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Indika Anuradha Mendis Balapuwaduge

Indika Anuradha Mendis Balapuwaduge

PhD Candidate

 

+47 925 06 822

Office hours:
09.00-17.00

Education

Ph.D. in ICT:

M.Sc. in ICT:

B.Sc. in Engineering:

  • 2003-2008, University of Ruhuna
  • Specialized in Electrical and Information Engineering

Publications

Book Chapters

I. A. M. Balapuwaduge and F. Y. Li, ``Cellular Networks: An Evolution from 1G to 4G", In Shen X., Lin X., Zhang K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Wireless Networks, Springer, Cham, 2018. DOI: DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32903-1_214-1

Journal Papers

  1. H. V. K Mendis, I. A. M. Balapuwaduge, and F. Y. Li, "Dependability-based Reliability Analysis in URC Networks: Availability in the Space Domain," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 27, no. 5, pp. 1915-1930, Oct. 2019.  https://doi.org/10.1109/TNET.2019.2934826.  
  2. T. Weerasinghe, I. A. M. Balapuwaduge, and F. Y. Li, "Time-Space Domain Availability Analysis under Reliability Impairments," IEEE Networking Letters, vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 103-106, Sep. 2019. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/LNET.2019.2916909
  3. I. A. M. Balapuwaduge, F. Y. Li, and V. Pla, "Dynamic Spectrum Reservation for CR Networks in the Presence of Channel Failures: Channel Allocation and Reliability Analysis", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 17, no. 2, Feb. 2018. DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2017.2772240.
  4. I. A. M. Balapuwaduge, F. Y. Li, and V. Pla, "System Times and Channel Availability for Secondary Transmissions in CRNs: A Dependability Theory Based Analysis",  IEEE Transactions on  Vehicular Technology, vol. 66, no. 3, Mar. 2017, DOI:  10.1109 / TVT.2016.258520
  5. I. A. M. Balapuwaduge, F. Y. Li, A. Rajanna, and M. Kaveh, "Channel Occupancy-Based Dynamic Spectrum Leasing in Multi-Channel CRNs: Strategies and Performance Evaluation", IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 64, no. 3, Mar. 2016. DOI: 10.1109 / TCOMM.2016.2521723
  6. E. Jalali, I. A. M. Balapuwaduge, F. Y.  Li, and V. Pla, "A Dynamic Channel Access Strategy for Underlay CRNs: Markov Modeling and Performance Evaluation", Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies, Feb. 2015. DOI: 10.1002 / one.2928
  7. L. Jiao, I. A. M. Balapuwaduge, F. Y. Li, and V. Pla, "On the Performance of Channel Assembly and Fragmentation in Cognitive Radio Networks", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 13, no. 10, Oct. 2014. DOI: 10.1109 / TWC.2014.2322057
  8. I. A. M. Balapuwaduge, L. Jiao, V. Pla and F. Y. Li, "Channel Assembly with Priority-Based Queues in Cognitive Radio Networks: Strategies and Performance Evaluation", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 13, no. 2, Feb. 2014. DOI: 10.1109 / TWC.2013.120713.121948

Conference Papers

  1. T. Weerasinghe, I. A. M. Balapuwaduge, F. Y. Li, and V. Casares Giner, "MDP-based Resource Allocation for Uplink Grant-free Transmissions in 5G New Radio", In Proceedings of IEEE WCNC, Seoul, South Korea, Apr. 2020.
  2. I. A. M. Balapuwaduge and F. Y. Li, "Hidden Markov Model based Machine Learning for mMTC Device Cell Association in 5G Networks," In Proceedings of  IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Shanghai, China, May 2019. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ICC.2019.8761913
  3. T. Weerasinghe, I. A. M. Balapuwaduge, and F. Y. Li, "'Supervised Learning based Arrival Prediction and Dynamic Preamble Allocation for Bursty Traffic," Accepted, IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications  (INFOCOM) Workshops, Paris, France, Apr.-May 2019.
  4. T. Weerasinghe, I. A. M. Balapuwaduge, and F. Y. Li, "Preamble Reservation based Access for Grouped mMTC Devices with URLLC Requirements," In Proceedings of  IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Shanghai, China, May 2019. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ICC.2019.8761430
  5. I. A. M. Balapuwaduge and F. Y. Li, "A Joint Time-Space Domain Analysis for Ultra-Reliable Communication in 5G Networks", In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Kansas City, MO, USA, May 2018. DOI: 10.1109/ICC.2018.8422742
  6. T. Weerasinghe, I. A. M. Balapuwaduge, and F. Y. Li, "Per-User Availability for Ultra Reliable Communication in 5G: Concept and Analysis", In Proceedings of IEEE WCNC, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, April 2018.  DOI: 10.1109/WCNC.2018.8377200
  7. I. A. M. Balapuwaduge, F. Y. Li, and V. Pla, "Significance of Channel Failures on Network Performance in CRNs with Reserved Spectrum", Accepted, In Proceedings of  IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 23-27 May 2016. DOI:  10.1109 / ICC.2016.7510891
  8. Harsha S. G. P., P. S. Ranaweera, V. A. Oleshchuk, and I. A. M. Balapuwaduge, "Secure Multi-Party Based Cloud Computing Framework for Statistical Data Analysis of Encrypted Data", 19th International Conference on Intelligence in Next Generation Networks (ICIN), Paris, France, 1- 3 Mar. 2016. Link: http://dl.ifip.org/db/conf/icin/icin2016/1570221695.pdf
  9. I. A. M. Balapuwaduge, A. Rajanna, M. Kaveh, and F. Y. Li, "Performance Evaluation of Three Dynamic Channel Access Strategies for Spectrum Leasing in CRNs", In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), London, UK, 8- 12 Jun. 2015. DOI: 10.1109 / ICC.2015.7249537
  10. I. A. M. Balapuwaduge and F. Y. Li, "System Times and Channel Availability Analyzes in Multi-Channel Cognitive Radio Networks", In Proceedings of  IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Sydney, Australia, 10-14 Jun. 2014. DOI: 10.1109 / ICC.2014.6883504
  11. I. A. M. Balapuwaduge, L. Jiao, and F. Y. Li, "Complexity Analysis of Spectrum Access Strategies with Channel Aggregation in Cognitive Radio Networks", In Proceedings of IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM), Anaheim, CA, USA, 3-7 Dec. 2012. DOI: 10.1109 / GLOCOM.2012.6503292
  12. I. A. M. Balapuwaduge, L. Jiao, and F. Y. Li, "A Markov Chain Model for Performance Analysis of VBR Voice Using Multiple Thresholds", In Proceedings of the 18th European Wireless Conference, Poznan, Poland, 18-20 April.2012.
  13. I. J. Dahanayaka, P. K. Y. N. Kulasekara, M. N. F. Zihra, S. H. G.  Chamindu, I. A. M. Balapuwaduge, and P. D. C. Perera, "Acoustic Echo Cancellation for Handsfree Applications Using Adaptive Filters", Annual Technical Conference of IET-YMS, Sri Lanka, October 16, 2010.  
  14. I. A. M. Balapuwaduge, Y. C. C. Ananda, K. Niroshan, A. C. C.  Priyangika, and K. Pirapaharan, "Practical Approach for Blind Source Separation of Instantaneous Mixture of Audio Signals", Seventh Academic Sessions, University of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka, March 17-18, 2010.  
  15. I. A. M. Balapuwaduge, Y. C. C. Ananda, K. Niroshan, and A. C. C. Priyangika, "Blind Audio Source Separation", Annual Technical Conference of IET-YMS, Sri Lanka, August 23, 2008. 

 

 

 

Research interests

Research interests

Theory and methods:

  1. Markov process
  2. Dependability theory
  3. Stochastic process modeling

Wireless communications:

  1. Cognitive radio networks
  2. Wireless sensor networks
  3. Dynamic spectrum allocation methods
  4. Ultra Reliable Communication
  5. Electronics and IoT

Courses and teaching

Lecturer:

Department of ICT, University of Agder (2017-2018)

  • IKT444 - Mobile Communication Networks
  • IKT 443 - WiFi and Ad-hoc Networks

Faculty of Engineering, University of Ruhuna (2009-2010)

  • Digital communications
  • Computer networks
  • Embedded system design
  • Communications

Teaching Assistant:

Department of ICT, University of Agder (2013-2015)

  • IKT 428 - Mobile Communication Networks 
  • IKT 429 - Ad Hoc Networking 

Work experience

  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow: University of Agder (Mar. 2017 - present)
  • PhD Fellow: University of Agder (Sep. 2012 - Mar. 2017)
  • Lecturer: University of Ruhuna (Aug. 2009 - Aug. 2010)
  • Engineer: Huawei Technologies Lanka Pvt Ltd. (Nov. 2008 - Jul. 2009)
  • Instructor: University of Ruhuna (Jun. 2008 - Nov. 2008)

Academic interests

Reviewer:

  • IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
  • IEEE Transactions on Communications
  • IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
  • IEEE Journal of Selected Areas of Communications
  • IEEE Communication Letters
  • EURASIP Journal of Wireless Communications and Networking
  • IET Communications
  • IET Journal of Engineering
  • Mobile Information Systems-Hindawi Publishing Corporation

TPC Member:

  • Wireless Networks, Emerging Technologies, Architectures, and Services: IEEE WCNC 2019, Marrakech, Morocco.
  • Communication QoS, Reliability and Modeling Symposium: IEEE ICC 2019, Shanghai, China.
  • ACM International Symposium on Mobility Management and Wireless Access (MobiWac), Nov. 2019, Miami Beach, USA.
  • IEEE Middle East & North Africa Communications (MENACOMM) Conference, Nov. 2019, Manama, Bahrain.
  • International Conference on Innovation and Intelligence for Informatics, Computing, and Technologies (3ICT), Sep. 2019, Bahrain.
  • Wireless Networking Symposium: IEEE ICC 2018, Kansas City, MO, USA.

Session Chair:

  • CQRM-7 Quality and Performance in Wireless and Mobile Networks Symposium, IEEE ICC 2019, Shanghai, China.
  • CRN-I01: Spectral Whitespaces, Auctions, and Leasing, IEEE ICC15, London, UK.

Projects

Projest Supervision:

MSc Thesis (2018): Multi-Client Traffic Emulation for On-board WiFi
Networks: Implementation and Real-Life Experiments

MSc Thesis (2018): Real-Life Experiments based on IQRF IoT Testbed: From Sensors to Cloud

IKT 441 (Seminar 2) (2018): Hybrid Scheduling Mechanisms for Channel Access in Wi-Fi Networks

IKT 442 (Seminar 3) (2017): Dynamic Sensitivity Control in IEEE 802.11ax: Algorithms and Performance Evaluation

IKT 442 (Seminar 3) (2017): Data Capturing and Traffic Analysis in the Internet of Things: A Wireshark-based Approach

IKT 442 (Seminar 3) (2017): IQRF IoT Testbed: An Experimental Study

Research Contribution for EU FP7-PEOPLE-IRSES program under grant agreement 247083, project acronym S2EuNe.

Visiting Research Scholar: University of Minnesota: Spring 2014

MSc ICT: Complexity Analysis for Spectrum Access Strategies with Channel Aggregation in Cognitive Radio Networks: (Grade A)} Autumn 2011

Stochastic Process Modeling via Markov Chains: (Grade A) - Spring 2011

BSc Engineering:

Blind Audio Source Separation: (Grade A-) 2007 - 2008    

Scientific publications

  • Vithanage, Dinithi; Balapuwaduge, Indika A.M.; Li, Frank Yong; Casares-Giner, Vicente (2021). Cell Association for MTC Devices in 5G Networks: Schemes and Performance Evaluation. 2021 Joint European Conference on Networks and Communications & 6G Summit (EuCNC/6G Summit). ISBN: 978-1-6654-1526-2. IEEE. EuCNC/6G Summit. s 1 - 6.
  • Weerasinghe, Thilina Nuwan; Giner, Vicente Casares; Balapuwaduge, Indika A.M.; Li, Frank Yong (2021). Priority Enabled Grant-Free Access With Dynamic Slot Allocation for Heterogeneous mMTC Traffic in 5G NR Networks. IEEE Transactions on Communications. ISSN: 0090-6778. 69 (5). doi:10.1109/TCOMM.2021.3053990.
  • Weerasinghe, Thilina Nuwan; Balapuwaduge, Indika A.M.; Li, Frank Young; Giner, Vicente Casares (2020). MDP-based Resource Allocation for Uplink Grant-free Transmissions in 5G New Radio. IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference : Proceedings. ISSN: 1525-3511. doi:10.1109/WCNC45663.2020.9120656.
  • Søraa, Aasmund; Weerasinghe, Thilina Nuwan; Balapuwaduge, Indika A.M.; Li, Frank Yong (2020). Preamble Transmission Prediction for mMTC Bursty Traffic: A Machine Learning based Approach. 2020 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM). ISBN: 978-1-7281-8298-8. IEEE. GLOBECOM2020.
  • Weerasinghe, Thilina Nuwan; Balapuwaduge, Indika A.M.; Li, Frank Young (2020). Priority-based initial access for URLLC traffic in massive IoT networks: Schemes and performance analysis. Computer Networks. ISSN: 1389-1286. 178doi:10.1016/j.comnet.2020.107360.
  • Mendis, Handunneththi V. Kalpanie; Balapuwaduge, Indika A.M.; Li, Frank Yong (2019). Dependability-Based Reliability Analysis in URC Networks: Availability in the Space Domain. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. ISSN: 1063-6692. 27 (5). s 1915 - 1930. doi:10.1109/TNET.2019.2934826.
  • Balapuwaduge, Indika A.M.; Li, Frank Yong (2019). Hidden Markov Model Based Machine Learning for mMTC Device Cell Association in 5G Networks. 2019 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC). ISBN: 978-1-5386-8088-9. IEEE. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2019).
  • Weerasinghe, Thilina Nuwan; Balapuwaduge, Indika A.M.; Li, Frank Yong (2019). Preamble Reservation Based Access for Grouped mMTC Devices with URLLC Requirements. 2019 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC). ISBN: 978-1-5386-8088-9. IEEE. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2019).
  • Weerasinghe, Thilina Nuwan; Balapuwaduge, Indika A.M.; Li, Frank Yong (2019). Supervised Learning based Arrival Prediction and Dynamic Preamble Allocation for Bursty Traffic. The 22nd IEEE Global Internet Symposium (GI 2019). ISBN: 978-1-7281-1878-9. IEEE Sarnoff Symposium. chapter.
  • Weerasinghe, Thilina Nuwan; Balapuwaduge, Indika A.M.; Li, Frank Yong (2019). Time-Space Domain Availability Analysis Under Reliability Impairments. IEEE Networking Letters. ISSN: 2576-3156. 1 (3). s 103 - 106. doi:10.1109/LNET.2019.2916909.
  • Balapuwaduge, Indika A.M.; Li, Frank Yong (2018). A Joint Time-Space Domain Analysis for Ultra-Reliable Communication in 5G Networks. IEEE International Conference on Communications. ISSN: 1550-3607. 2018-Mays 1 - 6. doi:10.1109/ICC.2018.8422742.
  • Balapuwaduge, Indika A.M.; Li, Frank Yong; Pla, Vicent (2017). Dynamic Spectrum Reservation for CR Networks in the Presence of Channel Failures: Channel Allocation and Reliability Analysis. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. ISSN: 1536-1276. 17 (2). s 882 - 898. doi:10.1109/TWC.2017.2772240.
  • Weerasinghe, Thilina Nuwan; Balapuwaduge, Indika A.M.; Li, Frank Yong (2018). Per-user availability for ultra-reliable communication in 5G: Concept and analysis. 2018 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC). ISBN: 978-1-5386-1734-2. IEEE conference proceedings. chapter.
  • Jalali, Elmira; Balapuwaduge, Indika A.M.; Li, Frank Young; Pla, Vicent (2015). A dynamic channel access strategy for underlay cognitive radio networks: Markov modelling and performance evaluation. Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies. ISSN: 1124-318X. 28 (1). doi:10.1002/ett.2928.
  • Balapuwaduge, Indika A.M.; Li, Frank Young; Pla, Vicent (2016). System Times and Channel Availability for Secondary Transmissions in CRNs: A Dependability Theory based Analysis. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. ISSN: 0018-9545. 66 (3). s 2771 - 2788. doi:10.1109/TVT.2016.2585200.
  • Balapuwaduge, Indika A.M.; Li, Frank Young; Rajanna, Amogh; Kaveh, Mostafa (2016). Channel Occupancy-Based Dynamic Spectrum Leasing in Multichannel CRNs: Strategies and Performance Evaluation. IEEE Transactions on Communications. ISSN: 0090-6778. 64 (3). s 1313 - 1328. doi:10.1109/TCOMM.2016.2521723.
  • Gardiyawasam Pussewalage, Harsha; Ranaweera, Pasika; Oleshchuk, Vladimir; Balapuwaduge, Indika A.M. (2016). Secure Multi-party based Cloud Computing Framework for Statistical Data Analysis of Encrypted Data. 19th International Conference on Innovations in Clouds, Internet and Networks. ISBN: 978-3-901882-81-4. IFIP International Federation for Information Processing. 19th International ICIN Conference. s 22 - 28.
  • Balapuwaduge, Indika A.M.; Li, Frank Yong; Pla, Vicent (2016). Significance of channel failures on network performance in CRNs with reserved spectrum. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2016). ISBN: 978-1-4799-6664-6. IEEE Communications Society. kapittel.
  • Balapuwaduge, Indika A.M.; Rajanna, Amogh; Kaveh, Mostafa; Li, Frank Young (2015). Performance evaluation of three dynamic channel access strategies for spectrum leasing in CRNs. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2015. ISBN: 978-1-4673-6432-4. IEEE conference proceedings. kapittel. s 7570 - 7575.
  • Balapuwaduge, Indika A.M.; Lei, Jiao; Pla, Vicent; Li, Frank Young (2013). Channel Assembling with Priority-based Queues in Cognitive Radio Networks: Strategies and Performance Evaluation. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. ISSN: 1536-1276. 13 (2). s 630 - 645. doi:10.1109/TWC.2013.120713.121948.
  • Lei, Jiao; Balapuwaduge, Indika A.M.; Li, Frank Young; Pla, Vicent (2014). On the performance of channel assembling and fragmentation in cognitive radio networks. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. ISSN: 1536-1276. 13 (10). s 5661 - 5675. doi:10.1109/TWC.2014.2322057.
  • Balapuwaduge, Indika A.M.; Li, Frank Young (2014). System Times and Channel Availability Analyses in Multi-channel Cognitive Radio Networks. ICC 2014 - Proceedings of 2014 IEEE International Conference on Communications. ISBN: 978-1-4799-2003-7. IEEE conference proceedings. kapittel. s 1320 - 1325.
  • Balapuwaduge, Indika A.M.; Lei, Jiao; Li, Frank Yong (2012). A Markov chain model for performance analysis of VBR voice using multiple thresholds. European Wireless, 2012. EW. 18th European Wireless Conference. ISBN: 978-3-8007-3426-9. VDE Verlag GmbH. Kapittel.
  • Balapuwaduge, Indika A.M.; Lei, Jiao; Li, Frank Yong (2012). Complexity Analysis of Spectrum Access Strategies with Channel Aggregation in CR Networks. 2012 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference -GLOBECOM 2012. ISBN: 978-1-4673-0921-9. IEEE conference proceedings. kapittel. s 1313 - 1319.

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