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Resume:
PANKAJ AGGARWAL **********@*****.*** 407-***-****
SUMMARY
. 8+ years of multidisciplinary experience in system analysis, systems
engineering, system integration and testing, R&D, IP generation, pre
sales and post sales support in the field of wireless communications.
. Author of 10+ patent applications in USPTO in the field of radio networks
and communications.
. Hands on experience in deployment and debugging of radio communication
networks and equipments like mesh, point-to-point and point-to-multipoint
networks.
. Broad knowledge of wireless networking technologies at PHY, MAC and IP
layers including core concepts of radio communications like channel
models, modulation schemes, RF propagation, link budgeting, sensitivity,
EVM, MIMO etc.
. Expert level understanding of PHY and MAC aspects of 802.11a/b/g/n/s.
. Deep knowledge of wireless and cellular technologies like 802.15.4
(Zigbee), GSM, UMTS and LTE.
. Experience building theoretical models of wireless algorithms, analyzing
the performance using analytical tools like MATLAB and EXCEL, simulating
the algorithms using OPNET and C.
. Deep understanding of standardization process. Contributed to 802.11s
standard and have won awards for the contributions.
. Advance knowledge of statistical methods like MLE, Bayesian estimators,
hypothesis construction and interval estimation.
. Experience responding to customers RFPs with end to end solutions. This
involves understanding of product portfolio as well as third party
components.
EXPERIENCE
Senior Systems Engineer, Motorola Inc. (Feb 2006 - present)
. Responsible for writing Technical Requirement Documents (TRD) for 802.11n
based wireless broadband products like Motorola 7181 and 7161.
. Worked with management to translate business requirements into functional
and technical specifications.
. Filed more than 10 patents for Motorola, some of these patents are at the
core of Motorola products.
. Supported firmware development and test teams from conception through GA.
. Prototyped 802.11a/g/n (OFDM) based products for mobility including
development of novel fragmentation and rate adaptation algorithms.
. Supported sales team by responding to RFPs and RFIs. Supported marketing
teams by writing white papers highlighting product features and
differentiators.
. Responded to customer queries by presenting and demonstrating solutions
both offsite and onsite.
. Developed system specifications for various system level protocols like
rate selection, link quality quantification and measurement, multi radio
routing protocols, channel selection etc used in current Motorola
products. Verified the developed algorithms with simulations, analytical
and field results.
. Experience installing, upgrading and testing radio products in labs as
well as in field.
. Hand on development experience with 802.11n chipsets and implemented data
rate selection, link quality measurement algorithm and TDMA over CSMA
protocols.
Systems Engineer, Mesh Product Group, Motorola Inc. (July2005 - Feb 2006)
. Developed models and evaluated the performance of IEEE 802.11n in Muni
WiFi networks.
. Contribution to IEEE 802.11s draft to develop 802.11s standard. Analysis
of layer 2 routing in Mesh enabled networks. Study of effects of
incorporating 802.1d bridges to interconnect 802.11s networks.
. Responsible for competitive analysis of deployments of the rival
products.
Research Engineer, Motorola Labs (Jan2005 - June2005)
. Designing and simulating using OPNET, Authentication protocols and
Network layer for Zigbee stack.
. Simulating MAC layer for Zigbee based on IEEE 802.15.4 standard.
Research Assistant, Wireless and Mobile system Laboratory, University of
Florida Fall 2003 - Spring 2005
. Designed a new Authentication and Authorization scheme "Mobile Assisted
Bit Sequence Authentication and Authorization" for 3G Wireless Networks.
. Performed Simulations for overhead evaluations of the MABSAA scheme
using OPNET 9.0 network modeler. MABSAA is evaluated over UMTS network
architecture
Telecom Engineer, Creative Entrepreneurs, Delhi, India (Sept2001 - Dec2002)
. Involved in the design and development of the next generation Transport
Layer Protocol, the Stream Control Transport Protocol (SCTP) based on
RFC 2960. The Protocol is widely used in the telecom domain in all
signaling layers on IP like SIP/SIGTRAN.
SKILLS
. Tools : OPNET, MATLAB, EXCEL, WIRESHARK, PATHLOSS
. Languages : C, JAVA, ANDROID
. Standards : IEEE 802.11 a/b/g/n/s, IEEE 802.15.4, TCP/IP, GSM, UMTS,
layer 1,layer 2, LTE
. Instruments: Real-time Spectrum Analyzers, Channel Emulators, Signal
Generators.
PATENTS
US Patent Applications
. System and Method for Multihop Packet Forwarding. USPTO: 200********
. Method and device for providing bridge in a wireless communication
networks. (200********)
. System and method for calculating link metrics values in wireless
networks using multiple streams, guard intervals and bandwidth. (
. System and method to protect aggregated frame using deterministic
probing in correlated channels. (201********)
. Method for aggregating frames in wireless communication network.
. System and method for improving efficiency of broadcast communications
in a multi hop wireless mesh network. (201********)
. System and method for improving efficiency and reliability of broadcast
communications in a multi hop wireless mesh network. (201********)
. Device and method for re-establishing wireless connection in a wireless
networks. (201********)
. Several other applications.
PUBLICATIONS
. Fast, efficient, and robust multicast in wireless mesh networks,
Proceedings of the 5th ACM symposium on Performance evaluation of
wireless ad hoc, sensor, and ubiquitous networks.
. Mobile Assisted Bit Sequence Authentication and Authorization,
International Conference on Cybernetics and Information Technologies,
Systems and Applications- CITSA 2004.
EDUCATION
. Master of Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, 2005, GPA 3.61/4
. Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering
Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi, India, 2001, 86.6/100
ACADEMIC PROJECTS
. Perform the comparison of backbone technologies like Ethernet and ATM
carry voice and multimedia traffic generated in wireless local area
network (802.11b)
. Simulated and studied various routing protocols for Wireless Ad-Hoc
Networks. OPNET was used to simulate DSDV, DSR and AODV. This project
tested these protocols under various working conditions and proposed
their suitability under each condition.
AWARDS/CERTIFICATES
. 2005 Standard contribution award from Motorola for significant
contribution in IEEE 802.11s standard development
. 2006 Standard contribution award from Motorola for significant
contribution in IEEE 802.11s standard development
. Sun Java Certification for Java 2.0
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