IIIT Delhi now part of BT's Global Research and Innovation Program along with MIT-USA, Tshenghua University-China and IIT Delhi-India.
BIT Group and British Telecom will work together to design the next generation EON technology.
QIC Group-British Telecom-Center of Quantum technology National University Singapore will work together to realize a QKD network Infrastructure.
VLC Group inception has taken place with visit of Prof. Yeon Ho Chung to work on OCC and cost optmised FSO-VLC link for last mile to ectend reach using NOFN.
Dr. Abhijit Mitra nominated as Junior Speaker in Rank Prize Funds, UK 2018 for his contribution to UK network design.
At OFC 2018, vendor community (Nokia Bell labs, Ciena) reach consensus to the PhD thesis findings (done with BT). This will lead to possibility of more future collaborations with industry.
Research Activities
Dr. Abhijit Mitra joined ECE Dept., IIIT Delhi as Department of Science and Technology (DST) Inspire Faculty on October 2017.
He has been awarded research grants by DST, Govt. of India to carry out research for designing the Pan-India high capacity Elastic Optical Network (EON).
He has founded the Broadband Information Transport (BIT) group to realize this vision along with active collaboration involving Prof. Andrew Lord, Head of Optics, British Telecom, Prof. Anand Srivastava and Dr. Bijoy Chand Chaterjee.
Dr. Mitra has also founded the Quantum Information Communication (QIC) Group in IIIT Delhi along with Dr. Sanat Biswas to design the Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) network . The QKD network will be responsibile for providing unconditional security to next generation broadband networks.
To find a cheaper alternative for connecting the rural citizens of India to the digital platform Dr. Mitra has joined the Visual Light Communication (VLC) research group to provide low-cost last mile connectivity for NOFN.
Dr. Abhijit Mitra
Asst. Prof. (DST Inspire Faculty), ECE Dept., IIIT Delhi,
British Telecom Research Fellow,
B-305, Old Academic Building, IIIT Delhi, Okhla Phase III, New Delhi-110020.
