless Powered Cooperative Communications for Green IoT ”, NCC, IIT Madras, 2024

3. S. Gujral et al. “Transmit Power Minimization for Bidirectional Tag-to-Device Communications for IoT ”, International Conference on COMmunication Systems and NETworkS (COMSNETS), IEEE, pp. 572-580, 2021.

4. S. Sahu and S. Sarma, “Making IPv6-over-BLE Energy-friendlier: An Adaptive Algorithm for Diverse Traffic ”, International Conference on COMmunication Systems and NETworkS (COMSNETS), IEEE, pp. 581-588, 2021.

5. S. Gujral and S. Sarma, “Cooperative Communication in Hybrid User Scenario incorporating Backscattering and Energy Harvesting”, IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems (ANTS), pp. 1-6. IEEE, 2019

6. S. Sarma, S. Agnihotri and J. Kuri, “Secure Transmission in Amplify–and–Forward Diamond Networks with a Single Eavesdropper” Twenty Second National Conference on Communication (NCC), Guwahati, 2016, pp. 1 – 6., doi: 10.1109/NCC.2016.7561158

7. S. Sarma, K. Kandhway, B. Kotnis and J. Kuri,“Urban Monitoring Using Participatory Sensing: An Optimal Budget Allocation Approach” COMSNETS 2016 Social Networking Workshop, pp. 1–6, doi: 10.1109/COMSNETS.2016.7439968.

8. A. Sunny, S. Sarma and J. Kuri, “Beating Resource Constrained Eavesdroppers: A Physical Layer Security Study”, in 13th International Symposium on Modeling Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc Wireless Networks, (WiOpt 15), pp.167 – 174, 25 – 29 May 2015 doi: 10.1109/WIOPT.2015.7151069.

9. S. Shukla, S. Sarma and J. Kuri, “Maximizing Transported Data Before Partition in a Wireless Sensor Network”, in Sixth International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS 2014), pp.1 – 8, doi: 10.1109/COMSNETS.2014.6734884.

10. S. Sarma, S. Shukla, and J. Kuri, "Joint Scheduling & Jamming for Data Secrecy in Wireless Networks,” in 2013 11th International Symposium on Modeling Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc Wireless Networks, (WiOpt 13), 2013, pp. 248 – 255.