AI, machine learning to be part of 6G, says award-winning IIT Madras researcher
The Hindu
Radhakrishna Ganti, an IIT Madras professor, leads 5G development and envisions advanced technology for disaster relief in India.
On a visit to Vijayawada in Andhra Pradesh during the recent floods, Radhakrishna Ganti, a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, saw first-hand how drones were used to drop food packets to people rendered inaccessible.
A son of the soil, he wondered how advanced technology could help the disaster-affected better.
On August 22, 2024, the President of India Droupadi Murmu had presented Mr. Ganti with the ‘Rashtriya Vigyan Puraskar: Yuva Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar’ for his work, which primarily focuses on indigenous hardware and wireless communications stack development. He had led the development of 5G radio systems at IIT Madras, and his team is currently designing 6G technologies.
Mr. Ganti has made several contributions to global standards bodies and spearheaded the development of rural use cases in the international telecom union to provide modern telecom access and connectivity to remote and rural areas.
His work on stochastic geometry for analysis of wireless and cellular networks is globally recognised.
Soon, India will roll out 4G using indigenous equipment, Mr. Ganti says. “In a few months, the entire country will be covered by the 4G network. The equipment is basically designed and made in India. This will also pave the way to upgrade to 5G smoothly,” he says.
This would mean higher speed and faster connectivity for lay mobile phone users, but for the industry, it would mean better control over equipment.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on Wednesday (September 18, 2024) said he was deeply shocked by media reports of a BJP leader’s threat that Congress leader Rahul Gandhi would meet the same fate as his grandmother Indira Gandhi and a Shiv Sena (Eknath Shinde group) MLA announcing a bounty for chopping off the Leader of Opposition’s (LoP) tongue, among other intimidatory comments.