• Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Aug. 2007.
  The Ohio State University, Columbus OH.
  Thesis title: Feedback in Wireless Networks: Cross-layer Design, Secrecy and Reliability.
  Advisor: Prof. Hesham El Gamal.
• M.S. in Electrical Engineering, June 2004.
  The Ohio State University, Columbus OH.
  Advisor: Prof. Hesham El Gamal.
• B.E. in Electronics and Communication, May 2002.
  Anna Univesity, Chennai, India.
  Thesis title: Resource Allocation Strategies for Next Generation Wireless Networks.

1. A. D. Murugan, P. K. Gopala and H. El Gamal, “Correlated Sources over Wireless Channels: Cooperative Source-Channel Coding”, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 22, No. 6, pp. 988 – 998, Aug. 2004. [pdf]

2. P. K. Gopala, Y. H. Nam and H. El Gamal, “On the Error Exponents of ARQ Channels with Deadlines”, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 53, No. 11, pp. 4265 – 4273, Nov. 2007. [pdf]

3. P. K. Gopala, L. Lai and H. El Gamal, “On the Secrecy Capacity of Fading Channels”, To appear in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2008. [pdf]

4. P. K. Gopala and H. El Gamal, “Scheduling for Cellular Multicast: A Cross-layer Perspective”, Submitted to the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2008. [pdf]

5. Y. H. Nam, P. K. Gopala and H. El Gamal, “ARQ Diversity in Fading Random Access Channels”, In Submission. [pdf]

Conference Publications

1. P. K. Gopala, L. Lai and H. El Gamal, “On the Secrecy Capacity of Fading Channels”, Proceedings of ISIT 2007 , June 2007 (Finalist for Best Paper Award). [pdf]

2. L. Lai, P. K. Gopala and H. El Gamal, “Secure communications over wireless channels”, Proceedings of the Information Theory & Applications (ITA) Workshop, UCSD, Jan. 2007 (Invited). [pdf]

3. Y. H. Nam, P. K. Gopala and H. El Gamal, “Resolving Collisions via Incremental Redundancy: The ARQ Diversity”, Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2007, May 2007. [pdf]

4. S. F. Bush, P. K. Gopala and O. Imer, “Enhancing Reliable Multicast Transport to Mitigate the Impact of Blockage”, Proceedings of IEEE CAMAD 2006, Jun. 2006. [pdf]

5. P. K. Gopala and H. El Gamal, “On the Throughput-Delay Tradeoff in Cellular Multicast”, Proceedings of the Symposium on Information Theory in WirelessCom 2005, Jun. 2005. [pdf]

6. P. K. Gopala and H. El Gamal, “Opportunistic Multicasting”, Proceedings of the Asilomar Conf. on Signals, Systems and Computers, Nov. 2004 (Invited). [pdf]

7. P. K. Gopala and H. El Gamal, “On the Scaling Laws of Multi-modal Wireless Sensor Networks”, Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM’04, Mar. 2004. [pdf]

8. P. K. Gopala and H. El Gamal, “On the Scaling Laws of Dense Wireless Sensor Networks”, Proceedings of ACM Sensys 2003, UCLA, Nov. 2003 (Invited). [pdf]

9. N. R. Karthikeyan, Mani Sridhar, G. Praveen Kumar, K. Ramakrishnan, R. Jayaparvathy and S. Srikanth, “Priority Oriented Scheduling in cellular systems with dynamic packet assignment”, Proceedings of the 9th National Conf. on Communications, IIT Madras, Aug. 2002. [pdf]

Ph.D. Dissertation

Feedback in Wireless Networks: Cross-layer Design, Secrecy and Reliability [pdf]

Contact Information

praveen [dot] kurup [at] gmail [dot] com