JOURNAL PAPER

1. Agrawal, Sandeep, Sridhar, V. (2025). Modelling and Analysis of Regulatory Interventions for Sustainable Public Wi-Fi programmes: Case of India. Journal of Telecommunications and the Digital Economy. Vol: 13, No: 4. https://doi.org/10.18080/jtde.v13n4.1287 

CONFERENCE PAPER

1. Agrawal, Sandeep Kumar, "Disaggregated and Federated Public Wi-Fi Network Architecture," 2026 IEEE Conference on Communication Systems and Networks, Bangalore, India (Accepted)

2. S. K. Agrawal, A. Thakur, P. Arumugam, S. K. A. Kumar, K. Singh and P. Mathur, "Rural Broadband Architecture For Efficient Service Delivery," 2024 IEEE Future Networks World Forum (FNWF), Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 2024, pp. 813-818, doi: 10.1109/FNWF63303.2024.11028747.

3. S. Dixit et al., "INGR Roadmap Connecting the Unconnected Chapter," 2023 IEEE Future Networks World Forum (FNWF), Baltimore, MD, USA, 2023, pp. 1-88, doi: 10.1109/FNWF58287.2023.10520445. 

4. S. Dixit et al., "INGR Roadmap Connecting the Unconnected Chapter," 2022 IEEE Future Networks World Forum (FNWF), Montreal, QC, Canada, 2022, pp. 1-75, doi: 10.1109/FNWF55208.2022.00134. 

5. K. Mathur, D. Jena, S. Agrawal, S. Baburaj, S. Kondabathini and V. Tyagi, "Throughput Improvement by Using Dynamic Channel Selection in 2.4GHz Band of IEEE 802.11 WLAN," 2018 Tenth International Conference on Ubiquitous and Future Networks (ICUFN), Prague, Czech Republic, 2018, pp. 805-810, doi: 10.1109/ICUFN.2018.8436954.

PRE-PRINT PAPER

1. Agrawal, Sandeep Kumar, PM-WANI Public Wi-Fi Program: Bridging the Access Layer gap in DPI Stack (July 24, 2025). Available at SSRN

2. Agrawal, Sandeep Kumar, A Qualitative Study of Adoption of Public Wi-Fi at the Time of Prevalent 4G in India (January 08, 2022). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5412107 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5412107 

WORKSHOP PAPER

1. Presented discussion paper on "PM-WANI Public Wi-Fi Program: Bridging the Access Layer gap in DPI Stack" during "Unpacking the sociotechnical imaginaries of Digital Public Infrastructures (DPI)" workshop jointly organized by IIIT-Bangalore and University of Amsterdam 24-25 July 2025 at IIIT-Bangalore 

ARTICLES IN NEWSPAPER

1. Sridhar, V., Sandeep Kumar Agrawal. (19 Jun 2025).  Subsidy to public WiFi providers is justified. Business Line.

INDUSTRY PAPERS

1. Rural Wi-Fi Connectivity: Challenges, Use Cases and Case Studies (Nov, 2022) LINK

2. Wi-Fi Sensing A New Technology Emerges (Oct, 2019) LINK

CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION

1. Hosted a panel on "Bringing all networks together/Ubiquitous connectivity" as part of Standards Driven Research (SDR) workshop (THEME: “Marching towards 6G”) held on 10th Jan 2026 during COMSNETS 2026 

2. Attended "IEEE SA December 2025 Governance meeting (3rd to 7th Dec 2025) and IEEE SA Awards Ceremony (8th Dec 2025) at New Jersey, USA (In-person)

3. Co-Chaired IEEE Connecting the Unconnected (CTU) Summit 2025 (Co-located with IEEE FNWF 2025 conference at Bangalore India) held on 12th Nov 2025.

4. Participated in "Awareness about Strengthening Telecom Standardization in India" workshop organized by Telecommunication Engineering Center (TEC) and IEEE SA and presented on "Rural Broadband standards" on 11th Nov 2025 (Online)

5. Organized and moderated workshop on "Wi-Fi Empowering Rural Connectivity: Indian Case Studies - Celebrating World Wi-Fi Day" held on 21st Jun 2025.

Presentation LINK

Webinar Video LINK

6. Organized and moderated a panel on "DIITA By Design: Focusing on Last Mile Connectivity" held on 22nd Feb 2025.

STANDARDS & PARTICIPATION

1. IEEE SA

• Working Group Chair - IEEE SA "6G Rural Connectivity & Intelligent Village" Industry Connection Program

• Working Group Chair - IEEE SA P2872 "Interoperable and Secure Public Wi-Fi Architecture - ISAWANI"

• Working Group Vice-Chair - IEEE SA P2061 "Frugal 5G"

• Alternate Member - IEEE SA Government Engagement Program on Standards (GEPS)

• Participant Member - IEEE 802.11bc-2023 "Enhanced Broadcast standard"

• Voting/Aspirant Member - IEEE 802.11 Working Group

2. International Telecommunication Union (ITU)

   1. FG-CD-D2 - Best practices of cost assessment methodologies, regulatory and standardization aspects related to cost models for affordable data services LINK

   2. Supplement ITU-T L Suppl. 59 (11/2023) - ITU-T L.1700 series – Low-cost sustainable telecommunication solution in rural and remote areas using WLAN/Wi-Fi for conventional telecom services like voice calling using SIP LINK

3. Telecommunications Standards Development Society of India (TSDSI)

   1. TSDSI TR 6023 V1.0.0 Rural Broadband Services and Architecture LINK

4. Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA)

• Chair: IoT Working Group (2020-24)

• Project Lead: Rural Wi-Fi (2021-22)

• Project Co-Lead: Wi-Fi Sensing (2019-22)

PATENTS

1. AN OFF GROUND SYSTEM IN MID-AIR TO COVER INACCESSIBLE AREAS WITH WI-FI

IN 4310712, Issued May 1, 2023 

2. Method and System to broadcast Emergency Alert Message using IEEE 802.11 based Wi-Fi Access Point

IN 349781, Issued Mar 1, 2018 

3. Dynamic Channel Selection in IEEE 802.11 Networks

IN 323950, US 11224049 B2, Issued Aug 11, 2017 

AWARDS

1. IEEE SA Standards Medallion 2025

2. TSDSI Outstanding Technical Contribution Awards 2024 LINK