{"title":"A Circular Fractal Antenna Array","authors":"R. Chauhan, Sanjeev Gupta","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2019.8732218","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2019.8732218","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, different arrays of the circular fractal antenna are analyzed. The various array design configurations are 1 $times 2,1times 4,2times 2$ and $2times 4$. The substrate used is FR4 whose dimension is varied according to the array configurations. A $pmb{50}Omega$ microstrip feed line is used to excite the antenna for all the configurations. The antenna shows stable radiation pattern and have good $S_{11}$ characteristics. All the analysis is done in HFSS 2014.","PeriodicalId":6870,"journal":{"name":"2019 National Conference on Communications (NCC)","volume":"77 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":"74446051","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":"MIMO-FBMC Channel Estimation with Limited, and Imperfect Knowledge of Channel Correlations","authors":"Prem Singh, K. Vasudevan","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2019.8732183","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2019.8732183","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents and analyses the performance of training-based least squares (LS) and minimum mean square error (MMSE) channel estimation schemes for multiple input multiple output (MIMO) filter bank multicarrier (FBMC) systems based on the offset quadrature amplitude modulation (OQAM) in the presence of limited, and imperfect knowledge of the channel correlations. First, a linear MMSE (LMMSE) technique for MIMO-FBMC channel estimation, which require a priori knowledge of channel correlation matrix, is examined by utilizing the second-order statistical properties of the intrinsic interference in FBMC systems. A biased LS (BLS) and relaxed LMMSE (RLMMSE) MIMO-FBMC channel estimation schemes, which require prior knowledge of the trace of the channel correlation matrix, are proposed. The LS-BLS and LS-RLMMSE schemes for MIMO-FBMC channel estimation are investigated in the presence of imperfect knowledge of the channel correlations. The mean square error is derived for the proposed schemes by exploiting statistical properties of the intrinsic interference. Simulation results show that the proposed schemes present an excellent trade-off between the achieved performance and required a priori knowledge of the channel correlations.","PeriodicalId":6870,"journal":{"name":"2019 National Conference on Communications (NCC)","volume":"40 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":"77993960","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":"Full Reference Stereoscopic Video Quality Assessment Based On Spatio-Depth Saliency And Motion Strength","authors":"Sameeulla Khan, Sumohana S. Channappayya","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2019.8732261","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2019.8732261","url":null,"abstract":"Stereoscopic video quality is a perceptual phenomena that is related to the human visual system (HVS). In this paper, we present a spatio-depth saliency and motion strength based full reference stereoscopic video quality metric (FRSVQA). Initially, we obtain a spatial distortion map on every video frame to estimate spatial quality. The spatial distortion map is then refined by the depth salient maps to estimate depth quality. We also estimate the temporal quality by refining the spatial distortion map with the inter-frame difference map at the locations specified by motion edges. The spatial, depth and temporal qualities are systematically combined and averaged over the frames to estimate the overall stereo video quality metric.","PeriodicalId":6870,"journal":{"name":"2019 National Conference on Communications (NCC)","volume":"25 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":"84514351","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}
Jinti Hazarika, Mohd. Tasleem Khan, S. Ahamed, H. Nemade
{"title":"High Performance Multiplierless Serial Pipelined VLSI Architecture for Real-Valued FFT","authors":"Jinti Hazarika, Mohd. Tasleem Khan, S. Ahamed, H. Nemade","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2019.8732236","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2019.8732236","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a high-performance multiplierless serial pipelined architecture for real-valued fast Fourier transform (FFT). A new data mapping scheme (DMS) is suggested for the proposed serial pipelined FFT architecture. The performance is enhanced by performing FFT computations in $log_{2}N-1$ stages followed by a select-store-feedback (SSF) stage, where $N$ is the number of points in FFT. Further enhancement in performance is achieved by employing quarter-complex multiplierless unit made up of memory and combinational logic in every stage. The memory stores half number of partial products while the remaining partial products are taken care by external combinational logic. Compared with the best existing scheme, the proposed design reduces the computational workload on half-butterfly (H-BF) units by $(2N-8)$. Application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) and field programmable gate array (FPGA) results show that the proposed design for 1024-point achieves 31.54% less area, 30.13% less power, 33.56% less area-delay product (ADP), 27.11% less sliced look-up tables (SLUTs) and 28.37% less flip-flops (FFs) as compared to the best existing scheme.","PeriodicalId":6870,"journal":{"name":"2019 National Conference on Communications (NCC)","volume":"6 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":"85421894","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":"Simulation of Emission Wavelength of Quantum Dot Based Single Photon Sources","authors":"M. Jyothish, F. Francis, Rathinam Manivasakan","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2019.8732235","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2019.8732235","url":null,"abstract":"Advances in quantum information processing and the requirements of quantum key distribution schemes have made high quality single photon sources, extremely essential. Here generation of a single photon from a semiconductor quantum dot using a semi-classical approach is investigated. Finite Element Method is used for the Eigen mode analysis of a typical pyramidal semiconductor quantum dot [3]. A design methodology is also proposed for obtaining the required emission wavelengths. Additionally, effects of wetting layer, height to base ratio and strain due to lattice mismatch are investigated. An Empirical relationship is obtained between pyramid geometry and emission wavelength. The simulation results were verified against the experimental works including [7] in ${1.2} mu m$ to ${1.3} mu m$ emission regime, and good match was observed.","PeriodicalId":6870,"journal":{"name":"2019 National Conference on Communications (NCC)","volume":"15 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":"74938970","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":"Proximity Fed Broadband Equilateral Triangular Microstrip Antenna Using Parasitic Rectangular Patches","authors":"S. Deshmukh, Akshay Doshi, A. Deshmukh","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2019.8732200","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2019.8732200","url":null,"abstract":"Gap coupled design of proximity fed equilateral triangular microstrip antenna along with variations of rectangular microstrip antennas are proposed. Design of equilateral triangular microstrip antenna provides a bandwidth of 302 MHz (25%) with broadside gain of 7.6 dBi. Enhancement in bandwidth and gain is realized by gap coupling rectangular patches. Optimum result with VSWR bandwidth of more than 670 MHz (57%), showing peak gain of 9.7 dBi is obtained in gap coupled configuration with two adjacent layers of two and four rectangular patches. Proposed design is simpler in implementation and measured results show close agreement.","PeriodicalId":6870,"journal":{"name":"2019 National Conference on Communications (NCC)","volume":"338 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":"75934127","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":"Saliency Guided Image Detail Enhancement","authors":"Sanjay Ghosh, Ruturaj G. Gavaskar, K. Chaudhury","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2019.8732250","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2019.8732250","url":null,"abstract":"The use of visual saliency for perceptual enhancement of images has drawn significant attention. In this paper, we explore the idea of selectively enhancing salient regions of an image. Moreover, we develop an algorithm based on adaptive bilateral filtering for this purpose. In most of the filtering based methods, detail enhancement is performed by decomposing the image into base and detail layers; the detail layer is amplified and added back to the base layer to obtain the enhanced image. The decomposition is performed using edge-preserving smoothing such as bilateral filtering. The present novelty is that we use the saliency map to locally guide the smoothing (and the enhancement) action of the bilateral filter. The effectiveness of our proposal is demonstrated using visual results. In particular, our method does not suffer from gradient reversals and halo artifacts, and does not amplify fine details in non-salient regions that often appear as noise grains in the enhanced image. Moreover, if we choose to perform the filtering channelwise, then our method can be efficiently implemented using an existing fast algorithm.","PeriodicalId":6870,"journal":{"name":"2019 National Conference on Communications (NCC)","volume":"27 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":"84369352","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 Minimax Theorem for Finite Blocklength Joint Source-Channel Coding over an AVC","authors":"Anuj S. Vora, Ankur A. Kulkarni","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2019.8732205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2019.8732205","url":null,"abstract":"We pose the finite blocklength communication problem in the presence of a jammer as a zero-sum game between the encoder-decoder team and the jammer, where the communicators, as well as the jammer, are allowed locally randomized strategies. The minimax value of the game corresponds to joint sourcechannel coding over an Arbitrarily Varying Channel (AVC), which in the channel coding setting is known to admit a strong converse. The communicating team's problem is non-convex and hence, in general, a minimax theorem need not hold for this game. However, we show that an approximate minimax theorem holds in the sense that the minimax and maximin values of the game approach each other asymptotically. In particular, for rates above a critical threshold, both the minimax and maximin values approach unity. This result is stronger than the usual strong converse for channel coding over an AVC, which only says that the minimax value approaches unity for such rates.","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":"89703290","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":"Design of Frequency-Signature Based Multiresonators Using Quarter Wavelength Open Ended Stub for Chipless RFID Tag","authors":"P. Prabavathi, S. S. Rani","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2019.8732229","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2019.8732229","url":null,"abstract":"A quarter wavelength open stub multiresonators are proposed for chipless Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag. The data capacity of the tag is 10 bit and open stub resonator operates in the frequency band of 2 GHz to 4 GHz. The data in the tag is encoded using absence or presence coding and frequency shift coding (FSC). The data stored is read and transmitted using the planar circular patch monopole ultra-wide band (UWB) antenna. The tag consists of two cross polarized sending and receiving planar circular patch (PCP) monopole UWB antennas connected to the multiresonators. The span of the multiresonator based chipless RFID tag is 23.8mmx17mm which is designed on FR4 substrate with dielectric permittivity of 4.4 and tangent loss of 0.01. It is designed and tested under simulation using ADS software and the vector network analyzer (VNA) after fabrication. The tag has the insertion loss in the range of -10 dB to -30 dB and a bit density of 2.47bits/cm2.","PeriodicalId":6870,"journal":{"name":"2019 National Conference on Communications (NCC)","volume":"63 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":"89283980","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 Filtered OFDM for BB-PLC using Software Defined Radio","authors":"K. P. Sumesh, Ankit Dubey, T. Panigrahi","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2019.8732188","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2019.8732188","url":null,"abstract":"Among several in-home communication systems, broadband over power line communication (BB-PLC) provides better connectivity at cheaper installation cost without disturbing the existing infrastructure. Conventional broadband systems, including BB-PLC, use the orthogonal frequency division modulation (OFDM) to combat the issue of frequency selective fading at the cost of extra bandwidth. However, it is proposed and shown that the spectral efficiency of the OFDM can be improved either by using filter bank multi-carrier (FBMC) or filtered OFDM (F-OFDM). In the former, all the sub-carriers of an OFDM symbol are filtered, however, in the latter, only the final OFDM symbol is filtered. Thus, it is a cost-effective solution to use the F-OFDM over the FBMC. This paper presents the hardware implementation of the F-OFDM for BB-PLC. Different prototype low-pass filters are used for comparative analysis, especially for the BB-PLC. The simulations are carried out in National Instruments' LabVIEW software and the hardware implementation of the transceiver is done on National Instruments' Software Defined Radio (SDR) set called USRP 2920. Polycab 1.5 SQ mm home wiring power cable is used as the communication channel in testing the BB-PLC system. From the power spectral density analysis, it is concluded that the F-OFDM has better spectral efficiency than the conventional OFDM. Further, it is observed that as the length of the filter increases the better spectral efficiency is achieved but at the cost of increased complexity.","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":"75447993","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}