{"title":"A CAD assisted design methodology for wide-band arbitrary power division coupler implemented in microstrip technology","authors":"M. A. Maktoomi, M. Hashmi","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2016.7561172","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2016.7561172","url":null,"abstract":"A design methodology for wide-band coupler with arbitrary power division ratio is presented. The proposed design has two design variables that can be chosen independently. This availability of free variable provides opportunity to obtain design parameters for a possible implementation in native microstrip technology. The two design variables can be tuned with the assistance of CAD to choose appropriate design parameters. While the design methodology is illustrated using unequal power division ratio, to show practical utility a 3-dB coupler is designed and fabricated on FR-4 substrate. The effectiveness of the proposed strategy is exhibited from simulated and measured results. Moreover, effect of substrate is also demonstrated through example.","PeriodicalId":279637,"journal":{"name":"2016 Twenty Second National Conference on Communication (NCC)","volume":"11 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":"122189000","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 discrete addressing scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks based Internet of Things","authors":"Sarang Deshpande, R. Shankar","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2016.7561161","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2016.7561161","url":null,"abstract":"Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm is gaining a mountainous attention because of its noteworthy impact on everyday life of the people. Billions of things are expected to be a part of IoT paradigm in the near future, providing enormous applications ranging from home automation, smart environment, health care, etc. One of the major hurdles for IoT to be effective with existing network architectures is a prolonged and seamless connectivity between the things and with the end user. Due to heterogeneity in the characteristics of Wireless Sensor Network (WSN), it has become a most prominent technology to bind the things with the Internet and with the end users. Wireless Sensor Networks are self healing and active in nature, that is, they can sense, instruct, request, respond and can easily be adopted to Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks (WSAN). Addressing scheme in Wireless Sensor networks has to be foreseen if it has to be deployed in Internet of Things paradigm. This paper proposes a discrete cluster based addressing scheme on IEEE 802.15.4 standard for all the things included in a Wireless Sensor Network based IoT applications. Results have been evaluated with existing IPv6 based addressing and it is found that cluster based addressing scheme on the traditionally used IEEE 802.15.4 communication channel suits well over the end to end IPv6 communication channel.","PeriodicalId":279637,"journal":{"name":"2016 Twenty Second National Conference on Communication (NCC)","volume":"34 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":"114806996","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":"Multiscale-SSIM index based stereoscopic image quality assessment","authors":"S. Md, Sumohana S. Channappayya","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2016.7561082","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2016.7561082","url":null,"abstract":"Stereoscopic image quality typically depends on two factors: i) the quality of the luminance image perception, and ii) the quality of depth perception. The effect of distortion on luminance perception and depth perception is usually different, even though depth is estimated from luminance images. Therefore, we present a full reference stereoscopic image quality assessment (FRSIQA) algorithm that rates stereoscopic images in proportion to the quality of individual luminance image perception and the quality of depth perception. The luminance and depth quality is obtained by applying the robust Multiscale-SSIM (MS-SSIM) index on both luminance and disparity maps respectively. We propose a novel multi-scale approach for combining the luminance and depth scores from the left and right images into a single quality score per stereo image. We also explained that a small amount of distortion does not significantly affect depth perception. Further, heavy distortion in stereo pairs will result in significant loss of depth perception. Our algorithm performs competitively over standard databases and is called the 3D-MS-SSIM index.","PeriodicalId":279637,"journal":{"name":"2016 Twenty Second National Conference on Communication (NCC)","volume":"65 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120907922","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":"Energy and bandwidth efficient multipath-enhanced LOADng routing protocol","authors":"Deepthi Sasidharan, L. Jacob","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2016.7561118","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2016.7561118","url":null,"abstract":"With the advancement in Internet of Things (IoT) the need for efficient communication in low power lossy networks has gained much attention in recent days. In this paper, we propose a new multipath-enhanced routing scheme for low power lossy network based on LOADng routing protocol. We also modify two multipath routing schemes based on AODV to be used with LOADng protocol. The geometric random graph model based on Log-normal shadowing radio model is assumed to derive the basic characteristics of the network. The paper theoretically analyzes the energy overhead and communication overhead in terms of control traffic in bytes and number of control messages generated. The numerical results show better performance for our proposed scheme in terms of both energy and bandwidth efficiency.","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":"124304752","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 MIMO OFDMA test bed and its application towards channel characterization on indoor LAB test environment","authors":"Sandip Das, Suvra Shekhar Das, I. Chakrabarti","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2016.7561212","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2016.7561212","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, we present a hardware architecture of MIMO-OFDMA test bed. The testbed is designed in Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) in order to provide maximum flexibility in implementation. A modularized design approach is adopted which enables easy implementation, Integration, and testing algorithms of various physical layer modules of OFDMA. The entire physical layer design is successfully implemented in a single Virtex-4 FPGA processing core. The designed testbed architecture features up to 2×2 MIMO implementation with different MIMO modes and Frequency Domain Link Adaptation (FDLA). However, It is also discussed that the design can support up to 4×4 MIMO implementation depending on the choice of PHY design parameters such as FFT Size and FPGA processing frequency. The design is shown to be flexible and reconfigurable to work with different configurations using minimal PHY layer design alterations. The real-time over the air performance results are obtained using over-the-air transmission and reception of data traffic through the testbed. Finally, over-the-air performance results of the testbed are calibrated with the simulated performance over the SUI-3 channel. The implementation is performed on Wireless Open-Access Research Platform (WARP). LTE Release-10 parameters are adopted for designing the testbed.","PeriodicalId":279637,"journal":{"name":"2016 Twenty Second National Conference on Communication (NCC)","volume":"4 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":"128280794","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}
Yogesh Patil, Atishay Sharma, N. Nambath, Shalabh Gupta
{"title":"Analog processing-based coherent optical receiver for 16-QAM signals with 12.5 GBd baud rate","authors":"Yogesh Patil, Atishay Sharma, N. Nambath, Shalabh Gupta","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2016.7561115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2016.7561115","url":null,"abstract":"Several terabytes of data get generated and transferred through the Internet everyday. With bandwidth-intensive on-line applications such as video, music, and voice the demand for higher data rate increases. The ever-increasing data rate demand will be supported by multilevel signaling over fiber-optic links in the backplane. Traditional coherent optical links use the power hungry ADC+DSP approach at the receiver side for mitigating the distortions caused by the system non-idealities. A significant amount of power consumption can be reduced if the received signals are processed in the analog domain itself. This paper presents a 12.5GBd 16-QAM analog processing-based coherent receiver, that has been designed and simulated using 130nm BiCMOS technology. The receiver uses radius directed equalization and Costas loop based carrier phase recovery and compensation. Simulations indicate that the receiver is capable of mitigating a dispersion of up to 160 ps/nm and a frequency offset of up to 10 MHz. For a transmission over 10 km-long fiber the receiver gives an output error vector magnitude of 23.2% when the laser linewidth is 200 kHz. The receiver is projected to consume ~3.5W of power.","PeriodicalId":279637,"journal":{"name":"2016 Twenty Second National Conference on Communication (NCC)","volume":"32 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":"128297461","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}
Titir Dutta, U. Satija, Barathram Ramkumar, M. Manikandan
{"title":"A novel method for automatic modulation classification under non-Gaussian noise based on variational mode decomposition","authors":"Titir Dutta, U. Satija, Barathram Ramkumar, M. Manikandan","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2016.7561103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2016.7561103","url":null,"abstract":"Automatic modulation classification (AMC) plays an important role in identifying the modulation format of a signal. Most of the existing modulation classifiers assume the signal to be contaminated only by additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN). However, the performances of these traditional classifiers degrade in the presence of non-Gaussian impulsive noise. In this paper, we present a novel automatic modulation classification algorithm based on variational mode decomposition (VMD) in presence of non-Gaussian impulsive noise and additive white Gaussian noise. Our proposed method is a three step process. In the first step, received signal is decomposed into modes. It is clear from simulation results that impulse noise is effectively captured in the first mode. In the second step, all other modes are added except first mode to reduce the impact of impulse noise in the received signal. Then in the third step, cyclostationary feature based classifiers are employed to identify the modulation type. The proposed algorithm is evaluated using well-known existing classifiers for different digital modulation techniques. Comparative results depict the superior performance of our proposed method over other traditional methods under different noise conditions.","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":"116229009","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":"Sampling and reconstruction of time-limited signals using sum-of-sincs kernel","authors":"S. Mulleti, C. Seelamantula","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2016.7561141","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2016.7561141","url":null,"abstract":"We address the problem of sampling and reconstruction of time-limited signals. Finite-energy, time-limited signals can be represented using time-limited orthogonal Fourier basis functions, and a finite linear combination can approximate a signal with the assumption that most of the signal energy is concentrated in a certain frequency band. The expansion coefficients in this approximation are uniform samples of the frequency spectrum. As time-limited signals are not bandlimited, we propose the use of finite-duration sum-of-sincs sampling kernel, which annihilates the effect of aliasing at desired frequency locations with a suitable choice of the sampling frequency. This method does not require inner product operations for each coefficient in the expansion. An expression for the approximation error is derived. Experiments are performed on both simulated and natural time-limited signals and compared with widely used Shannon-Nyquist sampling and reconstruction method. The reconstruction error using the proposed method is smaller by 2 - 20 dB compared with the Shannon-Nyquist method.","PeriodicalId":279637,"journal":{"name":"2016 Twenty Second National Conference on Communication (NCC)","volume":"19 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":"127902911","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}
V. Sathya, A. K. Rangisetti, A. Ramamurthy, B. R. Tamma
{"title":"Maximizing dual cell connectivity opportunities in LTE small cells deployment","authors":"V. Sathya, A. K. Rangisetti, A. Ramamurthy, B. R. Tamma","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2016.7561134","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2016.7561134","url":null,"abstract":"Most of the LTE (Long Term Evolution) network operators are deploying low power small cells in hotspots like airports, shopping malls and corporate offices to meet increasing data demands. Since users are not deemed to fixed locations in such places, the network experiences uneven distribution of traffic load across the cells which degrades the average user throughput. This problem is even more severe if the deployment of small cells is unplanned. In order to address this, in this work, we propose two variant of small cell placement models: an optimal Femto placement with full power (OPT-FP) model and an opportunistic Femto placement with power control (OPPRPC) model. These models incorporate a constraint which helps small cells providing dual cell connectivity (DCC) for as many number of users as possible and then schedule them jointly for improving their throughputs.","PeriodicalId":279637,"journal":{"name":"2016 Twenty Second National Conference on Communication (NCC)","volume":"16 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":"132722876","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":"Source and relay transmit antenna selection in two hop cooperative communication systems over к-μ fading channels","authors":"B. Kumbhani, R. S. Kshetrimayum","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2016.7561078","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2016.7561078","url":null,"abstract":"Transmit antenna selection is a promising technique to simplify hardware and computational complexity of MIMO wireless communication systems. In this paper, we derive expressions for outage probability and bit error rate of two-hop relaying systems incorporated with transmit antenna selection at source and relay node. A closed form expression for outage probability and an infinite expression for bit error rate are derived for two hop cooperative communication system for BPSK modulation scheme. In the analysis, received signals are assumed to be collection of signals received as a result of multiple reflections having a line of sight component. Such channels can be well approximated by κ-μ fading distribution which is generalized assumption to model fading channels with a dominant or line of sight component. To analyze the performance of the system at high SNR conditions, the expression of asymptotic BER is also derived in closed form from the expression for exact BER. The transmit antenna is selected at the source and relay nodes such that the received signal to noise ratio at the destination node is maximized. Maximal ratio combining is considered at the relay and destination nodes. The bit error rate results obtained from analytical expressions and Monte Carlo simulations are plotted for different values of fading parameters, κ and μ. The analytical results are found to be in close agreement with simulation results.","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":"130745766","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}