Senior Lecturer (Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering)
Chamitha de Alwis (Senior Member, IEEE) is a Senior Lecturer/Founder Head of Department in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka. He also provides consultancy services for telecommunication related projects and activities. He received the B.Sc. degree (First Class Hons.) in Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering from the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, in 2009, and the Ph.D. degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Surrey, United Kingdom, in 2014. He has published over 20 peer-reviewed articles, contributed to various national and international projects related to ICT, and served as a guest editor, reviewer, and TPC member in several international journals and conferences. He has also worked as a Consultant to the Telecommunication Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka, an Advisor in IT Services in the University of Surrey, United Kingdom, and a Radio Network Planning and Optimization Engineer in Mobitel, Sri Lanka.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
5G, 6G, IoT, Blockchain, and Network Security
ACHIEVEMENTS
Merit Award for Scientific Publication from National Research Council of Sri Lanka (NRC) in 2015.
Lord Hirst Scholarship from Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) in 2012.
Post Graduate Research Scholarship from Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing, University of Surrey in 2010.
Please refer to the link below to get an up-to-date list of publications.
https://sites.google.com/view/
JOURNAL PAPERS (06)
C. Yapa, C. de Alwis, M. Liyanage, “Can Blockchain Strengthen the Energy Internet?,” MDPI Network, vol. 1, pp.95-115, 2021.
C. De Alwis, A. Kalla, Q.V. Pham, P. Kumar, K. Dev, W.J. Hwang, and M. Liyanage, “Survey on 6G frontiers: Trends, applications, requirements, technologies and future research,” IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, 2021.
K. K. Munasinghe, M. N. Dharmaweera, U. L. Wijewardhana, C. De Alwis, and R. Parthiban, “Joint minimization of spectrum and power inimpairment-aware elastic optical networks,” IEEE Access, vol. 9, pp.43 349–43 363, 2021.
Y. Siriwardhana, C. De Alwis, G. Gur, M. Ylianttila, and M. Liyanage, “The fight against Covid-19 pandemic with 5G technologies, ” IEEE Engineering Management Review, 2020.
M. Alreshoodi, E. Danish, J. Woods, A. Fernando, and C. De Alwis, “Prediction of perceptual quality for mobile video using fuzzy inference systems, ” IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, vol. 61, no. 4,pp. 546–554, 2015.
E. Danish, V. De Silva, A. Fernando, C. De Alwis, and A. Kondoz, “Content-aware resource allocation in ofdm systems for energy-efficient video transmission, ” IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electron-ics, vol. 60, no. 3, pp. 320–328, 2014.
CONFERENCE PAPERS (15)
A. Saputhanthri, C. De Alwis, and M. Liyanage, “Emergence of blockchain based iot marketplaces,” in Joint European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC) & 6G Summit, 2021.
D. P. Jayasuriya, A. Ahamed, S. Udari, C. de Alwis, “Monitoring and Learning of Plant Growth and Health for Effective Supply of Water, Nutrients and Pesticides in Large Scale Plantations”, in 27th Annual Technical Conference of IET Sri Lanka Network, 2020, pp. 56–61.
K. Munasinghe, M. N. Dharmaweera, C. de Alwis, and U. Wijeward-hana, “Novel impairment-aware resource allocation scheme for elasticoptical networks serving traffic with different service priorities,” in 2019 14th Conference on Industrial and Information Systems (ICIIS). IEEE, 2019, pp. 308–313.
U. B. Balagalla, S. Sivanatham, K. Munasinghe, A. Subasinghe, C. de Alwis, U. Wijewardhana, and M. N. Dharmaweera, “Efficient medical video streaming by pre-processing and network traffic prioritization in real-time,” in 2019 International Conference on Advanced Technologies for Communications (ATC). IEEE, 2019, pp. 123–128.
M. Munasinghe, M. Dharmaweera, C. de Alwis, and U. Wijewardhana,“Novel service-priority-aware resource allocation scheme for elasticoptical networks,” in 26th Annual Technical Conference of IET Sri Lanka Network, 2019, pp. 104–108.
B. Balagalla, S. Subasinghe, and C. De Alwis, “A review on ultrasound image pre-processing, segmentation and compression for enhanced im-age storage and transmission,” 2018.
M. Alreshoodi, E. Danish, J. Woods, A. Fernando, and C. De Alwis, “Prediction of perceptual quality for mobile 3D video using fuzzy inference systems,” in 2015 IEEE International Conference on ConsumerElectronics (ICCE), 2015, pp. 130–131.
C. de Alwis, H. K. Arachchi, A. Fernando, and M. Pourazad, “Content and network-aware multicast over wireless networks,” in10th International Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness. IEEE, 2014, pp. 122–128.
C. de Alwis, H. K. Arachchi, A. Fernando, V. De Silva, E. Danish, and A. Kondoz, “On the multicast of delay sensitive data in erasure networks using practical network coding,” in 2014 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE). IEEE, 2014, pp. 470–471.
E. Danish, V. De Silva, A. Fernando, C. De Alwis, and A. Kondoz,“Content aware resource allocation in OFDM systems for energy efficientvideo transmission,” in 2014 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE), 2014, pp. 456–457.
I. Politis, V. De Silva, S. Dogan, C. De Alwis, T. Dagiuklas, and A. M.Kondoz, “Objective measurement of transmission losses and compres-sion artefacts in stereoscopic 3d video,” in 2013 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC). IEEE, 2013, pp.667–671.
C. de Alwis, V. De Silva, H. K. Arachchi, A. Fernando, and A. Kondoz, “Network coding for error resilient transmission of stereoscopic 3d video,” in 2013 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC). IEEE, 2013, pp. 607–611.
C. de Alwis, H. K. Arachchi, A. Fernando, and A. Kondoz, “Towards minimising the coefficient vector overhead in random linear networkcoding,” in 2013 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing. IEEE, 2013, pp. 5127–5131.
C. de Alwis, H. K. Arachchi, V. De Silva, A. Fernando, and A. Kondoz, “Robust video communication using random linear network coding with pre-coding and interleaving,” in 2012 19th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing. IEEE, 2012, pp. 2269–2272.
C. Rupasinghe, D. Gamage, C. De Alwis, M. Mufthas, and R. Dabarera, “Using adaptive fuzzy systems for controlling dengue epidemic in sri lanka,” in 2010 Fifth International Conference on Information and Automation for Sustainability. IEEE, 2010, pp. 459–462.
ABSTRACTS (02)
S. Sivapatham, C. de Alwis, M. Dharmaweera, and U. Wijewardhana, “Efficient ultrasound video streaming using hevc,” 2018.
A. Subasinghe and C. de Alwis, “Smart streaming of sonography video: A concept,” 2015.
PRESENTATIONS (03)
What is 5G and How it will Change our Lives at 2nd International Scientific and Vocational Studies Congress, Nevsehir, Turkey, 2018.
Expanding Cloud based Services among SMEs in Sri Lanka at ITU-TRCSL Symposium on Cloud Computing, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 2015.
Mobile Cloud Computing at ITU-TRCSL Symposium on Cloud Computing, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 2015.
POSTERS (03)
On the multicast of delay sensitive data in erasure networks using practical network coding, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, 2014.
Towards minimising the coefficient vector overhead in random linear networkcoding, Vancouver, Canada, 2013.
Robust video communication using random linear network coding with pre-coding and interleaving, Orlando, Florida, USA, 2012.
NEWS PAPER ARTICLES (01)
Fifth Generation 5G at Your Fingertips Soon in Dailymirror, Sri Lanka, 2019.
Please refer to the link below to get an up-to-date list of projects.
https://sites.google.com/view/
Develop a COVID-19 Self-Quarantine Monitoring and Tracking Platform – University Grants Commission, Sri Lanka funded Research Project
Develop an IoT Based Solutions for Smart Water Meters – In collaboration with Mobitel (Pvt) Ltd. Sri Lanka
Design, Analysis, and Optimization of Next Generation Fiber Optic National Backbone Networks – National Research Council of Sri Lanka funded Research Project
ACTION-TV – EU Seventh Framework Program (Grant number: 611761)
MUSCADE – EU Seventh Framework Program (Project ID: 247010)
3D-ConTourNet – EU Framework Program Horizon 2020 (ICT COST Action IC1105)
PhD Students
Ms. Charithri Nanayakkara
Mr. Amila Saputhanthri
MPhil Students
Ms. Sayansi Sivapatham
Ms. Umaya Balagalla
Ms. Kusala Munasinghe
Dr. C. de Alwis,
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering,
University of Sri Jayewardenepura
chamitha[at]sjp.ac.lk