{"title":"A Cognitive Opportunistic Fractional Frequency Reuse Scheme for OFDMA Uplinks","authors":"S. Boddu, Venkata Sudhakar Reddy Bandi","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2018.8600138","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2018.8600138","url":null,"abstract":"Inter Cell Interference (ICI) is an important issue to address in 4G Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) and beyond networks since it limits capacity. Fractional Frequency Reuse (FFR) scheme is one of the schemes suggested in the literature to mitigate ICI. However, it is important that the schemes should adapt to changing traffic load, otherwise, this will lead to spectrum underutilization and spectrum scarcity problems in cellular networks. We propose the cognitive based FFR for uplink that uses spectrum opportunistically. The proposed scheme allows the base stations to take the decisions autonomously while allocating spectrum to cell edge users hence the cell edge performance is improved. From the results, it is seen that the proposed scheme increases the spectral efficiency and blocking probability performance of cell edge users when compared against the existing FFR scheme for both realistic (irregular) and unrealistic (regular) cellular layouts.","PeriodicalId":121544,"journal":{"name":"2018 Twenty Fourth National Conference on Communications (NCC)","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114483309","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Generation of Perfectly DC Balanced Codes for Visible Light Communications","authors":"T. Uday, Abhinav Kumar, L. Natarajan","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2018.8600070","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2018.8600070","url":null,"abstract":"In visible light communications (VLC), direct current (DC) level balancing is important to maintain constant illumination while the LEDs are being used for communication. In this paper, given codeword length of $n$ bits, we provide a relationship between maximum possible input bits, $k$, and $n$ for a perfectly DC balanced $kb/nb$ code. We propose an algorithm to generate the code book of these perfectly DC balanced codes that avoid flickering and maintain consistency in the brightness. The performance of the proposed codes is compared with several existing codes in terms of code rate, Hamming distance, frame error rate (FER), and bit error rate (BER). The numerical results show that the proposed codes provide perfect DC balance and perform better in terms of minimum Hamming distance, FER, and BER without significant loss in code rate. Further, we derive a lower bound on average Hamming distance for the proposed perfectly DC balanced codes for VLC.","PeriodicalId":121544,"journal":{"name":"2018 Twenty Fourth National Conference on Communications (NCC)","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125615842","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Grouping Subarray for Robust Estimation of Direction of Arrival","authors":"Tejaswini Dudyala, Srivally Munnangi, S. Mani","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2018.8600083","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2018.8600083","url":null,"abstract":"Multiple Signal Classification (MUSIC), Steered Response Power-PHAse Transform (SRP-PHAT) and Generalized Cross Correlation (GCC) are the well known techniques for Direction of Arrival (DoA) estimation, using microphone array. However, in real time scenarios, these techniques encounter limitations such as computational complexity and thresholding difficulties. In this paper, a novel and robust method is introduced in which DoA is estimated using the concept of subarray decomposition to provide better performance with effective thresholding and minimal computational complexity.","PeriodicalId":121544,"journal":{"name":"2018 Twenty Fourth National Conference on Communications (NCC)","volume":"170 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114562635","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Improving the Noise Robustness of Prominence Detection for Children's Oral Reading Assessment","authors":"Kamini Sabu, Kanhaiya Kumar, P. Rao","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2018.8599934","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2018.8599934","url":null,"abstract":"Reading skill is a critical component of basic literacy. We aim to develop an automated system to assess oral reading skills of primary school children (learning English as a second language) that could eventually be valuable in the scenario of teacher shortage typical of rural areas in the country. This work focuses on the rating of prosody, an important aspect of fluency in speech delivery. In particular, a system for the detection of word prominence based on prosodic features is presented and tested on real-world data marked by background noise typical of the school setting. To counteract the observed drop in prominence classification accuracy, two distinct approaches to noisy speech enhancement are evaluated for various types of background noise. A recently proposed Generative Adversarial Network(GAN) based method is found to be effective in achieving noise suppression with low levels of speech distortion that minimally impact prosodic feature extraction. The implementation and training of the GAN system is discussed and insights are provided on its performance with reference to that of classical spectral subtraction based enhancement.","PeriodicalId":121544,"journal":{"name":"2018 Twenty Fourth National Conference on Communications (NCC)","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133842829","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"BER Performance of Multi User Scheduling for MIMO-OFDM and MIMO-SCFDMA Broadcast Network with Imperfect CSI","authors":"Vinay kumar Trivedi, Preetam Kumar","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2018.8599983","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2018.8599983","url":null,"abstract":"Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) provides robustness against multipath fading using spatial diversity and increases data rate by spatial multiplexing. These gains are achieved by using multiple antennas. This paper presents multi user (MU) MIMO downlink system under imperfect channel state information (CSI) and heterogeneous user signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) prole. MU MIMO essentially provides MU diversity gain. System capacity is increased by choosing the users experiencing better channel parameters. We have used normalized SNR based scheduler to select a user for data transmission. The outcomes of these techniques are higher data rate and transmitting long range without need of much power or bandwidth. In this paper, a comparative BER performance evaluation of MU MIMO-OFDM and MU MIMO-SCFDMA has been presented and along. Moreover the effects of various factors such as imperfection of channel state information (CSI), heterogeneity of network are investigated for these schemes.","PeriodicalId":121544,"journal":{"name":"2018 Twenty Fourth National Conference on Communications (NCC)","volume":"207 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123061533","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Offline Scheduling Schemes to Transfer Voluminous Deadline Complying Data in Elastic Optical Networks","authors":"Sridhar Lyer, Shree Prakash Singh","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2018.8600147","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2018.8600147","url":null,"abstract":"For serving traffic in the inter data centers which provide services such as, duplication of data and migration of the virtual machines, it is requisited to transfer voluminous data for which, under guarantee of a finishing time within the stipulated (i.e., pre-set) deadline, specific latency is tolerable. In the current work, we propose offline routing and spectrum assignment (RSA) schemes in view of the transfer of deadline complying voluminous data demands in elastic optical networks. The proposed schemes, which jointly optimize time and frequency domains, are initially formulated as an integer linear program (ILP). Subsequently, in view of practicality, we propose scalable scheduling techniques which combine three methods of ordering demands, and two schemes of RSA. To evaluate the proposed ILP model and the scheduling methods, we conduct simulations considering realistic network parameters and topologies. The obtained results demonstrate that in comparison to ILP model, scalable methods obtain similar spectrum usage performance within reasonable times. Lastly, based on the results, we also provide a ‘rule-of-thumb’ on the selection of appropriate scheduling technique.","PeriodicalId":121544,"journal":{"name":"2018 Twenty Fourth National Conference on Communications (NCC)","volume":"429 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122135057","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Optimal association of wireless devices to cellular and Wi-Fi base stations","authors":"V. Sukumaran, C. Singh","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2018.8599894","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2018.8599894","url":null,"abstract":"Communication devices such as cellular phones are now capable of using different communication technologies, such as 3G/4G and WiFi. The high data rate requirements of current user applications have lead to the important engineering problem of optimally associating a communication device with different networks using different communication technologies so as to maximize data rates. In this paper, we study the problem of optimally associating a group of users to a single base station and a single WiFi access point so that the sum throughput of all the users is maximized. Compared to prior work, we find that under realistic models for throughputs which are achievable on WiFi, the above association problem is a fractional programming problem, namely a “maximising sum of ratios” problem. Although the general sum of ratios problem is hard to solve, for the above association problem, we suggest heuristic algorithms that are shown to have a sum throughput close to the maximum. We also suggest a novel upper bound to the maximum sum throughput which has applications in performance evaluation.","PeriodicalId":121544,"journal":{"name":"2018 Twenty Fourth National Conference on Communications (NCC)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123910716","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anil Kumar Chilli, K. R. Prasanna Kumar, H. Murthy, C. Sekhar
{"title":"Approaches to Codec Independent Speaker Identification in Voip Speech","authors":"Anil Kumar Chilli, K. R. Prasanna Kumar, H. Murthy, C. Sekhar","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2018.8600267","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2018.8600267","url":null,"abstract":"The performance of automatic speaker identification (ASI) systems on Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) speech varies with the type of codec used in the VoIP communication. The type of codec used depends on the service provider of the user. Thus there is a need for the codec-independent ASI systems to identify the speaker. Three modeling approaches based on UBM-GMM framework and i-vector framework are proposed to identify the speaker independent of codec used. These frameworks are also evaluated for the mismatch conditions with respect to the codec used in training and testing. The proposed approaches are evaluated on VoIP speech from four codecs with different bit rates along with uncoded speech.","PeriodicalId":121544,"journal":{"name":"2018 Twenty Fourth National Conference on Communications (NCC)","volume":"28 5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121107378","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Subspace Based CS-Music for Diffuse Optical Tomography","authors":"B. Dileep, Tapan Das, P. Dutta","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2018.8599898","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2018.8599898","url":null,"abstract":"Diffuse optical tomography (DOT) is a low cost imaging modality that reconstructs the optical coefficients of a highly turbid medium. However, the inverse problem is ill-posed, nonlinear, and unstable due to diffusive nature of optical photons through the biological tissue. The conventional DOT imaging methods require the forward problem to be solved repeatedly at each iteration which makes it computationally expensive. Recently, the theory of compressive sensing (CS) has been used in DOT and provided significant reconstruction of sparse objects in many DOT imaging problems. The main objective of this paper is to solve the DOT inverse problem using MMV (multiple measurement vectors) based CS framework and the sparse recovery algorithm like CS-MUSIC (multiple signal classification) is studied. The experimental validation of the CS-MUSIC has been done on a paraffin wax rectangular sample through a DOT experimental set up. We also studied the conventional DOT imaging method like least square method in this paper. The performance metric mean square error (MSE) is used to evaluate the performance of the reconstruction in DOT imaging. Simulation results showed that the CS-MUSIC algorithm outperforms the conventional DOT imaging method in DOT imaging. The advantage of this study is that the forward problem need not be solved repeatedly which are inherent in conventional DOT.","PeriodicalId":121544,"journal":{"name":"2018 Twenty Fourth National Conference on Communications (NCC)","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121195252","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bi-Directional Indoor VLC system with Backhaul Solution","authors":"Akash Gupta, P. Garg","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2018.8599954","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2018.8599954","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates the performance of a two way decode and forward (DF) relayed Visible light communication (VLC) system with a backhaul solution. The visible light emitting diodes (LEDs) serve for downlink transmission and the infrared LEDs serve for the uplink transmission. In this paper two backhaul solutions are analyzed first being the traditional radio frequency (RF) and the other one being the free space optics (FSO). We derive the closed form expressions of signal to noise (SNR) statistics i.e. Cumulative Distribution Function (CDF) and Probability Density Function (PDF)). We further achieve the expressions for Average Bit Error Rate (ABER) and outage performance.","PeriodicalId":121544,"journal":{"name":"2018 Twenty Fourth National Conference on Communications (NCC)","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127115986","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}