Other Specialized Laboratories

Other Specialized Laboratories


Apart from the centres described above, the following specialized laboratories have been established with a view to strengthen research and development in the respective areas:

  • Fiber Optics Infrastructure includes PC based instrumentation for characterization of optical fibers for communication, opto- electronic sources and detectors; facilities for development of point and distributed fiber optic sensors fiber optic communication kits, apart from computational facilities.
  • Process Control Infrastructure includes computer control of chemical engineering process such as distillation column, evaporator, heat exchangers and various types of reactors.
  • Flexible Manufacturing Systems: Infrastructure includes state of the art facilities for teaching, training research and development in the field of manufacturing systems, such as computer numerically controlled machining center and Robot for material handling, lathe and computational facilities.
Campus
Pilani
Division/Department
Pilani-Computer Sci & Information Sys

Software Defined Networking (SDN) Laboratory

Software Defined Networking (SDN) Laboratory

Research Areas

  • Hybrid Software Defined Networking
  • Software Defined Networking
  • SDN in Datacenters
  • SDN in Wireless Networks
  • Network Function Virtualization

Research Projects

Project Title: Design And Development of scalable and fault tolerant architecture of control Plane for Programmable Data Center Network.
Project Title: "Investigations into Issues in Deploying Software Defined Networks on Traditional Network Infrastructure" funded by BITS Additional Competitive New Faculty Grant. Duration 2 years. Funding 8.2 lacs. PI: Dr K Haribabu, Status: Completed
Project Title: Wireless Network Virtualization: IEEE 802.11 Test-Bed Implementation and wireless NIC virtualization PI: Vishal Gupta Total Funding: 8.50 Lakh Duration: 2 years [February 26, 2016 to February 25, 2018] Status: Completed
Project Title: Design and Implementation of Multi-model SDN Research Testbed for Scalable Hybrid Network PI: Prof. Rahul Banerjee Total Funding: INR 1 Crores. Duration : 3 years.
Project Title: Realization of Flexible and Scalable VANET using the principles of SDN and Network Virtualization PI: Dr. Ashutosh Bhatia, Duration: 2 years, Funding Agency: BITS Pilani, Total Funding: Rs. 2.00 Lakh, Status: completed on June-2018, Status: Completed
Project Title: Realization of Power Saving in Network Devices through SDN PI: Dr. Amit Dua, Duration: 1.1 years, Funding Agency: BITS Pilani, Total Funding: Rs. 1.25 Lakh, Status: Completed.

Networking Equipment available

S.No. Software/Equipment Qty.
1 Brocade 24 Port 1 GbE Switch 1
2 NetFPGA 1G CML (Part No.410-001-KIT) 4
3 CISCO 3550 Switch 1
4 HP Switch E3500-24G-PoE+YI (J9310A) 3
5 Catalyst WS-C2960 24 TC Switch CISCO 2
6 CISCO Switch Model NO.WS-C2960 24 Port 1
7 Juniper EX3300 48 Port 10/100/1000 Base T Switch 1
8 CISCO Nexus 9336PQ ACI Spine Switch 2
9 CISCO Nexus 9372TX NX-OS-Mode Switch 2
10 CISCO Nexus 3172TQ Switch 2
11 CISCO APIC-CLUSTER-M1(Servers) 3
12 Juniper SRX 240 Gateway 1
13 Computer Systems 17
Campus
Pilani
Division/Department
Pilani-Computer Sci & Information Sys

Web Intelligence & Social Computing Laboratory

Web Intelligence & Social Computing Laboratory

Lab Incharge : Prof. Yashvardhan Sharma / Prof. Vinti Agarwal
PhD Student Coordinator : Arti Jha, Stuti Chug, Sakshi, Vijay Kumari
Room Number : 6012 (New Academic Building)
Phone Number : +91-1596-25-5448

Facilities

The lab is well equipped with compute nodes having enough capability required for processing images, text and speech.

Campus
Pilani
Division/Department
Pilani-Computer Sci & Information Sys

Multimedia & HCI Laboratory

Multimedia & HCI Laboratory

Lab Incharge : Prof. Sundaresan Raman / Prof. Dhruv Kumar / Prof. Asish Bera
PhD. Student Coordinator: Syed Sameen Ahmad Rizvi, Trishna Paul, Divya Bhardwaj, Abhishek Vyas
Room Number : 6014-A (New Academic Building)
Phone Number : +91-1596-25-5450

Opportunity Available

  • Image processing
  • Machine Learning
  • Big Data
  • Cloud Computing
  • MOOC
  • Mobile Computing

Facilities

  • Cloud Testbed
  • SDN Testbed
  • Multimedia devices and softwares
Campus
Pilani
Division/Department
Pilani-Computer Sci & Information Sys

Advanced Data Analytics & Parallel Technologies Laboratory

Advanced Data Analytics & Parallel Technologies Laboratory

The Advanced Data Analytics and Parallel Technologies (ADAPT) Lab has been started in 2011 with the aim to disseminate high quality research in the area of Big Data Analytics. We primarily work in the research areas related to High Performance Computing and Data Mining, as stated above. Our articles have been published in various top tier conferences (IEEE Cluster, IEEE Big Data, IEEE/ACM/ASA DSAA, ICDCN, etc.) and journals. (See publications for complete list).

High Performance Computing Facilities

32 node cluster IBM x3250 M4 server, Intel Xeon Quad core 3.2 GHz Hyper Threaded Processor, 32 GB RAM, 2.2 TB HDD
16 node cluster HP Proliant DL 140, Two Intel Xeon dual core 2.92 GHz Processors, 16 GB RAM, 160 GB HDD
48-core SMP HP Proliant DL 580 gen8, Four Intel Xeon 12 core 2.29 GHz Hyper Threaded Processors, 192 GB RAM, 600 GB HDD
12-core SMP Dell PowerEdge T710, Two Intel Xeon Hex core 2.92 GHz Processors, 32 GB RAM, 2.2 TB HDD
NAS EMC2 VNXe 3100-Network Attached Storage Server - Capacity (36 TiB, Usable 21 TiB)
Software Intel Cluster Studio XE 2013
  Vampir 8.4 Trace Analyzer
  ROCKS Cluster Distribution
Campus
Pilani
Division/Department
Pilani-Computer Sci & Information Sys

Wearable, Pervasive & Networking Laboratory

Wearable, Pervasive & Networking Laboratory

Facilities

Lab Incharge : Prof. V.S. Shekhawat / Prof. Pratik Narang
PhD. Student Coordinator: Vikas Kumawat, Harshvardhan Singh Nirban, Neha Sangwan
Room Number : 6015 (New Academic Building)
Phone Number : +91-1596-25-5416

Project Name Description
BITS-LifeGuard A wearable computing project for saving human lives from road accidents caused due to reflex-degradation of the vehicular driver
Communicate A project involving IoT and HCI aimed at helping autism-affected children and young adults
Connect A project involving IoT and HCI aimed at developing solutions for the elderly people
FlexNet A project in the Software Defined Networking area aimed at help improved Fedearted Data Centre Networking
e-Attend A Biometric Identification-based Multi-utility Project with (e-Attend: the ongoing attendance marking / monitoring as one use case involving handhelds and fixed imaging devices based approaches)
Any-Learn An Open-edX-derived MOOC Platform Project to work as BITS Pilani's future platform for MOOC as well as SPOC offerings

Facilities

The lab is well equipped with the listed infrastructure to carry out the research projects.

  • Anextec pocket PC phone SP230
  • HP Compaq iPaq Pocket PC 6300 series
  • HP Compaq iPaq pocket PC 2000 series
  • HP Compaq tablet PC
  • IEEE 802.11b Access point D-Link 
  • Bluetooth USB Adaptors D-Link
  • Electronic Test Equipment (Oscilloscope -01, Function Generator-01, Power Supply-01, Digital Multimeter-01)
  • Nexus -10 physiological monitoring and feedback
  • Crossbow wireless sensor network kit
  • Microsoft XBOX Kinect Sensors 
  • Axis Wireless IP Cameras
  • Beagle Board
  • Bluetooth Ardino
  • NFC Reader
  • Belkin Wireless Adapter
  • Optoma Pico Pocket Projector
  • Samsung Galaxy Tab2
  • Apple Iphone 5
  • Apple Ipad
  • Intex Cloud y4 Mobile Phone
  • CISCO 2911K9 Router
  • D-Link Network Camera
  • D-Link DSR0-1000 N Wireless Router
  • Shimmer- Cardio Development Kit (with 3 ECG Sensors)
  • Shimmer- GPS Development Kit (with 3 GPS Sensors)
  • Shimmer- GSR Development Kit (with 3 GSR Sensors)
  • Shimmer- 9DOF Kinematic Sensor 
  • Shimmer- Span Platform
  • Shimmer- Sensor Compute Motes
  • NI Developer Suite
  • NI ELVIS II and Circuit Design Bundle
  • NI USB Multifunctional DAQ Device
  • LabView (NI-ELVIS-II, NI USB DAQ Device)
  • Raspberry Pi B+
  • Intel Galileo
Campus
Pilani
Division/Department
Pilani-Computer Sci & Information Sys

High Performance Computing Facilities

High Performance Computing Facilities

Facilities

Sr No

Equipment

Specification
1 32 node cluster IBM x3250 M4 server, Intel Xeon Quad core 3.2 GHz Hyper Threaded Processor, 32 GB RAM, 2.2 TB HDD
2 16 node cluster HP Proliant DL 140, Two Intel Xeon dual core 2.92 GHz Processors, 16 GB RAM, 160 GB HDD
3 48-core SMP HP Proliant DL 580 gen8, Four Intel Xeon 12 core 2.29 GHz Hyper Threaded Processors, 192 GB RAM, 600 GB HDD
4 12-core SMP Dell PowerEdge T710, Two Intel Xeon Hex core 2.92 GHz Processors, 32 GB RAM, 2.2 TB HDD
5 NAS EMC2 VNXe 3100-Network Attached Storage Server - Capacity (36 TiB, Usable 21 TiB)
6 Software Intel Cluster Studio XE 2013, Vampir 8.4 Trace Analyzer, ROCKS Cluster Distribution
Campus
Pilani
Division/Department
Pilani-Computer Sci & Information Sys