NCC - 2007

The Thirteenth

National Conference on Communications

January 26-28, 2007

 

Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

 

 

 

                                           

 

 

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Schedule of Contributed Papers

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1.1 OFDM

Saturday Jan 27, 10:15am

 

1.      A Novel Scheme for Frequency Synchronization and Kalman Filter Based Channel Estimation for OFDM Transmission System

C. Venkatesh, S. Venkatesh, Madeswaran Moorthi

2.      A Hybrid Synchronization Technique for the Frequency Offset Correction in OFDM

Sameer S. M., R. V. Raja Kumar

3.      Discrete Bit Loading for OFDM-based Cognitive Radio Systems

Gaurav Bansal, Md. Jahangir Hossain, Vijay K. Bhargava

4.      Kalman Filter Based Equalization for ICI Suppression in High Mobility OFDM Systems

Prerana Gupta, D. K. Mehra

5.      Rate and Power Adaptation in OFDM with Quantized Feedback

A. P. Dileep, Srikrishna Bhashyam

 

1.2 Video & Image Processing - I

Saturday Jan 27, 10:15am

 

1.      Practical Approaches for the Estimation of High Resolution Depth Map and Intensity Field using Photometric cue

Swati Sharma, Manjunath V. Joshi

2.      Accurate Image Registration from Local Phase Information

Himanshu Arora, Anoop Namboodiri, C.V. Jawahar

3.      Automatic Road Extraction from Satellite Image

B. Sowmya, Aashik Hameed

4.      Face Recognition Using Canonical Correlation Analysis

Amit C. Kale, R. Aravind

5.      Threshold Free Technique to Detect the Blotches in Old Film Sequences

Meduri Chandra Sekhar, Sumana Gupta

 

1.3 Wireless Networks

Saturday Jan 27, 10:15am

 

1.      Construction and Maintenance of Energy Aware Virtual Backbone Tree in Wireless Sensor Networks

Mrinmay Dutta, Sudip Paral, Tamaghna Acharya

2.      Modelling MANETs Using Queueing Networks

Vishal Jain, R. B. Lenin, Sanjay Srivastava

3.      Analysis of GPRS Radio Interface Throughput and Delay

Shikha Srivastava, Subrat Kar, Vaneeta Jindal

4.      On High Spatial Reuse Broadcast Scheduling in STDMA Wireless Ad Hoc Networks

Ashutosh Deepak Gore, Abhay Karandikar

 

2.1 Information Theory

Saturday Jan 27, 12:15pm

 

1.      On the capacity achieving distribution for a peak power constrained channel

Prakash Rajpurohit, Anurag Rawat, Naresh Sharma

2.      Low Correlation Sequences over the 16-QAM Constellation

M. Anand, P. Vijay Kumar

3.      Linear Transceivers for Sending Correlated Sources Over the Gaussian MAC

Onkar Dabeer, Aline Roumy, Christine Guillemot

4.      Optimality of Orthogonal Sequences with Multi-dimensional Signaling

Arun Padakandla, Rajesh Sundaresan

 

2.2 Signal Processing - I

Saturday Jan 27, 12:15pm

 

1.      Kernel Approach to Autoregressive Modeling

Ranjeeth Kumar, C. V. Jawahar

2.      Implementation of Discrete Fractional Fourier Transform for Signal Compression

J. S. Bhat, Vijaya C.

3.      Signal Matched Non-uniform Filter Bank

Sanjay Nalbalwar, S. D. Joshi, R. K. Patney

4.      A Generalized Approach for Finite Precision 5/3 Filter Design

Bhushan Patil, Gaurav Sharma, Pushkar Patwardhan, Vikram Gadre

 

2.3 Optical Communication and Networks

Saturday Jan 27, 12:15pm

 

1.      Dynamic Routing and Wavelength Assignment using Adaptive Weight Function for All-Optical WDM Networks

D. K. Kothari, Sameer Mahajan, Sudarshan Tiwari

2.      Wavelength Reassignment Algorithms for Optical WDM Networks

Rajalakshmi P., Ashok Jhunjhunwala

3.      Performance Analysis of a Lightpath in WDM-Based Passive Optical Network Employing an AWG-Based Demultiplexer

Jayashree Ratnam, Debasish Datta, Saswat Chakrabarti

4.      Improved Transmitter Placements for Near Uniform Power Distribution in Multiple Transmitter Indoor Optical Wireless Systems

Sivabalan Arumugam, Joseph John

 

3.1 Communications - I

Saturday Jan 27, 02:30pm

 

1.      A Novel System based on Filtered Multitone Modulation and RCPC codes for Video Transmission

Chirag Jain, Anant Malewar, Nitin Jadon, Vikram Gadre

2.      SIR Analysis in Uplink OFDMA with Large Carrier Frequency and Timing Offsets

K. Raghunath, A. Chockalingam

3.      A Low Complexity Frequency Domain Equalization for EDGE

P. Dinakar, R. David Koilpillai

4.      Achieving near Beamforming Performance with Quantized CSI

V. Ganesh, Devendra Jalihal

 

3.2 Speech Processing

Saturday Jan 27, 02:30pm

 

1.      Less Computational Complex method for Estimation of Nonstationary Noise in Speech using Low frequency regions for Power Spectral Subtraction

K. Anitha Sheela, K. Satya Prasad

2.      Spectral Subtraction Speech Enhancement with RASTA Filtering

Ram Singh, Preeti Rao

3.      Voice Activity Detection using Group Delay Processing on Buffered Short-term Energy

Sree Hari Krishnan P., R. Padmanabhan, Hema A. Murthy

4.      Jacobian Compensation Using Variance Normalization in Automatic Speech Recognition

Mohd Amir Khan, D. Rama Sanand, S. Umesh

5.      Using Vocal-Tract Length Normalization in Recognition of Children Speech

S. Umesh, R. Sinha, D Rama Sanand

 

3.3 Routing for Ad Hoc Networks

Saturday Jan 27, 02:30pm

 

1.      Performance Comparison of Ad Hoc Routing Protocols over IEEE 802.11 DCF and TDMA MAC Layer Protocols

Govind P. Gupta, A. K. Pandey

2.      Agent based multicast routing in MANETs

M. S. Kakkasageri, S. S. Manvi, A. K. Sinha

3.      Isolating the Black Hole Node in Mobile Ad Hoc Network using AODV Routing Protocol

Partibane B., Balasathis, Amaradeepan, R. Nakkeran

4.      Modified Distance Vector Routing Scheme for a MANET

Swapan K. Ray, Jeevesh Kumar, Santanu K. Sen, Jaydip Nath

5.      HART: Hop count based Adaptive Route cache Timeout for efficient routing using DSR in MANETs.

M. Tamilarasi, T. G. Palanivelu., Sanjeev Kumar Das

 

4.1 Coding Theory - I

Saturday Jan 27, 04:30pm

 

1.      Constellation Shaping using Codes with a Tree Tanner Graph

Sunil Kaimalettu, Andrew Thangaraj, Steven W. McLaughlin

2.      MMSE Optimal Space-Time Block Codes from Crossed Product Algebras

G. Susinder  Rajan, B. Sundar Rajan

3.      Threshold Optimization for Reduced Complexity LDPC Decoding

Siddarama R. Patil, Sant S. Patthak

4.      D-MG Optimal Codes for Cooperative Communication Protocols

Petros Elia, K. Vinodh, Pankaj Bhambani, P. Vijay Kumar

5.      HARQ Schemes using LDPC codes with Diversity-Combining

A. S. Mohan Vamsi, Andrew Thangaraj, Bhaskar Ramamurthi

 

4.2 System Implementations

Jan 27, 04:30pm

 

1.      Restructuring Communication Algorithms for Improved Performance on Multi-Core Processors

Ashwin Prasad, Anand Kodaganur

2.      Design and Implementation of BSU for IFF Radar System using Xilinx Virtex2Pro FPGA

D.K.Tiwari, Reena Sharma, T Balakrishnan

3.      DPLL Adaptation and I/Q Imbalance Compensation for Mobile Satellite Demodulators

S. Jayasimha, T.P. Kumar, P.Jyothendar

4.      VLSI Design of Spread Spectrum Image Watermarking

Santi P. Maity, Ayan Banerjee, Abu Abhijit, Malay K. Kundu

5.      A Kalman filtering approach for Integrating MEMS-based INS and GPS for land vehicle applications

Ashish Kumar Gupta, S. S. Sarma Evani, R.David Koilpillai

 

4.3 Security & Watermarking

Saturday Jan 27, 04:30pm

 

1.      Transport Data Security in Network Management Systems

Nisha P Kurur, Ishpal Singh Gill, N.Usha Rani, Timothy A. Gonsalves

2.      Hybrid Scheme for Robust Digital Image Watermarking Using Dirty Paper Trellis Codes

Nayan K. Dey, Suman K.Mitra, Ashish N. Jadhav

3.      Performance Analysis of Different Pseudo Noise Sequences for Speech Encryption

V. Anil Kumar, Abhijit Mitra, S. R. M. Prasanna

4.      Digital Fortress [New Standard for Encryption]

Manojkumar Parmar

 

5.1 CDMA

Sunday Jan 28, 10:00am

 

1.      A New Overloading Scheme for DS-CDMA System

Preetam Kumar, Saswat Chakrabarti

2.      Improved Linear PICs for multicarrier DS-CDMA

K. Vishnu Vardhan, T. Srikanth, and A. Chockalingam

3.      Efficient PIC Technique for Performance Improvement in Synchronous CI/MC-CDMA Uplink Using Fuzzy Logic

Santi P. Maity, Mita Ghosh, Seba Maity

4.      Multiuser Scheduling and Power Sharing for CDMA Packet Data Systems

Sandeep Vangipuram, Srikrishna Bhashyam

5.      Performance of Packet Data with Space Diversity and Truncated ARQ in presence of Correlated Interferers in Cellular CDMA

Sumit Kundu, Saswat Chakrabarti

 

5.2 Signal Processing - II

Sunday Jan 28, 10:00am

 

1.      Exact Identification of an All-Pole System from Its Response to a Periodic Input

C.S. Ramalingam

2.      Signal Adaptive MBE Modeling for Low Bit Rate Speech Coding

Pushkar P. Patwardhan, Preeti Rao

3.      A Computationally Efficient packet wavelet coder using Cellular Neural Network

N. Venkateswaran, S. Santhosh Kumar, S. Rahul, Y.V Ramana Rao

4.      Correction of Ocular Artifacts in EEG Recordings using Empirical Mode Decomposition

B. S. Raghavendra, D. Narayana Dutt

5.      Multi-scale Representation of Stochastic Processes using Subband Coder as Modeling Filter

Brejesh Lall, Shiv Dutt Joshi, RKP Bhatt

 

5.3 Microwave Components & Subsystems

Sunday Jan 28, 10:00am

 

1.      Analysis of Multiport Waveguide Power Divider/Combiner for Phased Array Application

Sushrut Das, Ajay Chakrabarty, Ashmi Chakraborty

2.      Improvement Of  Passband Characteristics of Microstrip Band Pass Filter by Defected Ground Structures

Susanta Kumar Parui, Santanu Das

3.      Capacitively Loaded Parallel Coupled Line Harmonic Suppression Filter

D.Packiaraj, M.Ramesh , A.T.Kalghatgi

4.      A Wideband Compact Planar Conical Loop Antenna

Sachin Gupta, Mangipudi Ramesh, Ajit.T. Kalghatgi

5.      An S-Parameter Based Modeling of a MIMO Channel Using Half-wave Dipole Antennas

Babu Sena Paul, R.Bhattacharjee

6.      Studies on Aperture Coupled Reduced Height H-Plane Tee Junctions using CAD at 17.55 GHz

Ashmi Chakraborty, Sushrut Das, Ajay Chakrabarty

 

6.1 Coding Theory - II

Sunday Jan 28, 12:00pm

 

1.      An Implementation Of A Soft-Input Stack Decoder For Tailbiting Convolutional Codes

Mukundan Madhavan, Andrew Thangaraj

2.      A New Approach to Layered Space-Time Code Design

Monika Agrawal, Tarun Pangti

3.      High-rate, Multi-Symbol-Decodable STBCs from Clifford Algebras

Sanjay Karmakar, B. Sundar Rajan

4.      Encoder and SNR Independent Stopping Rule for Turbo Codes

A Rajesh , AK Chaturvedi

 

6.2 Communications - II

Sunday Jan 28, 12:00pm

  1. Frequency Offset Estimation using H_{\infinity} Particle Filtering

B.Senthil, R.Aravind , K.M.M. Prabhu

2.        An Adaptive Negative Feedback Controller for Indoor Wireless Communications

Abhijit Mitra

3.        Buffer Allocation in Wireless Multimedia Networks Using Fuzzy Logic

J. D. Mallapur,  S. S. Manvi, R.B.Manjula , D.H. Rao

4.        Seamless Channel Transition for Modified Bespoke Broadcasting Scheme

Hari Om, Satish Chand

 

6.3 Optical Fiber Devices and Systems

Sunday Jan 28, 12:00pm

 

1.      Bidirectional DFEs for 10Gb/s Ethernet over Multimode Fiber Links

Kasyapa Balemarthy, Stephen E. Ralph

2.      Impact of PMD induced Data Asymmetry and Timing Misalignment for a Dispersion Compensated IM-DD Optical Transmission Link

Somnath Chandra, Ranjan Gangopadhyay

3.      Dispersion measurement of single-mode optical fibre using intensity modulator

Pradeep Kumar K, Anil Prabhakar

4.      Grating Assisted Lateral Directional Coupler Employing InGaAs/GaAs Multiquantum Wells and its Analysis Using Mode Conversion Technique

Ajit Barve, Utpal Das

 

7.1 Communications - III

Sunday Jan 28, 02:30pm

 

1.      Outage Probability of Cellular Mobile Radio in the Presence of Multiple Nakagami Interferers with Similar Fading Parameters: A Correction

G. V. V. Sharma

2.      Co-ordinate Interleaved Precoding for Block Transmission over ISI Channels

K. V. Srinivas, R. D. Koilpillai, K. Giridhar

3.      SFBC-OFDM Signal Detection in MIMO Channels

D. Sreedhar, A. Chockalingam

4.      Non Data Aided Symbol Timing Estimation in Multiple Antenna Systems

K.Rajawat, A.K. Chaturvedi

  

7.2 Video & Image Processing - II

Sunday Jan 28, 02:30pm

 

1.      Enhancements in Error Resiliency of Data-Partitioned H.263++ Video Codec

Ekram Khan, Athar Ali Moinuddin, Mohammed Ghanbari

2.      Radon Transform application for rotation invariant texture analysis using Gabor filters

Vibha Vyas, Priti Rege

3.      Real Time Image Processing System using Packet Based on Chip Communication

Jonathan Joshi, Sharad Bade, Parul Batra, Rohan Adyanthaya

4.      Compressed Video Indexing and Retrieval System using Two Dimensional Representation of  Color

Anjaneya Prasad Musunuri, Sumana Gupta

5.      Robust Facial Feature Tracking using Particle Filter with Shape and Texture Information

Rakesh Tripathi, R. Aravind