Research Interests

• Internet of Things and Sensor Networks
• Machine Learning and Data Science
• Distributed Algorithms for Wireless Sensor Networks
• Initial access and MAC protocols for Wireless Networks
• 5G/New Radio, URLLC and mMTC

• EE5302 Computer Networks
• EE8203 Design and Management of Data Networks
• EE4306 Engineering Electromagnetism
• EE6301 Communication Systems II

Peer Reviewed Journals

• T.N. Weerasinghe, V. Casares-Giner, I. A. M. Balapuwaduge, and F. Y. Li, “Priority Enabled Grant-Free Access with Dynamic Slot Allocation for Heterogeneous mMTC Traffic in 5G NR Networks”, IEEE Transactions on Communications, Jan. 2021. DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2021.3053990
• T.N. Weerasinghe, I. A. M. Balapuwaduge, and F. Y. Li,   Priority-based initial access for URLLC traffic in massive IoT networks: Schemes and performance analysis, Computer Networks, Volume 178. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comnet.2020.107360
• T.N. Weerasinghe, I. A. M. Balapuwaduge, and F. Y. Li, “Time-Space Domain Availability Analysis under Reliability Impairments,” IEEE Networking Letters, vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 103-106, Sep. 2019. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/LNET.2019.2916909

Indexed Peer Reviewed Full Length Conference Papers

• Søraa, T. N. Weerasinghe, I. A. M. Balapuwaduge, and F. Y. Li, “Preamble Transmission Prediction for mMTC Bursty Traffic: A Machine Learning based Approach”, in Proc. IEEE GLOBECOM, Taipei, Taiwan, Dec. 2020. DOI: 10.1109/GLOBECOM42002.2020.9322633
• T.N. Weerasinghe, I. A. M. Balapuwaduge, F. Y. Li and Vicente Casares-Giner, “MDP-based Resource Allocation for Uplink Grant-free Transmissions in 5G New Radio” in Proc. IEEE WCNC 2020, Seoul, South Korea, Apr. 2020. DOI: 10.1109/WCNC45663.2020.9120656
• T.N. Weerasinghe, I. A. M. Balapuwaduge, and F. Y. Li, “Preamble Reservation based Access for Grouped mMTC Devices with URLLC Requirements,” in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Shanghai, China, May 2019. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ICC.2019.8761430
• T.N. Weerasinghe, I. A. M. Balapuwaduge, and F. Y. Li, “Supervised Learning-based Arrival Prediction and Dynamic Preamble Allocation for Bursty Traffic,” Accepted, IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) Workshops, Paris, France, Apr.-May 2019.
• T.N. Weerasinghe, I. A. M. Balapuwaduge, and F. Y. Li, “Per-User Availability for Ultra-Reliable Communication in 5G: Concept and Analysis”, In Proceedings of IEEE WCNC, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, Apr. 2018. DOI: 10.1109/WCNC.2018.8377200
• Weerasinghe, Thilina Nuwan; Romero, Daniel; Asensio-Marco, César; Beferull-Lozano, Baltasar (2018). “Fast Distributed Subspace Projection via Graph Filters”. 2018 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP). ISBN: 978-1-5386-4658-8. IEEE conference proceedings. chapter. s 4639 – 4643.
• Ben Saad, Leila; Weerasinghe, Thilina Nuwan; Beferull-Lozano, Baltasar (2017). “Topology Design to Increase Network Lifetime in WSN for Graph Filtering in Consensus Processes”. 2017 25th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO). ISBN: 978-0-9928626-7-1. IEEE.
• Weerasinghe,Thilina Nuwan, Adaptive Backbone and Link Correlation based Data Transmission Schemes for Wireless Sensor Networks, MSc thesis, University of Agder, Norway, June. 2015.
• Weerasinghe, Thilina Nuwan; Kanyeshuli, Alexandre and Li, Frank Young . “Evaluation and Improvement of Collective Flooding in WSNs with Various Link Correlations”. 2015 IEEE 26th Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC). ISBN: 978-1-4673-6781-3. IEEE conference proceedings. 1244 – 1249