From Nepal
- Name
DAWADI Bikash - Country/ Region of Citizenship
Nepal
- Graduated from
Pokhara University
- Department
Department of Computer Science and Communications Engineering (Master’s)
Privately-financed student
Why did you choose Waseda University?
One of my best friends has been studying at Tokyo University and he inspired me to come to Japan. I was looking for an English-medium university in Japan and found Waseda. I found I can study my desired research subject, “wireless communication” here at Waseda. Now I know I made a right choice.
How did you get information for our program?
I got information mainly from the website. When I sent an inquiry mail to the University, it took 2-3 weeks until I receive a reply because it was around the vacation period but the communication with my professor went very smooth after the first mail conversation.
Did you have any concerns before coming to Japan?
Yes, I was a little bit worried about the payment of tuitions and I was worried about the language as well. I studied the Japanese language in Nepal for a month but it was just the basic HIRAGANA and KATAKANA.
Have you had any difficulties when you started a new life here?
Yes. Almost all the problems I had were related to language. I didn’t know which route I should take at a train station. I asked Japanese people around me but they couldn’t understand my English. They were very helpful and tried so hard to solve my problem even using their translation functions on their mobile phones. I also had a funny episode at a store. One day I went to Family Mart (convenience store) to buy some sugar for milk. They had salt and sugar on the same shelf but I could not read KANJI (Chinese Characters) at that time so I bought salt by mistake. It was funny I put salt in my milk and it got very salty! Now I can read KANJI so I can tell which one is Sugar or Salt!
How is your life in Japan and Waseda?
Very good. Very interesting. I am very happy and satisfied with my life here.
I can speak Japanese now and I understand people’s conversations. I do not have any problem at supermarkets, stores or anywhere. I think, once you know basic Japanese, Japan is a very good place to live. People in Japan are very helpful and I have many Japanese and International friends from all over the world. I took Japanese language classes and will be taking Japanese Language Proficiency Test N3 and N2 level. Learning Kanji is very challenging but I would like to try.
I live in an apartment so I usually cook for myself. It is easy to find Indian food or Halal food in Tokyo. Indian food and Nepalese food are very similar and the vegetables and fruits in Japan are almost the same as Nepal.
What do you do in your free time?
These days I became busy with my research but I used to play Football in Akabane. I met some Vietnamese guys in a park and they asked me “Do you like to play football?” and I answered “Yes, I do, I like football.” That’s how I joined the club!
Once I traveled to Mt. Fuji area and visited Fuji-Q High-land (amusement park). The Roller coasters there were amazing! If any of my friend in Nepal visit Japan, I definitely recommend them to try the wonderful rollercoaster.
How are the relationships with your supervisor and lab members?
Very good! There are about 30 lab members in my lab and most of them are international students so the main language in the lab is English. My supervisor is always very helpful about my research. The other day, we all were invited to the supervisor’s house for a BBQ party and had a good time together.
Outline of the research
My research is mainly focus on LPWAN technology, LPWAN is a low power wide area network,
where we can find the wide area of coverage by using very low power but a very low through
put. On talk about a coverage its coverage area is almost 13 to 17 times more then that of
normal base station i.e. one access point is able to cover more then that of 17 base
station. Where battery longitivtiy is about 10 years but its throughput is about Kbps speed some
time up to about Mbps rate. And there are different LPWAN technology like LORA(low range),
Sigfox , weightless, RPMA etc. RPMA is a Random Phase Multiple Access is almost similar to
that of CSMA/CA or CSMA/CD but when there is collision occurs the it randomly choose the
time frame or devices for re transmission of data so there is a minimum chance of collision and
successful transmission of data and which use a direct sequence spread spectrum method so
for this when there is large frame size smaller will be the delay and smaller frame size larger will
be the delay time this is the main theme of my research. The main applicable area of the RPMA
is daily utility metering system, like gas, water, electricity etc for smart parking smart home
smart city etc. In modern the the scope of the RPMA is so widely almost 38 private network use
this technology all over the world in in USA in 9 state is ongoing,and in Italy all over the nation it
will be run in this year i think this technology will be wide spread all over the world with in a few
years thats why I am researching in this topics.
What is your career goal after your degree completion?
Not decided yet but if I have the chance, I want to work at a company in Japan.
Short message to the prospective students
in English
It will be a golden opportunity for all incoming student to bright their future through the Waseda. The excellent faculty member, academic environment really helpful for everyone and if you want to practiclized your ability or skill every aspects of Waseda will in front of you and they will
support you. So please if you have a novel idea, want to explore some things, want to learn new thing and want a great opportunity please visit and join to Waseda.
in Nepali
सबर्प्रथम वासेदा िबश्वोिबधालय मा आउनु हुने सबै साथी हरुलाई िहर्दय देिख नै स्वागतम छ |सय वषर् भन्दा पुरानो अित राम्रो
सैिक्षक वाताबरण भयको उित्क्रस्ता प्रोफेसोर हरु अिन लगभग िबस्व को एक सय दस भन्दा बढी देस बाट आयका साथी
हरु को िबच मा तपाई ले आफु लाई पिन एक पाउनु अित खुिस को कुरा हुने छ | तपाईहरु संग भयको क्षमता लाई बािहर
प्रस्पुितथ गिर भिबस्स्य को खाका कोरी महत्तोपुणर् िदशा िदने काम वासेदा िबस्वोिबधालय बाट हुन सक्दछ | यहाँ बाट पढाई
सकेर जानु भयको र हाल अध्यन गिररहनु भयको साथी हरुको अनुसार वासेदा जापान मा मात्र नभयर िबस्वो मा नै एक
उित्क्रस्ता िबस्वोिबधालय हो |तेसैले तपाई हरु पिन िढला नगनुर् होस् हामी हरु तपाई हरु लाई स्वागत गनर् आतुर छौ |
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