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. Mιdard,
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