Faculty

Professor Dhaval Patel is currently working as an Associate Professor at the School of Engineering and Applied Science-Ahmedabad University, India. He was a visiting faculty at Olin School of Engineering, Massachusetts, United States. Professor Patel has published research papers in IEEE Journals and Tier-1 International Conferences.  He has been awarded Ahmedabad University Chairman's Awards for "Outstanding Research Contributions" and "Experiment to Advance Active Learning" in 2019 and 2021. Furthermore, he has received research funding from DST- UK India Education and Research Initiative (UKIERI), DST- Association of Southeast Asian Nations and Gujarat Council on Science and Technology. Furthermore, he is a member of professional bodies like IEEE, ISTE and IETE.

His area of interest includes Intelligent Transportation System, Bio-Engineering, Molecular Communication, Applied Machine Learning and Deep Learning, and xG Wireless Networks.

Project # [1]

Project Title: Deployment of 6G Accelerated Smart Transportation with C-V2X on Ahmedabad-Rajkot Highway (NH47) Corridor

Principal Investigator: Dhaval K. Patel

Funding Agency: Telecom Centres of Excellence (TCOE), Department of Telecommunications (DoT), Ministry of Communications (MoC), Government of Gujarat.

Industry Collaborators: Techsture Technologies India Pvt. Ltd.

Project Fund: 74,07,885 INR

Status: Ongoing (2024-2027)

Duration: 3 Years

Project # [2]

Project Title: Design and Development of 5G Enabled Intelligent Transportation System in Gujarat

Principal Investigator: Dhaval K. Patel

Funding Agency: Department of Science and Technology (DST) - Gujarat Council on Science and Technology (GUJCOST)

Partner Institute: SVNIT- Surat Mentor Institute: IIT- Bombay

Project Fund: 22,10,000 INR

Status: Ongoing (20222-2025)

Duration: 3 Years

Project # [3]

Title: Development of Cohda Wireless 5G Testbed for Intelligent Transportation

Principal Investigator: Dhaval K. Patel

Funding Agency: University Research Board, Ahmedabad University

Project Fund: 2,00,000 INR

Status: Completed (2022-2023)

Duration: 1 Year

Project # [4]

Title: Cognitive Radio-Enabled Vehicular Cyber-Physical System for Urban Areas

Principal Investigator: Dhaval K. Patel

Foreign Collaborators: ASEAN Foreign Partners:

• Dr Guan Yong Liang, NTU-Singapore
• Dr Sumei SUN, Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R) Agency for Science, Technology, and Research (A*STAR), Singapore
• Dr. Chang Yoong Choon, UTAR, Malaysia
• Dr. Joanne Lim Mun Yee, Monash University, Malaysia

Funding Agency: DST-ASEAN Collaborative R and D Program- International Cooperation (Bilateral)

Project Fund: 32,42,000 INR

Status: Completed (2018-2021)

Duration: 3 Years

Project # [5]

Non-parametric Smart Sensing Analytics based on Large Spectrum Data and Estimation of Channel Activity Statistics

Principal Investigator: Dhaval K. Patel

Foreign Collaborator: Dr Miguel Lopez-Benitez- UK Partner- University of Liverpool

Funding Agency: DST-UKIERI Thematic Partnerships 2016-17 International Cooperation (Bilateral)

Project Fund: 1,20,00,000 INR

Status: Completed (2017-2020)

Duration: 3 Years

Project # [6]

Title: Design and Performance Analysis of Non-parametric Detection Algorithm for Cognitive Radio- MIMO Communications

Principal Investigator: Dhaval K. Patel

Funding Agency: DST-Gujarat Council on Science and Technology

Project Fund: 4,30,000 INR

Status: Completed (2016-2019)

Duration: 2 Years

Journal Articles (IEEE / IET / Springer Transactions/Journals):

[J21] K. S. Joshi, Dhaval K. Patel, S. Thakker, M. López-Benítez and J. J. Lehtomäki, ”Influence of Red Blood Cells on Channel Characterization in Cylindrical Vasculature,” in IEEE Transactions on NanoBioscience, doi: 10.1109/TNB.2024.3436022.

[J20] K. D. Shah, Dhaval K. Patel, M. P. Thaker, H. A. Patel, M. J. Saikia and B. J. Ranger, EMED-UNet: An Efficient Multi-Encoder-Decoder Based UNet for Medical Image Segmentation, in IEEE Access, vol. 11, pp. 95253-95266, 2023, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3309158.

[J19] Y. Kakkad, Dhaval K. Patel, S. Sun and M. Lopez-Benitez, Optimal 3GPP Fairness Parameters in 5G NR Unlicensed (NR-U) and Wi-Fi Coexistence, in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 72, no. 4, pp. 5373-5377, April 2023, doi: 10.1109/TVT.2022.3222964.

[J18] S. Kavaiya, Dhaval K. Patel, Restricting passive attacks in 6G vehicular networks: a physical layer security perspective, Springer Wireless Networks , no. 29, 1355-1365 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11276-022-03189-1.

[J17] B. Soni, Dhaval K. Patel, S. B. Shah, M. Lopez-Benitez and S. Govindasamy, PU-DetNet: Deep Unfolding Aided Smart Sensing Framework for Cognitive Radio, in IEEE Access, vol. 10, pp. 98737-98751, 2022, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3206814.

[J16] B. Soni, Dhaval K. Patel, S. Kavaiya, Z. Ding, Y. L. Guan and S. Sun, On Sensing Performance of Multi-Antenna Mobile Cognitive Radio Conditioned on Primary User Activity Statistics, in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 21, no. 5, pp. 3381-3394, May 2022, doi: 10.1109/TWC.2021.3121130.

[J15] Dhaval K. Patel, S. Kavaiya, Z. Ding, Y. L. Guan and S. Sun, Impact of Primary User Activity Statistics in Cognitive Vehicular Networks, in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 71, no. 3, pp. 2859-2873, March 2022, doi: 10.1109/TVT.2021.3138253.

[J14] Dhaval K. Patel, Hetal Shah, Z. Ding, Y. L. Guan and S. Sun, Performance Analysis of NOMA in Vehicular Communications over i.n.i.d Nakagami−???? Fading Channels, in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, doi: 10.1109/TWC.2021.3073050.

[J13] S. Kavaiya, Dhaval K. Patel, Z. Ding, Y. L. Guan and S. Sun, Physical Layer Security in Cognitive Vehicular Networks, in IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 69, no. 4, pp. 2557-2569, April 2021, doi: 10.1109/TCOMM.2020.3038904.

[J12] Dhaval K. Patel, M. Lopez-Benitez, B. Soni, and A. F. Garcia-Fernandez, Artificial Neural Network Design for Improved Spectrum Sensing in Cognitive Radio, Springer Wireless Networks, vol. 26, no. 8, pp. 6155-6174, 2020.

[J11] Brijesh Soni, Dhaval K. Patel, and M. Lopez-Benitez, Long Short-Term Memory based Spectrum Sensing Scheme for Cognitive Radio using Primary Activity Statistics, IEEE Access, vol. 8, pp. 97437-97451, May 2020, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2995633.

[J10] Sagar Kavaiya, Dhaval K. Patel, Y. L. Guan, S. Sun, Y. C. Chang and J. M. Lim, On the Energy Detection Performance of Multiantenna Correlated Receiver for Vehicular Communication using MGF Approach, IET Communications, vol. 14, pp. 1858-1868, July 2020, DOI:10.1049/iet-com.2019.1285.

[J9] O. H. Toma, M. Lopez-Benitez, Dhaval K. Patel and K. Umebayashi, Estimation of Primary Channel Activity Statistics in Cognitive Radio Based on Imperfect Spectrum Sensing, IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 68, no. 4, pp. 2016-2031, April 2020, doi: 10.1109/TCOMM.2020.2965944.

[J8] Dhaval K. Patel, Brijesh Soni, and M. Lopez-Benitez, Improved likelihood ratio statistic based cooperative spectrum sensing for cognitive radio, IET Communications, pp. 1-12, Dec. 2019, doi: 10.1049/iet-com.2019.0862.

[J7] Dhaval K. Patel, Brijesh Soni, and M. Lopez-Benitez, On the estimation of primary user activity statistics for long and short time scale models in cognitive radio, Springer Wireless Networks, pp. 1-13, August 2019.

[J6] Sagar Kavaiya, Dhaval K. Patel, Yong Liang Guan, Sumei Sun, Yoong Choon Chang and Joanne Mun-Yee Lim, On the Energy Detection Performance of Arbitrarily Correlated Dual Antenna Receiver for Vehicular Communication, IEEE Communication Letters, vol. 23, no. 7, pp. 1186-1189, July 2019, doi: 10.1109/LCOMM.2019.2916317.

[J5] M. Lopez-Benitez, A. Al-Tahmeesschi, Dhaval K. Patel, J. Lehtomäki and K. Umebayashi, Estimation of Primary Channel Activity Statistics in Cognitive Radio Based on Periodic Spectrum Sensing Observations, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 983-996, Feb. 2019, doi: 10.1109/TWC.2018.2887258.

[J4] Ahmed Al-Tahmeesschi, M. Lopez-Benitez, Dhaval K. Patel, Janne Lehtomäki and Kenta Umbayashi, On the Sample Size for the Estimation of Primary Activity Statistics Based on Spectrum Sensing, IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communication and Networking, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 59-72, March 2019, doi: 10.1109/TCCN.2018.2874456.

[J3] Ahmed Al-Tahmeesschi, M. Lopez-Benitez, Valerio Selis, Dhaval K. Patel and Kenta Umbayashi, Cooperative Estimation of Primary Traffic under Imperfect Spectrum Sensing and Byzantine Attacks, IEEE Access, vol. 6, pp. 61651-61664, 2018, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2876223.

[J2] Dhaval K. Patel and Y. N. Trivedi, Goodness-of-fit-based non-parametric spectrum sensing under Middleton noise for cognitive radio, IET Electronics Letters, vol. 51, no. 5, pp. 419-421, March 2015.

[J1] Dhaval K. Patel and Y. N. Trivedi, Non-parametric Blind Spectrum Sensing based on Censored Observations for Cognitive Radio, Springer Journal of Signal Processing Systems, vol. 78, no. 3, pp. 275-281, March 2015.

IEEE International Conference/Workshop Articles:

[C50] P. Patel, Dhaval K. Patel, ”Smart Sensing Framework Using Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks for Enhanced Detection in 5G Environments,” 2025 17th International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS 2025), Bengaluru, India, 2025. [Accepted for presentation @Chancery Pavilion, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India during Jan 6-10, 2025]

[C49] K. Kanzariya, Dhaval K. Patel, ”Optimized UAV Trajectory Design within Multi-Charging Station Scenario in the ISAC Framework,” 2025 17th International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS 2025), Bengaluru, India, 2025. [Accepted for presentation @Chancery Pavilion, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India during Jan 6-10, 2025]

[C48] A. Patel, Dhaval K. Patel, ”Improving VR Performance in WiFi-6 using Deep Reinforcement Learning based Spatial Reuse,” 2025 17th International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS 2025), Bengaluru, India, 2025 [Accepted for presentation @Chancery Pavilion, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India during Jan 6-10, 2025]

[C47] R. Dave, Dhaval K. Patel, ”Efficient Human Activity Recognition using Deep Unfolding in 802.11bf Wi-Fi Sensing,” 2025 17th International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS 2025), Bengaluru, India, 2025. [Accepted for presentation @Chancery Pavilion, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India during Jan 6-10, 2025]

[C46] S. Thakker, Dhaval K. Patel, K. Kalaria, M. López-Benítez and J. J. Lehtomäki, ”Modeling of Cognitive Mobile Molecular Communication in a Biological Microfluidic Cylindrical Channel,” 2024 IEEE Region 10 Symposium (TENSYMP 2024), New Delhi, India, 2024, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/TENSYMP61132.2024.10752153.

[C45] O. B. Makadia, Dhaval K. Patel, Mehul S. Raval, Mukesh Zaveri, and Shabbir N. Merchant, ”Enhancing 6G mmWave Beam Prediction in V2I with Class Imbalance Mitigation,” 2024 IEEE 35th International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC-2024), Valencia, Spain. [Accepted and Presented at the conference held on 2–5 September 2024]

[C44] Sagar Bajaj, Dhaval K. Patel, Mehul S. Raval, Mukesh Zaveri, and Shabbir N. Merchant, ”VisionReli6G: Enhancing 6G Wireless Reliability with CNN-LSTM for LOS Blockage Prediction,” in 2024 16th International Conference on Contemporary Computing (IC3-2024), Noida, India. [Accepted and Presented at the conference]

[C43] K. D. Shah, Dhaval K. Patel, M. S. Raval, M. Zaveri, and S. N. Merchant, ”Deep RL-Based Smart Signaling Using Space-Time Vehicular Features Under C-V2X Scenario,” 2024 16th International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS 2024) - Workshop on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), Bengaluru, India, 2024, pp. 240-245, doi: 10.1109/COMSNETS59351.2024.10427232.

[C42] O. B. Makadia, Dhaval K. Patel, K. D. Shah, M. S. Raval, M. Zaveri, and S. N. Merchant, ”Millimeter-Wave Vehicle-to-Infrastructure Communications for Autonomous Vehicles: Location-Aided Beam Forecasting in 6G,” 2024 16th International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS 2024) - Workshop on Connected Vehicles & Autonomous Driving (CVAD), Bengaluru, India, 2024, pp.1100-1105, doi: 10.1109/COMSNETS59351.2024.10427300.

[C41] H. R. Nagrani, Dhaval K. Patel, K. D. Shah, H. A. Patel, and M. J. Saikia, ”Facial Expression Recognition using Convolutional Neural Network through Region-based Patch Generation: Harnessing Subtle Facial Cues,” 2023 International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA 2023), Jacksonville, FL, USA, 2023, pp. 973-979, doi: 10.1109/ICMLA58977.2023.00144.

[C40] B. Soni, S. Govindasamy, and Dhaval K. Patel, ”Rate Forecaster based Energy Aware Band Assignment in Multiband Networks,” 2023 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2023), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2023, pp. 6723-6728, doi: 10.1109/GLOBECOM54140.2023.10437500.

[C39] F. N. Shah, Dhaval K. Patel, K. D. Shah, M. S. Raval, M. Zaveri, and S. N. Merchant, Novel Crash Prevention Framework for C-V2X using Deep Learning, in IEEE 15th International Conference on COMmunication Systems and NETworkS (COMSNETS 2023) - Workshop on Connected Vehicles & Autonomous Driving (CVAD). (Received Best Paper Award)

[C38] S. Kavaiya, Dhaval K. Patel, M. S. Raval, M. Zaveri, and S. N. Merchant, VeCEn: A Data Acquisition Framework for Heterogeneous Vehicular Networks in IEEE 15th International Conference on COMmunication Systems and NETworkS (COMSNETS 2023) - CVAD Workshop.

[C37] B. Soni, S. Govindasamy, and Dhaval K. Patel, ”Deep Learning aided Energy Efficient Band Assignment in Multiband Heterogeneous Networks,” 2023 IEEE 20th Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC 2023), Las Vegas, NV, USA, 2023, pp. 690-691, doi: 10.1109/CCNC51644.2023.10060279.

[C36] K. D. Shah, Dhaval K. Patel, H. A. Patel, and H. R. Nagrani, EMED-UNet: An Efficient Multi-Encoder-Decoder Based UNet for Chest X-ray Segmentation, IEEE Region 10 Symposium (TENSYMP 2022), July 2022, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/TENSYMP54529.2022.9864556.

[C35] V. Thakore, Dhaval K. Patel, and M. Lopez-Benitez, Prognosis of Infection Spread Deploying Internet of Bio-NanoThings, IEEE Region 10 Symposium (TENSYMP 2022), July 2022, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/TENSYMP54529.2022.9864459.

[C34] H. A. Patel, Dhaval K. Patel, K. D. Shah, and H. R. Nagrani, SplitGlass: A Splitting Based Deep Network for Efficient Human Pose Estimation, in IEEE Region 10 Symposium (TENSYMP 2022), July 2022, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/TENSYMP54529.2022.9864481. 

[C33] S. Thakker, Dhaval K. Patel, K. S. Joshi, and M. Lopez-Benitez, Modelling the Impact of Multiple Pro-inflammatory Cytokines Using Molecular Communication, in IEEE 28th National Conference on Communications (NCC 2022), May 2022, pp. 291-296, doi: 10.1109/NCC55593.2022.9806804.

[C32] S. Kavaiya and Dhaval K. Patel, On the Performance of an Improved Energy Detector over Shadow Fading Channels for Vehicular Networks in IEEE 14th International Conference on COMmunication Systems and NETworkS (COMSNETS 2022), January 3-8, 2022, pp. 275-279, doi: 10.1109/COMSNETS53615.2022.9668367.

[C31] S. Shah, Dhaval K. Patel, B. Soni, M. Lopez-Benitez, and S. Kavaiya, Impact of Mobility on the Estimation of Primary Channel Activity Statistics in IEEE 94th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC-Fall 2021), September 27-30, 2021, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/VTC2021-Fall52928.2021.9625533. 

[C30] S. Shah, Dhaval K. Patel, B. Soni, M. Lopez-Benitez, and S. Kavaiya, Weighted Cooperative Spectrum Sensing for Cognitive Vehicular Networks in IEEE 94th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC-Fall 2021), September 27-30, 2021, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/VTC2021-Fall52928.2021.9625533.

[C29] B. Soni, Dhaval K. Patel, S. Kavaiya, M. O. Hasna, and M. Lopez-Benitez, On Physical Layer Security of Correlated Multiantenna Cognitive Radio Receivers in IEEE 27th National Conference on Communications at IIT-Kanpur (NCC 2021), July 27-30, 2021, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/NCC52529.2021.9530195.

[C28] S. Kavaiya, Dhaval K. Patel, Y. L. Guan, S. Sun, Y. C. Chang, and J. M.-Y. Lim, Distributed Spectrum Sensing for Cognitive Vehicular Networks using Quasi-Newton Optimization, in IEEE 13th International Conference on COMmunication Systems and NETworkS (COMSNETS 2021), January 5-9, 2021 at Bengaluru, India. 

[C27] Bhargav P. Patel, Dhaval K. Patel, B. Soni, M. Lopez-Benitez, and S. Kavaiya, LSTM Autoencoder aided Estimation of Primary Activity Statistics under Imperfect Sensing, in IEEE 13th International Conference on COMmunication Systems and NETworkS (COMSNETS 2021), January 5-9, 2021 at Bengaluru, India. 

[C26] Dhaval K. Patel, B. Soni, Y. L. Guan, S. Sun, Y. C. Chang, and J. M.-Y. Lim, Performance Analysis of Arbitrary Correlated Multiantenna Receiver for Mobile Cognitive User, in IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2020), December 2020, Taipei, Taiwan.

[C25] Shweta Thakur, Dhaval K. Patel, Brijesh Soni, Mehul Raval, and Sanjay Chaudhary, Prediction for the Second Wave of COVID-19 in India, Springer Eighth International Conference on Big Data Analytics (BDA 2020), December 15-18, 2020, Ashoka University, Sonipat, India.

[C24] O. H. Toma, M. López-Benítez, and Dhaval K. Patel, Analysis of the Sample Size Required for an Accurate Estimation of Primary Channel Activity Statistics Under Imperfect Spectrum Sensing, in IEEE 31st Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC 2020), 2020, pp. 1-6.

[C23] S. Kavaiya, Dhaval K. Patel, Y. L. Guan, S. Sun, Y. C. Chang, and J. M.-Y. Lim, On Physical Layer Security Over ???? − ???? − ???? − ???? Fading for Relay-Based Vehicular Networks, in International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications (SPCOM 2020), IISc Bangalore, 2020, pp. 1-5.

[C22] O. H. Toma, M. López-Benítez, Dhaval K. Patel, and K. Umebayashi, Reconstruction Algorithm for Primary Channel Statistics Estimation Under Imperfect Spectrum Sensing, Proceedings of the 18th IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2020), pp. 1-5, May 25-28, 2020. 

[C21] O. H. Toma, M. López-Benítez, Dhaval K. Patel, and K. Umebayashi, Methods for Fast Estimation of Primary Activity Statistics in Cognitive Radio Systems, Proceedings of the 18th IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2020), pp. 1-5, May 25-28, 2020.

[C20] M. López-Benítez, O. H. Toma, Dhaval K. Patel, and K. Umebayashi, Sample Size Analysis of Energy Detection Under Fading Channels, Proceedings of the 6th IEEE WCNC International Workshop on Smart Spectrum (IWSS 2020), pp. 1-6, May 25-28, 2020. 

[C19] M. López-Benítez, O. H. Toma, and Dhaval K. Patel, Mathematical Models for the Accuracy of the Estimated Distribution of Primary Activity Times in DSA, Proceedings of the 6th IEEE WCNC International Workshop on Smart Spectrum (IWSS 2020), pp. 1-5, May 25-28, 2020.

[C18] Brijesh Soni, Dhaval K. Patel, Y. L. Guan, S. Sun, Y. C. Chang, and J. M.-Y. Lim, Performance Analysis of NOMA Aided Cooperative Relaying Over ????-????-????-???? Fading Channels, Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth National Conference on Communications (NCC 2020), IIT Kharagpur, 2020, pp. 1-6. 

[C17] O. H. Toma, M. López-Benítez, Dhaval K. Patel, and K. Umebayashi, Primary Channel Duty Cycle Estimation Under Imperfect Spectrum Sensing Based on Mean Channel Periods, in 38th IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2019), Waikoloa, USA, pp. 1-6, December 2019.

[C16] J. M. Lim, Y. C. Chang, and Dhaval K. Patel, Cognitive Intelligence With Adaptive MAC Vehicular Ad-Hoc Network Optimization, 2020 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Information and Communication (ICAIIC 2020), Fukuoka, Japan, pp. 098-102, February 19-21, 2020. doi:10.1109/ICAIIC48513.2020.9065283

[C15] Nikhil Balwani, Dhaval K. Patel, Brijesh Soni, and M. López-Benítez, Long Short-Term Memory Based Spectrum Sensing Scheme for Cognitive Radio, Proceedings of the 30th IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC 2019), Turkey, pp. xx-xx, September 8, 2019.

[C14] Bansi Gajera, Dhaval K. Patel, Brijesh Soni, and M. López-Benítez, Performance Evaluation of Improved Energy Detection Under Signal and Noise Uncertainties in Cognitive Radio Networks, Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Signals and Systems (ICSigSys 2019), Bandung, Indonesia, pp. xx-xx, July 16-18, 2019.

[C13] Om Thakkar, Dhaval K. Patel, Y. L. Guan, S. Sun, Y. C. Chang, and J. M.-Y. Lim, On the Joint Impact of SU Mobility and PU Activity in Cognitive Vehicular Networks With Improved Energy Detection, Proceedings of the IEEE 89th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC 2019 Spring), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, pp. xx-xx, April 28-May 1, 2019.

[C12] M. López-Benítez and Dhaval K. Patel, Sigmoid Approximation to the Gaussian Q-function and Its Applications to Spectrum Sensing Analysis, Proceedings of the 17th IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2019), Marrakech, Morocco, pp. xx-xx, April 15-19, 2019.

[C11] M. López-Benítez, Janne Lehtomäki, Kenta Umebayashi, and Dhaval K. Patel, Accurate Noise Floor Calibration Based on Modified Expectation Maximisation of Gaussian Mixture, Proceedings of the 17th IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2019), Marrakech, Morocco, pp. xx-xx, April 15-19, 2019.

[C10] Bansi Gajera, Dhaval K. Patel, Brijesh Soni, and M. López-Benítez, Experimental Performance Evaluation of Improved Energy Detection Under Noise Uncertainty in Low SNR Regime, Proceedings of the 5th IEEE WCNC International Workshop on Smart Spectrum (IWSS 2019), Marrakech, Morocco, pp. xx-xx, April 15-19, 2019.

[C9] Shivam Raval, Dhaval K. Patel, and Miguel López-Benítez, Performance Analysis of Improved Energy Detection in Full Duplex Non-Time-Slotted Cognitive Radio, Proceedings of the IEEE 12????ℎ International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems (ANTS 2018), Indore, India, pp. xx-xx, December 16-19, 2018. 

[C8] Om Thakkar, Dhaval K. Patel, Shivam Raval, and Miguel López-Benítez, Performance Analysis of Selection Diversity Combining Using Improved Energy Detection, Proceedings of the IEEE 15????ℎ India Council International Conference (INDICON 2018), Coimbatore, India, pp. xx-xx, December 16-18, 2018. 

[C7] Kartik Patel, Dhaval K. Patel, Miguel López-Benítez, and S. Chaudhary, Distribution-free Spectrum Sensing for Full Duplex Cognitive Radio, Proceedings of the IEEE 88????ℎ Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC 2018 Fall), Chicago, USA, pp. 1-5, August 27-30, 2018. 

[C6] Miguel López-Benítez, A. Al-Tahmeesschi, and Dhaval K. Patel, Accurate Estimation of the Minimum Primary Channel Activity Time in Cognitive Radio Based on Periodic Spectrum Sensing Observations, Proceedings of the IEEE 15????ℎ European Wireless Conference (EW 2018), Catania, Italy, pp. 131-136, May 2-4, 2018.

[C5] Maunil Vyas, Dhaval K. Patel, and Miguel López-Benítez, Artificial Neural Network Based Hybrid Spectrum Sensing Scheme for Cognitive Radio, submitted to IEEE 28????ℎ Annual IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communication (PIMRC 2017), Montreal, Quebec, Canada, pp. 1-7, October 8-13, 2017. 

[C4] Mitul Panchal, Dhaval K. Patel, and Sanjay Chaudhary, Spectrum Occupancy Classification Using SVM-Radial Basis Function, submitted to Springer 12????ℎ EAI International Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks (CROWNCOM 2017), Lisbon, Portugal, pp. 112-127, September 20-21, 2017. 

[C3] Dhaval K. Patel and Y. N. Trivedi, LRS-????2 Based Non-Parametric Spectrum Sensing for Cognitive Radio, Springer EAI 11????ℎ International Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks (CROWNCOM 2016), pp. 330-341, May 2016.

[C2] Dhaval K. Patel, M. P. Patel and K. S. Patel, "Scalability Analysis in Wireless Sensor Network with LEACH Routing Protocol," 2011 International Conference on Computer and Management (CAMAN 2011), Wuhan, China, 2011, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/CAMAN.2011.5778808. 

[C1] Dhaval K. Patel, S. K. Shah, and M. P. Thakar, ’Performance Analysis of Reactive Routing Protocols with OSPF for IEEE 802.11s Wireless Mesh Network’, Springer Berlin Heidelberg - Series Communications in Computer and Information Science (CIS - 2010), vol. 70, pp. 276-280, January 2010.

• 2023: Received Best Paper Award, in IEEE 15th International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS 2023) - Workshop on Connected Vehicles & Autonomous Driving, Jan 3-8, 2023, Bengaluru - India. 
• 2021: Ahmedabad University - Chairman’s Award for Experiment to Advance Active Learning. The award was given on the 12th foundation day of Ahmedabad University on February 27, 2021
• 2020: Research paper “On the Physical Layer Security over Fading for Relay based Vehicular Networks” is nominated for the Best Paper Award Category SPCOM 2020 at Indian Institute of Science (IISC), Banglore, on July 20-23, 2020.
• 2019: Ahmedabad University - Charman's Award for outstanding research contributions. The award was given on the 10th foundation day of Ahmedabad University on February 26, 2019
• 2017: DST-UK Research Project Award at Brtish council - New Delhi
• 2016: International Travel Support (ITS) under young scientist category from SERB-DST to present a research paper in CROWNCOMM-2016
• 2015: Won the Best IEEE Signal Processing Society Chapter Award, Executive Committee Member- Treasurer Gujarat Section, across Asia R10 Region
• 2015: Elite Gold medal, Outstanding Performance with 91%, NPTEL MOOC Certification offered by IIT Kanpur on Principles of Modern CDMA/ MIMO/ OFDM Wireless Communications
• 2014: Achieved Second Prize, Best Presentation Award, Nonparametric Sensing using GoF technique, in TEQIP-II workshop on Mathematical Modeling for Scientist, Engineers, and Statistician at NIT, Surat during January 27-31, 2014
• 2011: Research Fellowship for 2011-2014, as Full Time Research Scholar, in Department of Electrical engineering, Institute of Technology, Nirma University
• 2010: Achieved First Prize in Research Paper Section, Wireless Technologies in Automation and Communication: WTAC 2010, organized by IETE, Baroda Center held on January 10, 2010, under the IETE chapter.
• 2009: Appreciation Certificate for Successfully organized A National Level Workshop on Wired and wireless Network on NS-2 under FEDORA Linux Platform for THREE days (Only hands-on) at CIT, EC Department, March 19-21, 2009 Changa 
• 2008: Achieved First Prize in Review Paper Section in Networking Technology and Applications: 2008, organized by IETE, Baroda Center held on April 20, 2008, under IETE chapter

• Probabilistic Graphical Models (B.Tech Sem. VII - ICT)

• Probability and Random Processes (B.Tech Sem. IV - ICT)

• Machine Learning

• Wireless Communications 

• Advanced Wireless Communications 

• Events Organised: 

  [2019]

  • Faculty Development Program on "Machine Learning for xG wireless Networks: Performance Analysis and Monte Carlo Simulations" (As a part of DST-ASEAN and DST-UKIERI Project) Organized by School of Engineering and Applied Science, Ahmedabad University, June 10-15, 2019 [FDP Website: https://ahduni.edu.in/seas/wireless-fdp2019/index.html  and  Registration Link: http://goo.gl/k7GFrz]

  [2018]

  • Faculty Development Program on "Advanced 5G Wireless Communications: Performance Analysis and Monte-Carlo Simulations" (As a part of DST-ASEAN and DST-UKIERI Project) Organized by School of Engineering and Applied Science, Ahmedabad University, June 18-23, 2018 [FDP Website: https://ahduni.edu.in/seas/wireless-fdp2018/ and  Registration Link: https://goo.gl/R6tu4m ]

  [2017]

  • Faculty Development Program on "Advanced Wireless Communications using USRP / GNURadio" (As a part of DST-UKIERI Project) Organized by School of Engineering and Applied Science, Ahmedabad University, August 16-20, 2017 [FDP Website: https://ahduni.edu.in/seas/wireless-fdp/index.html]

  [2016]

  • UG workshop on "Introduction to OFDM using N210" By Dr. Siddhartan Govindasamy from Olin School, MA, USA.

  International Journals (Reviewer):

  1. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications 
  2. IEEE Communication Letters
  3. Springer Wireless Personal Communications
  4. Springer Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, India Section A: Physical Sciences
  5. International Journal of Information system 

   International Conferences:

  1. INDICON'19
  2. WCNC'19
  3. PIMRC'18
  4. MALSIP'15: Springer LNEE Conference
  5. ARiEET'15:  Malaysia Technical Scientist Association, Bandung, Indonesia
  6. WCITCA: A World Congress on Information Technology, Hammamet, Tunisia
  7. TENSYMP: Industrial Internet Workshop (TPC Member), Gandhinagar
  8. ICCSEIT: International Conference on Computer supported Education and Information Technology, Kathmandu, Nepal
  9. NUiCONE: Nirma University International Conference on Engineering, Ahmedabad, India
  10. ICSPT: International Conference on Signal Processing and Telecommunications, Sousse, Tunisia
  11. ISSP:  International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Signal Processing, G.H.Patel College of Engineering, V.V.Nagar, India