Sangram Keshari Nayak presented a technical seminar on W-CDMA at the National Institute of Science and Technology. W-CDMA stands for Wideband Code Division Multiple Access, which is a 3G network that uses a 5MHz carrier spectrum and has higher capacity than previous networks. The presentation covered topics such as how CDMA works, the differences between CDMA variants, W-CDMA characteristics and parameters, design issues like turbo coding and interference cancellation, the WCDMA system, radio network functionality including power control and soft handover, and upgrading from GSM to WCDMA networks.