Harikumar Krishnamurthy, Parikshit Hegde, A. Thangaraj
{"title":"Conditions for Optimality of Superposition Coding in Discrete Memoryless Broadcast Channels","authors":"Harikumar Krishnamurthy, Parikshit Hegde, A. Thangaraj","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2019.8732209","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2019.8732209","url":null,"abstract":"The capacity region of general discrete-memoryless broadcast channels (DMBCs) with two receivers is an open problem of considerable research interest. The optimality of superposition coding in three specific cases of the DMBC is considered. For a DMBC with binary input, symmetric output and output cardinality at most 3, superposition coding is shown to be optimal. For equal-capacity DMBCs with any input cardinality, superposition coding is shown to be suboptimal if each channel has a capacity-achieving input distribution that is not capacity-achieving for the other channel. For an equal-capacity DMBC with binary input, superposition coding is shown to be optimal if and only if the two channels are more-capable comparable even without utput symmetry. These results improve upon the previously known conditions for optimality of superposition coding in DMBCs.","PeriodicalId":6870,"journal":{"name":"2019 National Conference on Communications (NCC)","volume":"108 1","pages":"1-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73351839","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":"Probability Mass Functions for which Sources have the Maximum Minimum Expected Length","authors":"Shivkumar K. Manickam","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2019.8732264","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2019.8732264","url":null,"abstract":"Let <tex>$mathcal{P}_{n}$</tex> be the set of all probability mass functions (PMFs) <tex>$(p_{1},p_{2}, ldots, p_{n})$</tex> that satisfy <tex>$p_{i} > 0$</tex> for <tex>$1leq ileq n$</tex>. Define the minimum expected length function <tex>$mathcal{L}_{D}:mathcal{P}_{n}rightarrow mathbb{R}$</tex> such that <tex>$mathcal{L}_{D}(P)$</tex> is the minimum expected length of a prefix code, formed out of an alphabet of size D, for the discrete memoryless source having <tex>$P$</tex> as its source distribution. It is well-known that the function <tex>$mathcal{L}_{D}$</tex> attains its maximum value at the uniform distribution. Further, when <tex>$n$</tex> is of the form <tex>$D^{m}$</tex>, with <tex>$m$</tex> being a positive integer, PMFs other than the uniform distribution at which <tex>$mathcal{L}_{D}$</tex> attains its maximum value are known. However, a complete characterization of all such PMFs at which the minimum expected length function attains its maximum value has not been done so far. This is done in this paper.","PeriodicalId":6870,"journal":{"name":"2019 National Conference on Communications (NCC)","volume":"31 1","pages":"1-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89584544","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}
Viswanathan Ramachandran, S. R. Pillai, V. Prabhakaran
{"title":"Channels with Action Dependent States and Common Reconstructions","authors":"Viswanathan Ramachandran, S. R. Pillai, V. Prabhakaran","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2019.8732230","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2019.8732230","url":null,"abstract":"In channels with action dependent states, a common message is conveyed using two encoders operating sequentially, viz. an action encoder and a channel encoder. The actions drive the output of a discrete-memoryless channel (DMC), which in turn forms the state process for the DMC between the channel encoder and receiver. Assuming non-causal knowledge of the state-process at the channel encoder, a single letter characterization of the capacity is known in the discrete memoryless case. We consider the action dependent state channel with a common message and an additional private message at the channel encoder, along with common reconstructions (CR) of the state process at the channel encoder and the decoder. Capacity characterizations for the discrete memoryless and Gaussian versions are presented. As a consequence, we settle the capacity characterization of the Gaussian action dependent channel with only a common message and CR. Moreover, by identifying a connection to degraded message sets multiple access channel (deg-MAC) models studied in literature, we establish the capacity regions for the discrete and Gaussian versions of deg-MAC with CR constraints.","PeriodicalId":6870,"journal":{"name":"2019 National Conference on Communications (NCC)","volume":"168 1","pages":"1-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83532131","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":"Signal design and detection algorithms for quick detection under false alarm rate constraints","authors":"Alamuru Pavan Kumar, B. S. Vineeth","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2019.8732228","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2019.8732228","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we consider the design of sequential detection algorithms for the low delay detection of a finite duration transient change signal from noisy observations of the signal under a false alarm rate constraint. Such design problems are motivated by the need to detect explicit control signals with low delay. We propose five heuristic detection algorithms that include algorithms that directly estimate the start time of the signals. In contrast to prior work, we also consider the case where the transient change signal can be apriori designed so as to optimize the detection delay as well as false alarm rate. Using simulations and numerical studies, we compare the average delay and false alarm rate performance of the above algorithms for different choices of the transient change signals.","PeriodicalId":6870,"journal":{"name":"2019 National Conference on Communications (NCC)","volume":"2017 1","pages":"1-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73305398","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":"Power Domain NOMA Design Based on MBER Criterion","authors":"A. Dutta","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2019.8732248","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2019.8732248","url":null,"abstract":"Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) has been gaining notable attention in the context of next generation communication system. The key primary benefit includes the higher spectrum efficiency compared to its various orthogonal counterparts. In this treatise, we consider a power NOMA design based on the minimum bit error ratio (MBER) criterion. Inspiration has been drawn from the MBER based works, which show a considerable performance improvement in terms of bit error ratio (BER) for a system. In this work, we have considered a single-input single-output (SISO) system with quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK) signal constellation. The numerical results demonstrate an overall BER improvement compared to the existing schemes, albeit, the scheme attracts large computational complexity. Traditionally, NOMA increases the spectral efficiency compared to its orthogonal counterpart. Nevertheless, our proposed solution will still hold this feature along with a better BER performance, though its spectral efficiency will be less compared to the traditional sum-rate based power NOMA.","PeriodicalId":6870,"journal":{"name":"2019 National Conference on Communications (NCC)","volume":"15 1","pages":"1-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88782792","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":"Data-pooling and multi-task learning for enhanced performance of speech recognition systems in multiple low resourced languages","authors":"A. Madhavaraj, A. Ramakrishnan","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2019.8732237","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2019.8732237","url":null,"abstract":"We present two approaches to improve the performance of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems for Gujarati, Tamil and Telugu. In the first approach using data-pooling with phone mapping (DP-PM), a deep neural network (DNN) is trained to predict the senones for the target language; then we use the feature vectors and their alignments from other source languages to map the phones from the source to the target language. The lexicons of the source languages are then modified using this phone mapping and an ASR system for the target language is trained using both the target and the modified source data. This DP-PM approach gives relative improvements in word error rates (WER) of 5.1% for Gujarati, 3.1% for Tamil and 3.4% for Telugu, over the corresponding baseline figures. In the second approach using multi-task DNN (MT-DNN) modeling, we use feature vectors from all the languages and train a DNN with three output layers, each predicting the senones of one of the languages. Objective functions of the output layers are modified such that during training, only those DNN layers responsible for predicting the senones of a language are updated, if the feature vector belongs to that language. This MT-DNN approach achieves relative improvements in WER of 5.7%, 3.3% and 5.2% for Gujarati, Tamil and Telugu, respectively.","PeriodicalId":6870,"journal":{"name":"2019 National Conference on Communications (NCC)","volume":"118 1","pages":"1-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90259290","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 Analysis of an Asymmetric dual hop PLC-VLC system for Indoor Broadcasting","authors":"Manan Jani, P. Garg, Akash Gupta","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2019.8732211","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2019.8732211","url":null,"abstract":"We propose and investigate the performance of a novel asymmetric dual hop relay based power line communication (PLC) and visible light communication (VLC) system for the purpose of indoor broadcasting. The PLC link experiences log-normal fading and additive noises. The PLC link is used as a back-haul link for the VLC downlink transmission system which serve multiple end users. The characteristics of the VLC links are dependent on the random position of the end users. Novel closed form expressions for the cumulative distribution function (CDF) of the end to end signal to noise ratio (SNR) of the proposed system is derived. Also, capitalising on these derived entities, the system's performance is evaluated in terms of the outage probability (OP) metric.","PeriodicalId":6870,"journal":{"name":"2019 National Conference on Communications (NCC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"1-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90400322","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}
D. V. S. Reddy, Gokul Krishnappa, Sumohana S. Channappayya
{"title":"Full-Reference Video Quality Assessment Using Deep 3D Convolutional Neural Networks","authors":"D. V. S. Reddy, Gokul Krishnappa, Sumohana S. Channappayya","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2019.8732265","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2019.8732265","url":null,"abstract":"We present a novel framework called Deep Video QUality Evaluator (DeepVQUE) for full-reference video quality assessment (FRVQA) using deep 3D convolutional neural networks (3D ConvNets). DeepVQUE is a complementary framework to traditional handcrafted feature based methods in that it uses deep 3D ConvNet models for feature extraction. 3D ConvNets are capable of extracting spatio-temporal features of the video which are vital for video quality assessment (VQA). Most of the existing FRVQA approaches operate on spatial and temporal domains independently followed by pooling, and often ignore the crucial spatio-temporal relationship of intensities in natural videos. In this work, we pay special attention to the contribution of spatio-temporal dependencies in natural videos to quality assessment. Specifically, the proposed approach estimates the spatio-temporal quality of a video with respect to its pristine version by applying commonly used distance measures such as the l1 or the l2 norm to the volume-wise pristine and distorted 3D ConvNet features. Spatial quality is estimated using off-the-shelf full-reference image quality assessment (FRIQA) methods. Overall video quality is estimated using support vector regression (SVR) applied to the spatio-temporal and spatial quality estimates. Additionally, we illustrate the ability of the proposed approach to localize distortions in space and time.","PeriodicalId":6870,"journal":{"name":"2019 National Conference on Communications (NCC)","volume":"55 1","pages":"1-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85682478","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":"Differential Phase Encoding Scheme for Measurement-Device-Independent Quantum Key Distribution","authors":"S. Ranu, A. Prabhakar, Prabha Mandayam","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2019.8732260","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2019.8732260","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes a measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution (MDI-QKD) scheme based on differential phase encoding. The differential phase shift MDI-QKD (DPS-MDI-QKD) couples the advantages of DPS-QKD with that of MDI-QKD. The proposed scheme offers resistance against photon number splitting attack and phase fluctuations as well as immunity against detector side-channel vulnerabilities. The design proposed in this paper uses weak coherent pulses in a superposition of three orthogonal states, corresponding to one of three distinct paths in a delay-line interferometer. The classical bit information is encoded in the phase difference between pulses traversing successive paths. This 3-pulse superposition offers enhanced security compared to using a train of pulses by decreasing the learning rate of an eavesdropper and unmasking her presence with an increased error rate upon application of intercept and resend attack and beamsplitter attack. The proposed scheme employs phase locking of the sources of the two trusted parties so as to maintain the coherence between their optical signal, and uses a beamsplitter (BS) at the untrusted node (Charlie) to extract the key information from the phase encoded signals.","PeriodicalId":6870,"journal":{"name":"2019 National Conference on Communications (NCC)","volume":"62 1","pages":"1-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73560506","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":"Error performance of QAM GFDM waveform with CFO under AWGN and TWDP fading channel","authors":"Sapta Girish Neelam, P. R. Sahu","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2019.8732207","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2019.8732207","url":null,"abstract":"Generalized frequency division multiplexing (GFDM) is a strong contender waveform for 5G cellular communications. This letter derives closed form symbol error rate (SER) expressions with carrier frequency offset (CFO) in the presence of additive white gaussian noise (AWGN) channel for 1. normal BPSK, QPSK and 16-QAM-GFDM and 2. Time shift and Frequency shift, offset QPSK (OQPSK) and offset 16-QAM GFDM waveforms. This letter also derives SER expressions under TWDP fading channel for BPSK and QPSK GFDM waveforms. It is observed that under AWGN channel 1. SER performance of frequency shift offset QAM (FS-OQAM) GFDM is better than conventional MF, ZF and MMSE receivers and 2. FS-OQAM-GFDM slightly outperforms time shift OQAM(TS-OQAM) GFDM at higher values of CFO. The performance analysis studies show that TWDP fading can result in a performance poorer than Rayleigh fading when two specular components which are equal in strength and antiphase cancel each other for $bar{K} > 6mathbf{dB}$. The numerically evaluated results are in close agreement with the simulated results.","PeriodicalId":6870,"journal":{"name":"2019 National Conference on Communications (NCC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"1-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89078694","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}