{"title":"Enhanced Mobility State Estimation in LTE HetNets","authors":"Mahima Mehta, N. Akhtar, A. Karandikar","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2015.7084911","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2015.7084911","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we investigate issues related to the estimation of user's mobility state in the Long Term Evolution (LTE) heterogeneous cellular network. We discuss the need of such estimation and further, we propose an enhancement to the existing Mobility State Estimation (MSE) procedure which results in reduced HandOver failures. We also analyze the role of thresholds in mobility state estimation and their impact on the mobility performance. We analyze the performance using the Heterogeneous Network (HetNet) mobility simulator that we have developed as per the guidelines specified in the Release 12 of the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) LTE standard.","PeriodicalId":302718,"journal":{"name":"2015 Twenty First National Conference on Communications (NCC)","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131082614","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":"Enhancement of the spatial resolution of ECG using multi-scale Linear Regression","authors":"Jiss J. Nallikuzhy, S. Dandapat","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2015.7084917","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2015.7084917","url":null,"abstract":"Spatial resolution of ECG can be increased using the information available from a subset of standard 12-lead ECG. This is usually achieved by learning a model between the standard 12-lead and its reduced lead subset. Since ECG signal contains significant amount of diagnostic information, it is important to learn a model which preserves this information. In this work, a patient specific model is proposed which utilizes the inter lead correlation in the transformed domain. The model is learned over Wavelet domain using Linear Regression. Performance of the model is evaluated using standard distortion measures such as correlation coefficient and root mean square error along with wavelet energy based diagnostic distortion. An analysis is also performed over the derived signal to quantify the loss of diagnostic information. The results show that the proposed model performs better in preserving diagnostic information in comparison to the existing linear models.","PeriodicalId":302718,"journal":{"name":"2015 Twenty First National Conference on Communications (NCC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129397999","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}
Himakshi Choudhury, S. Mandal, Sanjeevan Devnath, S. Prasanna, S. Sundaram
{"title":"Comparison of assamese character recognizer using stroke level and character level engines","authors":"Himakshi Choudhury, S. Mandal, Sanjeevan Devnath, S. Prasanna, S. Sundaram","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2015.7084861","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2015.7084861","url":null,"abstract":"Hidden Markov Models (HMM) are the widely used modeling techniques for online handwriting recognition. This paper describes both stroke based and character based methods for Assamese handwritten character recognition using HMM classifier. In stroke based method, unique strokes that are used to write the characters are grouped and then HMM modeling is done for each of these selected class of strokes. A character can comprise of one or multiple strokes. Reference set is prepared by analyzing the different combinations of strokes and the degree of confusion between similar strokes. The stroke based method comprises of two stages. First, the stroke sequences in the test character is recognized by stroke based HMM classifier and in the second stage this sequence of strokes is compared against the entries of the reference set. The character corresponding to the matched stroke sequence in the reference set is considered as the recognized character. In character based method, each character as a whole is modeled using HMM and the classifier directly predicts the character class. Experiments were performed on 141 Assamese characters, collected from 100 native Assamese writers and it is observed that character based method gives better result than stroke based method.","PeriodicalId":302718,"journal":{"name":"2015 Twenty First National Conference on Communications (NCC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130050643","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":"Heart murmur detection and classification using wavelet transform and Hilbert phase envelope","authors":"V. N. Varghees, K. I. Ramachandran","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2015.7084904","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2015.7084904","url":null,"abstract":"Detection and classification of heart murmurs play an important role in accurate diagnosis of different types of heart dysfunctions. In this paper, we present a noise-robust method for detection and classification of heart murmurs using stationary wavelet transform (SWT) and Hilbert phase envelope. The proposed method consists of five major stages: SWT based PCG signal decomposition for identifying heart sound (HS) including S1, S2, S3 and S4, and heart murmur(HM) subbands, Hilbert phase envelope based boundary determination, temporal feature extraction, murmur detection and classification rule. The boundaries of local acoustic HS segments are determined using the positive slope of instantaneous phase waveform of the smooth absolute envelope. The temporal features such as amplitude, duration, zerocrossing rate, interval, onset and offset time-instants of the detected HS and HM segments are used at the classification stage. The performance of the proposed method is tested and validated using a wide variety of normal and pathological signals containing different patterns of heart sounds and murmurs. The method achieves a probability of correctly detecting HM segments Pms=100%, a probability of correctly detecting HS segments Phs=97.33% and probability of falsely detecting segments Pfs=1.33% for SNR value of 15 dB, and murmur classification accuracy ranging from 82.76% to 100%.","PeriodicalId":302718,"journal":{"name":"2015 Twenty First National Conference on Communications (NCC)","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123898319","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":"Outage performance of zero-forcing based MIMO two-way relaying with channel estimation error","authors":"D. Gurjar, P. K. Upadhyay","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2015.7084830","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2015.7084830","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we investigate the effect of imperfect channel state information (CSI) on the performance of a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) two-way relay system that employs transmit/receive zero-forcing (ZF) at the sources and analog network coding (ANC) at the relay. In fact, for the transmit/receive ZF, the source nodes require estimation of the CSI that may not be perfect in practice, and hence the channel estimation error (CEE) does exist in the system. By taking this CEE into account, we deduce that the post-processing end-to-end signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) at the two sources are reduced by an additional noise pertaining to the CEE and the residual self-interference. Based on these SNRs, we analyze the overall system outage probability and the asymptotic outage behavior under a Rayleigh fading scenario. We demonstrate that the CEE has a severe impact on the overall outage performance and it may reduce the system diversity order to zero. Numerical and simulation investigations are conducted with various values of estimation errors and antenna configurations to support the theoretical analysis.","PeriodicalId":302718,"journal":{"name":"2015 Twenty First National Conference on Communications (NCC)","volume":"409 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123556788","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 power-law decay exponents and Barabasi models for subscriber usage behaviour in mobile networks","authors":"V. Sukumaran, Jobin Wilson, P. Kapadia","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2015.7084925","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2015.7084925","url":null,"abstract":"We consider whether Barabási multiclass priority service queueing models are appropriate for modelling voice and short message service interusage and voice usage residual time distributions for a set of high usage subscribers of an Asian telecommunication service provider. We find that a model with a non priority service discipline rather than any priority discipline provides an alternative explanation for the fitted power-law for the interusage time distributions. We also find that a Barabási model provides an alternative explanation to the fitted power-law for the voice usage residual time distribution. However, the exponent of the fitted power-law has not been observed before. Therefore, we propose and analyse a new Barabási list-of-tasks priority model with time varying and discrete task priorities. For a special case we show that the waiting time distribution has a power-law with a previously unknown power-law decay exponent, which is different from the observed exponent for the voice usage residual time distribution.","PeriodicalId":302718,"journal":{"name":"2015 Twenty First National Conference on Communications (NCC)","volume":"265 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120972537","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}
Hemant Suthar, D. Sarkar, K. Saurav, K. V. Srivastava
{"title":"Gain enhancement of microstrip patch antenna using near-zero index metamaterial (NZIM) lens","authors":"Hemant Suthar, D. Sarkar, K. Saurav, K. V. Srivastava","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2015.7084840","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2015.7084840","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, an array of 7 × 7 novel compact metamaterial unit cells is used as superstrate to improve the broadside gain of a microstrip patch antenna operating at the WLAN band. The proposed unit cell is obtained by suitably adding extra metal strips to the conventional mirrored S like structures. The unit cell cell analysis and parameter extraction using periodic boundary condition confirms the near zero index behavior as well as significant reduction (almost 52%) in the unit cell footprint. Simulation and measurement results confirm that near-zero index metamaterial (NZIM) lens significantly improves the gain (by more than 2 dBi) and reduces the half power beamwidth in both E-plane and H-plane by 20°.","PeriodicalId":302718,"journal":{"name":"2015 Twenty First National Conference on Communications (NCC)","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121321256","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}
Jom Kuriakose, J. Kumar, Sarala Padi, H. Murthy, Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman
{"title":"Akshara transcription of mrudangam strokes in Carnatic music","authors":"Jom Kuriakose, J. Kumar, Sarala Padi, H. Murthy, Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2015.7084906","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2015.7084906","url":null,"abstract":"Percussion instruments play a significant role in Carnatic music concerts. The percussion artist enjoys a great degree of freedom in improvising within the defined tala structure of a composition. The objective of this paper is to transcribe the improvisations, treating the percussion strokes as syllables or aksharas. Onset detection is performed to segment the waveform at each akshara. Using the transcriptions from the training data, a three-state Hidden Markov Model is built for each akshara. The language model is derived from the training data. Testing is also performed isolated style using onset detection to segment the phrase, and the language model to correct the transcription. Transcription is performed on both concert recordings and studio recordings. This technique yields upto ≈ 96% accuracy on studio recordings and ≈ 76% accuracy for concert recordings. As the mrudangam1 is an instrument that is based on tonic; tonic normalised features, namely, Cent Filterbank Cepstral coefficients are used. It is shown that tonic normalisation helps in transcription across different tonics.","PeriodicalId":302718,"journal":{"name":"2015 Twenty First National Conference on Communications (NCC)","volume":"77 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115399757","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":"High data rate MBOFCDM-UWB system for underground mine channel","authors":"A. Khan, S. M. Gulhane, Umesh W. Kaware","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2015.7084884","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2015.7084884","url":null,"abstract":"Wireless communication in underground mine aims to provide high data rate for voice and data communication among mine workers. Ultra Wide Band (UWB) technology has been seen to fulfil the above requirements. In this paper, application of 2D spreading to Multi Band Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing UWB (MBOFDM-UWB) system is attempted and resulting Multi Band Orthogonal Frequency and Code Division Multiplexing UWB (MBOFCDM-UWB) system has been analysed for underground mine channel. An extended closed form analytical expression for Bit Error Rate (BER) by incorporating power decay coefficient for clusters (Γ), power decay coefficient for pulse within clusters (γch), cluster average arrival rate (Λ) and pulse average arrival rate (λ) within clusters is obtained for MBOFDM-UWB in Underground mine channel. The simulated BER results for MBOFDM-UWB system are observed to be nearly close to analytical results which validate the analysis. The simulation results have shown improvement in performance of MBOFCDM-UWB system as compare to MBOFDM-UWB system.","PeriodicalId":302718,"journal":{"name":"2015 Twenty First National Conference on Communications (NCC)","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131354401","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. Shailendra, B. Panigrahi, H. Rath, Anantha Simha
{"title":"A novel overlay architecture for Information Centric Networking","authors":"S. Shailendra, B. Panigrahi, H. Rath, Anantha Simha","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2015.7084921","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2015.7084921","url":null,"abstract":"Information Centric Networks (ICN) has emerged as a new Internet paradigm where the users are being provided seamless access to contents rather than the host as in classical approach. For ICN realization, the current Internet requires architectural changes. These changes must be incorporated such that existing applications continue running without any difficulties. In this paper, we introduce a novel ICN architecture, called Overlay Information Centric Networks (O-ICN), which separates the data plane from the control plane activities of the network. Unlike the usual ICN architectures, in our approach naming and routing (control plane) functionalities have been segregated from the caching (data plane) functionality at each ICN router. We introduce a new module called an ICN Manager which is an extended version of Domain Name System (DNS) server and performs name resolution along with routing functionalities for ICN type of requests as well as the normal DNS resolution for non-ICN type of requests. The O-ICN architecture can be deployed incrementally over the current Internet and can operate both as ICN and non-ICN/legacy network simultaneously. This can also be implemented both in Software Defined Networks (SDN) as well as non-SDN networks without much modifications. The proposed architecture provides benefits in terms of simplification of network management, vendor independent solution, better use of network resources in terms of bandwidth and delay, and reduction of deployment/operational cost of the network.","PeriodicalId":302718,"journal":{"name":"2015 Twenty First National Conference on Communications (NCC)","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131410528","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}