Introduction

Dr. Enukonda Venkata Pothan received the B.Tech. degree in electronics and communications engineering from SKUCE, Anantapur, India, in 2014, and the M.Tech. degree in communication systems from SVUCE, Tirupati, India, in 2018. He obtained his Ph.D. degree with the Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati in 2025. He is working in IIIT Manipur since July 2025. Toward the end of his doctoral studies, he completed an internship at Samsung Research Institute Bangalore, filing a patent on the coexistence of ultra-wideband and mobile devices via spectrum sharing. His research interests include Cell-free massive MIMO, underlay spectrum sharing, wireless communication with UAVs and 6G communication architectures.

Qualification

  • Ph.D. in wireless communications from Electronics and Electrical Engineering Department — IIT Guwahati (2025)
  • M.Tech. in communication systems from Electronics and Communication Engineering Department — Sri Venkateswara University (2018)
  • B.E. in Electronics and Communication Engineering Department — Sri Krishnadevaraya University (2014)

Experience

  • Assisatnt Professor — IIIT Manipur (2025–Present).

Publications

  1. E. V. Pothan and S. Kashyap, “Cell-Free Massive MIMO Based Underlay Spectrum Access Under Interference Outage Probability Constraint Over Limited Capacity Fronthaul,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 72, no. 9, pp. 5837–5852, Sept. 2024
  2. E. V. Pothan and S. Kashyap, “Cell-Free Massive MIMO Enabled Wireless Communication with UAVs in Underlay Spectrum Access Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 71, no. 12, pp. 7363–7377, Dec. 2023.
  3. E. V. Pothan and S. Kashyap, “Massive MIMO Based Underlay Spectrum Access Under Incomplete And/Or Imperfect Channel State Information,” IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 1482–1496, Sept. 2022
  4. E. V. Pothan and S. Kashyap, “Co-located and Cell-Free Massive MIMO Based Underlay Spectrum Access Networks,” in Sharma, S., Deka, K., Dixit, D. (eds), Next-Generation Wireless Systems, Transactions on Computer Systems and Networks. Springer, Singapore, pp. 59–82, 2025.
  5. R. Gupta, S. Kashyap, and E. V. Pothan , “Interference Violation Probability Constrained Underlay Cognitive Massive MIMO Network Under Imperfect Channel Knowledge,” Proc. of National Conference on Communications (NCC), IISc Bangalore, India, Feb. 2019

Other (project, patent, Awards/ Achievement etc)

  1. E. V. Pothan , G. Anusha, C. A. K. Reddy, “Systems for Co-existence of Cellular and Ultra-Wide-Band Transceivers through Spectrum Sharing in 6G Networks,” Patent No. 202441062466, filed Aug. 19, 2024, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
  2. Finalist, Best Student Paper Award, NCC 2019, IISc Bangalore.
  3. Reviewer IETE Journal of Research, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications and IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.