Workshop on “Standards-driven Research”@NCC 2024 on 28 February 2024 at IIT Madras

TSDSI has been championing standards driven research in the India ecosystem so as to channelise research -> IP -> Standards that will result in India taking a leadership position on the global standards arena and also monetization of IP.  We have been conducting workshops on this theme (SdDR) regularly in the community – including in IEEE ANTS, COMSNETS and NCC conferences.

A Standards-driven Research Workshop was organised by TSDSI under the aegis of NCC 2024 on 28 February 2024 at IIT Madras campus. Its goal was to engage with academia & research community and motivating them to take up research topics that can lead to downstream development of standards. This will help channelise the vast research expertise in India and in seeding the IP created during research into standards, thus opening avenues for monetizing the same. This will also help to discuss topics that can be candidates for contributing to standards.

The workshop featured talks on research topics with a potential for standardization,  government initiatives for promoting research leading to contribution to standards, Case studies of research-based contributions to standards, O-RAN standardisation etc. A panel discussion was also conducted on “Need for SDR and mechanisms available for the same”.

Here are few key conclusions from the deliberations of the workshop: 

Having established the importance and benefits of standards driven research, several suggestions were put forth on the approach to be taken. Use Case analysis can be taken as a starting point. Another approach could be to conduct a literature survey of standards followed by a prior art search to identify potential topics of research in the “gap areas”. A database of research questions may be created. A few areas in which topics with potential for contribution to standards exist were also discussed. It was recommended to establish Centres of Excellence with a specific mandate for conducting Standards driven research in different parts of the country. The industry was encouraged to leverage academia for carrying out research. CSR funds may be channelised for SDR activities.

Details of the Workshop are as follows:

Workshop Co-Chairs: Pranav Jha (IIT Bombay), Radha Krishna Ganti (IIT Madras)

Schedule: 28 February 2024, 09:00 to 17:30 IST

Venue: IIT Madras (in-person)

Participation: Registrations are now closed.

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Program Agenda

Workshop Contact: Jaskirat Singh (jaskirat.singh@tsdsi.in)

** About NCC **

The National Conference on Communications (NCC) is a flagship conference of India in the area of Communications, Signal Processing and Networks. It has been organized every year, starting from the year 1995, by the Joint Telematics Group (JTG) of the Indian Institutes of Technology and the Indian Institute of Science. The Thirtieth National Conference on Communications (NCC-2024) will be jointly organized by Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and Indian Institute of Technology, Tirupati from 28 February – 2 March 2024. The conference will be held in-person at IIT Madras.