{"title":"Outage performance of dual-hop opportunistic relaying compared to a single-hop SIMO under Rayleigh fading","authors":"H. Katiyar, R. Bhattacharjee","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2010.5430225","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2010.5430225","url":null,"abstract":"Cooperative relaying technique has shown potential in enhancing coverage area and reliability of transmission by forming virtual arrays. Opportunistic relaying tries to utilize best available channel between source and destination. Outage performance of relay based system can be improved through proper allocation of power and positioning of relay node. Analytical expression for outage probability for the opportunistic relaying scheme under consideration has been derived and its performance has been compared with an equivalent SIMO system performing selection combining. Results shows that opportunistic relaying outperform single-hop SIMO in high path-loss condition and performance of relay based system can further be improved by proper power allocation and relay positioning. The work presented in this paper is expected to be useful for the deployment of relay based system in various channel conditions.","PeriodicalId":130953,"journal":{"name":"2010 National Conference On Communications (NCC)","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132680409","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":"An improvement of Wang et al.'s authentication scheme using smart cards","authors":"S. Sood, A. Sarje, Kuldip Singh","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2010.5430153","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2010.5430153","url":null,"abstract":"In 2009, Wang et al. argued that Das et al.'s scheme is vulnerable to stolen smart card attack if an attacker obtains the smart card of legitimate user and chooses any random password. Then the attacker gets through the authentication process to get access of the remote server. Therefore, Wang et al. proposed an improved scheme to preclude the weaknesses of Das et al.'s scheme. However, we found that Wang et al.'s scheme is vulnerable to impersonation attack, stolen smart card attack and offline password guessing attack. This paper improves Wang et al.'s scheme to resolve the aforementioned problems, while keeping the merits of different dynamic identity based authentication schemes.","PeriodicalId":130953,"journal":{"name":"2010 National Conference On Communications (NCC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130236740","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":"A multilingual screen reader in Indian languages","authors":"E. V. Raghavendra, K. Prahallad","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2010.5430191","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2010.5430191","url":null,"abstract":"Screen reader is a form of assistive technology to help visually impaired people to use or access the computer and Internet. So far, it has remained expensive and within the domain of English (and some foreign) language computing. For Indian languages this development is limited by: availability of Text-to-Speech (TTS) system in Indian languages, support for reading glyph based font encoded text, Text Normalization for converting non standard words into standard words, supporting multiple languages. In this paper we would discuss how to handle these issues in building multilingual screen reader in Indian languages.","PeriodicalId":130953,"journal":{"name":"2010 National Conference On Communications (NCC)","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114776838","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":"Optical modulation schemes for frequency-coded quantum key distribution","authors":"Pradeep Kumar","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2010.5430155","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2010.5430155","url":null,"abstract":"We discuss possible modulation schemes to implement BB84 and B92 quantum key distribution protocols using frequency-coding method. We derive time evolution of quantum states of light in a Mach-Zehnder interferometer based optical intensity modulator. We then show that phase modulator-phase modulator (PM-PM) combination can be used to implement the B92 protocol and intensity modulator-intensity modulator (IM-IM) combination can be used to implement the BB84 protocol. However, the combinations-PM-IM or IM-PM-cannot be used to implement BB84 and B92 protocols using frequency-coding method. Finally, we discuss the security of frequency-coded implementation of B92 protocol.","PeriodicalId":130953,"journal":{"name":"2010 National Conference On Communications (NCC)","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128556860","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":"Performance analysis of active handoff in CDMA2000 femtocells","authors":"Gauri Joshi, M. Yavuz, C. Patel","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2010.5430219","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2010.5430219","url":null,"abstract":"Cellular operators are developing femtocells to improve network coverage for indoor users. But in current CDMA systems, heavy reuse of PN codes among femtocells causes ambiguity in choosing the target for handoff. To resolve the ambiguity, a method which uses reverse link (RL) sensing at femtocells has been proposed. This method uses RL measurements of the mobile's signal to choose the femtocell with the best forward link channel, as the handoff target. The robustness of this method to fast fading and shadowing is demonstrated in this work. By making multiple RL measurements, the error in handoff due to fading can be reduced, but at the cost of increased delay. The tradeoff between probability of error in handoff and RL measurement duration is demonstrated. It is also shown that unsynchronized measurements by femtocells cause a only marginal increase in the probability of handoff error.","PeriodicalId":130953,"journal":{"name":"2010 National Conference On Communications (NCC)","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132390813","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":"KL divergence based feature switching in the linguistic search space for automatic speech recognition","authors":"J. Chaitanya, Rajesh Janakiraman, H. Murthy","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2010.5430186","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2010.5430186","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we propose a novel idea for using two different feature streams in a continuous speech recognition system. Conventionally multiple feature streams are concatenated and HMMs trained to build triphone/syllable models. In this paper, instead of concatenation, we build separate subword HMMs for each of the feature streams during training. Also during training, the relevance of a feature stream to a particular sound is evaluated. During testing, hypotheses are generated by the language model. A greedy Kullback Leibler distance measure is used to determine the best feature at a particular instant, for the given hypotheses. There are two important aspects of this approach, namely, a) use of a feature that is relevant for recognizing a specific sound and b) the dimension of the feature stream does not increase with the number of different feature streams. To enable feature switching during recognition, a syllablebased automatically annotated recognition framework is used. In this framework, the test speech signal is first segmented into syllables, and, syllable boundaries are incorporated in the language model. Experiments are performed on three databases (a) Tamil DDNews database (b) TIMIT database (c) NTIMIT database, using, two features: MFCC (derived from the power spectrum of the speech signal) and MODGDF (derived from the phase spectrum of the speech signal). The results show that word error rate (WER) is lower than that of the use of joint features by almost 1.5% for the TIMIT database, by almost 3.4% for the NTIMIT database, by about 3.8% for the Tamil DDNew database.","PeriodicalId":130953,"journal":{"name":"2010 National Conference On Communications (NCC)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125181442","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":"A low complexity active interference cancellation method for OFDM based cognitive radios","authors":"D. Rammoorthy, P. Pandian, S. Srikanth","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2010.5430231","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2010.5430231","url":null,"abstract":"We propose a low complexity active interference cancellation method applicable for OFDM based cognitive radios. The motivation for the new method comes from existing techniques proposed in the literature. We compare the performance of the new method with existing technique by using simulation results to highlight the interference suppression performance, power efficiency, and complexity.","PeriodicalId":130953,"journal":{"name":"2010 National Conference On Communications (NCC)","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128893528","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":"Effect of jacobian compensation in linear transformation based VTLN under matched and mis-matched speaker conditions","authors":"S. Rath, A. K. Sarkar, S. Umesh","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2010.5430188","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2010.5430188","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we study the effect of use of jacobian in different linear transformation (LT) based methods of VTLN. In conventional VTLN, the jacobian is highly non-linear and can not be computed and hence is ignored. In the LT based VTLN, since VTLN scaling is expressed as a matrix multiplication of un-warped MFCC features, jacobian is simply turns out as the determinant of the VTLN warp matrices. Hence in this framework of VTLN it is possible to account for jacobian. Two different methods, namely, L-VTLN and T-VTLN, are used for implementing LT based VTLN. By conducting experiments on the RM task and the TIDIGITs databases in matched and mismatched speaker conditions, the performance of using jacobian in warp-factor estimation have been evaluated. It is observed that in almost every matched and mis-matched speaker conditions jacobian improves performance in L-VTLN framework. In T-VTLN, however, jacobian does not improve the performance in any mis-matched speaker conditions. The cases in which jacobian degrades performance in L-VTLN and T-VTLN have been studied in detail.","PeriodicalId":130953,"journal":{"name":"2010 National Conference On Communications (NCC)","volume":"2014 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121438046","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":"Receiver-only optimized Vector Quantization for fading channels","authors":"R. Sowmya, C. Murthy","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2010.5430183","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2010.5430183","url":null,"abstract":"This paper considers the design and analysis of a filter at the receiver of a source coding system to mitigate the excess distortion caused due to channel errors. The index output by the source encoder is sent over a fading discrete binary symmetric channel and the possibly incorrect received index is mapped to the corresponding codeword by a Vector Quantization (VQ) decoder at the receiver. The output of the VQ decoder is then processed by a receive filter to obtain an estimate of the source instantiation. The distortion performance is analyzed for weighted mean square error (WMSE) and the optimum receive filter that minimizes the expected distortion is derived for two different cases of fading. It is shown that the performance of the system with the receive filter is strictly better than that of a conventional VQ and the difference becomes more significant as the number of bits transmitted increases. Theoretical expressions for an upper and lower bound on the WMSE performance of the system with the receive filter and a Rayleigh flat fading channel are derived. The design of a receive filter in the presence of channel mismatch is also studied and it is shown that a minimax solution is the one obtained by designing the receive filter for the worst possible channel. Simulation results are presented to validate the theoretical expressions and illustrate the benefits of receive filtering.","PeriodicalId":130953,"journal":{"name":"2010 National Conference On Communications (NCC)","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122678828","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}
M. V. Vinodh, Ashwin Bellur, K. Narayan, D. M. Thakare, A. Susan, N. M. Suthakar, H. Murthy
{"title":"Using polysyllabic units for text to speech synthesis in Indian languages","authors":"M. V. Vinodh, Ashwin Bellur, K. Narayan, D. M. Thakare, A. Susan, N. M. Suthakar, H. Murthy","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2010.5430193","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2010.5430193","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes the design and development of Indian language Text-To-Speech (TTS) synthesis systems, using polysyllabic units. Firstly, a phone based TTS is built. Later, a monosyllable cluster unit TTS is built. It is observed that the quality of the synthesized sentences can improve if polysyllable units are used (when the appropriate units are available), since the effects of co-articulation will be preserved in such a case. Hence, we built Hindi and Tamil TTS with polysyllabic units, that contains cluster units of more than one type (monosyllable, bisyllable and trisyllable). The system selects the best set of units during the unit selection process, so as to minimize the join and concatenation costs. Preliminary listening tests indicated that the polysyllable TTS has better quality.","PeriodicalId":130953,"journal":{"name":"2010 National Conference On Communications (NCC)","volume":"59 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114023765","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}