{"title":"Effective ranging techniques in LTE","authors":"S. V. Ramanan, C. Venkatesh, K. Giridhar","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2016.7561211","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2016.7561211","url":null,"abstract":"Effective uplink ranging using Physical Random Access Channel (PRACH) enables LTE users to work with a small cyclic prefix overhead even over 3 km to 5 km links. Ranging includes the detection of the preamble index and estimating the timing advancement value. Our works compares two different algorithms for estimating the timing advancement, namely (i) the conventional strongest path approach (SPA) and (ii) the proposed weighted mean approach (WMA). Both approaches use the Neymann Pearson (NP) criteria for the preamble index detection [1]. Simulation results indicate that the proposed WMA is significantly superior to the SPA, especially in large spread channels. The impact of the PRACH transmitter and receive filter order on these two approaches, as well as the adjacent channel interference (ACI) behaviour of these PRACH signals is also discussed in this paper.","PeriodicalId":279637,"journal":{"name":"2016 Twenty Second National Conference on Communication (NCC)","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131799747","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 Neural Network based system for Intrusion Detection and attack classification","authors":"Basant Subba, S. Biswas, S. Karmakar","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2016.7561088","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2016.7561088","url":null,"abstract":"Anomaly based Intrusion Detection Systems (IDSs) are known to achieve high accuracy and detection rate. However, a significant computational overhead is incurred in training and deploying them. In this paper, we aim to address this issue by proposing a simple Artificial Neural Network (ANN) based IDS model. The proposed IDS model uses the feed forward and the back propagation algorithms along with various other optimization techniques to minimize the overall computational overhead, while at the same time maintain a high performance level. Experimental results on the benchmark NSL-KDD dataset shows that the performance (accuracy and detection rate) of the proposed ANN based IDS model is at par and in some cases even better than other IDS models. Owing to its high performance and low computational overhead, the proposed ANN based IDS model is a suitable candidate for real time deployment and intrusion detection analysis.","PeriodicalId":279637,"journal":{"name":"2016 Twenty Second National Conference on Communication (NCC)","volume":"144 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132969934","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":"On robust k-hop clustering in ad-hoc cognitive radio networks","authors":"R. Misra, R. Yadav, Vinod Dosapati","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2016.7561086","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2016.7561086","url":null,"abstract":"Cognitive radio networks (CRNs) enable cognitive users (CUs equipped with spectrum sensing) access the underutilized spectrum licensed to primary users (PUs) without causing unacceptable interference to the PUs' activities. On appearance of PUs, the available channel of CUs at different position may have different available channels which changes dynamically over time. Due to temporal and spatial variations of channel availability among CUs poses research challenges for ensuring connectivity and robustness of CRN. Reported works have shown effective use of clustering technique for network connectivity, cooperative spectrum sensing and a coordinated channel switching in CRN. Connectivity within the CRN is guaranteed as long as there is at least one channel available within each cluster and also between neighboring clusters. Most of the existing clustering schemes divide CRN into the least number of clusters based on the available channel common to the largest set of 1-hop neighbors. The drawbacks of these schemes are they do not provide robustness and require frequent re-clustering to maintain connectivity in CRN because of small number of common channel in each cluster. We have proposed a heuristic for k-hop clustering with objective to connect larger set of CUs in CRN. Our proposed algorithm converges in O(n.k), where n is the number of CUs and k is the number of hops. We have evaluated the performance of proposed scheme through simulation and observed that k-hop clustering algorithm achieves 40-50% more common channels as compared to other competitive approaches for k = 1 and improves robustness to 40%.","PeriodicalId":279637,"journal":{"name":"2016 Twenty Second National Conference on Communication (NCC)","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131010512","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":"Hardware implementation of quadtree based fractal image decoder","authors":"M. Panigrahy, I. Chakrabarti, A. Dhar","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2016.7561100","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2016.7561100","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a simple hardware architecture for quadtree(QT) partitioning based fractal image decoder. The decoding process in fractal based compression technique is an iterative process and utilizes the parameters extracted during encoding for converging to a fixed point, that approximates the original image. The adaptive sized partitioning scheme provides details of various regions at different resolutions. In the proposed architecture, the mean-subtracted range and domain blocks are compared and matched at the encoder for fast convergence at the decoder. Though the convergence depends on the encoded information and the image itself, a maximum of four iterations are sufficient to reconstruct the image. The architecture has been implemented on Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGA operating at 164.4MHz. The proposed design spends less than 3 ms to decode a image of size 256 × 256 with average image quality exceeding 33dB.","PeriodicalId":279637,"journal":{"name":"2016 Twenty Second National Conference on Communication (NCC)","volume":"71 16","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113988171","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":"Computing HRTFs using Spherical Near field Acoustic Holography for rendering spatial audio","authors":"Ayush Singhal, Sandeep Reddy C, R. Hegde","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2016.7561105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2016.7561105","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a novel method for computing Head Related Transfer Functions (HRTFs) using principles of Spherical Nearfield Acoustic Holography (SNAH) is described. To compute generalized HRTFs the head and the torso have been modeled by spheres of different radii using the snowman model. A new method of sound pressure reconstruction over a spherical surface that utilizes SNAH is proposed for modeling the head. Pressure reconstruction corresponding to all spatial locations of a sound source is performed using motion holography. The torso is modeled by using principles of Gaussian optics within a SNAH framework. A combined head and torso (HAT) model is then developed to obtain HRTFs. Head and Torso response obtained by the proposed approach is compared individually with existing numerical techniques. For low frequencies both approaches provide similar results. Binaural audio is then synthesized using HRTFs computed from the proposed method and from the CIPIC database. Subjective evaluation on binaural audio convey that proposed technique results are comparable to CIPIC in both horizontal and frontal planes.","PeriodicalId":279637,"journal":{"name":"2016 Twenty Second National Conference on Communication (NCC)","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128382052","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}
Mohit Yadav, A. Sao, A. D. Dileep, Padmanabhan Rajan
{"title":"Group delay functions for speaker diarization","authors":"Mohit Yadav, A. Sao, A. D. Dileep, Padmanabhan Rajan","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2016.7561127","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2016.7561127","url":null,"abstract":"Speaker diarization is the task of determining “who spoke when” in a speech recording of an unknown duration containing an unknown number of speakers. The very unsupervised nature of this task makes it more challenging and demands that the feature representation used be highly discriminative across speakers. Commonly used features based on the short time Fourier transform are usually derived from the magnitude spectrum. The short time phase information is usually not used due to the complications involved in its processing. However, the information embedded in phase has been shown beneficial for many speech tasks. In this paper, we explore it for speaker diarization. Two approaches for utilizing information from the phase, through group delay functions are explored. We present our experiments and results on the publicly available AMI meeting corpus. Our experiments demonstrate that the features derived from group delay functions provide comparable or improved diarization accuracy over and on fusion with the popularly used mel-frequency cepstrum coefficients (MFCC) features.","PeriodicalId":279637,"journal":{"name":"2016 Twenty Second National Conference on Communication (NCC)","volume":"93 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121698334","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}
S. V. Sree Vasthav, S. Srikanth, Venkatesh Ramaiyan
{"title":"Performance analysis of an IEEE 802.11ac WLAN with dynamic bandwidth channel access","authors":"S. V. Sree Vasthav, S. Srikanth, Venkatesh Ramaiyan","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2016.7561142","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2016.7561142","url":null,"abstract":"We consider a collocated WLAN with Nac 802.11ac users using dynamic 20/40 MHz channel access and Nl 802.11a/n legacy users operating in the secondary 20 MHz channel. Under ideal channel conditions, we seek to characterise the saturation throughput performance of the 802.11ac users and the legacy users. We propose an analytical model based on a decoupling approximation for saturation throughput analysis. Dynamic bandwidth channel access leads to correlation in the channel access of 802.11ac and legacy users and hence, we consider a DTMC to model the transmission opportunities in the primary and the secondary channel. Using simulations, we show that the proposed model accurately captures both high level performance measures such as long term average throughput and low level performance measures such as collision probability very well. Finally, we characterise the effect of Nac, Nl and packet size on the network performance.","PeriodicalId":279637,"journal":{"name":"2016 Twenty Second National Conference on Communication (NCC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130253894","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":"Salient keypoint selection for object representation","authors":"Prerana Mukherjee, Siddharth Srivastava, Brejesh Lall","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2016.7561176","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2016.7561176","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we propose a keypoint selection scheme for SIFT and KAZE features and demonstrate their effectiveness in object characterization. The selection criterion rely on the detectability, distinctiveness and repeatability of the keypoints. These scores are combined to give a keypoint saliency score. The keypoints are ranked according to their saliency values and weak/irrelevant keypoints are filtered out based on a threshold value. These keypoints are further augmented with the keypoints obtained by applying SIFT to the texture map constructed using Gabor filter. The keypoint set represents the boundaries and object regions effectively. Experimental results validate the claims that the salient keypoints chosen by the proposed methodology are well suited for object representation.","PeriodicalId":279637,"journal":{"name":"2016 Twenty Second National Conference on Communication (NCC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129702661","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. P. Actlin Jeeva, T. Nagarajan, P. Vijayalakshmi
{"title":"Formant filters-based multi-band speech enhancement algorithm for intelligibility improvement","authors":"M. P. Actlin Jeeva, T. Nagarajan, P. Vijayalakshmi","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2016.7561149","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2016.7561149","url":null,"abstract":"Speech enhancement algorithms in the past concentrated on improving the speech quality, however they need not necessarily improve intelligibility of the enhanced speech. The current work focuses on improving the quality as well as intelligibility of the well-known multi-band spectral subtraction algorithm. In this regard, to improve speech quality, a temporal-domain filtering-based approach is proposed to obtain sub-bands (ERB-based). To improve intelligibility, it is necessary to identify the type of distortion (attenuation or amplification distortion) that affects the intelligibility of enhanced speech. Therefore, an analysis is performed on the enhanced speech at the phoneme level using segmental-SNR and it is observed that in high SNR regions of the noisy speech (specifically in vowels, liquids, nasals), intelligibility is reduced due to amplification distortion. This may be due to the high spectral resolution of the temporal-domain ERB-based filters. Hence, to improve intelligibility, a set of formant specific filters are proposed based on the formant analysis carried out over vowels, liquids and nasals. The performance of the proposed multi-band spectral subtraction algorithm is evaluated for its quality and intelligibility, using subjective (MOS) and objective (PESQ and CSII) measures, for the speech affected by white, car and babble noise at -5 to 15 dB SNR levels. It is observed that the proposed method improves speech quality and intelligibility by around 0.1-0.5 in terms of PESQ and 2-10% in terms of CSII over conventional multi-band spectral subtraction method.","PeriodicalId":279637,"journal":{"name":"2016 Twenty Second National Conference on Communication (NCC)","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132048977","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 SSRR based multiband antenna for mobile phone","authors":"A. Gangwar, M. Alam","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2016.7561202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2016.7561202","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a compact size multi-band antenna based on square split ring resonators (SSRRs) is designed for 3G and WiFi applications. The SSRR structure is a metamaterial which possesses the properties of negative permittivity or/and negative permeability. The frequency operation of this special structure has been mathematically formulated for muti-band antenna design. The results are verified with the help of electromagnetic software simulation, equivalent circuit model and fabricated prototype. The antenna achieves excellent return loss S11<;-20 dB at both bands of operation. The peak gains of 2.9 dBi and 3.1 dBi at 2.1 GHz and 2.4 GHz frequency, respectively with corresponding radiation efficiency of 67.2% and 68.1% were obtained.","PeriodicalId":279637,"journal":{"name":"2016 Twenty Second National Conference on Communication (NCC)","volume":"222 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130854399","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}