Ramakrishna Janaswamy Professor and Graduate Program Director 215D Marcus Hall University of Massachusetts 100 Natural Resources Rd Amherst MA 01003-9292 Telephone: (413) 545-0937 email: janaswamy@ecs.umass.edu

B.Tech. (ECE), Regional Engineering College, Warangal, India, 1981
M.Tech., Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, 1983
Ph.D., University of Massachusetts Amherst, 1986

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Radiowave propagation, Wireless channel modeling, theoretical and applied electromagnetics, wave propagation over rough surfaces, antenna design.

AFFILIATED RESEARCH LABORATORY:
Antennas and Propagation Lab, Center for Advanced Sensor and Communication Antennas

SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

Book:
• R. Janaswamy, Radiowave Propagation and Smart Antennas for Wireless Communications, Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 312, November 2000.

  Book Chapter:

• R. Janaswamy, Signal Fading in Radio Communications, in Wiley Encyclopedia of RF and Microwave Engineering, John Wiley & Sons, 2005.
• R. Janaswamy, Spatial Diversity in Wireless Communications, Handbook on Antennas in Wireless Communications, L. Godara, Ed., CRC Press, August 2001.

  Journal Articles:

• S-Q. Wei, D. Goeckel, and R. Janaswamy, "On the asymptotic capacity of MIMO systems with antenna arrays of fixed length," IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun., vol. 4(4), pp. 1608-1621, July 2005.
• B.N. Getu and R. Janaswamy, "The effect of mutual coupling on the capacity of MIMO cube," IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters., vol. 4, pp. 240-244, 2005.
• R. Janaswamy, ``Path loss predictions in the presence of buildings on flat terrain: a 3-D vector parabolic equation approach,'' IEEE Trans. Antennas Propagat., vol. 51(8), pp. 1716-1728, August 2003.
• R. Janaswamy, ``A note on the TE/TM decomposition of electromagnetic fields in three dimensional homogeneous space,'' IEEE Trans. Antennas Propagat., August 2004.
• R. Janaswamy, ``Analytical expressions for the ergodic capacity of certain MIMO systems by the Mellin transform,'' Paper WC08-2, IEEE Globecom 2003, San Francisco, CA, December 1-5, 2003.

SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS: IEEE, American Geophysical Union.

HONORS & AWARDS: IEEE Fellow, 2003, IEEE Third Millennium Medal, 2000; IEEE Antennas & Propagation Society R. W. P. King Best Paper Award, 1995; Certificate of Recognition for Outstanding Research, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, 1991.

INSTITUTIONAL & PROFESSIONAL SERVICE: Associate Editor of Radio Science, January 1999-January 2004; Associate Editor IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, July 2003-Present; Chairman of IEEE Monterey Bay Subsection, July 1998-July 2001; Elected Member of US National Committee of URSI, Commissions B and F; Member of Technical Program Committees, Joint IEEE AP-S International Symposium/URSI Meeting, 1999, 2000; Chaired Technical Sessions at the IEEE AP-S International Symposia, 1995, 1999, 2001--2003.

 

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