Prakash Sahoo has over 7 years of experience in LTE product design and development. He has expertise in protocols like NAS, S1AP, RLC, PDCP and experience developing features for eNodeB including handover, ciphering, and self-organizing networks. Currently he is a technical leader at Airspan Networks leading a team developing solutions like call tracing and network optimization. Previously he held roles developing LTE solutions at Aricent and Nethawk and has experience in integration testing and addressing field issues.

1. PRAKASH SAHOO
901, Elite Tower, sec-10, Kharghar, Navi Mumbai - 410210
Mobile: 9599360920 E-mail: prakash.oit@gmail.com
Career Summary:
 Around 7 years of rich experience in various LTE product design and development.
 Experience in LTE eNodeB protocol stacks development using C/C++ specifically features like Radio admission,
Bearer admission, Handover, PDCP ciphering, Paging, C-DRX, SON NMM, ANR, Auto-PCI, L2/L3 KPI stats,
Code optimization and performance enhancement and various Exfo-Nethwak LTE protocol analyser
development.
 Experience in LTE L2/L3 protocols like NAS, S1AP, RRC, GTPV1/V2, RLC, PDCP, MAC etc.
 Knowledge of advanced level programming in C/C++ including thread synchronization multithreading, multi-processing,
concurrency and IPC mechanisms and exposure to OOPs in Linux & Windows environment.
 High level understanding of Hardware architecture of Broadcom board and Aricent EPC and call processing.
 Worked as individual contributor in earlier part of my career in Integration of Aricent L2-L3 stack on Broadcom eNodeB
board.
 Hands on experience in Integration testing, preparing test plan to validate the functionalities and features.
 Very strong in log analysis and debugging of field issues and customer issues.
 Now, performing the role of Technical Leader and leading a team of highly motivated team members, involved in
design and development of SON (Self-Organizing Network) and Call trace server.
 Rich onsite experience in design, development, acceptance testing, feature verification of eNodeB at various client
sites (CISCO, Contela, Quanta, Relience Jio).
 Ability to provide strong contribution as individual performer as well as a team leader as per project requirements.
 Own strong analytical approach for problem solving coupled with good leadership, interpersonal, presentation and
communication skills.
Professional Experience:
Company # (From March 2016 to till date)
Airspan Networks India Pvt Ltd.
Cyber One, Sector 30, Vashi, Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra 400703
Designation: Real Time Embedded Engineer
www.airspan.com
Company # (From Dec 2012 to March 2016)
Aricent Technologies
Electronic City, Plot 31, Sector 18. Gurgaon 122015
Designation: Sr. Software Engineer
www.aricent.com
Company # (From Jan 2010 to Dec 2012)
Nethawk Networks (EXFO-Nethawk)
Bhubaneswar, Orissa.
Designation: Software Developer
www.nethawk.fi
Education & Certifications:
 MCA with 91% from VSSUT (formerly UCE) Burla, Odisha (2007–2010)
 B.Sc. in physics from FM University
Technical Summary
 Programming: C, C++.
 Operating Systems: Linux and Windows
 Tools/Hardware familiar: Visual Studio, Bullseye, Valgrind, Coverity, Gcov,Code collaborator, PC lint, HP Quality
Centre, Bug zilla , Dev Tracker , SVN Tools, IBM clear case, Perforce, GDB, Broadcom eNodeB Board, QXDM
dongle, Nethawk M5 analyzers, TM-500 UE, Aricent EPC, Airspan eNodeBs (Harmony, Velocity) etc.
 Protocols: LTE NAS, S1AP, GTPV1, GTPV2, MAC, RLC, PDCP.

2. Project Profile
Company # (From March 2016 to till date)
Airspan Networks India Pvt Ltd
Cyber One, Sector 30, Vashi, Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra 400703
Designation: Real Time Embedded Engineer
www.airspan.com
Project #1 LTE small Cell Solution on eNodeB
Position/Role Real Time Embedded Engineer
Description  Scope of the project includes development of features like Call trace server, SON
ANR, Auto-PCI, L2/L3 KPI Stats, Fixing field issues and customer issues.
Responsibilities/Ta
sk
 Performing the role of Technical Leader and leading a team of highly motivated team
members, involved in design and development of various eNodeB features (Call
trace server, SON ANR, Auto-PCI, L2/L3 KPI Stats)
 Preparation and Execution of Test cases for different features/releases.
 Log analysis and debugging of field issues and customer issues.
 Major Clients are Reliance Jio, Sprint.
Platforms/tools/E C, C++,Perforce,Dev Tracker, Linux, Wireshark, GDB, QXDM dongle etc
Achievements Got the “Employee Of The Quarter” Award for extraordinary commitment, technical
excellence.
Company # (From December 2012 to March 2016)
Aricent Group
Electronic City, Plot 31, Sector 18. Gurgaon 122015
Designation: Sr. Software Engineer
www.aricent.com
Project #2 LTE Femto Cell Solution on eNodeB
Position/Role Senior Software Engineer
Description  Scope of the project includes development of complete LTE Femto cell Solution.
 It is a joint venture Integration project of Broadcom L1 and Aricent L2-L3 stack ,
Implemented on Broadcom Board with Broadcom L1and BSP L2,L3,OAM,RRM,
SON by Aricent Developed according to 3GPP release 9 specification
Responsibilities/Ta
sk
Integration of eNodeB framework layer2, layer3 with Broadcom board
(BCM61750/BCM61760) as per board architecture and functionalities, Performance
Enhancement and maintenance for support case and internal issues and implementation of
different features..
 Design and Integration of eNodeB framework with Broadcom board using C .
 Execution of Test cases for different features/releases.
 Client site Support for acceptance testing, feature verification etc.
 Travelled to Korea for the integration activity for around 3 month.
 Major Clients are CISCO, Contela, Quanta,
Platforms/tools/E C, Clearcase, Linux, Wireshark, GDB, QXDM dongle etc
Achievements Got the Team Award for extraordinary commitment, technical excellence during
integration of LTE eNodeB FDD release on broadcom61750.
Company # (From Jan 2010 to December 2012)
Nethawk Networks. (EXFO-Nethawk)
Idco Tower 2000, Bhubaneswar, Orissa.
Designation: Software Developer
www.exfo.com
Project #3 High Capacity BRIX HAWK DA for LTE
Position/Role Software Developer

3. Description Analyzer tool for LTE network works for X2, S1, S5, S8 interface which analyses large volume
of traffic at very high speed and further link all upper layer information to completely give
meaningful information for end user to store them to MySQL Database. Developed in LINUX
environment.
Responsibilities/T
ask
Development and support for S1AP and NAS layer and maintenance for support case and
internal issues.
Feature study and requirement understanding, Verification for feasibility analysis of the
requirement (with latest 3GPP specification), Initial design and, Implementation, Unit Testing,
Functional testing, Verification with trunk, Code optimization and Tuning and merging.
Platforms/tools C++, Linux, gdb, svn , and wireshark
Project #4 M5 Analyzer-Protocol Monitor and Call & Session Application
Position/Role Software Developer
Description Protocol Monitor and Call and session are applications in M5 analyzer-testing tool, it gives real
time online/offline analysis of network traffic across different wireless network entity fully
updated with latest wireless mobile technology (e.g. LTE, GPRS, GSM, UMTS).
Responsibilities/T
asks
Development of new features (Decoding of protocols and Establishment of control plane
signaling, with protocols like S1AP, GTPV2, NAS) and maintenance for support case and
internal issues.
Platforms/tools C++, Windows, Visual Studio 2010 , BullsEye, Valgrind, SVN
Personal Details:
D.O.B. : 22nd June 1985.
Sex : Male.
Marital Status : Single.
Nationality : Indian.
Language Proficiency : Oriya, Hindi, English.
I hereby declare that the above-mentioned information is correct up to my knowledge and I bear the responsibility for the
correctness of the above-mentioned particulars.
Date & Location (Prakash Sahoo)
22/10/2016