{"title":"An adaptive refresh distributed model for estimation and efficient tracking of dynamic boundaries","authors":"Nagarathna, S. Valli","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2015.7084893","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2015.7084893","url":null,"abstract":"We propose a distributed algorithm for tracking dynamic boundaries in a ranging sensor network. The main aim here is to minimize the number of data pushes to the sink by the observing sensors. Contour is modeled as correlated Brownian motion with drift. Sensors continuously sample the data. Neighboring sensors communicate and exploit the spatio-temporal correlation and using the parameters of the contour the time to push the sample data to the sink is predicted. A multihop path is established between sensor to sink to route the data. To get the global view of the contour sink apply non parametric regression on the sensor data. Along with the sample data sensors push the mean value so that the sink can estimate the sample point till the next push of data from sensor. The sensors push the data when the confidence in the estimate by the sink is below a specified thereshold. The performance of this model is compared with centralized model with respect to energy consumption for routing samples to sink.","PeriodicalId":302718,"journal":{"name":"2015 Twenty First National Conference on Communications (NCC)","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114750599","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":"Relay placement and spectrum sharing strategies for soft and fractional frequency reuse schemes","authors":"Sanjay Ghosh, A. P. Kannu","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2015.7084854","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2015.7084854","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we consider the problem of relay placement and resource sharing among the relays and the base station in a cellular network. Specifically, we focus on the problem of deploying half duplex relays in cellular systems employing soft frequency reuse (SFR) and fractional frequency reuse (FFR) schemes. For both SFR and FFR schemes, we propose strategies for relay placement and assigning mobile stations among the relays and the base station. We also propose strategies for allocating the spectrum among the relays and the base station, which are consistent with the frequency planning of SFR and FFR layouts. We study the performance of the proposed techniques using simulations of a cellular network with 19 cells layout. Our results show that the proposed relay-aided schemes achieve significant improvements in terms of both coverage probability and throughput over the conventional cellular system without relays.","PeriodicalId":302718,"journal":{"name":"2015 Twenty First National Conference on Communications (NCC)","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133750299","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":"Pitch estimation from speech using Grating Compression Transform on Modified Group-Delay-gram","authors":"J. Sebastian, M. Kumar, H. Murthy","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2015.7084899","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2015.7084899","url":null,"abstract":"This work presents an approach for pitch extraction based on Grating Compression Transform (GCT) on harmonically-enhanced Modified Group-Delay-gram (Modgdgram). The work explores the use of peakedness and high resolution properties of the group delay functions and the ability of GCT to smear harmonically related components in the spectrum and to track pitch across frames. The power spectrum of the signal is divided by a cepstrally smoothened version of the power spectrum to obtain flattened spectrum. Owing to the picket-fence harmonics due to pitch in the flattened spectrum, the spectrum resembles a sinusoid that is corrupted by noise. This signal is treated as a sinusoidal signal and modified group delay based analysis is performed. Localized time-frequency regions of Modgdgram are used for GCT computation. Peak picking is performed on the resulting rate-scale domain and pitch dynamics are used to finalize the pitch values. The proposed algorithm without any post processing is compared with the traditional GCT computed on the magnitude spectrum and the modified group delay alone. Both natural and synthetic speech are considered for evaluation and an overall improvement of 27% is obtained in the error measures. Finally, two commonly used advanced algorithms which include post processing steps are also considered and the results obtained are comparable.","PeriodicalId":302718,"journal":{"name":"2015 Twenty First National Conference on Communications (NCC)","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128330032","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 MISO systems with antenna selection over correlated channels","authors":"J. M. Chakravarti, Y. Trivedi","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2015.7084837","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2015.7084837","url":null,"abstract":"Antenna selection in multiple antenna systems is used as there is no loss of diversity gain. However, in a practical scenario, there is a spatial correlation between adjacent antennas. In this paper, a multiple input single output (MISO) system is considered with L transmit antennas. At the transmitter, the antennas are divided into N = L over 2 groups. We assume that there is a correlation η between two antennas of each group, however there is no correlation between antennas of two different groups. The group for which the summation of the channel power gain is highest, is selected. Then, using Alamouti transmit diversity, we derive the exact closed-form expression for the pdf of received SNR, using which we obtain symbol error rate (SER) for MPSK and MQAM constellations, and outage probability in simple form. It is proved analytically that the diversity gain of the considered system reduces to two for η ≠ 0. The SER expressions have been reduced for some special cases and compared with the available results in literature. We have presented simulation results and compared them with the derived analytical expressions.","PeriodicalId":302718,"journal":{"name":"2015 Twenty First National Conference on Communications (NCC)","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134089082","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":"Wavelength sensitivity of the excited single mode in the output Multimode fiber of an SMm structure","authors":"N. Bhatia, J. John","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2015.7084829","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2015.7084829","url":null,"abstract":"Single mode - Multimode - Multimode (SMm) fiber structure provides a simple and cost effective method for exciting a single radial mode in a multimode fiber (MMF). The structure can be effectively utilized in improving the capacity of high speed communication links employing MMFs. In this work, we study the effects of change in source wavelength on the excited single mode in the output MMF of an SMm structure. We show that the change in source wavelength deteriorates the single mode excitation of the output fiber. However, the same performance can be re-established by changing the length of the middle MMF. For small changes in the wavelength, we also give a simple formula to predict the required change in the length.","PeriodicalId":302718,"journal":{"name":"2015 Twenty First National Conference on Communications (NCC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131292118","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}
Subrahmanya Swamy Peruru, R. Ganti, K. Jagannathan
{"title":"Spatial CSMA: A distributed scheduling algorithm for the SIR model with time-varying channels","authors":"Subrahmanya Swamy Peruru, R. Ganti, K. Jagannathan","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2015.7084891","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2015.7084891","url":null,"abstract":"Recent work has shown that adaptive CSMA algorithms can achieve throughput optimality. However, these adaptive CSMA algorithms assume a rather simplistic model for the wireless medium. Specifically, the interference is typically modelled by a conflict graph, and the channels are assumed to be static. In this work, we propose a distributed and adaptive CSMA algorithm under a more realistic signal-to-interference ratio (SIR) based interference model, with time-varying channels. We prove that our algorithm is throughput optimal under this generalized model. Further, we augment our proposed algorithm by using a parallel update technique. Numerical results show that our algorithm outperforms the conflict graph based algorithms, in terms of supportable throughput and the rate of convergence to steady-state.","PeriodicalId":302718,"journal":{"name":"2015 Twenty First National Conference on Communications (NCC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130685523","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. Reddy, K. Saurav, D. Sarkar, K. V. Srivastava
{"title":"Microstrip-fed monopole antennas loaded with symmetric ENG unit cells","authors":"S. V. Reddy, K. Saurav, D. Sarkar, K. V. Srivastava","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2015.7084834","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2015.7084834","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a microstrip-fed monopole antenna is loaded with symmetric epsilon negative (ENG) unit cells comprising of shunt spiral inductors to achieve multi-band operation. Two antenna designs have been proposed. In the first design, one symmetric ENG unit cell is integrated with the monopole antenna which leads to generation of a lower order mode in addition to the reference monopole mode. In the second design, monopole is loaded with two symmetric ENG unit cells. The resulting monopole has two lower order modes along with the reference λ/4 resonance of the monopole. The resonance frequencies of the induced lower order modes can be controlled by varying the geometrical parameters of spiral inductors. Prototypes of proposed antennas are fabricated to validate the results obtained in simulation. The measured and simulated results are in good agreement. The proposed antennas exhibit quasi-omnidirectional patterns at all the operating frequencies.","PeriodicalId":302718,"journal":{"name":"2015 Twenty First National Conference on Communications (NCC)","volume":"490 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116183301","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}
Soumik Ghosh, Gaurang Naik, Animesh Kumar, A. Karandikar
{"title":"OpenPAWS: An open source PAWS and UHF TV White Space database implementation for India","authors":"Soumik Ghosh, Gaurang Naik, Animesh Kumar, A. Karandikar","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2015.7084890","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2015.7084890","url":null,"abstract":"TV white space (TVWS) geolocation database is being used for the protection of the terrestrial TV broadcast receivers, and the coexistence of secondary devices. To the best of our knowledge, though TV White Space calculations are available, an active online database does not exist for India. In this paper, the development of the first TVWS database for India is detailed and is released for public access. A standardized protocol to access the TVWS database on a readily available hardware platform is implemented. A hardware prototype, which is capable of querying the TVWS database and operating in the TV band without causing harmful interference to the TV receivers in UHF TV bands, is developed. The source code of our implementation has been released under the GNU general public license version 2.0.","PeriodicalId":302718,"journal":{"name":"2015 Twenty First National Conference on Communications (NCC)","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126260550","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":"Jamming in fading Multiple Access Channels","authors":"Amitalok J. Budkuley","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2015.7084927","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2015.7084927","url":null,"abstract":"A fading Multiple Access Channel with a jammer is considered and a non-cooperative game between the two users and the jammer is formulated. Here, both the user-receiver links as well as the jammer-receiver link are time-varying fading links. The decoder employed is a successive cancellation decoder. To begin with, the decoder announces a scheme where it shares with the users and the jammer their decoding order as a function of the combined channel state observed. Equivalently, this scheme is a partition of the space of all channel states into two sets. For the observed channel states belonging to the first set, the first user is decoded followed by the second, while for the states belonging to the other set, the decoding order is reversed. Each user aims to maximize its own rate whilst treating the other user as noisy interference. The adversarial jammer chooses its channel input so as to minimize overall throughput. We show that for every decoding scheme announced by the decoder, the resulting game has a unique Pareto-dominated Nash equilibrium. Also, connections with relevant existing results on fading Multiple Access Channels with a jamming adversary, specifically w.r.t the equilibrium sum-rate operating point, are discussed.","PeriodicalId":302718,"journal":{"name":"2015 Twenty First National Conference on Communications (NCC)","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126899087","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}
Madhavan Kalyanaraman, S. Seetharaman, S. Srikanth
{"title":"Integrated approach for proxy-mobile-IPv6 (PMIPv6) based IP Flow Mobility and offloading","authors":"Madhavan Kalyanaraman, S. Seetharaman, S. Srikanth","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2015.7084882","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2015.7084882","url":null,"abstract":"Mobile data traffic has increased drastically during last few years and expected to increase multifold in the coming years. Heterogeneous wireless networks have made it possible to have simultaneous traffic flows on all available wireless accesses. IP Flow Mobility (IFOM) which has been standardized from 3GPP Release 10 provides possibility to seamlessly transfer individual flows from one access to another. The flow transfer can happen due to different factors like saving cellular resources, using low cost interface, load balancing etc. However, an integrated mechanism to identify whether a traffic flow has to be moved to a different interface considering user preferences, network quality, mobility, policy aspects, network protocols supported and terminal capability is not available. This paper proposes a mechanism that dynamically assesses the interface used for each traffic flow and determines the need for flow transfer to attain better quality of experience for user while using cellular network resources in an optimal manner. We propose the architecture illustrating the various components and their interactions to realize our proposed mechanism of flow transfer/offload based on the discussed criteria. A simulation framework that will be used to validate our approach and demonstrate its benefits/improvements under various practical scenarios is also presented.","PeriodicalId":302718,"journal":{"name":"2015 Twenty First National Conference on Communications (NCC)","volume":"129 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130610657","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}