Dr. Subbarao Boddu

Subbarao Boddu

Associate Professor
subbarao.boddu@mahindrauniversity.edu.in

Dr. Subbarao Boddu joined the institute in July, 2017. He received his Ph.D. from IIT Kharagpur, West Bengal and M. Tech. from NIT Tiruchirappalli, Tamilnadu in 2014 and 2006 respectively. He has more than 15 years of teaching and research experience. He teaches courses on the areas of Electrical, Electronics and Communication Engineering at both UG and PG/PhD levels. He is pursing research on implementation aspects of 5G and beyond wireless systems. His research interests include 5G and beyond MAC and PHY layers such as frequency planning schemes, resource allocation, scheduling algorithms, communication networks and protocol stack development, cognitive radio, dynamic spectrum access, MIMO, development of testbeds for 4G/5G and beyond, V2X communication; and deep learning for wireless communications. He is a senior member of IEEE, Fellow of IETE, Fellow of IE(I) and life member ISTE. Currently, he is supporting as teaching assistant for the video courses “Evolution of Air Interface towards 5G” and “Fundamentals of MIMO Wireless Communication” coordinated by IIT Kharagpur under the NPTEL, a project of Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Government of India initiated by seven IITs and Indian Institute of Science to provide the quality education to any interested in learning.

2009 - 2014

  • Degree: Doctor of Philosophy (2009 – 2014)
    Institute: Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India
    Branch/Stream/Area: Wireless Communications

2004 - 2006

  • Degree: Master of Technology (2004 – 2006)
    Institute: National Institute of Technology, Trichy, India
    Branch/Stream/Area: Communication Systems

1996 - 2000

  • Degree: Bachelor of Technology
    Institute: Acharya Nagarjuna University, AP, India (1996 – 2000)
    Branch/Stream/Area: Electronics and Communication Engineering

2017 - Present

  • Assistant Professor, Mahindra University École Centrale School of Engineering, Hyderabad, India (2017 – Present)

2016 – 2017

  • Associate Professor, Gayatri Vidya Parishad College of Engineering (Autonomous), Visakhapatnam (2016 – 2017)

2015 – 2016

  • Associate Professor, Gayatri Vidya Parishad College of Engineering for Women, Visakhapatnam (2015 – 2016)

2014 – 2015

  • Senior Researcher, DST, India DIM project, IIT Kharagpur
    Development of Interference Mitigation Techniques for 4G LTE Systems (2014 – 2015)
  • Senior Researcher, DST, India VLS -5 project, IIT Kharagpur
    Virtual Labs: Fading Channels and Mobile Communication

2009 – 2014

  • Research Scholar, G S Sanyal School of Telecommunications, IIT Kharagpur (2009 – 2014)

2011

  • Teaching Assistant, IIT Kharagpur, West Bengal Broadband Access Networks (2011)

Pre-Ph.D. Teaching

  • Pre-Ph.D. Teaching

2007 – 2008 

  • St. Ann’s college of Engg. and Tech., Chirala (2007 – 2008)

2006 – 2007

  • Malineni Lakshmaiah Engineering College, Prakasam (2006 – 2007)

2000 – 2004

  • Jyothishmathi Institute of Technology and Science, Karimnagar (2000 – 2004)

International journals

2025

  • Sneha Chennamsetty and Subbarao Boddu, A Unified Neural Network Model for OFDM and OTFS Modulations in Wireless Systems, Sadhana International Journal, Springer Academy Proceedings in Engineering Sciences, accepted for publication, October 2025

2024

  • Sneha Chennamsetty and Subbarao Boddu, Analysis and Emulation of Proposed Testbed for OFDMA 4G and 5G Cellular Networks, International Journal of Communication Systems, Article DOI: 10.1002/dac.5794 Internal Article ID: 17959821 Article ID: DAC5794

2023

  • Subbarao Boddu, Tathababu Addepalli, Jagadeesh Babu Kamili, Rajasekhar Manda, Anvesh kumar Nella, Bandi Kiran Kumar, A 4-element crescent shaped two-sided MIMO antenna for UWB, X and Ku band wireless applications, Springer International Journal on Wireless Networks , June, 2023

2018

  • K. Jagadeesh Babu, B. Kiran Kumar, Subba Rao Boddu & A. M. Varaprasad, Design of a compact elliptical slot printed UWB antenna with band-notched characteristic, International Journal of Electronics Letters , DOI: 10.1080/21681724.2018.1525766, 2018
  • Subbarao Boddu, "Analysis of Design Parameters in Flexible Reuse Deployments of OFDMA Downlink Cellular Networks" Asian Journal of Convergence in Technology , Vol. 4, issue 1, pp. 1-6, ISSN NO: 2350-1146 I.F-5.11, 2018
  • K. Jagadeesh Babu, B. Kiran Kumar, Subba Rao Boddu, A. M. Varaprasad, Design of a compact elliptical slot printed UWB antenna with band-notched characteristic, International Journal of Electronics Letters , 2018.

2016

  • Subbarao Boddu, B V Philip and Suvra Sekhar Das "Analysis of Bandwidth Requirement of Users in Flexible Reuse Cellular Networks," IEEE Communications Letters, Volume 20, No. 3, Jan. 2016, pages 614-617, 2016.

2015

  • Subbarao Boddu, Suvra Sekhar Das and R. V. Raja Kumar, "Performance Analysis of Flexible Reuse in Cellular Networks," International journal on IET Communications, pp. 808-818, Vol. 9, April 2015.

2014

  • Subbarao Boddu, Suvra Sekhar Das and R. V. Raja Kumar "Bandwidth Partitioning and SINR Threshold Analysis of Fractional Frequency Reuse in OFDMA Cellular Networks for Real Time and Best Effort Traffic," Springer International Journal on Wireless Personal Communications, Vol. 75, issue 1, pp. 325-347, March 2014."

International Conference Proceedings

2024

  • Sneha Chennamsetty, Subbarao Boddu “Real Time Measurement Analysis of a Secured Wireless Communication Testbed” International Symposium on Parallel Computing and Distributed Systems, 21-22 Sept 2024, Singapore.
  • Subbarao Boddu, Tatha Babu Addepalli, Jagadeesh Babu Kamili, Jayshri Kulkarni, Bhuvaneshwari Subburama, Padmaja Nimmalagadda, “Design of Triangular Shaped Multiple Input Multiple Output Antenna with Defected Substrate for 5G Sub 6 GHz and WLAN Applications”, 2024 Wireless, Antenna and Microwave Symposium (WAMS), Vishakhapatnam, 2024, 29 Feb - 03 March 2024
  • Subbarao Boddu, Jagadeesh Babu Kamili1, Tatha Babu Addepalli, D. Rajendra Prasad, Kiran Kumar Bandi, Bhaskara Rao Perli, RVS Harish, “Radiation Pattern Improvement of Bowtie Antenna Using Annular Ring for Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication”, 2024 Wireless, Antenna and Microwave Symposium (WAMS), Vishakhapatnam, 2024, 29 Feb - 03 March 2024

2023

  • Sneha Chennamsetty, Subbarao Boddu, P. Chandhar and K. C. Bulusu, "Analysis of PAPR in OTFS Modulation with Classical Selected Mapping Technique," 2023 15th International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS), Bangalore, India, 2023, pp. 319-322, doi: 10.1109/COMSNETS56262.2023.10041313.
  • Sneha Chennamsetty and Subbarao Boddu, "Analysis of Neural Networks Based OTFS Wireless System," 2023 International Conference on Emerging Techniques in Computational Intelligence (ICETCI), Hyderabad, India, 2023, pp. 54-59, doi: 10.1109/ICETCI58599.2023.10331412.
  • Sneha Chennamsetty and Subbarao Boddu, "Cognitive Performance Analysis of the Proposed Testbed for OFDMA Wireless System," 2023 First International Conference on Cyber Physical Systems, Power Electronics and Electric Vehicles (ICPEEV), Hyderabad, India, 2023, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/ICPEEV58650.2023.10391945.
  • Sneha Chennamsetty, Subbarao Boddu and P. Chandhar, "Real Time Measurement and Analysis of 4G and 5G Spectrum Occupancy in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana - India," 2023 IEEE 20th India Council International Conference (INDICON), Hyderabad, India, 2023, pp. 31-36, doi: 10.1109/INDICON59947.2023.10440824.

2018

  • Subbarao Boddu, "Analysis of Design Parameters in Flexible Reuse Deployments of OFDMA Downlink Cellular Networks" in 3rd IEEE International Conference for Convergence in Technology (I2CT), Pune, 7 -8 April, 2018.
  • Subbarao Boddu and Venkata Sudhakar Reddy Bandi, "Comparative Performance of Cognitive Cell Level Resource Allocation for OFDMA Downlinks" in 3rd IEEE International Conference for Convergence in Technology (I2CT), Pune, 7 -8 April, 2018.
  • Subbarao Boddu and Venkata Sudhakar Reddy Bandi, "A Cognitive Opportunistic Fractional Frequency Reuse scheme for OFDMA Uplinks" in 24th IEEE National Conference on Communications, IIT Hyderabad, 25 - 28 February, 2018.
  • Subbarao Boddu and B. V. Sudhakar Reddy, Comparative Performance of Cognitive Cell Level Resource Allocation for OFDMA Downlinks, IEEE I2CT, Pune, 2018.
  • Subbarao Boddu and B. V. Sudhakar Reddy, A Cognitive Opportunistic Fractional Frequency Reuse scheme for OFDMA Uplinks, IEEE NCC, IIT Hyderabad, 2018.

2017

  • Subbarao Boddu and Jagadeesh Babu Kamili, "Analysis of Design Parameter Issues for Next Generation OFDMA Downlinks," Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS -FALL), Nov. 19-22, 2017, pp. 2707-2717, Singapore, IEEE Xplore, DOI: 10.1109/PIERS-FALL.2017.8293597
  • Subbarao Boddu, et al. "Design of a Compact octagonal UWB MIMO Antenna Employing Polarization Diversity Technique," Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS -FALL), Nov. 19-22, 2017, pp. 1785-1789, Singapore, IEEE Xplore, DOI: 10.1109/PIERS-FALL.2017.8293427
  • Subbarao Boddu, et al. "Design of a MIMO Dielectric Resonator Antenna with Air Gap for X-Band Applications," Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS -FALL), Nov. 19 - 22, 2017, pp. 1835-1838, Singapore, IEEE Xplore, DOI: 10.1109/PIERS-FALL.2017.8293435
  • Subbarao Boddu, Jagadeesh Babu Kamili, B. Kiran kumar, Design of a Compact octagonal UWB MIMO Antenna Employing Polarization Diversity Technique, IEEE PIERS-FALL, Singapore, 2017.

2013

  • Subbarao Boddu, et al., "Analysis of Fractional Frequency Reuse in OFDMA Networks for Real Time and Best Effort Traffic," IEEE International Conference on Communications, 9 - 13 June, 2013, Budapest, Hungary, pp. 5366-5370.
  • Subbarao Boddu, et al. "Bandwidth Partitioning and SINR Threshold Design Analysis of Fractional Frequency Reuse," IEEE 19th National Conference on Communications, 15 - 17 Feb., 2013, IIT Delhi, New Delhi, India, pp.1-5.
  • Subbarao Boddu, Suvra Sekhar Das, et al., Analysis of Fractional Frequency Reuse in OFDMA Networks for Real Time and Best Effort Traffic, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Budapest, 2013
  • Subbarao Boddu, Suvra Sekhar Das, et al., Bandwidth Partitioning and SINR Threshold Design Analysis of Fractional Frequency Reuse, IEEE NCC, IIT Dehli, 2013

2010

  • Subbarao Boddu, "Simulation Based Performance Evaluation of ICI Mitigation Schemes for 4G Systems," IEEE International Conference on Next Generation Networks, Sept. 2010, Bombay, India, pp.1-6.

Books/book chapters

2018

  • Subbarao Boddu, "QoS provisioning in OFDMA Networks," in "Evolution of Air Interface towards 5G: Radio Access Technology and Performance Analysis," Suvra Sekhar Das and Ramjee Prasad, River Publishers, August 2018, ISBN: 8793609817, 9788793609815

Patents

2024

  • COGNITIVE CONTROL BCI-AI WHEELCHAIR AND ASSISTIVE PLATFORM WITH CYBER-PHYSICAL DEFENSE, Indian Patent, Published- Inventors: Dr. Subbarao Boddu and Abeeb Akorede Bello

Research Interests

  • PHY and MAC layer issues include modeling and analysis of wireless cellular systems
  • 5G and beyond mobile broadband, radio resource and interference management
  • 4G-3GPP LTE, HetNets & OFDMA Networks
  • Optimization issues in PHY and MAC layers for wireless communications
  • Machine learning/deep learning algorithms for design of wireless systems
  • Wireless communication testbed development
  • Dynamic Spectrum Access for 5G and beyond systems
  • MIMO communication
  • Cognitive Radio & Spectrum Management

Project consultancy assignment

  • 4-month consultancy project on “IoT Security” along with Digital Security Consortium of India (DSCI), 2020-2021
  • 4G/5G -IoT testbed established in GoA College of Engineering in collaboration, 2021.
  • Guided a 4-month consultancy project on “IoT Security” along with Digital Security Consortium of India (DSCI), 2020-2021
  • Developed the wireless innovation and 5G lab at Mahindra University, Hyderabad
  • Developed thereal time highly scalable testbed for emulating 4G/5G networks in real-time in Mahindra University, Hyderabad
  • Developed the highly scalable real time 4G/5G NR-IoT testbed in Mahindra University
  • Developed the advanced communication and digital signal processing laboratory at Mahindra University
  • Developed the link adaptation in wireless communication virtual laboratory
  • Developed new inter cell interference mitigation schemes in OFDMA cellular networks for the project sponsored by Dept. of Electronics and Information Technology, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Govt. of India, while carrying out the research work at IIT Kharagpur
  • Test and develop virtual labs-5: “Fading channels and mobile communication” project sponsored by MHRD, New Delhi undertaken by G S Sanyal School of Telecommunications, IIT Kharagpur from Jan. 2013 to Dec. 2013
  • Performed theoretical and simulation studies on Radio Resource and Interference Management techniques, and developed a system level simulator for both OFDMA (Downlink) and SC-FDMA (Uplink) cellular networks
  • Developed “Link Level and System Level Simulators” for OFDMA based cellular networks
    Performed analytical studies on Radio Protocols such as MAC, RLC and RRC on UE and eNodeB in LTE architecture
  • Experience on USRP with SDR systems implementation of wireless communication systems
  • Actively involved in developing the project “Design and Development of High Data Rate Data Link using OFDM/MC-CDMA for Airborne Applications” carried out at Directorate of Flight Instrumentation (DOFI), Research Center Imarat (RCI), Defense Research and Development Organization Hyderabad, India from July 2005 – June 2006

Teaching labs developed

At UG level

  1. Communication Systems Lab – advanced experiments that cover real-time signal processing and communication technologies of 3G, 4G, and 5G
  2. Digital signal processing lab – Developed digital signal processing laboratory at MU

At PG level

  1. Vehicular Communication Networks lab – developed for M . Tech program – Autonomous Electric Vehicles
  2. Wireless Communication lab for M. Tech. program Advanced Wireless Communication
  3. Communication Networks lab for M. Tech. program Advanced Wireless Communication