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Advanced Communication Lab

Introduction

The Advanced Communication System Laboratory covers design and verification of the concepts of modern communication systems that operates in MHz-THz range. The main focus of the Advanced Communication System (ACS) Laboratory is to design next-generation wireless technologies and mobile computing systems. In particular, ACS Laboratory conducts research in the broad area of communication theory, wireless communications and networks, with focus on the physical layer and optical communication systems – Optical fiber based and integrated photonic waveguides based. 


Wireless Communication

Research into various types of wireless communication networks can be conducted in this lab: Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications, cellular networks, relaying, cognitive radio, heterogeneous networks, 5G wireless communications. Topics of particular interest are:

  • Signal processing for Wireless communication systems
  • Cognitive radio/dynamic resource allocation
  • Cooperative networks/Relaying
  • Full-duplex radio/Hardware-based modelling and signal processing techniques
  • Software radio/USRP experimental implementation

Photonics & Optical Communication

Research into various optical communication network components and areas like, Coherent optical systems, Dense WDM FOCS, Optical Signal Processing, Optical communication system component design are carried out in this lab. Topics of particular interest are:
  • Component design for integrated Photonic optical communication system
  • Fiber Optic Communication Network design and optimization
  • Coherent optical receiver design
  • Integrate Reconfigurable Optical Add/Drop Multiplexers (ROADM) for Optical Communicaiton System

Courses to cater

  • EEE G592 Mobile and Personal Communication - ME Communication, Elective for BE (H) Electronics and Communication, BE (H) Electrical and Electronics students
  • EEE G622 Advanced Digital Communication - ME Communication, Elective for BE (H) Electronics and Communication, BE (H) Electrical and Electronics students
  • EEE G591 Optical Communication - ME Communication, Elective for BE (H) Electronics and Communication, BE (H) Electrical and Electronics students
  • EEE G522 Advanced Satellite Communication - Elective for BE (H) Electronics and Communication, BE (H) Electrical and Electronics, ME Communication, students

Facilities

  • NI USRP-2940R & NI USRP-2943R: Software Defined Radio Platform: An affordable, PC-hosted platform used with NI LabVIEW software to build powerful wireless communications systems for research and education. 
  • Agilent Spectrum Analyzer N9320B (9 KHz - 3 GHz):  Offers modulation data, including carrier power, modulation rate, AM depth or FM deviation, SINAD and carrier frequency offset. 
  • RSoft System Design Suite –OptSIM for system and network simulation of Fiber Optic Communication Systems.
  • RSoft Component Design Suite tools: FullWAVE, BeamPROP, GratingMOD, FemSIM & MOST for optical network and integrated component design and analysis.

News

 
[Project] Dr. Souvik Kundu (PI) and Prof. Souri Banerjee (Physics, co-PI) received a project from BRNS (3 years, ~35 lakhs) - "Metal-oxide and Nanocomposite based low-power non-volatile switching device".
 
[PhD Student Paper] Manu Gupta, V Rajagopalan, E P Pioro, B.V.V.S.N. Prabhakar Rao, Volumetric Analysis of MR Images for Glioma Classification and their Effect on Brain Tissues, Signal, Image and Video Processing, Published Online, 2017. 
 

Events

[15 Sep 2017] Visit by Prof. R. Karmalkar, IIT Madras
 
[24 Aug 2017] Visit by Prof. Varun Jeoti (Signal processing and Wireless communication), University Technology Petronas, Malaysia 
 
[11 Aug 2017] Interaction with New EEE Students
 

Recent Publications

Detailed List...

1. Manu Gupta, V Rajagopalan, E P Pioro, B.V.V.S.N. Prabhakar Rao, Volumetric Analysis of MR Images for Glioma Classification and their Effect on Brain Tissues, Signal, Image and Video Processing, Published Online, 2017.  

2. S. Chitraganti, R. Toth, N. Meskin, J. Mohammadpour, Stochastic model predictive tracking of piecewise constant references for LPV  Systems, IET Control Theory & Applications, in press, 2017.

3. Soham Jariwala, Rohit Nagpal, Saksham Phul, Sanket Goel and Balaji Krishnamurthy, Modeling the performance of an enzymatic glucose fuel cell, accepted for publication with Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, 2017.

4. Venkateswaran PS, Santosh Dubey, Abhishek Sharma, Ajay Agarwal and Sanket Goel*, Stereolithographic 3D Printed Microfluidic viscometer for Rapid Detection of Automobile Fuel Adulteration, accepted for publication with Sensor Letters, 2017.

5. S. K. Sahoo, A. Gangishetty, R. Sahoo and M. Muglikar, High Performance Ternary Adder using CNTFET, IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology , Vol. 99, pp.1-1. 2017.

6. Young Ho Kim, Jeong-Woo Sohn,  Yeon Kyung Lee, Jaehoon Jung, Minyeong Jeong, Sanket Goel, Hee Jin Kim,  Sang-June Choi, Preparation of pH Sensitive MMT/PEGMEA Nanocomposite Micropatterns by Rapid and Simple UV Curing Procedures,Journal of Nanoelectronics and Optoelectronics, Vol 12(6), pp. 550-556, 2017.

7. Ganesh Kumar Ganjikunta and Subhendu Kumar Sahoo, An area-efficient and low-power 64-point pipeline Fast Fourier Transform for OFDM applications, Integration, the VLSI Journal, Vol. 57, pp. 125-131, 2017.

8. Kotha Srinivasa Reddy and Subhendu Kumar Sahoo, An approach for fixed coefficient RNS-based FIR filter, International Journal of Electronics, Vol. 104 (8), 2017.

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