Welcome to my homepage. I am a graduate student currently pursuing my Ph.D. at UIUC,

in the ECE department under the guidance of Prof. Ralf Koetter. I did my undergraduate education (B.Tech.) at IIT, Madras.

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PUBLICATIONS

• Journal
• N. Ratnakar, G. Kramer,“The Multicast Capacity of Acyclic, Deterministic Relay Networks with No Interference” Submitted to IEEE Special Issue on Networking and Information Theory
• D. S. Lun, N. Ratnakar, M. Medard, R. Koetter, D. R. Karger, T. Ho, and E. Ahmed, “Minimum-Cost Multicast over Coded Packet Networks” Submitted to IEEE Special Issue on Networking and Information Theory
• N. Ratnakar, R. Koetter, “Exponential error bounds for Algebraic Soft-Decision Decoding of Reed Solomon codes”, To appear, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
• Conference
• N. Ratnakar, G. Kramer,“Separation of Channel and Network Coding in Aref Networks” To be presented at ISIT, Adelaide, Australia, 2005
• K. Bhattad, N. Ratnakar, R. Koetter, K. Natayan, “Minimal Network Coding for Multicast” To be presented at ISIT, Adelaide, Australia, 2005
• S. Deb, M. Effros, T. Ho, D. R. Karger, R. Koetter, D. S. Lun, M. Médard, and N. Ratnakar. Network coding for wireless applications: A brief tutorial. In Proc. International Workshop on Wireless Ad-hoc Networks (IWWAN) 2005, May 2005. Invited paper.
• N. Ratnakar, G. Kramer, “The Multicast Capacity of Acyclic, Deterministic, Relay Networks with no Interference” Proceedings of NetCod, Riva Del Garda, Italy, 2005
• D. S. Lun, N. Ratnakar, R. Koetter, M. Medard, E. Ahmed, and H. Lee, “Achieving Minimum-Cost Multicast: A Decentralized Approach Based on Network Coding” Proc. of INFOCOM, Miami, 2005 (Errata)

• N. Ratnakar, R. Koetter, “Exponential error bounds for Algebraic Soft-Decision Decoding of Reed Solomon codes”, Proc. of ISIT, Chicago, 2004
• N. Ratnakar, R. Koetter, “A Chernoff type error bound for Algebraic Soft-Decision Decoding of Reed Solomon codes”, Conference Record of the Thirty-Sixth Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, Vol.1,pp.155-159, 2002