Publications

Journals

Under revision

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

Published

1. S. Gujral and S. Sarma, “Multi-Backscatter Assisted Wireless Powered Communication Network for Green IoT” in (early access) IEEE IoTJ, July 2025, doi: 10.1109/JIOT.2025.3588396

2. 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. doi: 10.1109/TGCN.2025.3552431. An initial draft of the manuscript can be found here arXiv

3. 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

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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.

11. 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

12. 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.