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Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas

Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas

D-Index & Metrics

Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
44
Citations
8323
World Ranking
3713
National Ranking
121

Overview

Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas is affiliated with the University of Melbourne in Australia and has a research focus primarily within the field of Engineering. Their work spans several subfields, including Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Computer Networks and Communications, Biomedical Engineering, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics.

Their main research topics include Advanced Photonic Communication Systems, Optical Wireless Communication Technologies, Optical Network Technologies, Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research, Advanced Wireless Communication Technologies, Photonic and Optical Devices, and Optical Coatings and Gratings.

Nirmalathas has contributed extensively to various scientific publications, with frequent appearances in the following venues:

  • Journal of Lightwave Technology
  • Journal of Optical Communications and Networking
  • IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society
  • Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

The scientist has collaborated with a number of frequent coauthors, including:

  • Christina Lim
  • Ranjith Rajasekharan Unnithan
  • Tingting Song
  • Elaine Wong
  • Md Hemayet Uddin

Recent notable papers by Nirmalathas include:

  • Radio-Over-Fiber Technology: Present and Future, 2020, Journal of Lightwave Technology
  • Energy-Aware Routing for Software-Defined Multihop Wireless Sensor Networks, 2021, IEEE Sensors Journal
  • Evolution of Short-Range Optical Wireless Communications, 2022, Journal of Lightwave Technology
  • Best optimizer selection for predicting bushfire occurrences using deep learning, 2020, Natural Hazards
  • 4G to 6G: disruptions and drivers for optical access [Invited], 2021, Journal of Optical Communications and Networking

Best Publications

  • Fiber-Wireless Networks and Subsystem Technologies

    C. Lim;A. Nirmalathas;M. Bakaul;P. Gamage

  • Radio-Over-Fiber Technologies for Emerging Wireless Systems

    Dalma Novak;Rodney B. Waterhouse;Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas;Christina Lim

  • Analysis of optical carrier-to-sideband ratio for improving transmission performance in fiber-radio links

    C. Lim;M. Attygalle;A. Nirmalathas;D. Novak

  • 5G C-RAN With Optical Fronthaul: An Analysis From a Deployment Perspective

    Chathurika Ranaweera;Elaine Wong;Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas;Chamil Jayasundara

  • Transmission improvement in fiber wireless links using fiber Bragg gratings

    M. Attygalle;C. Lim;G.J. Pendock;A. Nirmalathas

  • Millimeter-wave broad-band fiber-wireless system incorporating baseband data transmission over fiber and remote LO delivery

    C. Lim;A. Nirmalathas;D. Novak;R. Waterhouse

  • High-Speed Optical Wireless Communication System for Indoor Applications

    Ke Wang;Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas;Christina Lim;Efstratios Skafidas

  • Digitized Radio-Over-Fiber Technologies for Converged Optical Wireless Access Network

    A Nirmalathas;P A Gamage;C Lim;D Novak

  • Intermodulation Distortion Improvement for Fiber–Radio Applications Incorporating OSSB+C Modulation in an Optical Integrated-Access Environment

    C. Lim;A. Nirmalathas;Ka-Lun Lee;D. Novak

  • Efficient multiplexing scheme for wavelength-interleaved DWDM millimeter-wave fiber-radio systems

    M. Bakaul;A. Nirmalathas;C. Lim;D. Novak

  • Wavelength reuse in the WDM optical interface of a millimeter-wave fiber-wireless antenna base station

    A. Nirmalathas;D. Novak;C. Lim;R.B. Waterhouse

  • Design and Analysis of Digitized RF-Over-Fiber Links

    P.A. Gamage;A. Nirmalathas;C. Lim;D. Novak

  • Next generation optical-wireless converged network architectures

    C. Ranaweera;E. Wong;C. Lim;A. Nirmalathas

  • Extending optical transmission distance in fiber wireless links using passive filtering in conjunction with optimized modulation

    M. Attygalle;C. Lim;A. Nirmalathas

  • Modeling the Total Energy Consumption of Mobile Network Services and Applications

    Ming Yan;Chien Aun Chan;André F. Gygax;Jinyao Yan

  • 4 $\, imes\,$ 12.5 Gb/s WDM Optical Wireless Communication System for Indoor Applications

    Ke Wang;Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas;Christina Lim;E Skafidas

  • Radio-Over-Fiber Technology: Present and Future

    Christina Lim;Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas

  • Evolution of Short-Range Optical Wireless Communications

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  • Performance analysis of optimized millimeter-wave fiber radio links

    T. Kurniawan;A. Nirmalathas;C. Lim;D. Novak

  • High-speed duplex optical wireless communication system for indoor personal area networks

    Ke Wang;Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas;Christina Lim;Efstratios Skafidas

  • On the merging of millimeter-wave fiber-radio backbone with 25-GHz WDM ring networks

    C. Lim;A. Nirmalathas;M. Attygalle;D. Novak

  • Digitized RF transmission over fiber

    A. Nirmalathas;P. Gamage;C. Lim;D. Novak

  • Technique for increasing optical spectral efficiency in millimetre-wave WDM fibre-radio

    C. Lim;A. Nirmalathas;D. Novak;R.S. Tucker

Frequent Co-Authors

Christina Lim
Christina Lim University of Melbourne
Dalma Novak
Dalma Novak Octane Wireless
Efstratios Skafidas
Efstratios Skafidas University of Melbourne
Elaine Wong
Elaine Wong University of Melbourne
Kamal Alameh
Kamal Alameh Edith Cowan University
R.B. Waterhouse
R.B. Waterhouse University of Melbourne
Malin Premaratne
Malin Premaratne Monash University
Rodney S. Tucker
Rodney S. Tucker University of Melbourne
Robin J. Evans
Robin J. Evans University of Melbourne
Lei Guo
Lei Guo Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications

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