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Mepco R2019 ME COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS

ME COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS
Curriculum and Syllabus
Semester - 1
S.No Code Name of the Course L T P C
Core Theory
1 19MA173 APPLIED MATHEMATICS FOR ELECTRONICS AND 3 2 0 4
COMMUNICATION ENGINEERS
(Common to MCO, MVL)
2 19CM101 ADVANCED RADIATION SYSTEMS 3 0 0 3
3 19CM102 ADVANCED DIGITAL COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUES 3 0 0 3
4 19CM103 ADVANCED DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING 3 2 0 4
5 19CM104 OPTICAL COMMUNICATION NETWORKS 3 0 0 3
Core Elective
6 Core Elective-1 (MCO) 3 0 0 3
Core Practical
7 19CM151 COMMUNICATION SYSTEM LABORATORY - I 0 0 4 2
Total 18 4 4 22

Semester - 2
S.No Code Name of the Course L T P C
Core Theory
1 19CM201 WIRELESS MOBILE COMMUNICATION 3 0 0 3
2 19CM202 RF AND MICROWAVE SYSTEM DESIGN 3 2 0 4
3 19CM203 MIMO OFDM SYSTEMS 3 0 0 3
Core Elective
4 Core Elective-2 (MCO) 3 0 0 3
5 Core Elective-3 (MCO) 3 0 0 3
Open Elective
6 PG Open Elective-1 3 0 0 3
Core Practical
7 19CM251 COMMUNICATION SYSTEM LABORATORY - II 0 0 4 2
Total 18 2 4 21
Semester - 3
S.No Code Name of the Course L T P C
Core Elective
1 Core Elective-4 (MCO) 3 0 0 3
2 Core Elective-5 (MCO) 3 0 0 3
Open Elective
3 PG Open Elective-2 3 0 0 3
Core Practical
4 19CM352 TECHNICAL SEMINAR* 0 0 2 1
Project Work / Viva Voce
5 19CM351 PROJECT WORK (PHASE - I) 0 0 12 6
Total 9 0 14 16
* - Internal Assessment Only

Semester - 4
S.No Code Name of the Course L T P C
Project Work / Viva Voce
1 19CM451 PROJECT WORK (PHASE - II) 0 0 24 12
Total 0 0 24 12
Core Elective-1 (MCO)
S.No Code Name of the Course Offered
1 19CMC01 ADVANCED SATELLITE SYSTEMS ECE
2 19CMC02 COMMUNICATION SYSTEM MODELING AND SIMULATION ECE
3 19CMC03 EMBEDDED AND REAL TIME OPERATING SYSTEMS ECE
4 19CMC25 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY AND IPR ECE

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Core Elective-2 (MCO)


S.No Code Name of the Course Offered
1 19CMC04 ADVANCED RADAR AND NAVIGATIONAL AIDS ECE
2 19CMC05 COMMUNICATION NETWORK SECURITY ECE
3 19CMC06 MULTICORE PROCESSOR AND SYSTEMS ECE
4 19CMC07 MULTIMEDIA COMPRESSION TECHNIQUES ECE
5 19CMC08 SMART ANTENNAS ECE
6 19CMC09 WAVELETS AND MULTIRESOLUTION PROCESSING ECE
Core Elective-3 (MCO)
S.No Code Name of the Course Offered
1 19CMC10 ADVANCED DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING ECE
2 19CMC11 COMMUNICATION PROTOCOL ENGINEERING ECE
3 19CMC12 ELECTROMAGNETIC METAMATERIALS ECE
4 19CMC13 NUMERICAL TECHNIQUES FOR ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS ECE
5 19CMC14 PATTERN RECOGNITION AND MACHINE LEARNING ECE
6 19VDC08 ASIC DESIGN ECE
7 19VDC10 MIXED SIGNAL CIRCUIT DESIGN ECE
Core Elective-4 (MCO)
S.No Code Name of the Course Offered
1 19CMC15 ADVANCED TECHNIQUES FOR WIRELESS SIGNAL RECEPTION ECE
2 19CMC16 DSP PROCESSOR ARCHITECTURE AND PROGRAMMING ECE
3 19CMC17 HIGH SPEED COMMUNICATION NETWORKS ECE
4 19CMC18 LTE TECHNOLOGY AND STANDARDS ECE
5 19CMC19 MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS ECE
6 19VDC16 MOBILE ROBOTICS ECE

Core Elective-5 (MCO)


S.No Code Name of the Course Offered
1 19CMC20 CDMA TECHNIQUES ECE
2 19CMC21 GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEMS ECE
3 19CMC22 DIGITAL AUDIO AND SPEECH SIGNAL PROCESSING ECE
4 19CMC23 WIRELESS AD-HOC AND SENSOR NETWORKS ECE
5 19CMC24 LIGHT WAVE COMMUNICATION ECE
6 19CMC26 FREQUENCY SELECTIVE SURFACES ECE
7 19CMC27 STEGANOGRAPHY AND STEGANALYSIS ECE
8 19VDC21 VLSI ARCHITECTURE FOR IMAGE AND VIDEO PROCESSING ECE
PG Open Elective-1
S.No Code Name of the Course Offered
1 19CMP01 ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS ECE
2 19CMP02 NETWORK ROUTING ALGORITHMS ECE
3 19CMP03 SOFTWARE AND COGNITIVE RADIO SYSTEMS ECE
4 19ISP01 FUNDAMENTALS OF ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT MECH
5 19ISP02 MAINTAINABILITY ENGINEERING MECH
6 19ISP03 TRANSPORT SAFETY MECH
7 19ISP04 WORK STUDY AND ERGONOMICS MECH
8 19MAP01 ADVANCED GRAPH THEORY MAT
9 19MAP02 ANALYSIS OF INVENTORY SYSTEMS MAT
10 19MAP03 GRAPH ALGORITHM MAT
11 19MBP01 CELL AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY BT
12 19MBP02 PHARMACOLOGY BT
13 19MBP03 BIOMATERIALS BT
14 19MCP01 CLOUD SECURITY CSE
15 19MCP02 ETHICAL HACKING CSE
16 19MCP03 SENSING TECHNIQUES AND SENSORS CSE
17 19PEP01 ENERGY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS EEE
18 19PEP02 INTELLIGENT OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES EEE
19 19PEP03 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY EEE

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20 19SEP01 ACTION AND RESPONSE OF STRUCTURAL SYSTEMS CIV


21 19SEP02 MECHANICS OF COMPOSITE MATERIALS CIV
22 19SEP03 NON-LINEAR ANALYSIS OF STRUCTURES CIV
23 19SEP04 THEORY OF PLASTICITY CIV
24 19SEP05 TRANSMISSION LINE STRUCTURES CIV
25 19VDP01 ADVANCED ELECTRONIC TESTING ECE
26 19VDP02 EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTING ECE
27 19VDP03 NANOELECTRONIC DEVICES AND NANOSENSORS ECE
PG Open Elective-2
S.No Code Name of the Course Offered
1 19CMP04 RF MEMS ECE
2 19CMP05 NEXT GENERATION WIRELESS NETWORKS ECE
3 19CMP06 ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERFERENCE AND COMPATIBILITY IN SYSTEM ECE
DESIGN
4 19ISP05 NUCLEAR ENGINEERING AND SAFETY MECH
5 19ISP06 PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL TREATMENT OF WATER AND MECH
WASTEWATER
6 19ISP07 SAFETY IN CONSTRUCTION MECH
7 19MBP04 SYSTEMS BIOLOGY OF MICROBIAL NETWORKS BT
8 19MBP05 NANOTECHNOLOGY IN HEALTH CARE BT
9 19MBP06 BIOSENSORS BT
10 19MCP04 INTERNET OF THINGS CSE
11 19MCP05 WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS AND APPLICATIONS CSE
12 19MCP06 DATA ANALYSIS FOR BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE CSE
13 19PEP04 APPLICATION OF MEMS TECHNOLOGY EEE
14 19PEP05 SOLAR AND ADVANCED ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM EEE
15 19PEP06 ELECTRICAL SAFETY ENGINEERING EEE
16 19SEP06 MACHINE FOUNDATION CIV
17 19SEP07 STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING CIV
18 19SEP08 SOIL STRUCTURE INTERACTION CIV
19 19SEP09 WIND AND CYCLONE EFFECTS ON STRUCTURES CIV
20 19SEP10 ADVANCED DESIGN OF FOUNDATIONS CIV
21 19VDP04 SILICON TECHNOLOGY FOR MM-WAVE COMMUNICATION ECE
22 19VDP05 VLSI DESIGN OF NEURAL NETWORKS ECE
23 19VDP06 VLSI ARCHITECTURES FOR CRYPTOGRAPHY ECE

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19MA173 APPLIED MATHEMATICS FOR ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION L T P C


Offered by MAT
ENGINEERS 3 2 0 4
(Core Theory offered to MCO, MVL)
Course Objective:
To impart knowledge on
• To impart the concept of Linear Algebra.
• To make the students to decompose the matrices into required form and to know its uses.
• To have a knowledge in solving differential equations using numerical methods techniques.
• To formulate the problem and prepare the computational procedure of PERT and CPM method.
• To expose the features of a queuing system and analyze the queuing models.
Course Outcome:
At the end of the course, the students will be able to
• Apply various methods in linear algebra to solve system of linear equations and the problems associated with
Linear algebra.
• Apply the concept of diagonalisation of matrices in the field of electronics and communication engineering.
• Solve and get the numerical solution of differential equations by single and multi step methods.
• Conceptualize the principle of optimality and sub-optimization, formulation and computational procedure of
PERT and CPM method.
• Explain the basic characteristic features of a queuing system and acquire skills in analyzing queuing models.
Unit I LINEAR ALGEBRA 12
Spaces of vectors- Null space- Rank - Row reduced form - Independence - Basis - Dimension - Four fundamental
subspaces - Linear transformations - Matrix of linear transformation - Orthogonality of vectors - Orthogonal
subspace - Projections - Orthogonal bases.
Unit II ADVANCED MATRIX THEORY 12
Some important matrix factorization: LU factorization –The Cholesky Decomposition- QR factorization - Singular
value decomposition -Pseudo inverse – Least square approximations - Toeplitz matrices and some applications.
Unit III NUMERICAL SOLUTION OF DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS 12
Initial Value Problems – Single step methods: Picard’s method – Taylor’s series –Runge-Kutta method of fourth
order – Numerical stability of Runge-Kutta method – Adams - Bashforth multistep method – Shooting method for
linear differential equations – Boundary Value Problem – Finite difference method for linear differential equations
– Laplace equation.
Unit IV PROJECT MANAGEMENT BY PERT AND CPM 12
Basic Terminologies- Constructing a project network- Network computations in CPM and PERT- Cost crashing-
Resource leveling.
Unit V QUEUING MODELS 12
Poisson process- Markovian queues - Single and Multi-server Models with infinite capacity - Little’s formula-
Machine Interference Model - Steady State analysis - Self Service queue.
Reference Book:
1. Strang, G., ―Linear Algebra and its Applications, Thomson (Brooks/Cole), A part of Cengage Learning New
Delhi, (4th Edition, Fifteenth Reprint 2014).
2. Bronson, R.,Matrix Operation, Schaum’s outline series, McGraw Hill, New York, Second Edition, 2011.
3. Grewal .B.S and Grewal .J.S ―Numerical Methods in Engineering and Science, Khanna Publishers, New Delhi
11th Edition 2013.
4. Sastry, S. S., ― Introductory Methods of Numerical Analysis, 5th Edition, PHI Learning, 2015.
5. Kanti Swarup, Gupta P K and Manmohan, ―Operations Research, Sultan Chand and Sons New Delhi,2014.
6. Taha, H. A., “Operations Research: An Introduction”, ninth Edition, Pearson Education, Asia Edition, New Delhi,
2016.

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19CM101 ADVANCED RADIATION SYSTEMS L T P C


Offered by ECE (Core Theory) 3 0 0 3
Course Objective:
To impart knowledge on
• To design various antenna arrays
• To design micro strip antennas
Course Outcome:
At the end of the course, the students will be able to
• Evaluate and analyze various antenna parameters for a given antenna.
• Design and analyze an aperture antenna for a given specifications.
• Design and analyze micro strip antennas for a given specifications.
• Design and analyze metamaterial antennas, and Fractal antennas.
• Create any type of antenna using simulation tools.
Unit I ANTENNA FUNDAMENTALS 9
Antenna fundamental parameters, Radiation integrals, Radiation from surface and line current distributions –
Introduction to numerical techniques- FEM, FDTD, MoM. Linear array –uniform array, end fire and broad side array,
gain, beam width, side lobe level- Two dimensional uniform array- Phased array, beam scanning, grating lobe, feed
network- Linear array synthesis techniques – Binomial and Chebyshev distributions.
Unit II RADIATION FROM APERTURES 9
Field equivalence principle, Radiation from Rectangular and Circular apertures, Uniform aperturedistribution on an
infinite ground plane; Slot antenna; Horn antenna-Reflector antenna, aperture blockage, and design consideration.
Unit III MICRO STRIP ANTENNA 9
Radiation Mechanism from patch- Excitation techniques; Microstrip dipole; Rectangular patch, Circular patch, and
Ring antenna – radiation analysis from cavity model- input impedance of rectangular and circular patch antenna-
Microstrip array and feed network- Application of microstrip array antenna.
Unit IV SPECIAL ANTENNAS 9
Need of metamaterial structures, Advantages of metamaterial structures. Design of the metamaterial antennas,
Fractal antennas, polarization sensitive antenna design, sinuous antennas, EBG structure, PBG structures. CNT
antennas.
Unit V SMART ANTENNAS AND ANTENNA SIMULATION 9
Introduction to Smart Antennas, Beam Forming, Estimation of DOA, AOA. Introduction to ADS, HFSS, EMPro. Design
of Microstrip antennas using Simulators. Simulation of Metamaterial Unit Cell, Fractal Structures.
Reference Book:
1. Balanis.A, “Antenna Theory Analysis and Design”, John Wiley and Sons, New York,FourthEdition, 2012
2. Kraus. J.D, “Antennas”, John Wiley and sons, New York,Second edition, 1997.
3. I.J. Bahl and P. Bhartia, “Microstrip Antennas”,Artech House,Inc.,1980
4. W.L.Stutzman and G.A.Thiele, “Antenna Theory and Design”, John Wiley&SonsInc.,second edition, 1998.
Extensive Reading:
• http://www.ieeeboston.org/publications/society_presentations/2011-9-9_presentations/dl-lecture-boston-
ohio-state-2010-distributed.pdf
• http://www.mitre.org/news/events/exchange08/3728.pdf
• http://eprints.iisc.ernet.in/id/eprint/532
• http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/974490/1/carbon_nanotube_composites.pdf
• http://www.ece.iit.edu/~pfelber/fractalantennas.pdf
• http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=1189650
• http://www.phd.etfbl.net/files/Works_PDF/Poprzen%20Nemanja%20.pdf

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Mepco R2019 ME COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS

19CM102 ADVANCED DIGITAL COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUES L T P C


Offered by ECE (Core Theory) 3 0 0 3
Course Objective:
To impart knowledge on
• To extend the theory of Constant envelope modulation to M-ary schemes and to familiarize the concept of
Spread Spectrum.
• To develop the mathematical and algorithmic foundations of the error detecting and error correcting codes
used in modern communications systems.
Course Outcome:
At the end of the course, the students will be able to
• Narrate coherent and non coherent detection in detail
• Analyze the performance of a pass band digital communication system in terms of error rate and spectral
efficiency
• Identify the major classes of error detecting and error correcting codes and how they are used in practice.
• Explain the concepts of Turbo coding.
• Apply Spread Spectrum Techniques in Wireless Communication Technologies
Unit I DETECTION 9
Pass band Transmission model - Gram Schmidt orthogonalization procedure, Geometric Interpretation of signals,
Response of bank of correlators to a noisy input-Detection of Known signals in noise - correlation Receiver- Matched
Filter Receiver - Detection of signals with unknown phase- Probability of error.
Unit II CONSTANT ENVELOPE MODULATION 9
Advantages of Constant Envelope Modulation - Minimum Shift Keying- Gaussian Minimum Shift Keying- M-ary Pulse
Amplitude Modulation - M-ary Quadrature Amplitude Modulation – M-ary Phase Shift Keying- M-ary Frequency
Shift Keying, Non Coherent modulation Techniques.
Unit III CONVOLUTIONAL CODING 9
Representation of codes using Polynomial- State diagram- Tree diagram- and Trellis diagram – Maximum likelihood
Decoding – Distance properties - Sequential decoding. Coded modulation for bandwidth-constrained channels-
Trellis coded modulation- Set Partitioning, Four state trellis-coded modulation with 8-PSK signal constellation, Eight-
state trellis code for coded 8-PSK modulation, Eight-state trellis for rectangular QAM signal constellations.
Unit IV TURBO CODING 9
Introduction-Turbo Encoder- UMTS Turbo Code- cdma2000 Turbo Code - Turbo Decoder, Iterative Turbo Decoding
Principles; Modifications of the MAP Algorithm-The Soft-Output Viterbi Algorithm (SOVA);Turbo Coded BPSK
Performance over Gaussian channels, Turbo Coding Performance over Rayleigh Channels.
Unit V SPREAD SPECTRUM SIGNALS FOR DIGITAL COMMUNICATION 9
Model of spread Spectrum Digital Communication System-Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum Signals- Error rate
performance of the coder- Generation of PN Sequences and its properties - Frequency Hopped Spread Spectrum
Signals- Performance of FH Spread Spectrum Signals in an AWGN Channel- CDMA system based on FH spread
spectrum signals- Synchronization of Spread Spectrum Systems.
Reference Book:
1. Simon Haykin, “Digital Communications”, John Wiley, 2006.
2. Simon Haykin, “ Digital Communication System”, Wiley Student Edition, 2013
3. Bernard Sklar., “Digital Communications”, Pearson Education, second edition, 2001
4. John G. Proakis., “Digital Communication”, Mc Graw Hill Publication, 4th edition, 2001
5. S.Lin & D.J.Costello, Error Control Coding (2/e) Pearson, 2005.
6. L. Hanzo, T.H. Liew &B.L. Yeap, “Turbo Coding, Turbo Equalization & Space-Time Coding”, Wiley, 2002.
7. Theodore S.Rappaport., “Wireless Communications”, Pearson Education, 2nd edition 2002.
8. Stephen G. Wilson., “Digital Modulation and Coding”, Pearson Education, First Indian Reprint,2003.
9. Rodger E. Ziemer, Roger L. Peterson, David E. Borth , “Introduction to Spread Spectrum Communications”,
Prentice Hall,1995.
Extensive Reading:
• https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc17_ee17/
• https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/271238/2/Turbo-coding-equalization-chapter-1-3-13-18.pdf

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19CM103 ADVANCED DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING L T P C


Offered by ECE (Core Theory) 3 2 0 4
Course Objective:
To impart knowledge on
• To estimate the spectrum using Parametric and Non Parametric methods
• To design filter / Linear Predictor for Communication Systems
• To design a multirate system
Course Outcome:
At the end of the course, the students will be able to
• Generate the various special types of Random Processes in communication receivers
• Estimate / Evaluate the Power Spectrum
• Design an optimum filter / linear predictor in signal processing applications
• Design an adaptive filter / equalizer in communication receivers
• Design a multi rate system used in coding technique
Unit I DISCRETE RANDOM SIGNAL PROCESSING 12
Discrete Random Processes- Ensemble Averages, Stationary processes, Bias and Estimation, Auto covariance,
Autocorrelation, Parseval’s theorem, Wiener-Khintchine relation, White noise, Power Spectral Density, Spectral
factorization, Filtering Random Processes, Special types of Random Processes – ARMA, AR, MA – Yule- Walker
equations.
Unit II SPECTRAL ESTIMATION 12
Estimation of spectra from finite duration signals, Nonparametric methods – Periodogram, Modified periodogram,
Bartlett, Welch and Blackman-Tukey methods, Parametric methods – ARMA, AR and MA model based spectral
estimation, Solution using Levinson-Durbin algorithm
Unit III LINEAR ESTIMATION AND PREDICTION 12
Linear prediction – Forward and Backward prediction, Solution of Prony’s normal equations, Least mean-squared
error criterion, Wiener filter for filtering and prediction, FIR and IIR Wiener filters, Discrete Kalman filter
Unit IV ADAPTIVE FILTERS 12
FIR adaptive filters – adaptive filter based on steepest descent method- Widrow-Hoff LMS algorithm, Normalized
LMS algorithm, Adaptive channel equalization, Adaptive echo cancellation, Adaptive noise cancellation, RLS
adaptive algorithm.
Unit V MULTIRATE DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING AND WAVELET TRANSFORM 12
Multirate system –Decimator, Interpolators – Polyphase structure - Multistage implementation of multirate system
– Wavelet transform: Discrete Wavelet transform one dimension (Haar Wavelet transform) - wavelet packets -
Application to subband coding
Reference Book:
1. Monson H. Hayes, ‘Statistical Digital Signal Processing and Modeling, Wiley India (P) Ltd. First Edition, Reprint
2008
2. John J. Proakis, Dimitris G. Melonakos: Digital Signal Processing, Pearson Prentice Hall, Fourth Edition, 2007
3. Raghuveer M. Rao and Ajit S. Bopardikar, “Wavelet Transforms: Introduction to Theory & Applications”,
Addison Wesley Publishing Company, First Edition, Reprint 1998
4. K.P.Soman, K.I.Ramachandran, and N.G.Resmi, Insight into Wavelets from theory to Practice, PHI, Third Edition
(Sixth Printing), 2010.
Extensive Reading:
• www.ee.gatech.edu/users/mhayes/stat_dsp
• www.dspguru.com/
• www.digitalimageprocessingplace.com

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19CM104 OPTICAL COMMUNICATION NETWORKS L T P C


Offered by ECE (Core Theory) 3 0 0 3
Course Objective:
To impart knowledge on
• To be well-versed in functionalities of various optical components and networking architectures like SONET /
SDH used in Optical Networking
• To be prepared for cost effective laying Access Networks like Fiber to the Home in India.
Course Outcome:
At the end of the course, the students will be able to
• Apply knowledge ofbasic optical components for realizing any optical function
• Identify and formulate different networking Topologies.
• Design Optical Network Routing Algorithms.
• Apply the basic Networking knowledge to realize any sort of end to end communication and Analyze the Time
division multiplexing in optical domain
• Manage the optical networks in its configuration, fault and performance
Unit I OPTICAL SYSTEM COMPONENTS 9
Light propagation in optical fibers – Loss & bandwidth, Dispersion effects, Non-Linear effects; Solitons- Optical
Network Components – Couplers, Isolators & Circulators, Multiplexers & Filters, Optical Amplifiers, Switches,
Wavelength Converters.
Unit II OPTICAL NETWORK ARCHITECTURES 9
Introduction to Optical Networks: SONET / SDH standards, Metropoliton Area Networks, Layered Architecture-
Broadcast and Select Networks– Topologies for Broadcast Networks, Media Access Control Protocols, Testbeds for
WDM; Outline of Wavelength Routing Architecture.
Unit III WAVELENGTH ROUTING NETWORKS 9
Optical layer, Node Designs, Routing and Wavelength Assignment, Virtual topology design problem,Regular virtual
topology design- Predetermined Virtual topology and Light path routes-Architectural variations.
Unit IV PACKET SWITCHING AND ACCESS NETWORKS 9
Photonic Packet Switching – OTDM, Multiplexing and Demultiplexing, Synchronisation, Broadcast OTDM networks,
Switch-based networks- Access Networks – Network Architecture overview, OTDM networks- Optical Access
Network Architectures- Future Access Networks, FTTH Scenario in India and Foreign Countries.
Unit V NETWORK DESIGN AND MANAGEMENT 9
Transmission System Engineering – System model, Power penalty - transmitter, receiver, Optical amplifiers,
crosstalk, dispersion- Wavelength stabilization ; Overall design considerations- Control and Management – Network
management functions, Configuration management, Performance management, Fault management, Optical safety.
Simple simulations using OPTSIM software (Not for Exam)
Reference Book:
1. Rajiv Ramaswami, Kumar N. Sivarajan and Galen H. Sasaki “Optical Networks : A Practical Perspective”,
Harcourt Asia Pvt. Ltd., Third Edition 2010.
2. Mohammad Ilyas, Hussein T. Mouftah, “Handbook of Optical Communication Networks”, Taylor and Francis,
First edition, 2007.
3. C.Siva Ram Moorthy and Mohan Gurusamy, “WDM Optical Networks :Concept, Design and Algorithms”,
Prentice Hall of India, First Edition, 2002.
4. Biswanath Mukherjee, “Optical Communication Networks”, McGrawHill Revised Edition 2006.
5. P.E. Green, Jr., “Fiber Optic Networks”, Prentice Hall, NJ, 1993. 6. Rajiv Ramaswami and Kumar N. Sivarajan,
“Optical Networks : A Practical Perspective”, Harcourt Asia Pvt. Ltd., First Edition 1997..
6. Rajiv Ramaswami, Kumar N. Sivarajan and Galen H. Sasaki “Optical Networks : A Practical Perspective”,
Harcourt Asia Pvt. Ltd., First Edition 2005.
Extensive Reading:
• www.nextgenerationoptical.com
• http://www.lightwaveonline.com
• http://aicte-stream/Nptel Lecture by Dr. MukundaRao.

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19CM151 COMMUNICATION SYSTEM LABORATORY - I L T P C


Offered by ECE (Core Practical) 0 0 4 2
Course Objective:
To impart knowledge on
• To analyze the performance of wired and wireless transceivers.
• To design and test different types of Microstrip antennas.
Course Outcome:
At the end of the course, the students will be able to
• Apply mathematical formulation to analyze spectrum estimation of a signal and bit rate determination of a
transmission link.
• Analyze various modulation and coding techniques.
• Design the transceiver for wired and wireless channel
• Design Microstrip antennas / Microstrip arrays/Fractal structure for the desired frequencies.
• Analyze the performance of optimization algorithms for equalizing the channel or noise/echocancellation
Practical Experiments:
1. Design and performance analysis of error control encoder and decoder (CRC and Convolutional Codes) using
MATLAB
2. Analysis of transmission line parameters using ADS Software
3. Simulation of Microstrip Antennas using ADS software
4. Design and Simulation of a Broadside Microstrip Array
5. Design and Simulation of an End Fire Microstrip Array
6. Construction and simulation a Fractal Structure
7. OFDM transceiver design using MATLAB
8. Channel equalizer design using MATLAB (LMS, RLS algorithms)
9. Design and Analysis of Spectrum Estimators (Bartlett, Welch) using MATLAB
10. BER performance Analysis of M-ary digital Modulation Techniques (coherent & non coherent) in AWGN
Environment using MATLAB
11. Design and performance analysis of Lossless Coding Techniques - Huffman Coding and Lempel Ziv Algorithm
using MATLAB.
12. Noise / Echo cancellation using MATLAB (LMS / RLS algorithms)

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19CM201 WIRELESS MOBILE COMMUNICATION L T P C


Offered by ECE (Core Theory) 3 0 0 3
Course Objective:
To impart knowledge on
• To make familiarize the statistical models used to represent wireless channel.
• To evaluate the performance of MIMO systems, WCDMA systems and IP based systems.
Course Outcome:
At the end of the course, the students will be able to
• Evaluate and analyze channel parameters and perform channel capacity prediction
• Evaluate the performance of MIMO systems through multiplexing and diversity.
• Evaluate the performance of multicarrier modulation over single carrier modulation.
• Analyze the performance of a radio access technology WCDMA.
• Evaluate the performance of IP based mobility framework
Unit I WIRELESS CHANNEL MODELING 9
Overview of wireless systems – Physical modeling for wireless channels – Time and Frequency coherence –
Statistical channel models – Capacity of wireless Channel - Capacity of Flat Fading Channel – Channel Distribution
Information known – Channel Side Information at Receiver – Channel Side Information at Transmitter and Receiver
– Capacity with Receiver diversity – Capacity comparisons – Capacity of Frequency Selective Fading channels
Unit II MULTIPLE ANTENNAS AND SPACE TIME COMMUNICATIONS 8
Narrowband MIMO model – parallel decomposition of the MIMO channel – MIMO channel capacity – MIMO
diversity gain: Beamforming – Space time modulation and coding – Frequency selective MIMO channels
Unit III MULTICARRIER MODULATION 9
Data Transmission using Multiple Carriers – Multicarrier Modulation with Overlapping Subchannels – Mitigation of
Subcarrier Fading – Discrete Implementation of Multicarrier Modulation – Peak to average Power Ratio- Frequency
and Timing offset – Case study IEEE 802.11a.
Unit IV WIDEBAND CODE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS 10
CDMA system overview - air interface – physical and logical channels – speech coding, multiplexing and channel
coding – spreading and modulation: frame structure, spreading codes- uplink-downlink – physical layer procedures:
cell search and synchronization-establishing a connection-power control-handover-overload control.
Unit V IP MOBILITY FRAMEWORK 9
Challenges of IP Mobility -Address Management - Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol and Domain Name Server
Interfaces – Security – Mobility-Based AAA Protocol - IP Mobility Architecture Framework - x Access Network - IPv6
Challenges for IP Mobility.
Reference Book:
1. Andrea Goldsmith, “Wireless Communications”, Cambridge University Press, 2005.
2. Andreas F.Molish, “ Wireless Communications”, Wiley India, 2011.
3. Savo G. Glisic, “Advanced Wireless Communications and Internet: Future Evolving Technologies” John Wiley,
Third Edition, 2011.
4. A.Paulraj, R.Nabar, D.Gore, “Introduction to Space-Time Wireless Communication”, Cambridge University Press,
First Edition, 2008.
5. T.S. Rappaport, “Wireless Communications”, Pearson Education, Second Edition, First Impression 2008
Extensive Reading:
• http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~dtse/Chapters_PDF/Fundamentals_Wireless_Communication_chapter5.pdf
• http://www.ece.mtu.edu/faculty/ztian/ee5530/sswireless.pdf
• http://webmail.aast.edu/~khedr/Courses/Graduate/Wireless%20Communications_F08/Lecture%20six%20OFD
M.pdf
• http://cctlab.snu.ac.kr/nrl/w_ch06land.pdf

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19CM202 RF AND MICROWAVE SYSTEM DESIGN L T P C


Offered by ECE (Core Theory) 3 2 0 4
Course Objective:
To impart knowledge on
• Understand the functionalities of basic RF electronics utilized in the industry.
• Design of RF circuits and RFIC system
• Design passive and active microwave Circuits and MIC Systems
Course Outcome:
At the end of the course, the students will be able to
• Apply knowledge of basic RF Electronics for realizing any RF System.
• Evaluate the performance of any practical RF circuit used commercially.
• Design RF front-end for the required performance
• Design an MIC circuit for the required performance
• Design application specific MIC Systems
Unit I AMPLIFIERS 12
Characteristics of Amplifiers, Amplifier Power Relations, RF Source, Transducer Power Gain, Additional
Power Relations, Stability Considerations, Stability Circles, Unconditional Stability, Stabilization Methods, Constant
Gain, Unilateral Design, Unilateral Figure of Merit, Bilateral Design, Operating and Available Power Gain Circles,
Noise Figure Circles, Constant VSWR Circles, Broadband Amplifiers, High-Power Amplifiers , Multistage Amplifiers.
Unit II OSCILLATORS AND MIXERS 12
Basic Oscillator Model, Negative Resistance Oscillator, Feedback Oscillator, Quartz Oscillators, High-Frequency
Oscillator Configuration, Fixed Frequency Oscillators, Dielectric Resonator Oscillators, YIG-Tuned Oscillator, Voltage
Controlled Oscillator, Gunn Element Oscillator, Basic Characteristics of Mixers, Basic Concepts, Frequency Domain
Considerations, Single Ended Mixer, Single-Balanced Mixer, Double Balanced Mixer.
Unit III TRANSCEIVER ARCHITECTURES 12
Noise Figure, Effects of Nonlinearity, Harmonic Distortion, Gain Compression, Cross Modulation,
Intermodulation, Cascaded Nonlinear Stages AM/PM Conversion, Sensitivity and Dynamic Range, Transceiver
Architectures-General Considerations, Heterodyne Receivers, , Direct Conversion Receivers, Image Reject
Receivers, Low-Receivers, Transmitter Architectures - General Considerations- Direct and Two Step upconversion
Unit IV MICROWAVE PASSIVE CIRCUITS 12
Overview of Planar Transmission Lines- Design Parameters for Strip lines and Microstrips - Realization of L&C by Low
Impedance, High Impedance method and STUB method - LPF, BPF Design - Branch Line Coupler, Rat-Race Coupler,
Power Dividers.
Unit V SYSTEM DESIGN USING MMIC TECHNOLOGY 12
Analysis of MMIC Technology -Micro Machined Antennas - Micro Electro Mechanical System Antennas, Design
issues in Phased Array Radar- Satellite Transponder -Integrated electronic warfare T/R modules - Avionic Systems
Integration.
Reference Book:
1. Reinhold.Ludwig and PavelBretshko, “RF Circuit Design”, Pearson Education, Inc., 2006
2. B.Razavi,“RF Micro electronics”, Pearson Education, Second Edition, 2012
3. D.M.Pozar, “Microwave Engineering”, 4th Edition, John Wiley & sons, Inc., 2011.
4. T.Lee,“Design of CMOS RF Integrated Circuits”, Cambridge ,First Edition, 2004
5. Ravender Goyal, “Monolithic MIC; Technology & Design”, Artech House, 1989.
Extensive Reading:
• www.analog.com/library/.../archives/.../EDCh%204%20rf%20if.pdf
• www.qsl.net/.../RF%20Power%20Amplifiers/RF_Power_Amplifiers.pdf
• http://www.highfrequencyelectronics.com/Archives/Aug11/HFE0811_Maloratsky.pdf
• http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1987maa..agar.....D
• http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1978ieee.conf..411M

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19CM203 MIMO OFDM SYSTEMS L T P C


Offered by ECE (Core Theory) 3 0 0 3
Course Objective:
To impart knowledge on
• To obtain impulse response coefficients from the power delay profiles of the fading channels.
• To determine the capacity and bit error rate of MIMO OFDM system for a given power delay profile of the
MIMO channel.
• To analyze the performance of MIMO OFDM physical channel in WiMAX /LTE wireless standards.
Course Outcome:
At the end of the course, the students will be able to
• Understand various channel models for MIMO OFDM systems
• Analyze the capacity and BER performance to various MIMO OFDM systems
• Estimate the MIMO channel impulse response using least square, MMSE and robust MMSE estimation
algorithms.
• Estimate and correct the timing offset in the signal received at the MIMO OFDM receiver.
• Analyze the performance of Transceiver with spatial diversity
Unit I SAMPLED SIGNAL AND MULTIPATH FADINGCHANNEL MODELS 9
Physical scattering models- Extended channel models Signal model for SISO, SIMO, MISO and MIMO ITU Channel
Models- 3GPPP Channel Models - Extended ITU Models- Spatial Channel Model SCM Extension Channel Model,
WINNER Channel Model
Unit II CAPACITY ANALYSIS & BIT ERROR RATE ANALYSIS 9
Capacity in Frequency Flat Fading channel, Capacity in Frequency Selective Fading Channel - Transmit Beam forming
- Receiver Selection Combining- Receiver Equal Combining- Receiver Maximal Ratio Combining
Unit III SPATIAL DIVERSITY AT TRANSMITTER AND RECEIVER 9
Diversity gain- Transmit and receive Antenna diversity- Diversity order and performance- Combined space and path
diversity- Indirect transmit diversity-space time coding for frequency flat channels- frequency selective channels-
Receivers for SISO, SIMO and MIMO
Unit IV CHANNEL ESTIMATION AND TIMING & FREQUENCY SYNCHRONIZATION 9
MIMOLS Estimation- MMSE Estimation- Robust MMSE Estimation-Coarse Time Synchronization- Fine Time
Synchronization- Coarse Frequency Synchronization- Fine Frequency Synchronization
Unit V OFDM AND SPREAD SPECTRUM MODULATION 9
SISO-OFDM- MIMO OFDM- SISO SS modulation- MISO SS modulation, Model, capacity and receiver gain of MIMO
MAC, MIMO BC, MIMO MU
Reference Book:
1. A. Paulraj, R. Nabar and D Gore, “Introduction to Space-Time Wireless Communications”, Cambridge University
Press, First Edition, 2008.
2. D.Tse and P.Viswanath, “Fundamentals of Wireless Communications”, Cambridge University Press, First Asian
Edition, 2006.
3. Stefania Sesia, Issam Toufik, Matthew Baker, “LTE - The UMTS Long Term Evolution: From Theory to Practice”,
Wiley, 2nd Edition,2011.
4. Y.S.Cho,J.Kim,Won Young Yang, Chung G. Kang, “ MIMO OFDM Wireless Communications with MATLAB” John
Wiley & sons(Asia) private Ltd, First Edition, 2010.
5. L. Hanzo, Y.A. Li Wang, M. Jiang “MIMO-OFDM for LTE, Wi-Fi andWiMAX ”, John Wiley & Sons Ltd, First
Edition,2010.
6. T.M. Duman, A. Ghrayeb “Coding for MIMO Communication Systems” John Wiley & Sons Ltd, First Edition,2007.
7. E. Biglieri, R. Calderbank, A. Constantinides, A. Goldsmith, A. Paulraj, “MIMO Wireless Communications”,
Cambridge University press, First Edition, 2010.
8. Erik. G. Larsson, “Space Time Block Coding for Wireless Communications”, Cambridge University Press, First
Edition, 2008.
Extensive Reading:
• http://www.di.uoa.gr/speech/dsp/X/PERUGI.PDF
• www.3gpp.org/

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19CM251 COMMUNICATION SYSTEM LABORATORY - II L T P C


Offered by ECE (Core Practical) 0 0 4 2
Course Objective:
To impart knowledge on
• To analyze the performance of Microwave components and passive RF subsystem.
• To design and analyze the performance of wireless communication System.
• To design and determine the characteristics of optical communication system.
• To apply various transforms to observe the performance of Audio, Speech and Image compression
Course Outcome:
At the end of the course, the students will be able to
• Determine the characteristics of microwave components
• Design and simulate passive RF subsystem
• Apply mathematical formulation to analyze and evaluate the spectral characteristics of wireless communication
signal.
• Develop compression algorithms for data like audio, speech and image.
• Analyze the performance of various transforms.
Practical Experiments:
1. Study the Characteristics of Microwave Components – Circulator, Magic Tees
2. Simulation and performance evaluation of passive RF Low noise amplifier.
3. Study the Spectral Characterization of wireless communication signals using MATLAB
4. Simulation of spatially separated Signal in the presence of Additive Correlated / Uncorrelated White Noise
using MATLAB.
5. Analysis of performance of the Estimation techniques - MLE, MMSE, Bayes Estimator, MAP Estimator,
Expectation Maximization (EM) algorithm using MATLAB.
6. Simulation and performance evaluation of a CDMA System using MATLAB.
7. Study of BER and eye pattern in the optical system simulation.
8. Design of EDFA for DWDM link using optical system simulation
9. Simulation and performance evaluation of Wi –Fi LAN.
10. Design and performance analysis of DCT Transform based compression technique – JPEG.
11. Simulation of Wavelet Transform based Image coding algorithm - EZW / SPIHT.
12. Simulation of Audio and speech compression algorithms
a) Companding techniques
b) Linear Predictive Coding techniques

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19CM352 TECHNICAL SEMINAR L T P C


Offered by ECE (Core Practical) 0 0 2 1
Course Objective:
To impart knowledge on
• To identify the recent topics in the research area and formulate the problem
• To analyze the mathematical model for the identified problem
• To design and simulate/ develop prototype model
Course Outcome:
At the end of the course, the students will be able to
• Apply mathematical ideas to any problem in the research field
• Implement and analyze the various complex problems in different practical applications.
• Identify Hardware and software tools for specific applications
INTERNAL ASSESSMENT ONLY
Practical Syllabus:
Course work :
•Literature Survey for any technical topic of their area of interest.
•Technical Seminar Presentation on the selected topic
•Modeling / Simulation / Design/ Prototype Development on the presented title.
•Technical Seminar Presentation on the selected topic with the observations.
•Report Submission on the work

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19CM351 PROJECT WORK (PHASE - I) L T P C


Offered by ECE (Project Work / Viva Voce) 0 0 12 6
Course Objective:
To impart knowledge on
• To improve the skills in literature survey and to extract the relevant information by vast reading.
• To obtain necessary exposure on the latest developments in the relevant field and to use the current field of
work in the research work.
• To develop the abilities for identifying and defining correct problem formulation in their chosen field.
• To acquire required knowledge for analysis and solving the given problem independently.
• To enhance the presentation and documentation skills in order to disseminate solution to the real world
challenging problems
Course Outcome:
At the end of the course, the students will be able to
• Fuse knowledge and skills previously gained and applied to an in-depth study and execution of novel technical
problem.
• Create a suitable method from different methodologies and forms of analysis to produce research design.
• Demonstrate the developed /implemented system in the form of hardware and/or software and complement
to the society.
• Present the technical findings in written report/ product to the Engineering community.
• Publish the work in reputed journals and/or International Conferences
Practical Syllabus:
Syllabus Contents:

The project topic should be selected to ensure the satisfaction need to establish a direct link between education,
national development and productivity and reduce the gap between the world of work and the world of study. The
project should have the following
• Relevance to social needs of society
• Relevance to value addition to existing facilities in the institute
• Relevance to industry need
• Problems of national importance
• Research and development in various domain
The student should complete the following for Phase I
• Literature survey and Problem Formulation
• Motivation for study and Objectives
• Preliminary design approaches
• Implementation and Verification
• Report and presentation
• Presenting the work in Reputed journals and International Conferences

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19CM451 PROJECT WORK (PHASE - II) L T P C


Offered by ECE (Project Work / Viva Voce) 0 0 24 12
Course Objective:
To impart knowledge on
• To improve the skills in literature survey and to extract the relevant information by vast reading.
• To obtain necessary exposure on the latest developments in the relevant field and to use the current field of
work in the research work.
• To develop the abilities for identifying and defining correct problem formulation in their chosen field.
• To acquire required knowledge for analysis and solving the given problem independently.
• To enhance the presentation and documentation skills in order to disseminate solution to the real world
challenging problems
Course Outcome:
At the end of the course, the students will be able to
• Fuse knowledge and skills previously gained and applied to an in-depth study and execution of novel technical
problem.
• Create a suitable method from different methodologies and forms of analysis to produce research design.
• Demonstrate the developed /implemented system in the form of hardware and/or software and complement
to the society.
• Present the technical findings in written report/ product to the Engineering community.
• Publish the work in reputed journals and/or International Conferences
Practical Syllabus:
Syllabus Contents:
The project topic should be selected to ensure the satisfaction need to establish a direct link between education,
national development and productivity and reduce the gap between the world of work and the world of study. The
project should have the following
• Relevance to social needs of society
• Relevance to value addition to existing facilities in the institute
• Relevance to industry need
• Problems of national importance
• Research and development in various domain
The student should complete the following for Phase II
• Literature survey and Problem Formulation
• Motivation for study and Objectives
• Preliminary design approaches
• Implementation and Verification
• Report and presentation
• Presenting the work in Reputed journals and International Conferences

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19CMC01 ADVANCED SATELLITE SYSTEMS L T P C


Offered by ECE (Core Elective) 3 0 0 3
Course Objective:
To impart knowledge on
• To analyse the performance of any satellite network
• To apply the orbital concepts in navigational systems
Course Outcome:
At the end of the course, the students will be able to
• Analyze different navigational services
• Analyze Differential GPS
• Apply remote sensing concepts for different applications
• Acquire knowledge on satellite broadcast systems
• Evaluate the performance of satellite networks
Unit I NAVIGATION, TRACKING AND SAFETY SYSTEMS 9
Global Navigation Satellite Systems - Basic concepts of GPS. Space segment, Control segment, User segment, GPS
constellation, GPS measurement characteristics, Selective Availability (SA), Anti spoofing (AS). Applications of
Satellite and GPS for 3D position, Velocity, determination as function of time, Interdisciplinary applications. Regional
Navigation Systems- Distress and Safety- COSPAS-SARSAT- INMARSAT Distress System- Location - Based service.
Unit II INERTIAL NAVIGATION AND DIFFERENTIAL GPS SYSTEMS 9
Introduction to Inertial Navigation- Inertial Sensors - Navigation Coordinates-System Implementations- System-Level
Error Models- Introduction to Differential GPS- LADGPS- WADGPS-WAAS - GEO Uplink Subsystem (GUS) - GEO
Uplink Subsystem (GUS) Clock Steering Algorithms - GEO Orbit Determination – Problems.
Unit III REMOTE SENSING SYSTEMS AND TECHNIQUES 9
Introduction - Commercial Imaging - DigitalGlobe – GeoEye - Meteorology - Meteosat - Land Observation – Landsat-
Remote Sensing Data- Sensors- Overview - Optical Sensors: Cameras- Non-Optical Sensors- Image Processing -
Image Interpretation- System Characteristics.
Unit IV BROADCAST SYSTEMS 9
Introduction - Satellite Radio Systems - XM Satellite Radio Inc. - Sirius Satellite Radio -Worldspace - Direct
Multimedia Broadcast- MBCO and TU Multimedia - European Initiatives - Direct-to-Home Television -
Implementation Issues - DTH Services- Representative DTH Systems - Military Multimedia Broadcasts - US Global
Broadcast Service (GBS)- Business TV(BTV), GRAMSAT, Specialized services – E –mail, Video conferencing, Internet.
Unit V SATELLITE NETWORKING SYSTEM WITH IPV6 9
Overview of IPv6 and its benefits for Satellite Networks - Migration and Coexistence- IPv6 Addressing Mechanisms-
Addresses for Hosts and Routers- IPv6 Infrastructure - Routing and Route Management- Configuration Methods-
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 - IPv6 and Related Protocols- IPv6 Header Format- Traffic Classes.
Reference Book:
1. Mohinder S. Grewal, “Global Positioning Systems, Inertial Navigation, and Integration.” California State
University at Fullerton, A John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Publication, First Edition, 2004
2. MadhavendraRichharia, “Satellite systems for personal Applications” , A John Wiley and Sons, Ltd., Publication,
Third Edition, 2010
3. Daniel Minoli, “Satellite Systems Engineering in an IPv6 Environment”, CRC Press, First Edition, 2009
4. Dennis Roddy, “Satellite Communication”, McGraw Hill International, Forth Edition, 2006.
5. Wilbur L. Pritchard, Hendri G. Suyderhoud, Robert A. Nelson, “Satellite Communication Systems Engineering”,
Prentice Hall, First Edition, 2007.
Extensive Reading:
• http://geomatica.como.polimi.it/corsi/labnav_en/Inertial_en.pdf
• http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/techreports/UCAM-CL-TR-696.pdf
• http://artsandsciences.sc.edu/geog/research/gisciences/RS/Lectures/Dip/index.html
• http://www.siriusxm.com/
• http://www.ciscopress.com/articles/article.asp?p=31948&seqNum=3
• http://www.rfc-base.org/rfc-3513.html

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19CMC02 COMMUNICATION SYSTEM MODELING AND SIMULATION L T P C


Offered by ECE (Core Elective) 3 0 0 3
Course Objective:
To impart knowledge on
• To get acquainted with Simulation methodology and modeling of communication networks.
• To be exposed to advanced models and simulation techniques.
• To model Communication Networks and Network traffic.
Course Outcome:
At the end of the course, the students will be able to
• Analyze the role of important elements of simulation and modelling paradigm.
• Generate random numbers of arbitrary PDF for modelling communication data and channels
• Analyze and design Monte Carlo simulation algorithms.
• Apply suitable modelling and simulation techniques in generating channel models.
• Evaluate different network and traffic models.
Unit I SIMULATION METHODOLOGY 9
Introduction – Aspects of methodology – Performance Estimation – Simulation sampling frequency – Low pass
equivalent simulation models for bandpass signals – Multicarrier signals – Non-linear and time - varying systems –
Post processing – Basic graphical techniques and estimations.
Unit II RANDOM SIGNAL GENERATION & PROCESSING 10
Uniform random number generation– mapping uniform random variables to an arbitrary pdf – Correlated and
Uncorrelated Gaussian random number generation – PN sequence generation – Random signal processing – testing
of random number generators.
Unit III MONTE CARLO SIMULATION 9
Fundamental concepts, Application to communication systems, Monte Carlo integration, Semi analytic techniques,
Case study: Performance estimation of a wireless system.
Unit IV ADVANCED MODELS & SIMULATION TECHNIQUES 8
Modeling and simulation of non-linearities: Types, Memoryless non-linearities, Non-linearities with memory,
Modeling and simulation of Time varying systems : Random process models, Tapped delay line model, Modeling and
simulation of waveform channels: Discrete memoryless channel models, Markov model for discrete channels with
memory, Tail extrapolation–pdf estimators– Importance sampling methods.
Unit V NETWORK AND TRAFFIC MODELING 9
Queuing theory related to network modeling–Poissonian and NonPoissonian modeling of network traffic – Queuing
models – M/M/I and M/M/I/N queues – Little formula– Burke's theorem – M/G/I queue – Embedded Markov chain
analysis of TDM systems – Polling – Random access systems - Queues in tandem.
Reference Book:
1. William.H.Tranter, K. Sam Shanmugam, Theodore. S. Rappaport and Kurt L. Kosbar, “Principles of
Communication Systems Simulation”, Prentice Hall, First Edition, 2004.
2. M.C. Jeruchim, P.Balaban and K. Sam Shanmugam, “Simulation of Communication Systems: Modeling,
Methodology and Techniques”, Plenum Press, Second Edition, 2013
3. Averill.M.Law and W. David Kelton, “Simulation Modeling and Analysis”, McGraw Hill Inc., Fifth Edition, 2014.
4. Geoffrey Gorden, “System Simulation”, Prentice Hall of India, Second Edition, 1992.
5. Jerry Banks and John S. Carson, “Discrete Event System Simulation”, Prentice Hall of India, Fifth Edition, 2010.
Extensive Reading:
• www.cse.wustl.edu/~jain/cse567-08/ftp/k_27trg.pdf
• http://www.cs.hunter.cuny.edu/~saad/courses/networks/notes/note9.pdf
• http://ee.sharif.ir/~simcommsys/SimulationOfCommunications01_ImanGh.pdf
• http://www.inets.rwth-aachen.de/08d_eme_demo.html
• ee.ucd.ie/~ger/pubs/ndes_99_b.ps

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19CMC03 EMBEDDED AND REAL TIME OPERATING SYSTEMS L T P C


Offered by ECE (Core Elective offered to MCO, MVL) 3 0 0 3
Course Objective:
To impart knowledge on
• To design RTOS based Embedded Systems
• To analyze the different issues Management , Scheduling and Semaphores
Course Outcome:
At the end of the course, the students will be able to
• Build Embedded System using the components
• Analyze the Operating System principles
• Demonstrate the working of RTOS
• Use the function routines of UCOS-II RTOS
• Design RTOS based Embedded Systems
Unit I INTRODUCTION TO EMBEDDED SYSTEMS 9
Introduction to Embedded systems: Embedded system examples, Parts of Embedded System- Processor, Power
supply, clock, memory interface, interrupt, I/O ports, Buffers, Programmable Devices, ASIC, COTS. Embedded
System Design: Embedded System product Development Life cycle (EDLC), Hardware development cycles.
Unit II OPERATING SYSTEMS PRINCIPLES 9
Goals - OS Structure - Components - Process Management: Process - Process Scheduling - Cooperating Process -
Treads - Inter-process Communication- CPU Scheduling: CPU Schedulers - Scheduling Criteria - Scheduling
Algorithms- Process Synchronization: Critical-Section Problem- Semaphores – Classical synchronization problem –
Deadlocks
Unit III REAL TIME OPERATING SYSTEMS 9
Real Time Systems – RTOS Task scheduling models- Scheduling Real-Time Tasks: Types of Schedulers, table-driven,
Cyclic, EDF, RMA – Process Synchronization - Message queues – Mail boxes - pipes.
Unit IV MICRO C/OS-II RTOS 9
Study of Micro C/OS-II – RTOS System Level Functions – Task Service Functions – Time Delay Functions – Memory
Allocation Related Functions – Semaphore Related Functions – Mailbox Related Functions – Queue Related
Functions.
Unit V SYSTEM DESIGN EXAMPLES 9
Emerging Technologies - Emerging Applications in Embedded systems - Embedded systems Case studies- Digital
camera, Smart card, Flight simulation and control, Automatic Driving Assistance.
Reference Book:
1. Shibu KV, “Introduction to Embedded System”, Tata McGraw-Hill, First Edition, 2011
2. Silberschatz,Galvin,Gagne” Operating System Concepts,John Wiley, 8th edition,2009
3. Jean J. Labrosse, “MicroC OS II: The Real Time Kernel”, CRC Press; Second Edition, 2002
4. Rajkamal, “Embedded Systems Architecture, Programming and Design”, Tata McGraw-Hill, Second Edition,
2003
5. C. M. Krishna and K. G. Shin , “Real-Time Systems”, ,McGraw-Hill, First Edition, 1997
6. K.V.K.K.Prasad, “Embedded Real-Time Systems: Concepts, Design & Programming”, Dreamtech press, First
Edition, 2005.
7. Jane.W.S. Liu, “Real-Time systems, Pearson”, Education Asia, First Edition, 2000
8. David J. Katz and Rick Gentile, “Embedded Media Processing”, Elsevier India Private Limited, New Delhi, First
Edition, 2006
9. Wayne Wolf, “Computers as Components - Principles of Embedded Computer System Design”, Morgan
Kaufmann Publisher, Second Edition, 2006.
Extensive Reading:
• http://micrium.com/rtos/ucosii/overview/
• http://www.bosch.com/en/com/boschglobal/automated_driving/technology_for_greater_safety/pagination_1.
html

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19CMC25 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY AND IPR L T P C


Offered by ECE (Core Elective offered to MCO, MVL) 3 0 0 3
Course Objective:
To impart knowledge on
• To be aware of tomorrow’s world will be ruled by ideas, concept, and creativity.
• To provide conceptual tools for analyzing possible research areas.
• To make the students aware of IPR takes important place in economic growth of individuals & nation.
Course Outcome:
At the end of the course, the students will be able to
• Analyze research related information and able to formulate research problems.
• Apply effective approaches to write research deliverables.
• Develop different strategies for experimental design.
• Create techno – innovative ideas for new and better engineering products.
• Explore the importance of patent and documentation by their own.
Unit I RESEARCH PROCESS 9
Research ethics - Research process: characteristics and requirements, Types of research, Research process: eight
step model - formulating research problem, conceptualizing research design, constructing instrument for data
collection, Selecting a sample, writing a research proposal, collecting data, processing data, writing research report.
Unit II RESEARCH WRITING 9
Effective literature studies approaches - technical document structuring - how to write report and research paper -
format of research proposal - developing research proposal - presentation and assessment by a review committee.
Unit III DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS 9
Strategy of Experimentation - Typical applications of experimental design - Guidelines for designing experiments -
Basic statistical concepts - Statistical concepts in experimentation - Regression approach to analysis of variance.
Unit IV INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY 9
Patents, Industrial designs and IC layout Designs, Trade Marks and Copyright, Geographical Indications, IPR
management: 5Cs model of managing IP, Emerging issues in IPR.
Unit V ROADMAP FOR PATENT CREATION 9
Types of patent - Parts of a patent document - Terminologies and codes used in patent document - Patent searching
and analysis – Indicators for patentability - IP identification tool – public patent data base – Transfer and
infringement of patent rights – Patent commercialization.
Reference Book:
1. Ranjith Kumar, “Research Methodology: A step-by-step guide for beginners”, SAGE Publications, 4th edition,
2014.
2. Neeraj Pandey, Khushdeep Dhrani, “Intellectual Property Rights”, PHI Learning Private Limited, 2014.
3. Heather Silyn-Roberts, “Writing for Science and Engineering: Papers, Presentations and Reports”, Elsevier, 2nd
edition, 2013.
4. Wayne Goddard and Stuart Melville, “Research Methodology: An Introduction” Juta Publishers, 2nd edition,
2004.
5. Douglas C. Montgomery, “Design and Analysis of Experiments”, 9th edition, Wiley Publishers, 2017.
6. Kamil Idris, “Intellectual property: a power tool for economic growth”, 2nd edition, WIPO Publication no. 888,
Switzerland, 2003.
Extensive Reading:
• https://nptel.ac.in/courses/121/106/121106007/
• https://nptel.ac.in/courses/127/105/127105008/

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19CMC04 ADVANCED RADAR AND NAVIGATIONAL AIDS L T P C


Offered by ECE (Core Elective) 3 0 0 3
Course Objective:
To impart knowledge on
• To review the fundamentals of RADAR
• To process the Radar Signals
Course Outcome:
At the end of the course, the students will be able to
• Analyse MTI and pulse DOPPLER radar
• Analyze the recent detection algorithms
• Apply the learnt algorithms to analyze navigational aids
• Create the algorithm for RADAR signal processing
• Evaluate the modulation techniques
Unit I INTRODUCTION TO RADAR 9
Derivation of Radar Equation- Radar Block Diagram- Radar Frequencies –Applications of Radar – The Origins of
Radar. The Radar Equation. Introduction- Detection of Signals in Noise- Receiver Noise and the Signal-to-Noise
Ratio-Probability Density Functions- Probabilities of Detection and False Alarm- Integration of Radar Pulses- Radar
Cross Section of Targets- Radar cross Section Fluctuations- Transmitter Power-Pulse Repetition Frequency- Antenna
Parameters- System losses – Other Radar Equation Considerations.
Unit II MTI AND PULSE DOPPLER RADAR 9
Doppler and MTI Radar- Delay –Line Cancellers- Staggered Pulse Repetition Frequencies –Doppler Filter Banks -
Digital MTI Processing - Moving Target Detector - Limitations to MTI Performance - MTI from a Moving Platform
(AMIT) – Pulse Doppler Radar – Other Doppler Radar Topics- Tracking with Radar –Monopulse Tracking –Conical
Scan and Sequential Lobing - Limitations to Tracking Accuracy - Low-Angle Tracking - Tracking in Range - Other
Tracking Radar Topics -Comparison of Trackers - Automatic Tracking with Surveillance Radars (ADT).
Unit III RADAR SIGNAL PROCESSING 9
Phenomenology: Resolution, spatial frequency, Fourier transform, sampling, vector representation of signals, data
integration and correlation. Signal models: Amplitude model, clutter model, noise model, jamming model,
frequency model, spatial model Signal conditioning: Sampling, Digital I/Q Modulation.
Unit IV SIGNAL MODULATION 9
Pulse Compression waveforms phase modulated, frequency modulated, Clutter filtering, vector formulation of
matched filter, Matched filters for clutter suppression, Doppler processing, pulse Doppler processing, pulse pair
processing, Hypothesis testing: Radar detection: Neyman Pearson detection rule, likelihood ratio test, coherent
detection: Gaussian case for coherent receivers, unknown parameters and threshold detection CFAR detection: Cell
averaging CFAR, analysis of cell averaging CFAR concept, CA CFAR limitations, adaptive CFAR, two parameter CFAR,
distribution free CFAR.
Unit V NAVIGATIONAL AIDS 9
Elementary ideas of Navigation Aids: VOR, DME, DVOR, TACAN, ILS and MLS, GPS, Automatic Direction finder,
Hyperbolic Navigation (LORAN, DECA, OMEGA). Indian Navigational Scenario-IRNSS, GAGAN, SBAS, GBAS.
Reference Book:
1. Merrill. I. Skolnik, “Introduction to RADAR Systems”, Tata McGraw Hill, Third Edition, 2001.
2. Mark. A.Richards, “Fundamentals of Radar Signal Processing”, Tata McGraw Hill, First Edition, 2005.
3. Steven M.Kay, “ Fundamentals of Statistical Signal Processing”, Vol III Detection Theory, Prentice Hall Inc, First
Edition, 2013.
4. Dr.A.K. Sen and Dr.A.B. Bhattacharya, “Radar Systems and Radio Aids to Navigation”, Khanna Publishers, 2003.
5. Roger J Suullivan, “Radar Foundations for Imaging and Advanced Topics”, SciTech Publishing, First Edition, 2004
6. N.S. Nagaraja, “Elements of Electronic Navigation”, TMH, Second Edition, 2004.
7. Peyton Z Peebles Jr, “Radar Principles”, Wiley Inter Science, First Edition, 2004.
Extensive Reading:
• http://books.google.co.in/books/about/Radar_Engineering.html?id=B6jIxVqT130C
• https://archive.org/details/RadarAidsToNavigation
• http://www.neduet.edu.pk/electronics/Telecommunication/Telecom%20Data/Lab%20Mannuals/TE/NAVIGATI
ONAL%20AIDS%20&%20RADAR%20%28TC %29%20Lab%20Manual%202010.pdf
• https://www.jlab.org/ir/MITSeries/V2.pdf

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19CMC05 COMMUNICATION NETWORK SECURITY L T P C


Offered by ECE (Core Elective) 3 0 0 3
Course Objective:
To impart knowledge on
• To learn security mechanisms and techniques to provide security services.
• To be exposed to symmetric & asymmetric key algorithms and key management aspects.
• To be aware of the need for security in different layers and wireless network security.
Course Outcome:
At the end of the course, the students will be able to
• Identify and differentiate security attacks.
• Apply various Encryption, Authentication and Digital Signature Algorithms.
• Configure firewalls based on the security requirements and secure the perimeter.
• Deal with different general purpose and application specific Security Protocols and Techniques.
• Provide security services at different layers for various network architectures
Unit I SECURITY SERVICES AND MECHANISMS 9
Security Goals, Types of Attacks: Passive attack, active attack, attacks on confidentiality, attacks on Integrity and
availability. Security services – Confidentiality, Integrity, Authentication, Nonnrepudiation& Access control and
Mechanisms- Encipherment, Data Integrity, Digital Signature, Authentication Exchange, Traffic Padding, Routing
Control , Notarization & Access Control, Techniques: Cryptography, Steganography , Revision on Mathematics for
Cryptography.
Unit II SYMMETRIC & ASYMMETRIC KEY ALGORITHMS 9
Substitutional Ciphers, Transposition Ciphers, Stream and Block Ciphers, Data Encryption Standards (DES), Advanced
Encryption Standard (AES), RC4, Principle of Asymmetric key algorithms, RSA Cryptosystem.
Unit III INTEGRITY, AUTHENTICATION AND KEY MANAGEMENT 9
Message Integrity, Hash functions: SHA, Digital signatures: Digital signature standards, Authentication: Entity
Authentication: Biometrics, Key management Techniques.
Unit IV NETWORK SECURITY , FIREWALLS AND WEB SECURITY 9
Introduction on Firewalls, Types of Firewalls, Firewall Configuration and Limitation of Firewall. IP Security Overview,
IP security Architecture, authentication Header, Security payload, security associations, Key Management. Web
security requirement, secure sockets layer, transport layer security, secure electronic transaction, dual signature.
Unit V WIRELESS NETWORK SECURITY 9
Security Attack issues specific to Wireless systems: Worm hole, Tunnelling, DoS. WEP for Wi-Fi network, Security for
4G networks: Secure Ad hoc Network, Secure Sensor Network.
Reference Book:
1. Behrouz A. Forouzan ,Debdeep Mukhopadhyay,“Cryptography and Network security”, Tata McGraw- Hill,
Second Edition, 2011.
2. William Stallings, "Cryptography and Network security: Principles and Practice", Prentice Hall of India, New
Delhi, Sixth Edition, 2013.
3. AtulKahate , “Cryptography and Network security”, Tata McGraw- Hill, Third Edition, 2008
4. R.K.Nichols and P.C. Lekkas ,” Wireless Security Models, Threats and Solutions”, Tata McGraw- Hill, First Edition,
2006.
5. H. Yang et al., “Security in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks: Challenges and Solution”, IEEE Wireless Communications,
Feb. 2004.
6. L. Zhou and Z. J. Haas , “Securing Ad Hoc Networks”, IEEE Network Magazine, vol. 13, no. 6, pp. 24-30,
December 1999.
7. David Boyle and Thomas Newe, “Securing Wireless Sensor Networks – Security Architecture“, Journal of
networks, Vol.3. No. 1. pp. 65 -76, Jan 2008
8. Perrig, A., Stankovic, J. And Wagner, D., “Security in Wireless Sensor Networks”, Communications of the ACM,
Vol. No.47, Issue. 6, pp 53-57, 2004
Extensive Reading:
• http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072870222/student_view0/
• http://williamstallings.com/Crypto/Crypto4e.html

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19CMC06 MULTICORE PROCESSOR AND SYSTEMS L T P C


Offered by ECE (Core Elective offered to MCO, MVL) 3 0 0 3
Course Objective:
To impart knowledge on
• To develop knowledge on the Issues involved in the multi-core architectures
• To enrich skills in using Multi-core Network-on-chip
• To gain knowledge about the low power reconfigurable cores
Course Outcome:
At the end of the course, the students will be able to
• Achieve Parallelism using Instruction Level Parallelism
• Demonstrate the concepts of Thread Level Parallelism
• Develop programs using threading
• Write programs using MPI
• Develop low power reconfigurable multi-core architectures
Unit I INSTRUCTION LEVEL PARALLELISM 9
Fundamentals of Computer Design-Instruction- Level Parallelism: Concepts and Challenge-Basic Compiler
Techniques- Branch Prediction- Dynamic Scheduling- Hardware based Speculation- Multiple Issue and Static
Scheduling-Intel Pentium 4 Architecture- Limitations on Instruction- Level Parallelism.
Unit II MULTIPROCESSORS AND THREAD-LEVEL PARALLELISM 9
Symmetric Shared-Memory Architectures- Performance- Distributed Shared Memory and Directory-Based
Coherence- Synchronization- Models of Memory Consistency- Crosscutting Issues- Sun T1 Multiprocessor -
Motivation for Concurrency in Software- Parallel Computing Platforms.
Unit III THREADING 9
System Overview of Threading- Fundamental Concepts of Parallel Programming - Parallel Programming Patterns-
Error Diffusion- Threading and Parallel Programming Constructs- Threading APIs for Microsoft .NET Framework.
Unit IV MESSAGE-PASSING PROGRAMMING 9
The message-passing model – the message-passing interface – MPI standard – basic concepts of MPI- Point to Point
communication– collective communication– Communicators- Topologies- Case studies: the sieve of Eratosthenes.
Unit V MULTICORE SYSTEMS ON-CHIP AND LOW POWER RECONFIGURABLE CORES 9
MCSoCs Design Problems – SoC typical architecture- Application specific MCSoC design method, Queue Core
architecture, QC2 Core -Reconfigurable Multicore: Power Aware technological level optimizations - Power Aware
system design optimizations. Network-on-Chip – Topology, Routing.
Reference Book:
1. ShameemAkhter and Jason Roberts, “Multicore Programming”, BPB Publications, First Edition, 2010.
2. Ben AbadallahAbderazek, “Multicore Systems On-Chip : Practical Software/Hardware Design”, Atlantis Press,
Second Edition, 2010
3. Michael J Quinn, “Parallel programming in C with MPI and Open MP”, Tata McGraw Hill, First Edition, 2003.
4. John L. Hennessey and David A. Patterson, “Computer architecture – A quantitative approach”, Morgan
Kaufmann/Elsevier Publishers, Fifth Edition, 2011.
5. David E. Culler and Jaswinder Pal Singh, “Parallel computing architecture: A hardware/ software approach”,
Morgan Kaufmann/Elsevier Publishers, First Edition, 1999
Extensive Reading:
• http://www.csa.com/discoveryguides/multicore/review.pdf
• http://www.mpi-forum.org/docs/

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19CMC07 MULTIMEDIA COMPRESSION TECHNIQUES L T P C


Offered by ECE (Core Elective) 3 0 0 3
Course Objective:
To impart knowledge on
• To get familiarized with the special features of multimedia and evaluation techniques.
• To get acquainted with various compression techniques for variety of sources like audio, image, text and video
Course Outcome:
At the end of the course, the students will be able to
• Analyze the requirement of compression in different real time applications.
• Apply various compaction techniques for text compression.
• Analyze the performance of audio compression techniques.
• Evaluate the performances of various algorithms employed for image compression
• Analyze the different standards applicable for video compression.
Unit I MULTIMEDIA CONCEPTS 9
Special features of Multimedia – Graphics and Image Data Representations – Fundamental Concepts in Video and
Digital Audio – Storage requirements for multimedia applications -Need for Compression - Taxonomy of
compression techniques – Overview of source coding, source models, scalar and vector quantization theory –
Evaluation techniques – Error analysis and methodologies.
Unit II TEXT COMPRESSION 9
Compaction techniques – Huffmann coding – Adaptive Huffmann Coding – Arithmetic coding – Shannon-Fano
coding – Dictionary techniques – LZW family algorithms.
Unit III AUDIO COMPRESSION 9
Audio compression techniques - μ- Law and A- Law companding. Frequency domain and filtering – Basic sub-band
coding –speech coding standard – G.722 – Audio coding standard– MPEG audio, progressive encoding for audio –
Silence compression, speech compression techniques – Formant and CELP Vocoders.
Unit IV IMAGE COMPRESSION 9
Predictive techniques – DM, PCM, DPCM: Optimal Predictors and Optimal Quantization – Contour based
compression – Transform Coding – JPEG Standard – Sub-band coding algorithms: Design of Filter banks – Wavelet
based compression: Implementation using filters – EZW, SPIHT coders – JPEG 2000 standards - JBIG, JBIG2
standards.
Unit V VIDEO COMPRESSION 9
Video compression techniques and standards – MPEG Video Coding I: MPEG – 1 and 2 – MPEG Video Coding II:
MPEG – 4 and 7 – Motion estimation and compensation techniques – H.261 Standard – DVI technology – PLV
performance – DVI real time compression – Packet Video.
Reference Book:
1. Khalid Sayood,“Introduction to Data Compression”, Morgan Kauffman Harcourt India, Fourth Edition, 2012.
2. David Salomon,“Data Compression – The Complete Reference”, Springer Verlag, New York Inc., Fourth Edition,
2006.
3. Yun Q.Shi and HuifangSun,“Image and Video Compression for Multimedia Engineering - Fundamentals,
Algorithms & Standards”, CRC press, Second Edition, 2008.
4. Peter Symes,“Digital Video Compression”, McGraw Hill, FirstEdition,2003.
5. Mark Nelson,“Data compression”, BPB Publishers, New Delhi, Second Edition, 1998.
6. Mark S.Drew and Ze-NianLi,“Fundamentals of Multimedia”, Prentice Hall, FirstEdition, reprint 2009.
7. Watkinson,J,“Compression in Video and Audio”, Focal press,London, Second Edition, 2001.
8. Jan Vozer,“Video Compression for Multimedia”, AP Profes, New York, Second Edition, 2001.
Extensive Reading:
• http://www.cit.cmu.edu/media/multimedia/
• arxiv.org/pdf/1009.4981
• www.uaudio.com › Blog › Studio Basics
• www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk/teaching/GZ05/04-speech-coding.pdf
• rimtengg.com/coit2007/proceedings/pdfs/43.pdf

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19CMC08 SMART ANTENNAS L T P C


Offered by ECE (Core Elective) 3 0 0 3
Course Objective:
To impart knowledge on
• To estimate DOA, AOA
• To develop adaptive algorithms for smart antennas
Course Outcome:
At the end of the course, the students will be able to
• Apply the concepts to design Smart antennas.
• Analyze the spatial channel model.
• Apply the concepts of DOA estimation.
• Evaluate the performance of the multi user smart antennas.
• Simulate and test the smart antennas.
Unit I INTRODUCTION 9
Spatial processing- Adaptive antennas- Beam forming networks, Switched Beam systems, Spatial Processing
Receivers, Adaptive Antenna Systems, Transmission Beamforming, Digital radio receiver techniques and software
radios.
Unit II MULTI-USER SPATIAL PROCESSING TECHNIQUES 9
Multi-user spatial Processing, Dynamic re-sectoring- Range and capacity extension Range and Capacity analysis
using smart antennas. Spatio – temporal channel models. Wireless Multipath Channel Models, Environment, and
Signal Parameters, Spatio-Temporal Channel Models for Smart Antenna design, Spatial Channel Measurements,
Application of Spatial Channel Models, Environment and signal parameters. Geometrically based single bounce
elliptical model.
Unit III DOA ESTIMATION 9
DOA estimation – conventional and subspace methods. ML estimation techniques. Estimation of the number of
sources using Eigen decomposition. DOA Estimation under Coherent Signal Conditions, The Integrated Approach to
DOA Estimation, Direction finding and true ranging PL systems. Elliptic and hyperbolic PL systems. TDOA estimation
techniques, Introduction to AOA estimation
Unit IV ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS FOR MULTITARGET DECISIONS 9
Impact of Multipath on Optimal spatial filtering – adaptive algorithms for CDMA, In-door positioning. Performance
of Under loaded and Overloaded Adaptive Arrays, Multitarget decision–directed algorithm. Multitarget Decision-
Directed Algorithm (MT-DD), Least Squares De-spread Re-spread Multi target Array (LS-DRMTA), Least Squares De-
spread Re-spread Multi target Constant Modulus Algorithm.
Unit V SIMULATION AND MEASUREMENT 9
Introduction to Simulation tools for smart antenna design- ADS, CST Microwave Studio, and ANSYS. Antenna
measurement and instrumentation –Gain, Impedance and antenna factor measurement; Introduction to Vector
Network Analyzer, Antenna test range Design.
Reference Book:
1. T.S.Rappaport, J.C.Liberti, “Smart Antennas for Wireless Communication”, Springer, First Edition, 2008.
2. R.Janaswamy, Radio Wave Propagation and Smart Antennas for Wireless Communication, Springer, Second
Edition, 2008.
3. Bronzel, “Smart Antennas”, John Wiley and Sons, First Edition, 2004.
Extensive Reading:
• http://www.ebook3000.com/Introduction-to-Smart-Antennas_92802.html
• http://www.4gamericas.org/documents/MIMO%20and%20Smart%20Antennas_July%202013_FINAL.pdf
• http://books.google.co.in/books/about/Introduction_to_Smart_Antennas.html?id=Tsx27uY1CrsC&redir_esc=y

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19CMC09 WAVELETS AND MULTIRESOLUTION PROCESSING L T P C


Offered by ECE (Core Elective) 3 0 0 3
Course Objective:
To impart knowledge on
• To apply the concepts of Wavelets
• To analyze Multi Resolution Concepts
• To familiarize Lifting Schemes
Course Outcome:
At the end of the course, the students will be able to
• Relate the vector concepts and signal concepts.
• Implement Multiresolution process.
• Analyze Continuous wavelet transform.
• Analyze Discrete wavelet transform.
• Apply the wavelets to specific applications.
Unit I VECTOR SPACES AND SIGNAL SPACES 9
Vector Spaces - properties - dot product - basis - dimension, orthogonality and orthonormality - relationship
between vectors and signals - Signal spaces - concept of Convergence – Hilbert spaces for energy signals -
Generalised Fourier Expansion
Unit II MULTI RESOLUTION ANALYSIS 9
Definition of Multi Resolution Analysis (MRA) - Haar basis - Construction of general orthonormal MRA-Wavelet basis
for MRA - Continuous time MRA interpretation for the DTWT - Discrete time MRA- Basis functions for the DTWT -
PRQMF filter banks
Unit III CONTINUOUS WAVELET TRANSFORM 9
Wavelet Transform - definition and properties - concept of scale and its relation with frequency - Continuous
Wavelet Transform (CWT) - Scaling function and wavelet functions (Daubechies, Coiflet, Mexican Hat, Sinc,
Gaussian, Bi-Orthogonal) - Tiling of time -scale plane for CWT.
Unit IV DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORM 9
Filter Bank and sub band coding principles - Wavelet Filters - Inverse DWT computation by Filter banks - Basic
Properties of Filter coefficients - Choice of wavelet function coefficients - Derivations of Daubechies Wavelets -
Mallat's algorithm for DWT - Multi-band Wavelet transforms. Lifting Scheme: Wavelet Transform using Polyphase
matrix Factorization - Geometrical foundations of lifting scheme – Lifting scheme in Z-domain.
Unit V WAVELET APPLICATIONS 9
Signal Compression - Image Compression techniques: EZW-SPIHT Coding - Image denoising techniques: Noise
estimation – Shrinkage rules - Shrinkage Functions - Edge detection and object Isolation, Image Fusion, and Object
Detection. Curve and Surface Editing- Variational modeling and finite element method using wavelets.
Reference Book:
1. Rao.R.M and A.S.Bopardikar, "Wavelet Transforms: Introduction to theory and Applications”, Prentice Hall PTR,
Third Edition, 2012.
2. K.P.Soman and K.I.Ramachandran,” Insight into Wavelets – From Theory to practice”, PHI Learning Private
Limited, Third Edition, 2013.
3. Strang G and Nguyen T, "Wavelets and Filter Banks," Wellesley College, Second Edition, 1996
4. Vetterli M, Kovacevic J, "Wavelets and Sub-band Coding", CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform,
Second Edition, 2013
5. Mallat S, "A Wavelet Tour of Signal Processing”, Academic Press, Third Edition, 2008
Extensive Reading:
• cm.bell-labs.com/who/wim/papers/lift2.pdf
• https://www.math.purdue.edu/~lucier/692/DJL-image-compression.pdf
• www4.comp.polyu.edu.hk/~cslzhang/paper/PRL_02_Jan.pdf

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19CMC10 ADVANCED DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING L T P C


Offered by ECE (Core Elective) 3 0 0 3
Course Objective:
To impart knowledge on
• To develop new Image Processing algorithms for real-time applications in different domains
• To develop hybrid techniques to solve problems in different applications
Course Outcome:
At the end of the course, the students will be able to
• Apply mathematical transforms necessary for image processing.
• Apply Image enhancement techniques in practical applications and different restoration methods in noisy
images and analyze the performance
• Implement and analyze the image segmentation algorithms and Image Representation & Description algorithms
in practical problems using Matlab.
• Develop different Pattern Recognition Algorithms.
• Develop different Algorithms for various IP applications.
Unit I DIGITAL IMAGE FUNDAMENTALS AND TRANSFORMS 9
Elements of visual perception – Image sampling and quantization - Basic relationship between pixels – Basic
geometric transformations - Color image fundamentals - RGB, HSI models- DFT – Properties of 2D Fourier Transform
– FFT – Separable Image Transforms -Walsh – Hadamard – Discrete Cosine Transform, Haar, Slant – Karhunen –
Loeve transforms, SVD, Wavelet Transform.
Unit II IMAGE ENHANCEMENT AND RESTORATION 9
Spatial Domain methods: Basic gray level transformation – Histogram modification and specification techniques
Spatial filtering: Smoothing, sharpening filters – Laplacian filters – Frequency domain filters : Smoothing –
Sharpening filters – Homomorphic filtering, Color image enhancement. Image Restoration – degradation model -
Noise Distributions- Unconstrained and Constrained restoration-Inverse filtering – removal of blur caused by
uniform linear motion-Wiener filtering- Geometric transformations – spatial transformations, Gray-Level
interpolation.
Unit III IMAGE SEGMENTATION AND REPRESENTATION 9
Edge detection- Edge linking and boundary detection – Thresholding - Region based segmentation– Region growing
– Region splitting and Merging – Segmentation by morphological watersheds – basic concepts – Dam construction –
Watershed segmentation algorithm, Boundary representation: chain codes- Polygonal approximation – Boundary
segments – boundary descriptors: Simple descriptors-Fourier descriptors - Regional descriptors – Relational
descriptors- Texture representation
Unit IV PATTERN RECOGNITION 9
Patterns and Pattern classes – Decision Theoretic Methods – Matching - Statistical (Parametric) Decision making –
Optimum Statistical Classifiers – 2-D & n-D Decision boundaries – Distance Measures, Non Parametric decision
making: Single & K- Nearest neighbor classification – Adaptive decision boundaries – Adaptive discriminant
functions – SVM classification – Clustering: Hierarchical clustering – Partitional clustering - K means Algorithm – Iso
data algorithm.
Unit V APPLICATIONS OF IMAGE PROCESSING 9
Image Registration – Image Fusion (Mosaics) – Image Denoising - Object Detection – Target detection and tracking –
Content based image retrieval- Water marking- Steganography – Stegnalysis – Video Motion Analysis.
Reference Book:
1. Rafael C. Gonzalez, Richard E.Woods, “Digital Image Processing”, Pearson Education, Inc., Third Edition, 2009.
2. Anil K. Jain, “Fundamentals of Digital Image Processing”, Prentice Hall of India, Fifth Edition, Sixth Reprint, 2007.
3. Earl Gose, Richard Johnson Baugh and Steve Jost, “Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis”, PHI, First Edition,
2009.
4. Rafael C. Gonzalez, Richard E.Woods, Steven Eddins, “Digital Image Processing using MATLAB”, Pearson
Education, Inc., Third Edition, 2010.
5. William K.Pratt, “Digital Image Processing”, John Wiley, New York, Fourth Edition, 2007.
6. Milan Sonka, Vaclav Hlavac, Roger Boyle, “Image Processing, Analysis, and Machine Vision”, Cengage Learning,
Fourth Edition, 2014.
7. Sid Ahmed, M.A., “Image Processing Theory, Algorithms and Architectures”, McGrawHill, First Edition, 1995.
8. Tania Stathaki, “Image Fusion : Algorithms and Applications”, Academic Press, First Edition, 2008
9. Nptel Lecture: http://www.iitm.ernet.in/
Extensive Reading:
• http://tango.andrew.cmu.edu/~gustavor/42431-intro-bioimaging/readings/ch8.pdf.
• Webce.technion.ac.il/~yoav/Publications/ch8.pdf

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19CMC11 COMMUNICATION PROTOCOL ENGINEERING L T P C


Offered by ECE (Core Elective) 3 0 0 3
Course Objective:
To impart knowledge on
• To model networks for the communication Protocol engineering process.
• To be exposed to Protocol specifications, verification and Validation process.
• To be aware of performance testing, synthesis and implementation of the Protocols.
Course Outcome:
At the end of the course, the students will be able to
• Design communication systems based on OSI and TCP / IP layered architecture
• Design protocols for different communication service specification
• Verify, and Validate various communication protocols.
• Implement methodology for protocol conformance and performance testing
• Synthesize and Implement various communication protocols for variety of engineering applications
Unit I NETWORK REFERENCE MODEL 9
Communication model- software- subsystems- protocol- protocol development methods- Protocol engineering
process- Layered architecture- Network services and Interfaces- Protocol functions- OSI model- TCP/IP protocol
suite.
Unit II PROTOCOL SPECIFICATIONS 9
Components of protocol- Specifications of Communication service- Protocol entity- Interface- Interactions-
Multimedia protocol-Internet protocol- SDL- SDL based protocol- other protocol specification languages.
Unit III PROTOCOL VERIFICATION/VALIDATION 9
Protocol verification- Verification of a protocol using finite state machines- Protocol validation- protocol design
errors- Protocol validation approaches- SDL based protocol verification and validation.
Unit IV PROTOCOL CONFORMANCE/PERFORMANCE TESTING 9
Conformance testing methodology and frame work- Conformance test architectures- Test sequence generation
methods- Distributed architecture by local methods, Conformance testing with TTCN- systems with semi
controllable interfaces - RIP,SDL based tools for conformance testing, SDL based conformance testing of MPLS
Performance testing- SDL based performance testing of TCP and OSPF- Interoperability testing- SDL based
interoperability testing of CSMA/CD and CSMA/CA protocol using Bridge, Scalability testing.
Unit V PROTOCOL SYNTHESIS AND IMPLEMENTATION 9
Protocol synthesis- Interactive synthesis algorithm- Automatic synthesis algorithm- Automatic synthesis of SDL from
MSC- Protocol Re-synthesis- Requirements of protocol implementation, Object based approach to protocol
implementation- Protocol compilers- Tool for protocol engineering.
Reference Book:
1. PallapaVenkataram and SunilkumarS.Manvi, “Communication Protocol Engineering”, PHI,Second Edition, 2014.
2. Richard Lai and Jirachiefpattana, “Communication Protocol Specification and Verification”, Springer Publishers,
Boston, First Edition, 2013.
3. Tarnay, K., “Protocol Specification and Testing”, Plenum, New York, First Edition reprint, 2012.
4. Mohamed G. Gouda, “Elements of Network Protocol Design”, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. New York, USA, Second
Edition,1998
Extensive Reading:
• pet.ece.iisc.ernet.in/course/E2223/ch3.pdf
• pet.ece.iisc.ernet.in/course/E2223/ch7.pdf
• pet.ece.iisc.ernet.in/course/E2223/conformance.pdf

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19CMC12 ELECTROMAGNETIC METAMATERIALS L T P C


Offered by ECE (Core Elective) 3 0 0 3
Course Objective:
To impart knowledge on
• To apply the concepts of Left Handed Materials
• To design Metamaterial Transmission Lines
• To analyse the applications of Metamaterial Antennas
Course Outcome:
At the end of the course, the students will be able to
• Analyse the metamaterial properties.
• Create metamaterial transmission lines.
• Analyse the metamaterial structures.
• Design the metamaterial based antennas.
• Apply the metamaterials for advanced applications
Unit I LEFT HANDED MATERIALS AND THEIR PROPERTIES 9
Left-Handedness from Maxwell’s Equations, Entropy Conditions in Dispersive Media, Boundary Conditions, Reversal
of Doppler Effect, Reversal of Snell’s Law: Negative Refraction, Focusing by a “Flat LH Lens”, Reversal of Goos-
Haenchen Effect, Reversal of Convergence and Divergence in Convex and Concave Lenses, Subwavelength
Diffraction, Fresnel Coefficients
Unit II METAMATERIAL TRANSMISSION LINES 9
Ideal Homogeneous CRLH TLs- Equivalent MTM Constitutive Parameters, Balanced and Unbalanced Resonances, LC
Network Implementation: Transmission Matrix Analysis, Input Impedance, Cutoff Frequencies, Analytical Dispersion
Relation, Bloch Impedance. Experimental Transmission Characteristics, Conversion from Transmission Line to
Constitutive Parameters.
Unit III METAMATERIAL STRUCTURE ANALYSIS 9
Real Distributed 1D CRLH Structures: General Design Guidelines, Microstrip Implementation, and Parameters
Extraction, Two-Dimensional MTMs: Eigenvalue Problem, Negative Refractive Index (NRI) Effects: Negative Phase
Velocity, Negative Refraction, Negative Focusing, RH-LH Interface Surface Plasmons. Distributed 2D Structures:
Description of Possible Structures, Dispersion and Propagation Characteristics, Parameter Extraction, Distributed
Implementation of the NRI Slab Reflectors with Unusual Properties.
Unit IV METAMATERIAL ANTENNAS 9
Fundamental Aspects of Leaky-Wave Structures, Principle of Leakage Radiation, Uniform and Periodic Leaky-Wave
Structures, Uniform LW Structures, Periodic LW Structures, Metamaterial Leaky-Wave Structures. Backfire-to-
Endfire (BE) Leaky-Wave (LW) Antenna, Electronically Scanned BE LW Antenna: Electronic Scanning Principle,
Electronic Beamwidth Control Principle, Analysis of the Structure and Results, Two-Dimensional Structures: Two-
Dimensional LW Radiation, Conical-Beam Antenna, Full-Space Scanning Antenna, Zeroth Order Resonating Antenna,
Dual-Band CRLH-TL Resonating Ring Antenna, Focusing Radiative “Meta-Interfaces”, Heterodyne Phased Array,
Nonuniform Leaky-Wave Radiator
Unit V APPLICATION AND ADVANCES IN ETAMATERIALS 9
“Real-Artificial” Materials: Homogenization, Quasi-Optical NRI Lenses and Devices, Three-Dimensional Isotropic LH
MTMs, Optical MTMs, “Magnetless” Magnetic MTMs, Terahertz Magnetic MTMs, Surface Plasmonic MTMs,
Antenna Radomes and Frequency Selective Surfaces, Nonlinear MTMs, Active MTMs
Reference Book:
1. Christophe Caloz, Tatsuo Itoh, “Electromagnetic Metamaterials: Transmission Line Theory and Microwave
Applications” A John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Publication, First Edition, 2006
2. Tie Jun Cui, David Smith, Ruopeng Liu, “Metamaterials: Theory, Design, and Applications”,Springer, First Edition,
2009
3. Douglas H. Werner, Do-Hoon K, “Transformation Electromagnetics and Metamaterials”, Springer-Verlag
London, First Edition, 2014
Extensive Reading:
• http://www.cmth.ph.ic.ac.uk/photonics/Newphotonics/pdf/RochPaper.pdf
• http://web.mit.edu/nanophotonics/projects/Dissertation_Pratik.pdf
• http://www.google.co.in/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=16&ved=0CFQQ

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19CMC13 NUMERICAL TECHNIQUES FOR ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS L T P C


Offered by ECE (Core Elective) 3 0 0 3
Course Objective:
To impart knowledge on
• To become acquainted with important topics in computational electromagnetics, including finite difference,
finite element, and integral equation methods.
• To formulate and solve practical engineering problems in electromagnetics using the numerical methods
presented.
Course Outcome:
At the end of the course, the students will be able to
• Program and apply the numerical methods for various EM problems.
• Analyze the solution for any EM problem using different numerical methods
• Analyse the performance of the Antenna or Waveguides using numerical techniques.
• Explore the applications of variational methods to real world problems.
• Determine and explain different numerical method's trade-offs.
Unit I QUASISTATIC FIELD ANALYSIS 9
Introduction to ElectroQuasistatics and Magnetoquasistatics, Laws of Maxwell, Lorentz, and Newton, Quasistatic
Laws, Conditions for Fields to be Quasistatic, Quasistatic Systems, Applications, Quasistatic differential laws in free
space
Unit II FINITE DIFFERENCE METHODS 9
Finite Differencing of Parabolic PDEs, Finite Differencing of Hyperbolic PDEs, Finite Differencing of Elliptic PDEs,
Band Matrix Method, Accuracy and Stability of FD Solutions, Practical Applications: Guided Structures -
Transmission Lines, Waveguides, Wave Scattering analysis using FDTD, Yees Finite Difference Algorithm, Accuracy
and Stability, Lattice Truncation Conditions, Initial Fields, Programming Aspects, Absorbing Boundary Conditions
for FDTD, Finite Differencing for Nonrectangular Systems, Spherical Coordinates, Numerical Integration for discrete
data - Eulers Rule, Trapezoidal Rule, Simpson’s Rule, Newton Cotes Rules, Gaussian Rules, Multiple Integration
Unit III VARIATIONAL METHODS 9
Inhomogeneous equations, Operators in Linear Spaces, Calculus of Variations, Construction of Functionals from
PDEs, RayleighRitz Method, Weighted Residual Method, Collocation Method, Subdomain Method, Least Squares
Method, Eigenvalue Problems, Practical Applications
Unit IV MOMENT METHODS 9
Integral Equations, Connection Between Differential and Integral Equations, Greens Functions - For Free Space,
For Domain with Conducting Boundaries, Applications -QuasiStatic Problems, Scattering Problems - Scattering by
Conducting Cylinder, Scattering by an Arbitrary Array of Parallel Wires, Radiation Problems - Hallens Integral
Equation, Pocklingtons Integral Equation, EM Absorption in the Human Body, Derivation of Integral Equations,
Transformation to Matrix Equation Discretization, Evaluation of Matrix Elements, Solution of the Matrix Equation
Unit V FINITE ELEMENT METHOD 9
Typical finite elements, Solution of Laplaces Equation, Element Governing Equations, Assembling of All Elements,
Solution of Poissons Equation, Wave Equation, Automatic Mesh Generation - Rectangular Domains, Arbitrary
Domains, Definition of Blocks, Subdivision of Each Block, Connection of Individual Blocks, Bandwidth Reduction,
Higher Order Elements, Pascal Triangle, Local Coordinates, Shape Functions, Fundamental Matrices, Three
Dimensional Elements, Finite Element Methods for Exterior Problems, Boundary Element Method
Reference Book:
1. Matthew N.O.Sadiku, “Numerical Techniques in Electromagneticswith MATLAB,” CRC Press, Third Edition 2009.
2. BharathiBhat,Shiban K.Koul, “Stripline-Like Transmission Lines for Microwave Integrated Circuits”, New Age
International, 2007.
3. DraganPoljak, “Advanced Modeling in Computational Electromagnetic Compatibility”, Wiley, 2007.
4. Jian-Ming Jin, “Theory and Computation of Electromagnetic Fields”, Wiley IEEE Press, Second Edition, 2015.
5. David B. Davidson, “Computational Electromagnetics for RF and Microwave Engineering”, Cambridge, Second
Edition, 2010.
6. Silvester and Ferrari,“Finite Elements for Electrical Engineers”, Cambridge, Third Edition, 1996.
Extensive Reading:
• www.numericalmethods.com
• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/computational_electromagnetics

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19CMC14 PATTERN RECOGNITION AND MACHINE LEARNING L T P C


Offered by ECE (Core Elective) 3 0 0 3
Course Objective:
To impart knowledge on
• To discuss different learning techniques.
• To understand various machine learning procedures.
Course Outcome:
At the end of the course, the students will be able to
• Apply the Pattern Recognition techniques to Image Applications
• Solve problems of Regression and Classification
• Apply Neural networks for real world applications
• Apply suitable kernel methods to a specific problem.
• Explain the ensemble learning procedures.
Unit I PATTERN RECOGNITION FUNDAMENTALS 8
Patterns and Pattern Recognition – Pattern Recognition System – significance – Configurations – Representation of
Patterns and Machine recognition - Model Selection - The Curse of Dimensionality - Decision Theory - Information
Theory.
Unit II LINEAR MODELS FOR REGRESSION AND CLASSIFICATION 10
Regression: Linear Basis Function Models - The Bias-Variance Decomposition - Bayesian Linear Regression -Bayesian
Model Comparison - Limitations of Fixed Basis Functions. Classification: Discriminant Functions - Probabilistic
Generative Models -Probabilistic Discriminative Models - The Laplace Approximation - Bayesian Logistic Regression.
Unit III NEURAL NETWORKS 9
Feed-forward Network Functions - Network Training - Error Back propagation - The Hessian Matrix- Regularization in
Neural Networks- Bayesian Neural Networks.
Unit IV KERNEL METHODS 9
Dual Representations - Constructing Kernels -Radial Basis Function Networks - Gaussian Processes - Maximum
Margin Classifiers - Relevance Vector Machines.
Unit V MIXTURE MODELS AND COMBINING MODELS 9
K-means Clustering - Mixtures of Gaussians - Bayesian Model Averaging - Committees - Boosting -Tree-based
Models - Conditional Mixture Models.
Reference Book:
1. C. M. Bishop, “ Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning”, Springer, 2007
2. Sing–tze Bow, "Pattern Recognition and Image Preprocessing”, 2nd Edition, Marcel Dekker, Inc , 2002.
3. Richard O.Duda, Peter E.Hart and David G.Stork, “Pattern Classification”, 2nd Edition, Wiley India, 2006.
4. Stephen Marsland, “Machine Learning - An Algorithmic Perspective” 2nd Edition, CRC Press, 2015
5. Ethem Alpaydin, "Introduction to Machine Learning", 3rd Edition, MIT Press, 2014.
6. K. P. Murphy, “Machine Learning: A probabilistic perspective”, MIT Press, 2012.
7. P. Flach, “Machine Learning: The art and science of algorithms that make sense of data”, Cambridge University
Press, 2012
8. Tom M. Mitchell, “Machine Learning", McGraw Hill, 1997.
Extensive Reading:
• https://nptel.ac.in/courses/106106046/
• https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc18_cs26/

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19VDC08 ASIC DESIGN L T P C


Offered by ECE (Core Elective offered to MCO, MVL) 3 0 0 3
Course Objective:
To impart knowledge on
• Design the Internal architectures of FPGA’s
• Programming ASIC design software and Low-Level Design Entry
• Classify the types of ASIC and ASIC Library Design
Course Outcome:
At the end of the course, the students will be able to
• Analyze the passive elements for ASIC design
• Analyze the characteristics of Programmable ASIC I/O cells
• Analyze the synthesis part on different logic structures
• Test the Integrated Circuit using various procedures
• Analyze the physical design flow of ASIC.
Unit I ASICS OF ASICS AND ASIC LIBRARY DESIGN 9
Types of ASICs - Design flow - CMOS transistors CMOS Design rules - Combinational Logic Cell – Sequential logic cell -
Data path logic cell - Transistors as Resistors - Transistor Parasitic Capacitance- Logical effort –Library cell design -
Library architecture.
Unit II PROGRAMMABLE ASICS, LOGIC CELLS AND I/O CELLS 9
Anti-fuse - static RAM - EPROM and EEPROM technology - PREP benchmarks - Actel ACT - Xilinx LCA –Altera FLEX -
Altera MAX DC & AC inputs and outputs - Clock & Power inputs - Xilinx I/O blocks.
Unit III PROGRAMMABLE ASIC INTERCONNECT AND DESIGN SOFTWARE 9
Actel ACT -Xilinx LCA - Xilinx EPLD - Altera MAX 5000 and 7000 - Altera MAX 9000 - Altera FLEX –Design systems -
Logic Synthesis - Half gate ASIC -Schematic entry, Low level design language - PLA tools -EDIF- CFI design
representation.
Unit IV FPGA ARCHITECTURES, SIMULATION AND TESTING 9
FPGA Architectures. SRAM-Based FPGAs. Permanently Programmed FPGAs. Chip I/O, Types of simulation -boundary
scan test - Fault simulation - Automatic Test Pattern Generation, Introduction to JTAG.
Unit V PHYSICAL DESIGN OF ASIC 9
System partition - FPGA partitioning - partitioning methods - floor planning - placement - physical design flow –
global routing - detailed routing - special routing - circuit extraction - DRC.
Reference Book:
1. M.J.S .Smith, "Application - Specific Integrated Circuits ", Pearson Education, 2013.
2. Andrew Brown, "VLSI Circuits and Systems in Silicon", McGraw Hill, 2011.
3. S.D. Brown, R.J. Francis, J. Rox, Z.G. Uranesic, “Field Programmable Gate Arrays” Kluwer Academic Publishers,
2012.
4. Mohammed Ismail and Terri Fiez, "Analog VLSI Signal and Information Processing ", Mc Graw Hill, 2000.
5. FPGA-Based System Design, Wayne Wolf, Published by Prentice Hall, 2004
6. Jose E. France, Yannis Tsividis, " Design of Analog - Digital VLSI Circuits for Telecommunication and Signal
Processing ", Prentice Hall, 1994
7. Vikram Arkalgud Chandrasetty “A Practical Guide for VLSI Designers: FPGA/ASIC design and implementation
flows illustrated with examples”, create space, 2011
Extensive Reading:
• www.esilicon.com
• www.go.distance.ncsu.edu/digital-asic
• www.asic-design.com
• www.asic-world.com/
• iroi.seu.edu.cn/books/asics/asics.htm

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19VDC10 MIXED SIGNAL CIRCUIT DESIGN L T P C


Offered by ECE (Core Elective offered to MCO, MVL) 3 0 0 3
Course Objective:
To impart knowledge on
• Analyze the switched capacitor circuit for filters, comparators, ADCs & DACs.
• Analyze the performance of CMOS Filters.
• Analyze the performance of delta sigma filters.
Course Outcome:
At the end of the course, the students will be able to
• Design calculations for a typical CMOS A/D or D/A converter.
• Analyze the circuits of Switched-capacitor and comparators
• Analyze the decimating filters for ADC and Interpolating Filters for DACs
• Analyze the integrator based CMOS filter
• Analyze the dimensions and bias conditions of all the MOS transistors involved in the design.
Unit I CHARACTERISTICS OF MIXED SIGNAL PROCESSING 9
Analog versus Discrete Time signals, A/D conversion, Sample and Hold Characteristics, DAC specifications –
Nonlinearity, offset, gain error, latency, SNR, dynamic range. ADC specifications – Quantization error, nonlinearity,
missing codes, Aliasing, aperture error. Mixed signal layout issues.
Unit II SWITCHED CAPACITOR CIRCUITS AND COMPARATORS 9
Switched-capacitor amplifiers, switched capacitor integrator, switched capacitor common mode Feedback. Single
stage amplifier as comparator, cascaded amplifier stages as comparator, latched comparators. Offset cancellation,
Op Amp offset cancellation, Calibration techniques.
Unit III DECIMATING AND INTERPOLATING FILTERS 9
SNR – Effective number of bits, Clock jitter, spectral density, SNR using averaging, Decimating Filters for ADCs,
Interpolating Filters for DACs, Bandpass and Highpass Sinc filters, Feedback to improve SNR.
Unit IV INTEGRATOR BASED CMOS FILTER 9
Integrator-building blocks – Active RC Integrators, MOSFET-C Integrators, Transconductance C integrator, Discrete
Time Integrators. Filtering topologies – Bilinear transfer function, Biquadric transfer function.
Unit V SIGMA DELTA CONVERTERS 9
Signal Transfer Function, Noise Transfer function, first order and second order sigma delta modulator
characteristics, Estimating the maximum stable amplitude, Continuous time Delta sigma modulators, Op-amp.
Nonlinearities.
Reference Book:
1. R.Jacob Baker, “CMOS Mixed Signal circuit design”, Wiley-IEEE press, 2008.
2. Behzad Razavi, “Principles of data conversion system design”, IEEE press, 1995.
3. R. Schreier, G. Temes, “Understanding Delta-Sigma Data Converters”, Wiley-IEEE Press, 2004.
Extensive Reading:
• http://www.ee.iitm.ac.in/~nagendra/videolecture

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19CMC15 ADVANCED TECHNIQUES FOR WIRELESS SIGNAL RECEPTION L T P C


Offered by ECE (Core Elective) 3 0 0 3
Course Objective:
To impart knowledge on
• To design an Optimum multiuser detection for wireless environment
• To apply signal processing algorithms to design an optimum wireless reception.
Course Outcome:
At the end of the course, the students will be able to
• Evaluate the performance of wireless signaling environment
• Apply mathematical formulation to find Optimum detection of wireless signal
• Analyze the performance of correlating decorrelating detection in a wireless environment.
• Evaluate the performance of various techniques employed for narrowband interference suppression.
• Develop signal processing algorithms for wireless signal reception.
Unit I INTRODUCTION 9
Wireless signaling environment-Basic signal processing for wireless reception- Linear receivers for synchronous
CDMA- Blind and group-blind multiuser detection methods- Performance issues.
Unit II OPTIMUM MULTIUSER DETECTION 9
Optimum detector for synchronous and asynchronous channels- minimum error probability- k-user optimum
asymptotic efficiency- Optimum non-coherent multiuser detection
Unit III CORRELATING AND DECORRELATING DETECTION 9
Decorrelating Detection in the synchronous and asynchronous channels- Approximate, truncated-window- coherent
decorrelating detectors- Optimum linear- MMSE- blind MMSE non decorrelating detectors- performance analysis
Unit IV NARROWBAND INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION 9
Narrowband interference suppression- Linear and nonlinear predictive techniques, Code- aided Techniques-
Performance comparison.
Unit V SIGNAL PROCESSING FOR WIRELESS RECEPTION 9
Bayesian and sequential Montecarlo signal processing- Blind adaptive equalization of MIMO channels- Signal
processing for fading channels - Coherent detection based on EM algorithm- Decision-feedback differential
detection- Signal processing for coded OFDM systems
Reference Book:
1. X.Wang&H.V.Poor, Wireless Communication Systems : Advanced Techniques for Signal Reception Prentice Hall,
First Edition, 2003.
2. R.Janaswamy, Radio Wave Propagation and Smart Antennas for Wireless Communication, Springer, First
Edition, 2001.
3. ItiSahaMisra, “Wireless Communications and Networks”, Tata McGraw Hill, First Edition, 2010.
4. Mohamed Ibnkahla, Adaptive Signal processing in Wireless Communications, CRC Press, First Edition, 2009.
5. A.V.H. Sheikh, Wireless Communications Theory & Techniques, Springer, First Edition, 2004
6. A.Paulrajetal, Introduction to Space-time Wireless Communications, Cambridge University Press, First Edition,
2008.
Extensive Reading:
• docwiki.cisco.com/wiki/Wireless Technologies
• http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1593080

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19CMC16 DSP PROCESSOR ARCHITECTURE AND PROGRAMMING L T P C


Offered by ECE (Core Elective) 3 0 0 3
Course Objective:
To impart knowledge on
• To become skilled at the architectural features of DSP processors.
• To address the issues of how to interface memory, peripherals onto DSP processors.
Course Outcome:
At the end of the course, the students will be able to
• Analyze the data addressing capabilities of programmable DSP processors.
• Narrate the architectures of programmable TMS320C6748 DSP processors.
• Create application oriented programming using TMS320C6748 DSP processors.
• Narrate the architectures of programmable BF532 DSP processors
• Create application oriented programming using BF532 DSP processors.
Unit I PROGRAMMABLE DSPS 9
Multiplier and Multiplier accumulator – Modified Bus Structures and Memory access in PDSPs – Multiple access
memory – Multi-port memory – VLIW architecture- Pipelining –Special Addressing modes in P-DSPs – On chip
Peripherals.
Unit II TMS320C6748 PROCESSOR 9
Architecture – DSP subsystem: Mega module, memory map, advanced event triggering-DMA subsystem-System
Interconnect-System Memory-DSP memories, shared RAM memory, external memories, internal peripherals,
peripherals-memory protection unit- device clocking-power management.
Unit III PROGRAMMING USING TMS320C6748 PROCESSOR 9
Instruction set:syntax and opcode notations-parallel operations-conditional operations-addressing modes-compact
instructions on the CPU-instruction compatibility-instruction descriptions, pipeline, interrupts, CPU exceptions,
application programs: Waveform generation, Analog to Digital converter, Watch dog timer, digital filters, stepper
motor control, real time seconds counter, audio filtering, Fast Fourier Transform.
Unit IV ADSP BF532 PROCESSOR 9
Features-architecture overview-Blackfin processor core-DMA controllers-Timers-serial port interface-parallel
peripheral interface-dynamic power management-voltage regulation-clock signals-booting modes- signal chain:
telematics, navigation/GPS, car audio amplifier, hands free/voice activated control, digital camera, camcorder, video
capture board, image/video-document scanner.
Unit V PROGRAMMING USING ADSP BF532 PROCESSOR 9
Assembly language syntax– program flow control-load/store- move- stack control-control code bit management-
logical operations-bit operations- shift / rotate operations- arithmetic operations- external event management –
cache control –video pixel operations- vector operations-parallel issue instructions, applications: A/D and D/A
converter-codec-FIR and IIR filtering-switch & LED-Video processing: edge detection, histogram equalization, image
capture, median filtering and negative.
Reference Book:
1. B.Venkataramani and M.Bhaskar, “Digital Signal Processors – Architecture, Programming and Applications” –
Tata McGraw – HillEducation(India) Pvt.Ltd. , Second Edition, 2010.
2. Phil Lapsley, Jeff Bier, AmitSholam and Edward A.Lee, “DSP Processor Fundamentals-Architectures and
Features”, Wiley India, First Edition, 2009.
3. ADSP BF-532 Blackfin Evaluation System User Manual, Version1.
4. User guides: Texas Instrumentation, Analog Devices, Motorola processors.
Extensive Reading:
• http://www.analog.com/static/imported-files/processor_manuals/bf533_hwr_Rev3.4.pdf
• http://read.pudn.com/downloads111/doc/462195/Analog%20Devices%20Blackfin.pdf
• http://www.analog.com/static/imported-files/data_sheets/ADSP-BF531_BF532_BF533.pdf
• http://www.ti.com/lit/ug/spru732j/spru732j.pdf
• http://www.ti.com/lit/ug/spru565b/spru565b.pdf

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19CMC17 HIGH SPEED COMMUNICATION NETWORKS L T P C


Offered by ECE (Core Elective) 3 0 0 3
Course Objective:
To impart knowledge on
• Develop an in-depth understanding, in terms of architecture, protocols and applications of major high-speed
networking technologies.
• To compare and contrast high speed access and admission control, shaping and scheduling algorithms.
• To discuss queuing and congestion control for high speed architectures
Course Outcome:
At the end of the course, the students will be able to
• Differentiate architectures of Frame Relay, ATM, Gigabit Ethernet and SONET
• Apply techniques involved to support real-time traffic and congestion control.
• Evaluate different techniques employed to support high speed architectures
• Select the right framework required to solve the issues involved in high speed networks
• Compare the different mechanisms available for provision of QoS in high speed architectures
Unit I HIGH SPEED NETWORK ARCHITECTURE 9
Frame Relay Networks – Asynchronous transfer mode – ATM Protocol Architecture, ATM logical Connection, ATM
Cell – ATM Service Categories – AAL, High Speed LANs: Emergence of High-Speed LANs, Gigabit Ethernet, WDM
systems, Optical LANs, SONET.
Unit II ADMISSION AND ACCESS CONTROL 9
CAC for ATM VBR Services - Worst-Case Traffic Model and CAC, Effective Bandwidth, Lucent’s CAC, NEC’s CAC,
Tagged-Probability-Based CAC, CAC for Integrated Services Internet - Guaranteed Quality of Service, Controlled-Load
Service, ATM Traffic Contract and Control Algorithms - Traffic Contract, PCR Conformance, SCR, and BT, Cell Delay
Variation Tolerance, Generic Cell Rate Algorithm.
Unit III SHAPING AND SCHEDULING 9
An ATM Shaping Multiplexer - Regularity Condition-Dual Leaky Bucket, Algorithm, Implementation Architecture,
Finite Bits Overflow Problem, An Integrated Packet Shaper - Basics, Integrating Traffic Shaping and WFI Scheduling,
Logical Structure and implementation of the WFI Packet ShaperPacket Scheduling – FIFO, RR, Stop-and-Go, HRR,
EDD, Rate-Controlled Static Priority, GPS-WFQ, Virtual Clock, Self-Clocked Fair Queuing, Worst-case Fair Weighted
Fair Queuing, Scheduling Algorithm - Shaped Virtual Clock Algorithm, Core-Stateless Shaped Virtual Clock Algorithm.
Unit IV QUEUING &BUFFER MANAGEMENT 9
Conceptual Framework and Design Issues, Sequencer - Store Cells in Logical Queues, Sort Priorities Using a
Sequencer, Priority Content-Addressable Memory - Searching by the PCAM Chip, Connecting Multiple PCAM Chips,
RAM-Based Searching Engine - Hierarchical Searching, Timestamp Overflow, Design of the RSE, RSE Operations,
Write-in Operation, Reset Operation, Search Operation, General Shaper - Scheduler - Slotted Updates of System
Virtual Time, Implementation Architecture, Timestamp Aging ProblemBuffer Management: A Look at ATM Networks
- Self-Calibrating Pushout, TCP/IP over ATM_UBR, Dynamic Threshold with Single Loss Priority, A Look at the
Internet - Tail Drop, Drop on Full, Random Early Detection, Differential Dropping: RIO, FRED, SRED, LQD.
Unit V FLOW AND CONGESTION CONTROL 9
Window-Based Flow Control, Rate-Based Flow Control, Predictive Control Mechanism, ATM Networks - Backlog
Balancing Flow Control - ABR Flow Control, TCP/IP Networks - TCP Congestion Control - Other TCP Variants - TCP
with Explicit Congestion Notification, Rate-Based Flow Control Scheme, Frame Relay Congestion Control.
Reference Book:
1. H. Jonathan Chao and XiaoleiGuo, “Quality of Service Control in High-Speed Networks”, John Wiley & Sons,
Inc., First Edition, 2002.
2. Jean Walrand and PravinVariaya, “High Performance Communication Networks”,Morgan kaufmann Publishers,
Second Edition, 2000.
3. Leon Garcia and Widjaja, “Communication Network”, Tata McGraw Hill, New Delhi,Second Edition, 2003.
4. OthmarKyas, Gregan Crawford, “ATM networks”, Cengage Learning, Second Edition, 2003.
5. Rainer Handel, Manfred N Huber and Stefan Schroder, “ATM Networks - Concepts, Protocols Applications",
Addison Wesley, New York, Third Edition 1999.
6. William Stallings, “High Speed Networks and Internet”, Pearson Education, Second Edition, 2002.
Extensive Reading:
• ftp://ftp.prenhall.com/pub/esm/computer_science.s041/stallings/Slides/HsNet2e_PPT-Slides/
• www.dtic.co.cu/FTP/libros/qos_highspeed.pdf
• www.inf.unisul.br/~cerutti/.../qos/.../3-traffic%20access%20control.pdf
• www.inf.unisul.br/~cerutti/disciplinas/.../5-packet%20fair%20queuing.pdf

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19CMC18 LTE TECHNOLOGY AND STANDARDS L T P C


Offered by ECE (Core Elective offered to MCO, MVL) 3 0 0 3
Course Objective:
To impart knowledge on
• Analyze the protocols and functions in LTE
• Analyze synchronization and channel estimation issues
• Analyze the transmit and receive diversity techniques in LTE
Course Outcome:
At the end of the course, the students will be able to
• Evaluate the hardware requirements for transmitter and receiver for LTE
• Implement Channel estimation, equalization and synchronization algorithms.
• Evaluate OFDM and SCDMA based wireless system.
• Analyze the channel coding, Modulation and data rate in LTE
• Design a LTE transceiver for any specifications
Unit I LTE STANDARDS 9
LTE Standards and Standard , LTE Radio Access Network Architecture, Network Elements and Functions, The
eNodeB ,Mobility Management Entity- Serving Gateway , Packet Data Network Gateway, Interfaces and Reference
Points , Requirements and Targets for the Long Term Evolution System Performance Requirements , Deployment
Cost and Interoperability , Technologies for the Long Term Evolution , Multiple Antenna Technology , Packet-
Switched Radio Interface , User Equipment Capabilities
Unit II OFDM AND SCFDMA IN LTE 9
Radio Interface Basics - Duplex Methods , Multiple Access Methods, OFDM Principles and Modulation , Multiple
Access in OFDM – OFDMA – PAPR , CFO and Timing offset issues in OFDM, Resource Blocks, SC-FDMA Principles and
Modulation
Unit III SYNCHRONIZATION AND CHANNEL ESTIMATION 9
Synchronization Sequences and Cell Searching LTE -Coherent Versus Non- Coherent Detection - Introduction to
Channel Estimation and Reference Signals ,Design of Reference Signals in LTE -RS-Aided Channel Modelling and
Estimation – Frequency Domain Channel Estimation - Time-Domain Channel Estimation – Spatial Domain Channel
Estimation – Advanced Techniques.
Unit IV PHYSICAL DATA AND CONTROL CHANNELS 9
Uplink Slot Structure –Uplink and Downlink Data – Transporting Channels- PUCCH,PRACH, PUSCH,Physical Broadcast
Channel (PBCH) - Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) – Physical Multicast Channel (PMCH) – Downlink
Control Channels - Requirements for Control Channel Design Control Channel Structure and Contents – Control
Channel Operation – Scheduling Process Link Adaptation and Feedback Computation, CQI Feedback in LTE, Channel
Coding, Theoretical Aspects of Channel Coding, Channel Coding for Data Channels in LTE, Coding for Control
Channels in LTE
Unit V MULTIPLE ANTENNA TECHNIQUES, SCHEDULING AND CELL SEARCH 9
Multiple Antenna Theory, MIMO Signal Model, Single – User MIMO Techniques, Multi-User Techniques, MIMO
Schemes in LTE, Practical Considerations, Single-User Schemes, Multi-User Schemes, Physical-Layer MIMO
Performance. General Considerations for Resource Allocation Strategies Scheduling Algorithms Ergodic Capacity
Delay- Limited Capacity Performance of Scheduling Strategies Considerations for Resource Scheduling in LTE
,Interference Coordination and Frequency Reuse, Cell Search LTE Cell Search, UMTS Cell Search, GSM Cell Search ,
LTE Measurements, Handover to LTE, Handover to UMTS, Handover to GSM
Reference Book:
1. 3GPP TS 36.211: "Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); Physical channels and modulation",
2011
2. 3GPP TS 36.212: "Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); Multiplexing and channel coding". 2011
3. 3GPP TS 36.213: "Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); Physical layer procedures". 2011
4. StefaniaSesia, IssamToufik, Matthew Baker, “LTE-The UMTS Long Term Evolution From theory to practice”, John
Wiley & Sons Ltd., Second Edition,2011.
5. Ralf Kreher and KarstenGaenger “LTE SIGNALING, TROUBLESHOOTING, AND OPTIMIZATION” John Wiley & Sons
Ltd, First Edition, 2011.
6. David Tse and PramodViswanath, “Fundamentals of Wireless Communications”, Cambridge University Press,
First Asian Edition, 2006.
7. Andrea Goldsmith, “ Wireless Communications”, Cambridge University Press, First Edition,2005
8. A.Paulraj, R. Nabar and D Gore, “Introduction to Space-Time Wireless Communications”, Cambridge University
Press, First Edition, 2008.
9. AymanElNashar, Mohamed El-Saidny, Mahmoud Sherif, “Design, Deployment and Performance of 4G-LTE
Networks: A Practical Approach”, Wiley-Blackwell, First Edition, 2014.

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• http:// www.3gpp.org

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19CMC19 MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS L T P C


Offered by ECE (Core Elective) 3 0 0 3
Course Objective:
To impart knowledge on
• To design passive and active microwave devices, including filters, switches, mixers, couplers, power dividers
and diplexers.
• To analyze circuits operated at millimeter wavelength.
• To perform measurements using VNA.
Course Outcome:
At the end of the course, the students will be able to
• Apply knowledge of S parameter theory to any microwave circuit for obtaining performance measure.
• Analyze microwave circuits such as amplifiers, oscillators, Mixers and filters
• Evaluate the performance of any practical Microwave System.
• Create communication circuits and subsystems with practical design parameters.
• Design microwave integrated circuit for the required performance using professional software tools.
Unit I INTRODUCTION TO MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS 9
Overview of ABCD and S parameters - Overview of Planar transmission lines (Stripline, Microstripline, Slotline, CPW,
Finline)-Design Parameters for Strip Line And Microstripline- Active Device Technologies- Design Approaches-
Multichip Module Technology- Substrates.
Unit II PASSIVE COMPONENTS 9
Inductors – Capacitors – LC Realization - Resistors - Micro-strip components - Coplanar circuits - Microwave Circuit
Theory - Switches, Attenuators, Filter Design.
Unit III AMPLIFIERS 9
Stability & Gain Analysis - Matching Techniques - Reactively Matched Amplifier Design – LNA - Constant Gain Circles
- Stability Circles - Noise Figure Circles.
Unit IV OSCILLATORS AND MIXERS 9
Design principles - Active Device CAD Techniques for Large Signal Oscillators Design- Phase Noise - MMIC VCO -
Mixers.
Unit V INTEGRATED ANTENNA DESIGN AND MEASUREMENTS 9
Integrated Antenna Design- Photonic Band Gap Antennas - Micro Machined Antenna - Micro Electro Mechanical
System Antennas - Test Fixture Measurements - Probe Station Measurements -Thermal and Cryogenic
Measurements- Experimental Field Probing Techniques.
Reference Book:
1. Bharathi Bhat, Shiban K. Koul, “Stripline-like Transmission Lines for Microwave Integrated Circuits”, New Age
International Pvt Ltd Publishers, 2007
2. Samuel. Y. Liao, “Microwave Circuit Analysis and Amplifier Design”, Prentice Hall, Inc., First Edition 1987.
3. Annapurna Das and Sisir K Das, “Microwave Engineering”, Tata McGraw-Hill Pub. Co. Ltd., Second Edition 2010.
4. Ravender Goyal, “Monolithic MIC; Technology & Design”, Artech House, First Edition 1989.
Extensive Reading:
• http://www.highfrequencyelectronics.com/Archives/Aug11/HFE0811_Maloratsky.pdf
• http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1987maa..agar.....D
• http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1978ieee.conf..411M

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19VDC16 MOBILE ROBOTICS L T P C


Offered by ECE (Core Elective offered to MCO, MVL) 3 0 0 3
Course Objective:
To impart knowledge on
• To understand the components of Mobile Robot
• To design a Mobile Robot for specific application
• To design the distributed and centralized controls for robot
Course Outcome:
At the end of the course, the students will be able to
• Apply kinematic constraints for mobile robot movement in constrained environment.
• Fit appropriate sensors for different mobile robot environments
• Perform mobile robot localization mechanism using appropriate belief representation ,
• Apply planning and control for a Mobile Robot Navigation
• Design mobile robots for a specific application and environments
Unit I LOCOMOTION AND KINEMATICS 9
Legged Mobile robots - Aerial mobile robots - Wheel mobile robots - Kinematic Models and constraints - Mobile
robot maneuverability - Mobile robot workspace - Motion control.
Unit II PERCEPTION, NON VISUAL SENSORS AND ALGORITHMS 9
Sensors for mobile robots – Non-visual Sensors: contact sensors, wheel/motor sensors, Heading sensors,
Accelerometers, IMU, infrared sensors, sonar, radar, Laser Range finders and satellite based positioning - Vision
sensors: Digital camera, Omnidirectional cameras, structure from stereo, structure from motion, motion and optical
flow, Color tracking - Feature extraction based on Range data - Data fusion - biological sensing.
Unit III MOBILE ROBOT LOCALIZATION 9
Noise aliasing- Belief Representation- probabilistic Map based localization- Autonomous Map building Landmark
based Localization, globally unique localization, Position beacons, Route based localizations.
Unit IV PLANNING AND NAVIGATION AND SYSTEM CONTROL 9
Path planning - Obstacle avoidance - bug algorithm- Vector field histogram- bubble band technique- Curvature
velocity technique- Dynamic window approach- Schlegel approach-Nearness diagram- gradient Method- Navigation
Architectures- horizontal and vertical decomposition-Hybrid control architectures.
Unit V ROBOT APPLICATIONS 9
Artificial intelligence in robotics - Line follower-wall follower - pick and place- Flying robots- Swarm robotics-Social
Economic Application - Future of Mobile robotics.
Reference Book:
1. Illah Reza Nourbakhsh, Roland Siegwart, “Introduction to Autonomous Mobile Robots”, MIT press, Cambridge,
London, 2011.
2. Gregory Dudek, Michael Jenkin, "Computational Principles of Mobile Robotics”, Cambridge university press,
2010.
3. Y Joseph L. Jones, Bruce A. Seiger, “Mobile Robots: Inspiration to Implementation”, AK peters Ltd.,1999.
4. Sebastian Thrun, Wolfram Burgard, & Dieter Fox, “Probabilistic Robotics” MIT Press. 2005.
Extensive Reading:
• http://techtalks.tv/talks/online-model-estimation-of-ultra-wideband-tdoa-measurements-for-mobile-robot-
localization/55228/
• http://www.intechopen.com/subjects/mobile-robotics
• http://www.bastiansolutions.com/robotics/robotic-solutions/mobile-robotics
• http://blog.robotpark.com/
• http://wiki.ros.org/
• http://gazebosim.org/
• http://www.coppeliarobotics.com/
• https://www.intechopen.com/books/mobile-robots-current-trends/mobile-robotics-in-education-and-research
• https://www.hindawi.com/journals/tswj/2014/404059/
• https://www.intechopen.com/books/mobile-robots-current-trends/the-development-of-the-omnidirectional-
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19CMC20 CDMA TECHNIQUES L T P C


Offered by ECE (Core Elective) 3 0 0 3
Course Objective:
To impart knowledge on
• To apply spread-spectrum system and CDMA system and to develop the architecture of future wireless
technology.
• To familiarize the characteristics of CDMA Link structure and Call processing techniques
Course Outcome:
At the end of the course, the students will be able to
• Simulate code generators for THSS and DSSS based CDMA systems
• Implement Rake receiver, detectors and synchronization algorithms for CDMA receivers.
• Evaluate physical layer and MAC layer characteristics of WCDMA systems
• Implement transmitters and Multi – User Detectors for MC – CDMA systems
• Design and Evaluate Optical CDMA networks
Unit I BASIC CONCEPTS OF CDMA 9
Principles of Code Division Multiple Access - Spread spectrum technique – Direct sequence and frequency hopping
spread spectrum communication system – PN codes and Walsh codes – Rake receiver – Capacity – Effects of
loading, sectorization and voice activity – Power control –Hand off – Synchronization in CDMA system, Detection
and False alarm probabilities - Early-Late gate measurement statistics
Unit II LINK STRUCTURE AND CALL PROCESSING 9
Asymmetric links Forward link – Pilot channel – Sync channel – Paging channel – Traffic channel – Modulator –
Reversing access channel – Traffic channel – Call processing states – Initialization state – Idle state – Access state –
Traffic channel state.
Unit III MC-CDMA 9
MC-CDMA-MT-CDMA and MC-DS CDMA systems - Difference between OFDMA and MC-CDMA-Performance
parameters – BER lower bound-Multiuser detection
Unit IV WCDMA 9
WCDMA in Third Generation Systems IMT 2000 and CDMA 2000 - Physical layer characteristics, modulation and
demodulation process -Handoff and power control in 3G systems- Air Interfaces and Spectrum Allocations for Third
Generation Systems - Core Networks and Services - UMTS Services and Applications - Main Parameters in WCDMA -
Spreading and Despreading - Multipath Radio Channels and Rake Reception - Power Control - Softer and Soft
Handovers.
Unit V OPTICAL CDMA 9
Prime Codes and it’s properties - Generalized and Extended Prime Codes - Optical CDMA Techniques -
Synchronization of Optical CDMA networks - Multi wavelength Optical CDMA networks.
Reference Book:
1. Samuel C Yang, “CDMA RF System Engineering”, Artech House, 1998.
2. Ojampera T and Prasad R, “Wideband CDMA for third Generation Mobile Communication”, Arech House, 2001.
3. S.Verdu,“Multiuser Detection”,Cambridge University Press, Reprint, 2011
4. HooshangGhafouri-Shiraz and M. MassoudKarbassian, “Optical CDMA Networks: Principles, Analysis and
Applications”, Wiley, IEEE press, 2012
5. HarriHolma and AnttiToskala,“WCDMA for UMTS Radio Access for Third Generation Mobile Communications”,
Third Edition, Wileypress, 2004.
Extensive Reading:
• http://www.globalspec.com/reference/55236/203279/cdma-systems-capacity-engineering
• http://www.pearson.ch/HigherEducation/ElectricalEngineering/Communications/1471/9780201633740/CDMA
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Mepco R2019 ME COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS

19CMC21 GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEMS L T P C


Offered by ECE (Core Elective) 3 0 0 3
Course Objective:
To impart knowledge on
• To design the GPS receiver
• To process the carriers used for GPS
• To investigate the problems with propagation medium
Course Outcome:
At the end of the course, the students will be able to
• Analyze the Orbital elements
• Evaluate the carriers and their processing methodologies
• Apply the positioning knowledge to inter disciplinary projects
• Create a model to reduce the ionospheric constraints
• Evaluate role of GPS in different applications.
Unit I INTRODUCTION TO NAVIGATIONAL SYSTEMS 9
History of GPS – BC-4 System – HIRAN – NNSS – NAVSTAR GLONASS and GNSS Systems, IRNSS, GAGAN, GPS
Constellation – Space Segment – Control Segment – User Segment – Single and Dual Frequency – Point – Relative –
Differential GPS – Static and Kinematic Positioning – 2D and 3D – reporting Anti Spoofing (AS); Selective Availability
(SA) –DOP Factors.
Unit II ORBITAL ELEMENTS 9
Coordinate Systems – Geo Centric Coordinate System – Conventional Terrestrial Reference System – Orbit
Description – Keplerian Orbit – Kepler Elements – Satellite Visibility – Topocentric Motion – Disturbed Satellite
Motion – Perturbed Motion –Disturbing Accelerations - Perturbed Orbit – Time Systems – Astronomical Time
System – Atomic Time – GPS Time – Need for Coordination – Link to Earth Rotation – Time and Earth Motion
Services.
Unit III CARRIER PROCESSING 9
C/A code; P-code; Y-code; L1, L2 Carrier frequencies – Code Pseudo Ranges – Carrier Phases – Pseudo Ranges –
Satellite Signal Signature – Navigation Messages and Formats – Undifferenced and Differenced Range Models –
Delta Ranges – Signal Processing and Processing Techniques – Tracking Networks – Ephemeris – Data Combination:
Narrow Lane; Wide Lane – OTF Ambiguity.
Unit IV PROPAGATION ISSUES AND AUGMENTATION SYSTEMS 9
Propagation Media – Multipath – Antenna Phase Centre – Atmosphere in brief –Elements of Wave Propagation –
Ionospheric Effects on GPS Observations – Code Delay – Phase Advances – Integer Bias – Clock Error – Cycle Slip –
Noise-Bias –Blunders – Tropospheric Effects on GPS Observables –Multipath Effect – Antenna Phase Centre
Problems and Correction, Augmentation Systems
Unit V APPLICATIONS 9
Inter Disciplinary Applications – Crustal Dynamics – Gravity Field Mapping –Atmospheric Occultation – Surveying –
Geophysics – Air borne GPS – Ground Transportation – Space borne GPS – Meteorological and Climate Research
using GPS.
Reference Book:
1. B.Hoffman - Wellenhof, H.Lichtenegger and J.Collins, "GPS: Theory and Practice", Springer, Wein, New york,
Fourth Edition, 2008
2. A.Leick, "GPS Satellites Surveying", second edition, John Wiley &Sons,NewYork, ThirdEdition, 2004
3. B.Parkinson, J.Spilker, Jr.(Eds), "GPS: Theory and Applications", Vol.I&Vol.II, AIAA,370 L'Enfant Promenade SW,
Washington, DC, First Edition, 2004.
4. A.Kleusberg and P.Teunisen(Eds), “GPS for Geodesy”, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Second Edition, 2011
5. L.Adams, "The GPS - A Shared National Asset”, Chair, National Academy Press, Washington, DC, First
Edition,1995
Extensive Reading:
• http://www.auslig.gov.au
• http://igscb.jpl.nasa.gov
• http://gibs.leipzig.ifag.de
• http://www.navcen.uscg.mil

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19CMC22 DIGITAL AUDIO AND SPEECH SIGNAL PROCESSING L T P C


Offered by ECE (Core Elective) 3 0 0 3
Course Objective:
To impart knowledge on
• To identify various processing techniques of speech and audio signals.
• To analyze Speech and Audio production mechanisms.
• To analyze different applications of speech and audio signals.
Course Outcome:
At the end of the course, the students will be able to
• Analyze Speech and audio signal production and perception mechanisms.
• Apply Mathematical knowledge of speech and audio production mechanics to make a Time-Frequency analysis
of respective systems.
• Formulate the linear prediction problem and design the speech coder.
• Develop solutions for complex filter bank problems.
• Identify and formulate applications of audio and speech signals.
Unit I MECHANICS OF SPEECH AND AUDIO 9
Speech production mechanism – Nature of Speech signal – Digital Model of speech signals - Classification of Speech
sounds – Phones – Phonemes – Phonetic and Phonemic alphabets – Articulatory features-Anatomical pathways
from the ear to the perception of sound - The peripheral auditory system.
Absolute Threshold of Hearing - Critical Bands- Simultaneous Masking, Masking-Asymmetry, Perceptual Entropy -
Basic measuring philosophy - Subjective versus objective perceptual testing - The perceptual audio quality measure
(PAQM).
Unit II TIME AND FREQUENCY DOMAIN METHODS FOR SPEECH PROCESSING 9
Time domain parameters of Speech signal – Methods for extracting the parameters: Energy, Average Magnitude –
Zero crossing Rate(ZCR)– Silence Discrimination using ZCR and energy -Short Time Fourier analysis – Formant
extraction and Pitch Extraction.
Unit III LINEAR PREDICTIVE ANALYSIS OF SPEECH 9
Formulation of Linear Prediction problem in Time Domain – Basic Principle – Auto correlation method – Covariance
method – Solution of LPC equations – Cholesky method – Durbin’s Recursive algorithm – lattice formation and
solutions – Comparison of different methods – Application of LPC parameters – Pitch detection using LPC
parameters – Formant analysis – VELP – CELP.
Unit IV TIME-FREQUENCY ANALYSIS FOR AUDIO: FILTER BANKS AND TRANSFORMS 9
Analysis-Synthesis Framework for M-band Filter Banks- Filter Banks for Audio Coding: Design Considerations -
Quadrature Mirror and Conjugate Quadrature Filters- Tree-Structured QMF- Cosine Modulated “Pseudo QMF” M-
band Banks - Cosine Modulated Perfect Reconstruction (PR) Mband Banks and the Modified Discrete Cosine
Transform (MDCT).
Unit V SPEECH AND AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING ALGORITHMS 9
Algorithms: Dynamic Time Warping, Hidden Markov Model– Gaussian Mixture Model - Automatic Speech
Recognition – Feature Extraction for ASR - Speaker identification and verification – Voice response system – Speech
Synthesis -Digital Audio Watermarking - Audio MPEG 4.
Reference Book:
1. L.R.Rabiner and R.W.Schaffer, “Digital Processing of Speech signals”, Pearson Education Singapore Pte. Ltd, First
Edition,2008.
2. Ben Gold and Nelson Morgan, “Speech and Audio Signal Processing”, John Wiley and Sons Inc., Singapore,
Second Edition, 2011.
3. Quatieri,”Discrete-time Speech Signal Processing”, Pearsm Education, First Edition, 2002.
4. UdoZölzerA John, “Digital Audio Signal Processing”, Wiley& sons Ltd Publications, Second Edition, 2008.
5. Mark Kahrs and Karlheinz Brandenburg, “Applications of Digital Signal Processing to Audio And Acoustics”,
Springer Publishing Company,Incorporated, 2013.
6. Ken C. Pohlmann, “Principles of Digital Audio”, McGraw Hill, New Delhi, Sixth Edition, 2010.
7. John Watkinson, “An Introduction to Digital Audio”, Focal Press, Second Edition, 2002.
8. Spanias Andress, Painter Ted @ Atti Ventataraman, “Audio Signal Processing and Coding”, John Wiley & Sons,
Newdelhi, 2013.
Extensive Reading:
• http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/Faculty/Rabiner.
• http://www.ee.iitb.ac.in/daplab/publications/chapter9-prao.pdf

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Mepco R2019 ME COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS

19CMC23 WIRELESS AD-HOC AND SENSOR NETWORKS L T P C


Offered by ECE (Core Elective) 3 0 0 3
Course Objective:
To impart knowledge on
• To realize the issues related with various wideband wireless communication techniques
• To gain knowledge about the design techniques of advanced wireless communication systems
Course Outcome:
At the end of the course, the students will be able to
• Analyze the significances of an ad-hoc and sensor network mechanisms
• Apply the MAC and routing protocols to develop projects for an ad-hoc network.
• Analyze the issues present in the end-to-end delivery of a sensor network.
• Evaluate the MAC and routing protocols to develop projects for sensor networks
• Analyze how an ad-hoc network can be integrated with other networks.
Unit I AD-HOC AND SENSOR NETWORKS 9
Advantages, characteristics features, applications, constraints and challenges, required mechanisms, difference
between ad-hoc and sensor networks, enabling technologies, Characteristics of Wireless channel, Adhoc Mobility
Models: - entity and group Models.
Unit II MEDIUM ACCESS AND ROUTING PROTOCOLS 9
Ad-hoc MAC Protocols: design issues, goals and classification. Contention based protocols, reservation based
protocols, scheduling algorithms, protocols using directional antennas. Routing Protocols - Issues in designing
routing protocols, Classification of routing protocols, Routing protocols of ad-hoc networks.
Unit III END -TO - END DELIVERY AND SECURITY 9
Transport layer: Issues in designing- Transport layer classification, adhoc transport protocols. Security issues in
adhoc and sensor networks: challenges, network security attacks, secure routing protocols.
Unit IV NETWORKING OF SENSORS 9
Single-Node Architecture - Hardware Components, Network Architecture - Sensor Network Scenarios, Physical Layer
and Transceiver Design Considerations, MAC Protocols for Wireless
Sensor Networks, Low Duty Cycle Protocols and Wakeup Concepts - S-MAC, The Mediation Device Protocol, Wakeup
Radio Concepts, Address and Name Management, Assignment of MAC Addresses, Routing protocols of sensor
networks.
Unit V INFRASTRUCTURE ESTABLISHMENT AND INTEGRATION OFADHOC FOR 4G 9
Topology Control, Clustering, Time Synchronization, Localization and Positioning, Sensor Tasking and Control. Co-
operative networks - Architecture, methods of co-operation, co-operative antennas, Integration of ad hoc network
with other wired and wireless networks.
Reference Book:
1. Carlos de Morais Cordeiro and Dharma Prakash Agrawal, “Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks : Theory and
Applications”, World Scientific Publishers, Second Edition, 2011
2. Prasant Mohapatra and Sriramamurthy, “Ad Hoc Networks: Technologies and Protocols”, Springer-Verlag,
FirstEdition, Reprint 2005.
3. Kazem Sohraby and Daniel Minoli, TaiebZnati, “Wireless Sensor Networks:Technology, Protocols and
Applications”, Wiley India, FirstEdition, 2010.
4. Holger Karl A Andreas Willig, “Protocols and Architectures for Wireless Sensor Networks", Wiley India, student
edition 2012.
Extensive Reading:
• www.fit.vutbr.cz/~hanacek/papers/mosis05.pdf
• www.uta.edu/utari/acs/ee5369/Karl%20slides/sensys-ch1.pdf
• ecg.ac.in/downloads/mac-adhoc.ppt
• 210.32.200.159/download/20100130212654891.pdf
• www2.ece.ohio-state.edu/medhoc04/medhocnetfiles/papers/S02.1.pdf

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19CMC24 LIGHT WAVE COMMUNICATION L T P C


Offered by ECE (Core Elective) 3 0 0 3
Course Objective:
To impart knowledge on
• To understand the functionalities of light wave communication in free-space.
• To design and analyse FSO link for indoor inter-device connectivity
Course Outcome:
At the end of the course, the students will be able to
• Apply knowledge of the Fundamentals of FSO Communication System.
• Understand the atmospheric phenomena and analyze FSO communication signal propagation through
Atmospheric Channel.
• Identify and formulate different different techniques of modulation, detection and coding for FSO
communications.
• Analyze possible configurations for indoor optical wireless systems.
• Analyze multiple transmit/receive apertures to enhance the reliabilityof FSO links.
Unit I FUNDAMENTALS AND PROPAGATION OF FREE-SPACE OPTICAL (FSO) COMMUNICATION SIGNAL 9
THROUGH ATMOSPHERIC CHANNEL
Introduction- Data Transmission Rates in Today’s Networks - Basics of Optical Networks Relevant to FSO
Communications - Optical Networks: Integration of FSO -FSO Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks (MANET) -Underwater FSO
Communications Network - Indoor FSO Communications -FSO Communications in Presence of Atmosphere -System
Performance Evaluation -FSO Transmitting Beam Types -Random Nature of Atmospheric Turbulence.
Unit II MODULATION, DETECTION, AND CODING 9
FSO Communication Channel Models -Additive White Gaussian Noise (AWGN) Channel -Band-limited Channel -
Fading and Randomly Varying Optical Channel -Modulation Schemes in FSO Communications -On-Off Keying (OOK) -
Pulse position Modulation -Binary Phase-Shift Keying (BPSK) Modulation -Channel Capacity and Coding for FSO
Communications.
Unit III INDOOR OPTICAL WIRELESS CHANNEL MODELING METHODS 10
Introduction -Source and Receiver Configuration -Steps for Modeling of Indoor OWC Environment -Models of the
Room and Other Reflecting Surfaces -Radiation Patterns -Radiation Patterns of Point Sources -Radiation Patterns of
Reflections -Received Power from LOS Links -Received Power from NLOS Links -Barry’s Algorithm -MIMO Modeling
Method -Modified Monte Carlo Algorithm and Variations -Combined Deterministic and MMC Algorithm -
Approaches for Impulse Response Calculation -Analyses of Optical Wireless Channel Impulse Responses -Effects of
Furniture on Root‐Mean‐Square Delay Spread -SNR Calculations and BER Performance -Impact of Higher Order
Reflections.
Unit IV INDOOR POSITIONING METHODS USING VLC LEDS 8
Motivation -Positioning Algorithms and Solutions -Triangulation -Scene Analysis -Proximity -Comparison of
Positioning Techniques -An Asynchronous Indoor Positioning System based on VLC LED -Basic Framed Slotted
ALOHA Protocol -System Design and DC Channel Gain -Positioning Algorithm -Signal‐to‐Noise Ratio Analysis
Unit V MIMO FREE-SPACE OPTICAL COMMUNICATION 9
Introduction - Channel Modelling -MIMO FSO Diversity Techniques –Receive Diversity –Transmit Diversity -
Performance of MIMO FSO Systems -Average Error Rate -Outage Probability -Diversity Gain -Aperture Averaging,
Correlation, and Near-Field Effects -Distributed MIMO FSO.
Reference Book:
1. Arun K. Majumdar, “Advanced Free Space Optics (FSO) A Systems Approach”, Springer Series in Optical
Sciences, Volume 186,ISSN 0342-4111, ISBN 978-1-4939-0917-9, DOI 10.1007/978-1-4939-0918-6, 2015.
2. Mohsen Kavehrad, M. I. Sakib Chowdhury, Zhou Zhou, “Short‐Range Optical Wireless Theory and Applications”,
Wiley,ISBN: 9781118887707, 2016.
3. Murat Uysal, Carlo Capsoni, Zabih Ghassemlooy, Anthony Boucouvalas, Eszter Udvary Editors, “Optical Wireless
Communications An Emerging Technology”,Signals and Communication Technology,ISSN 1860-4862, ISBN 978-
3-319-30200-3, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-30201-0, 2016.
4. Steve Hranilovic, “WIRELESS OPTICALCOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS”, Springer, ISBN 0-387-22784-9, 2005.
Extensive Reading:
• http://tec.gov.in/pdf/Studypaper/White%20Paper%20-%20FSO.pdf.
• https://www.cablefree.net/wirelesstechnology/free-space-optics/.
• https://spie.org/news/spie-professional-magazine-archive/2019-july/free-space-optical-communication-takes-
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19CMC26 FREQUENCY SELECTIVE SURFACES L T P C


Offered by ECE (Core Elective) 3 0 0 3
Course Objective:
To impart knowledge on
• To analyze the periodic surfaces and various element types.
• To evaluate the performance of slot and dipole arrays in a stratified medium.
• To design periodic structures with band pass characteristics
Course Outcome:
At the end of the course, the students will be able to
• Evaluate and analyze various element types of periodic surfaces
• Analyze the spectral expansion of periodic structures.
• Evaluate the performance of dipole arrays in a stratified medium.
• Evaluate the performance of slot arrays in a stratified medium.
• Design structures with Band Pass characteristics.
Unit I PERIODIC SURFACES & ELEMENT TYPES 9
Overview of Periodic surfaces – Cascading periodic surfaces without Dielectrics – Single Periodic Surface with
Dielectric Slabs – Real Hybrid Periodic Structures, Element Types – Center Connected or N Poles - Loop Types – Solid
Interior Types – Combination Elements.
Unit II EVALUATION & SPECTRAL EXPANSION OF PERIODIC STRUCTURES 9
Single Infinite Case – Double Infinite Case, Vector Potential from a Single and Double Infinite Column Array, Vector
Field for a Double and Infinite Array, Physical Interpretation, Induced Voltages in a Linear Antenna, Region, Planar
Elements of Arbitrary shape.
Unit III DIPOLE ARRAYS IN A STRATIFIED MEDIUM 9
A Plane Wave incident upon a Dielectric Interface, Arrays and External Elements located in Infinite - Semi-Infinite
Medium- Slab, Bounce Mode Organization, General Stratified Medium with Planar & Non Planar Elements, Scan
Independence: Single Array in a Single Slab, Surface Waves on Periodic Structures of Electric Dipoles, Onset of
Trapped and Free Space Grating Lobes, Grating Lobe Diagrams- Rectangular Array Grid without Dielectric – Skewed
Grid without Dielectric – Any Array Grid with Dielectric.
Unit IV SLOT ARRAY IN A STRATIFIED MEDIUM 9
Dual Systems, Complementary Surfaces, Admittance of a Slot Array with Dielectric Slab, Mutual admittance
between Two Slot Arrays, Surface Waves on Periodic Structures of Slots: Free and forced, Onset of Trapped and Free
Space Grating Lobes, Typical Examples of Surface Waves and Onset ofGrating Lobes for Arrays of Slots.
Unit V BAND PASS FILTER DESIGNS 9
Modeling of an N-Layered Hybrid Radome, Determination of the Transmission Coefficient For an n-layered Hybrid
Radome, Analysis of the Hybrid Radome: Symmetric &Nonsymmetric, Monoplanar, Biplanar, Triplanar and
Multiplaered Hybrid Radome cases, Honeycomb and Thick Screen Radomes, Reflection: Image Lobes, Registration
Sensitivity, Luebbers’ Anomaly.
Text Book:
1. Ben.A. Munk, “Frequency Selective Surfaces – Theory and design”, John Wiley and Sons, New York,
FourthEdition, 2005.
2. John C Vardaxoglou,“Frequency Selective Surfaces – Analysis & Design: Analysis and Design (Electronic &
Electrical Engineering Research Studies. Antennas Series, 10)”, Wiley–Blackwell, 1997.
Reference Book:
1. Balanis.A, “Antenna Theory Analysis and Design”, John Wiley and Sons, Inc, New Jersey, Fourth Edition, 2016.
2. W.L.Stutzman and G.A.Thiele, “Antenna Theory and Design”, John Wiley & Sons Inc., Third edition, 2012
Extensive Reading:
• https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Te-Kao-u/publication/227553906 Frequency Selective
Surfaces/links/579fa1a108ae100d38065a69/Frequency-Selective-Surfaces.pdf
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_selective_surface
• https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/8/9/1689/html
• https://www.researchgate.net/publication/227553906_Frequency_Selective_Surfaces
• https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8938161
• https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/4200922

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19CMC27 STEGANOGRAPHY AND STEGANALYSIS L T P C


Offered by ECE (Core Elective) 3 0 0 3
Course Objective:
To impart knowledge on
• To analyze various steganographic and watermarking techniques for information security.
• To analyze various attacks on steganography and watermarking.
• To analyze the hidden information using different steganalysis techniques.
Course Outcome:
At the end of the course, the students will be able to
• Understand the concept of information hiding.
• Apply various steganographic techniques for information security.
• Apply various digital watermarking techniques for information security
• Analyze various attacks on steganography and watermarking
• Analyze the hidden information using different steganalysis techniques
Unit I INTRODUCTION TO STEGANOGRAPHY 9
Steganography - Overview – History - Modern Steganography - Methods for hiding (text, images, audio, video,
speech, noise etc.) - Steganography Channels -Steganography Goals - Properties and applications of Steganography,
Mathematical Preliminaries - Least Significant Bit Substitution-Discrete Fourier Transform - Discrete Cosine
Transform - Discrete Wavelet Transform - Random Sequence Generation -The Chaotic Map - Error Correction Code
Unit II STEGANOGRAPHIC TECHNIQUES 9
Preprocessing a secret message, Domain Selection, Secret bits embedding, Steganography by Cover Selection –
Synthesis and Modification – Naïve Steganography – LSB embedding – LSB Matching (±1 embedding) – Palette
Embedding –Distortionless Embedding – QIM – Spread Spectrum – Model preserving steganography – Matrix
Embedding using binary Hamming Codes.
Unit III DIGITAL WATERMARKING 9
Introduction to Digital Image Watermarking – Applications – History - Classifications based of visibility -
Classification based on resistance against attacks - Classification based on embedding and extraction of watermark -
Properties of watermarks - Models of Watermarking – Attacks - Watermarking domains - Measure of evaluations.
Unit IV ATTACKS ON STEGANOGRAPHY AND WATERMARKING 9
Techniques for detecting hidden information – Code words - Typical approaches – Visual attacks - aural attacks -
statistical attacks - structural attacks – Detecting signatures in stego images – Removal attacks –Desynchronization
attacks – Cryptographic Attacks – Protocol Attacks.
Unit V STEGANALYSIS 9
Steganalysis – Types of Steganalysis, Detection – Blind and targeted Steganalysis - LSB based Steganalysis - Statistical
Properties of Images - The Visual Steganalytic System - IQM-Based Steganalytic System - Learning Strategies-
Support Vector Machine -Neural Networks - Principle Component Analysis – Steganalysis for Forensic Investigation.
Text Book:
1. ShivendraShivani,SuneetaAgarwal, Jasjit.S.Suri - Handbook of Image based security techniques, CRC Press,1st
edition, 2018.
2. Frank.Y.Shih - Digital Watermarking and Steganography- Fundamentals and Techniques, CRC press, 2014.
3. Husrev T. Sencar, RamkumarMahalingam, Ali N. Akansu, “Data Hiding Fundamentals and Applications: Content
Security in Digital Media”, Academic Press Inc, 2004.
Reference Book:
1. Ingemar J. Cox, Mathew L. Miler, Jefrey A. Blom, JesicaFridrich, Ton Kalker, ―Digital Watermarking and
Steganography‖, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, New York, 2008.
2. Stefan Katzenbelser and Fabien A. P. Peticolas, ―Information hiding techniques for Steganography and Digital
Watermarking‖, ARTECH House Publishers, January 2004.
3. Neil F. Johnson, ZoranDuric and SushilJajodia, “Information Hiding: Steganography and Watermarking –Attacks
and Countermeasures”, Springer, 2001.
4. Jessica Fridrich, “Steganography in Digital Media: Principles, Algorithms and Applications”, Cambridge
University Press, 2010.
Extensive Reading:
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography
• https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/computer-science/steganographic-technique
• https://www.mdpi.com/2078-2489/11/2/110/htm
• https://encyclopedia.pub/1139
• 5. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1051200410000412

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19VDC21 VLSI ARCHITECTURE FOR IMAGE AND VIDEO PROCESSING L T P C


Offered by ECE (Core Elective offered to MCO, MVL) 3 0 0 3
Course Objective:
To impart knowledge on
• To analyze the Image and Video processing algorithms.
• To explore various processing techniques of Image and Video signals.
• To design different architectures of Image and Video signals.
Course Outcome:
At the end of the course, the students will be able to
• Apply various architectures to realize Image processing algorithms.
• Analyze the pipeline architectures for image processing
• Implementation of Low level 2D and 3D and Intermediate level algorithms.
• Evaluate the performances of video processing algorithms.
• Implement various architectures for video Processing.
Unit I IMAGE PROCESSING ALGORITHMS 9
Introduction – Image Processing Tasks- Low level Image Processing Operations – Description of some intermediate
level operations – Requirements for Image processor architecture.
Unit II IMAGE PROCESSING ARCHITECTURES AND PIPELINED LOW LEVEL IMAGE PROCESSING 9
Classification of Architectures – Uni and Multi processors – MIMD systems – SIMD systems – Pipelines – Devices for
cellular logic processing – Design aspects of real time low level image processors – Design method for special
architectures.
Unit III PIPELINED ARCHITECTURES & 2D AND 3D IMAGE PROCESSING ARCHITECTURES 9
Architecture of a cellular logic processing element – Second decomposition in datapath and control – Real time
pipeline for low level image processing – Design aspects of Image Processing architectures – Implementation of Low
level 2D and 3D and Intermediate level algorithms.
Unit IV VIDEO PROCESSING ALGORITHMS 9
Motion Estimation Algorithms – Complexity Analysis Methodology – Complexity analysis of MPEG – 4 Visual –
Analysis of Fast Motion Estimation Algorithms.
Unit V VLSI ARCHITECTURES FOR VIDEO PROCESSING 9
General design space evaluation – Design space motion estimation architectures – Motion estimation architectures
for MPEG-4 – Design Trade-offs – VLSI Implementation search engine I and Search engine II.
Reference Book:
1. Peter M. Kuhn, “Algorithms, Complexity Analysis and VLSI Architectures for MPEG-4 Motion Estimation ",
Springer ISBN 978-1–4419-5088-8, First Edition, 2012.
2. Pieter Jonker, “Morphological Image Processing: Architecture and VLSI design”, Springer. ISBN: 9020127667,
First Edition, 2000.
3. Rafael C. Gonzalez & Richard E. Woods, “Digital Image Processing”, Prentice Hall; Third edition, 2007.
4. A.MuratTekalp, “Digital Video Processing”, Pearson Education, Noida, First Edition, 2010.
Extensive Reading:
• www.imageprocessingplace.com/
• www.ogemarques.com/
• www.cambridge.org/digital-integrated-circuit-design-vlsi-architectures

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19CMP01 ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS L T P C


Offered by ECE (Open Elective offered to MBT, MCO, MCS, MIS, MSE, MVL, PED) 3 0 0 3
Course Objective:
To impart knowledge on
• To explore the architecture and learning principles of Neural Networks.
• To develop the various hybrid algorithms involved in Neural Networks.
• To provide adequate knowledge of application of Neural Networks to real time systems.
Course Outcome:
At the end of the course, the students will be able to
• Apply the concept of neural networks in practical applications.
• Design, implement and analyze the performance of Back Propagation and Deep Neural Networks.
• Apply Counter Propagation Network and Self Organizing Map & Adaptive resonance networks for solving
various problems
• Solve real world problems using Associative Neural Network Techniques.
• Implement Adaptive Neural Network and Neocognitron architecture for practical applications.
Unit I ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS 9
Biological Neurons and Neural Networks, Basic Structures and Properties of Artificial Neural Networks, Basic Neuron
Models- McCulloch- Pitts –Different Activation Functions,Singe Layer Perceptrons - Linear Seperability, Single Layer
Perceptron Architecture-Learning rule, Algorithm, Applications.
Unit II BACK PROPAGATION NEURAL NETWORKS 9
Multi-Layer Perceptron -Architecture, activation functions, Learning, Back Propagation Algorithm – Practical
considerations - Limitations–Network Paralysis, Local Minima, Temporal Instability – Deep learning- introduction,
Networks Classes - Retrained Deep Neural Networks-Architecture, Learning Method- Application in object
recognition.
Unit III NETWORK BASED ON COMPETITION 9
Fixed weight competitive Network-Maxnet, Mexican Hat and Hamming Net, Counter Propagation Networks-
Kohonen’s self-organizing map – Training the Kohonen layer – Training the Grossberg layer – Full counter
propagation network – Application,Adaptive resonance theory – classification- Architecture – Learning and
generalization.
Unit IV PATTERN ASSOCIATION 9
Training algorithm for pattern association - Hetro Associative Network, AutoAssociative Network, Architecture of
Hopfield nets – stability analysis ,General Concepts of Associative Memory, Bidirectional Associative Memory (BAM)
Architecture, BAM training algorithms.
Unit V ADAPTIVE NETWORKS AND NEOCOGNITRON 9
Probablistic Neural networks : Introduction – architecture, Algorithm, Application, Analysis , Cascade correlation :
Architecture, Learning Algorithm. Neocognitron : Architecture, Algorithm, Training process.
Reference Book:
1. Laurence Fausett, “Fundamentals of Neural Networks, Architecture, Algorithm and Applications”, Prentice Hall,
Third Edition, 2015.
2. Timothy J.Ross, “Fuzzy Logic Engineering Applications”, McGrawHill,New York, Third Edition, 2010.
3. S.Rajasekaran and G.A.VijayalakshmiPai “Neural networks, Fuzzy logics, and Genetic algorithms”, Prentice Hall
of India, First Edition, 2013.
4. Jang J.S.R., Sun C.T and Mizutani E, “Neuro Fuzzy and Soft computing”- A Computational Approach to Learning
and Machine Intelligence, PHI Learning Private Limited, Indian Reprint , 2014.
5. Li Deng and Dong Yu “Deep Learning: Methods and Applications (Foundations and Trends in Signal
Processing)”,NOW Publishers, First Edition, 2014
Extensive Reading:
• https://www-faculty.stanford.edu/.../neuralnetworks/Applications/index.html
• https://books.google.co.in/books?isbn=3642306217

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19CMP02 NETWORK ROUTING ALGORITHMS L T P C


Offered by ECE (Open Elective offered to MBT, MCO, MCS, MIS, MSE, MVL, PED) 3 0 0 3
Course Objective:
To impart knowledge on
• To get familiarized with different protocols in internet routing and optical WDM networks.
• To get acquainted with the concepts of supporting protocols in Mobile-IP networks.
• To differentiate the routing processes involved in mobile ad-hoc networks and wireless sensor networks from
conventional networks.
Course Outcome:
At the end of the course, the students will be able to
• Identify various routing schemes and their applications to the real world circuit-switched networks
• Compute the blocking probability of various routing schemes.
• Explore the characteristics of mobile ad hoc networks
• Analyze the performance of different routing and power-saving algorithms for mobile/wireless networks.
• Apply and evaluate routing algorithms for different kinds of networks.
Unit I ROUTING IN TELEPHONE NETWORKS AND INTERNET 9
General Classification of routing, Routing in telephone networks, Dynamic Non-hierarchical Routing (DNHR), Trunk
status map routing (TSMR), Real-Time Network Routing (RTNR), Hierarchical routing.
Exterior Routing Protocols: Exterior Gateway Protocol (EGP) and Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). Multicast Routing:
Pros and cons of Multicast and Multiple Unicast Routing, Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol (DVMRP),
Multicast Open Shortest Path First (MOSPF), MBONE, Core Based Tree Routing.
Unit II ROUTING IN OPTICAL WDM NETWORKS 9
Classification of RWA algorithms, RWA algorithms, Fairness and Admission Control, Distributed Control Protocols,
Permanent Routing and Wavelength Requirements, Wavelength Rerouting- Benefits and Issues, Light path
Migration, Rerouting Schemes, Algorithms- AG, MWPG.
Unit III ROUTING IN MOBILE - IP NETWORKS 9
Macro-mobility Protocols, Micro-mobility protocol: Tunnel based: Hierarchical Mobile IP, Intra domain Mobility
Management, Routing based: Cellular IP, Handoff Wireless Access Internet Infrastructure (HAWAII).
Unit IV ROUTING IN MOBILE AD –HOC NETWORKS 9
Internet based mobile ad-hoc networking, communication strategies, routing algorithms – Table-driven routing -
Destination Sequenced Distance Vector (DSDV), Source initiated on-demand routing- Dynamic Source Routing (DSR),
Ad-hoc On-demand Distance Vector (AODV) routing, Hierarchical based routing- Cluster Head Gateway Switch
Routing (CGSR) and Temporally-Ordered Routing Algorithm (TORA), Quality of Service.
Unit V ROUTING IN WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS 9
Routing Protocols- Energy-Efficient Routing - Power-Aware Many-to-Many Routing (PAMR), Low-Energy Adaptive
Clustering Hierarchy (LEACH), Geographic Routing.
Data-centric protocols, Hierarchical protocols, Location-based protocols - directed Diffusion, Network flow and QoS-
aware protocols.
Reference Book:
1. M. Steen Strub, “Routing in Communication network”, Prentice –Hall International, New York, 1995.
2. S. Keshav, “An engineering approach to Computer Networking: ATM Networks,the Internet and the Telephone
Network”, Addison Wesley 1997.
3. William Stallings, “High speed Networks TCP/IP and ATM Design Principles”, Prentice- Hall, Second
Edition,2002.
4. C. E. Perkins, “Ad hoc Networking”, Addison-Wesley, 2001
5. C.Siva Ram Murthy and B.S.Manoj, “Ad hoc Wireless Networks Architectures and protocols”, Pearson
Education, Second Edition, 2007
6. KazemSohraby, Daniel Minoli and TaiebZnati, “Wireless Sensor Networks”, A John Wiley & Sons Inc. Publication,
First Edition, 2007.
7. Holger Karl and Andreas Willig, "Protocols and Architectures for Wireless Sensor Networks", John Wiley, 2007.
8. Ian F. Akyildiz, Jiang Xie and ShantidevMohanty, “A Survey of mobility Management in Next generation All IP-
Based Wireless Systems”, IEEE Wireless Communications Aug.2004, pp 16-28.
9. A.T Campbell et al., “Comparison of IP Micromobility Protocols,” IEEE Wireless Communications Vol No.9, Issue
1, Feb.2002, pp 72-82.
10. C.Siva Rama Murthy and Mohan Gurusamy, “WDM Optical Networks – Concepts, Design and
Algorithms”,Prentice Hall of India Pvt. Ltd, 2002.
Extensive Reading:
• http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/sqc/EL336/CNL-10.pdf
• http://www.cs.ccsu.edu/~stan/classes/CS490/Slides/Networks4-Ch4-4.pdf
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• http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/users/dheeraj/cs425/lec12.html/
• http://www.csi.ucd.ie/staff/jmurphy/networks/csd8_7-routing.pdf

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19CMP03 SOFTWARE AND COGNITIVE RADIO SYSTEMS L T P C


Offered by ECE (Open Elective offered to MBT, MCO, MCS, MIS, MSE, MVL, PED) 3 0 0 3
Course Objective:
To impart knowledge on
• To apply and implement the design methodologies in the wireless applications.
• To learn about software defined radio and cognitive radio systems.
Course Outcome:
At the end of the course, the students will be able to
• Design the architecture of Software and Cognitive Radio Systems.
• Analyze the performance of Cognitive Radio Systems.
• Apply the spectrum sensing and
• Access the spectrum dynamically through centralized and distributed manner in current wireless application
standards.
• Identify the applications of Cognitive Radio Systems
Unit I SOFTWARE RADIO 9
Evolution- architecture perspectives- Software radio concepts-SDR front end technology: Transmitter specifications-
Receiver specifications- operating frequency bands- receiver design considerations- transmitter design
considerations- Candidate architecture for SDR- Multimode SDR architecture.
Unit II COGNITIVE RADIO 9
Introduction to cognitive radios –economics of cognitive radio-spectrum awareness, spectrum subleasing, spectrum
sharing- cognitive networks: motivation &requirements-foundation &related works in cognitive radio- cognitive
radio implementation.
Unit III COGNITIVE RADIO ARCHITECTURE 9
SDR technology underlying cognitive radio- CR architecture- CR components- CR design rules- cognitive cycle-
building cognitive radio on SDR architecture- future directions Software based radio architecture for Cognitive
radio-SDR & Cognitive relationship, ideal SDR architecture, realistic SDR architecture. Software tunable analog radio
components-antenna systems-reconfigurable digital radio technologies: economic value model-example scenarios.
Unit IV DYNAMIC SPECTRUM ACCESS 9
Centralized dynamic spectrum access - Distributed dynamic spectrum access -Coexistence of dissimilar secondary
radio systems-impact of QoS& interference-codes for dynamic spectrum access- coexistence & access problems in
Cognitive radios-spectrum sensing methods for Cognitive radios- spectrum sensing in current wireless standards-
Cognitive OFDM standards and technologies. 802.11 AD standard a case study.
Unit V COGNITIVE RADIO APPLICATIONS 9
Cognitive radios in wireless communication- Mobility management- location estimation & sensing- UWB Cognitive
radio.
Reference Book:
1. EkramHossain, DusitNiyato, Zhu Han, “Dynamic Spectrum Access and Management in Cognitive Radio
Networks”, Cambridge University Press, First Edition, 2009.
2. Kwang-Cheng Chen, Ramjee Prasad, “Cognitive Radio Networks”, John Wiley &Sons Ltd., First Edition,2009.
3. Bruce Fette, “Cognitive Radio Technology”, Elsevier, Second Edition,2009.
4. HuseyinArslan, “Cognitive Radio, Software Defined Radio, and Adaptive Wireless Systems”, Springer, First
Edition,2007.
5. Francisco Rodrigo Porto Cavalcanti, SorenAndersson “Optimizing Wireless Communication Systems” Springer,
First Edition, 2009.
6. Linda Doyle, “Essentials of Cognitive Radio”, Cambridge University Press, First Edition, 2009
Extensive Reading:
• http://www.springer.com/engineering/signals/book/978-1-4020-5541-6
• http://www.cept.org/ecc/topics/cognitive-radio-systems-and-software-defined-radio.
• http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=4410972&abstractAccess=no&userType=inst

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19ISP01 FUNDAMENTALS OF ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT L T P C


Offered by MECH (Open Elective offered to MBT, MCO, MCS, MIS, MSE, MVL, PED) 3 0 0 3
Course Objective:
To impart knowledge on
• To provide the indepth knowledge on Environment and Its impact on the surroundings when a major project is
being carried out in a location.
• To provide the basic knowledge on Environmental impact assessment (EIA) and its legal requirements.
• To understand about the various terms and terminologies relating to EIA.
• To know the implications of EIA in maintaining the global environmental management plan.
Course Outcome:
At the end of the course, the students will be able to
• Course would make the student in knowing the basic things about Environmental Impact assessment and its
relevance to the Legal and regulatory aspects.
• Course would be helpful in understanding about the EIA and various assessment techniques and standard
involved in decision making process.
• Course would make the student to evaluate the EIA system.
• Course would make the student to apply and practice the EIA management system. with the proper guideline
and evaluation criteria.
• The students could able to design the concept, implement the process and to excel Environmental Impact
assessment procedure in carrying out the major project in their career from the case studies..
Unit I INTRODUCTION 9
Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) - Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) -Environmental Risk Assessment
(ERA) - Legal and Regulatory aspects in India – Types and limitations of EIA - Terms of Reference in EIA- Issues in EIA
- national – cross sectoral - social and cultural.
Unit II ENVIRNMENTAL ANALYSIS AND ASSESSMENT TECHNIQUES 12
Components - screening - setting - analysis - prediction of impacts - mitigation. Matrices - Networks - Checklists.
Importance assessment techniques - cost benefit analysis - analysis of alternatives - methods for Prediction and
assessment of impacts - air - water - soil - noise - biological - cultural - social - economic environments. Standards
and guidelines for evaluation. Public Participation in environmental decision-making.
Unit III ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT EVALUATION 6
Trends in EIA practice and evaluation criteria - capacity building for quality assurance. Expert System in EIA - use of
regulations and AQM.
Unit IV ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT PLAN 9
Document planning - collection and organization of relevant information - use of visual display materials – team
writing - reminder checklists. Environmental monitoring - guidelines - policies - planning of monitoring programmes.
Environmental Management Plan. Post project audit.
Unit V CASE STUDIES 12
Case studies of EIA of developmental projects.
Reference Book:
1. Canter. L.W., “Environmental Impact Assessment”, McGraw Hill, New York, 1996.
2. Petts, J., “Handbook of Environmental Impact Assessment”, Vol. I and II, Blackwell Science, London, 1999.
3. The World Bank Group, “Environmental Assessment Sourcebook”, Vol. I, II and III, the World Bank, Washington,
1998.

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19ISP02 MAINTAINABILITY ENGINEERING L T P C


Offered by MECH (Open Elective offered to MBT, MCO, MCS, MIS, MSE, MVL, PED) 3 0 0 3
Course Objective:
To impart knowledge on
• To provide the students about the basic concept of maintainability engineering.
• To provide knowledge on various maintenance models, maintenance policies and replacement model of various
equipment.
• To inculcate the knowledge on logistics for the effective utilization of existing resources and facilities
availability of spares parts.
• The students will be provided with thorough knowledge on Total productive maintenance and its
implementation which includes TPM pillars and autonomous maintenance.
Course Outcome:
At the end of the course, the students will be able to
• recall various terms and terminologies about the maintenance concept.
• understand and explain the various maintenance models to reduce downtime and maximize profit.
• illustrate the logistics meant for the execution of various services.
• analyse the various reasons for the failures and the corrective and preventive measure for each problem by
using the techniques of root cause analysis and FMECA.
• apply the concepts of total Productive maintenance and prepare plans for planned maintenance and annual
maintenance so as make effective utilization of sources available.
Unit I MAINTENANCE CONCEPT 6
Need for maintenance – Maintenance definition – Maintenance objectives – Challenges of Maintenance
management – Tero technology – Scope of maintenance department – Maintenance costs.
Unit II MAINTENANCE MODELS 12
Proactive/Reactive maintenance – Imperfect maintenance – Maintenance policies – PM versus break down
maintenance – Optimal PM schedule and product characteristics – Optimal Inspection frequency: Maximizing profit
– Minimizing downtime – Replacement models.
Unit III MAINTENANCE LOGISTICS 11
Human factors – Crew size decisions: Learning curves – Simulation – Maintenance resource requirements: Optimal
size of service facility – Optimal repair effort – Maintenance planning – Maintenance scheduling – Spare parts
control – Capital spare.
Unit IV MAINTENANCE QUALITY 8
Maintenance excellence –Five Zero concept –FMECA –Root cause analysis – System effectiveness – Design for
maintainability – Maintainability allocation – CMMS – Reliability Centred Maintenance.
Unit V TOTAL PRODUCTIVE MAINTENANCE 8
TPM features – Chronic and sporadic losses – Equipment defects – Six major losses – Overall Equipment
Effectiveness – TPM pillars –TPM implementation – Autonomous maintenance.
Reference Book:
1. Andrew K.S.Jardine & Albert H.C.Tsang, “Maintenance, Replacement and Reliability”,Taylor and Francis, 2nd
edition, 2013.
2. Bikas Badhury & S.K.Basu, “Tero Technology: Reliability Engineering and Maintenance Management”, Asian
Books, 2003.
3. Seichi Nakajima, “Total Productive Maintenance”, Productivity Press, 1993

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19ISP03 TRANSPORT SAFETY L T P C


Offered by MECH (Open Elective offered to MBT, MCO, MCS, MIS, MSE, MVL, PED) 3 0 0 3
Course Objective:
To impart knowledge on
• To provide the students about the various activities/steps to be followed in safe handling the hazardous goods
transportation from one location to another location.
• To educate the reasons for the road accident and the roles and responsibilities of a safe Driver and the training
needs of the driver.
• To inculcate the culture of safe driving and fuel conservation along with knowing of basic traffic symbols
followed throughout the highways.
• To impart knowledge on maintenance of vehicle and other preventive measure to avoid the accident.
• To educate the student to visualize the status of road conditions, its characteristics with reference to the speed
of the vehicle and to impart knowledge on shop floor maintenance and shop safety.
Course Outcome:
At the end of the course, the students will be able to
• know various safety activities undertaken in transporting of hazardous goods.
• understand the various symbols which are specific to the road safety and could acquire the knowledge on the
importance of Motor Vehicle Act and insurance.
• apply for the safe driving by proper training aids and the procedure involved in accident investigation and
emergency planning.
• acquire knowledge on geometric design of the road various elements of road safety.
• manage the shop floor and the maintenance activities by using the various mechanical equipment meant for
servicing.
Unit I TRANSPORTATION OF HAZARDOUS GOODS 9
Transport emergency card (TREM) – driver training-parking of tankers on the highways speed of the vehicle –
warning symbols – design of the tanker lorries -static electricity, responsibilities of driver – inspection and
maintenance of vehicles-check list- loading and decanting procedures – communication.
Unit II ROAD TRANSPORT 9
Introduction – factors for improving safety on roads – causes of accidents due to drivers and pedestrians-design,
selection, operation and maintenance of motor trucks, preventive maintenance-check lists, motor vehicles act –
motor vehicle insurance and surveys.
Unit III DRIVER AND SAFETY 9
Driver safety programme – selection of drivers – driver training-tachograph-driving test, driver’s responsibility-
accident reporting and investigation procedures-fleet accident frequency-safe driving incentives- slogans in driver
cabin-motor vehicle transport workers act- driver relaxation and rest pauses – speed and fuel conservation –
emergency planning and Hazmat codes.
Unit IV ROAD SAFETY 9
Road alignment and gradient-reconnaissance-ruling gradient-maximum rise per k.m.- factors influencing alignment
like tractive resistance, tractive force, direct alignment, vertical curves-breaking characteristics of vehicles-skidding-
restriction of speeds- significance of speeds- Pavement conditions – Sight distance – Safety at intersections –Traffic
control lines and guide posts-guard rails and barriers – street lighting and illumination- overloading- concentration
of driver. Plant railway: Clearance-trackwarning methods-loading and unloading-moving cars safety practices.
Unit V SHOP FLOOR AND REPAIR SHOP SAFETY 9
Transport precautions-safety on manual, mechanical handling equipment operations safe driving-movement of
cranes-conveyors etc., servicing and maintenance equipment -grease rack operation-wash rack operation-battery
charging-gasoline handling-other safe practices-off the road motorized equipment.
Reference Book:
1. Popkes, C.A. “Traffic Control and Road Accident Prevention” Chapman and Hall Limited, 1986.
2. Babkov, V.F., “Road Conditions and Traffic Safety” MIR Publications, Moscow, 1986.
3. Kadiyali, “Traffic Engineering and Transport Planning” Khanna Publishers, New Delhi, 1983.
4. “Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 (amendment 2007)”, Government of India.
5. “Accident Prevention Manual for Industrial Operations”, NSC, Chicago, 1982.
6. Pasricha, “Road Safety guide for drivers of heavy vehicle” Nasha Publications, Mumbai, 1999.
7. Ogden K.W, “Safer Roads – A guide to Road Safety Engineering” 1996.

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19ISP04 WORK STUDY AND ERGONOMICS L T P C


Offered by MECH (Open Elective offered to MBT, MCO, MCS, MIS, MSE, MVL, PED) 3 0 0 3
Course Objective:
To impart knowledge on
• Studying the work procedure and understanding the relationships between the workers and working
environments.
• To study the applications of ergonomic principles and physiology of workers.
• To know the concepts of personal protective equipment and its usages.
• To create the knowledge in process and equipment design in safety aspects.
Course Outcome:
At the end of the course, the students will be able to
• understand about work procedure and applications in hazardous workplaces.
• have a deep knowledge about ergonomic design.
• incorporate human factors in design of Personal protective equipment.
• design any safe equipment to reduce the ergonomic hazards.
• understand the risk factors, guide lines for safe design of man machine systems considering
Unit I WORK STUDY 9
Study of operations – work content – work procedure – breakdown – human factors – safety and method study –
methods and movements at the workplace – substitution with latest devices – robotic concepts – applications in
hazardous workplaces – productivity, quality and safety (PQS).
Unit II ERGONOMICS 9
Definition – applications of ergonomic principles in the shop floor – work benches – seating arrangements – layout
of electrical panels- switch gears – principles of motion economy – location of controls – display locations – machine
foundations – work platforms, fatigue, physical and mental strain – physiology of workers – RULA tool.
Unit III PERSONAL PROTECTION 9
Concepts of personal protective equipment – types – selection of PPE – invisible protective barriers –
procurement, storage, inspection and testing – quality – standards – ergonomic considerations in personal
protective equipment design.
Unit IV PROCESS AND EQUIPMENT DESIGN 9
Process design – equipment – instrument – selection – concept modules – various machine tools - in-built safety –
machine layout-safety devices and methods – selection, inspection, maintenance and safe usage – statutory
provisions, operator training and supervision – hazards and prevention.
Unit V MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS 9
Job and personal risk factors – standards-selection and training-body size and posture body dimension
(static/dynamic) – adjustment range – penalties – guide lines for safe design and postures – evaluation and methods
of reducing posture strain. Man-machine interface-controls - types of control-identification and selection-types
of displays- compatibility and stereotypes of important operations-fatigue and vigilance measurement
characteristics and strategies for enhanced performance.
Reference Book:
1. “Introduction to Work Study”, ILO, Oxford and IBH Publishing company, 3rd edition, 2008.
2. “Work Study”, National Productivity Council, New Delhi, 1995.
3. McCormick. E.J and Sanders.M.S. “Human Factors in Engineering and Design”, 7th edition, McGraw Hill
education, 1993.
4. Benjamin Neibal. W, “Motion and Time Study”, 7th Edition.
5. Mundel, “Motion and Time Study”, Allied Publishers, Madras, 6th Edition, 1989.
6. McElroy, Frank E., “Accident Prevention Manual for Industrial Operations”, NSC, Chicago, 1980.
7. Hunter, Gomas, “Engineering Design for Safety”, McGraw Hill Inc., 1992.

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19MAP01 ADVANCED GRAPH THEORY L T P C


Offered by MAT (Open Elective offered to MBT, MCO, MCS, MIS, MSE, MVL, PED) 3 0 0 3
Course Objective:
To impart knowledge on
• To familiarize the students in the field of distance in graphs and its applications.
• To introduce types of digraphs and various matrix representations.
• To expose the students to flows in networks.
• To expose the students to various graphs in switching and coding theory.
• To introduce various domination in graphs and applications.
Course Outcome:
At the end of the course, the students will be able to
• Familiar with the concept of distance in graphs and its applications.
• Acquire the knowledge of types of digraphs and the matrix representations.
• Solve problems in Network Flows.
• Familiar with graphs in switching and coding theory.
• Acquire the concept of Domination in graphs and applications.
Unit I DISTANCE IN GRAPHS 9
The center of a graph - Distant vertices - Locating Numbers - Detour and Directed distance - Channel assignment
Unit II DIRECTED GRAPHS 9
Types of digraphs - Digraphs and binary relations - Directed paths and connectivity - Euler digraphs - Trees with
directed edges - Fundamental circuits in digraphs - Matrices A,B and C of Digraph - Adjacency matrix of a Digraph.
Unit III NETWORK FLOWS 9
Cut sets - Some properties of a cut set - All cut sets in a graph - Fundamental circuits and cuts sets - Connectivity and
separability Network flows - 1-Isomorphism - 2-Isomorphism.
Unit IV GRAPHS IN SWITCHING AND CODING THEORY 9
Flows and cuts - contact Networks-Analysis of contact Networks - Synthesis of contact networks - Sequential
switching Networks - Unit Cube and its graph - Graphs in Coding Theory.
Unit V DOMINATION IN GRAPHS 9
Dominating set – The domination number of a graph – Independent domination number, Total domination number,
connected domination number and Total connected domination number - Edge domination number, Connected
edge domination number and connected edge domination number. Applications of Domination.
Reference Book:
1. Gary Chartrand, Ping Zhang, “Introduction to Graph Theory”, Tata McGraw-Hill Publishing company Limited,
New Delhi, 2017.
2. Narsingh Deo “Graph Theory with Applications to Engineering and Computer science”, Prentice-Hall of India
Private Limited, New Delhi, 2016.
3. V.R.Kulli, ”Theory of Domination in Graphs”, Vishwa international publications, Gulbarga, India, 2010.
4. Fred Buckley, Frank Harary “Distance in Graphs”, Addison-Wesley Publishing company, 1990.

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19MAP02 ANALYSIS OF INVENTORY SYSTEMS L T P C


Offered by MAT (Open Elective offered to MBT, MCO, MCS, MIS, MSE, MVL, PED) 3 0 0 3
Course Objective:
To impart knowledge on
• To analyze the basic concepts of inventory theory.
• To understand the different types of deterministic inventory models.
• To develop probabilistic inventory models in several aspects.
• To observe the behaviors of different types of inventory policies.
• To understand inventory optimization is the groundwork of supply chain management.
Course Outcome:
At the end of the course, the students will be able to
• State the objectives of inventory system and recognize their impact on cost and service.
• Use optimization techniques to minimize total inventory system cost in deterministic environment.
• Choose rational options in practical decision-making probabilistic inventory problems using mathematical
models of inventory theory.
• Know principles of construction of mathematical models of conflicting inventory policies.
• Use inventory-theoretic models to design optimal supply chain management.
Unit I DETERMINISTIC INVENTORY SYSTEM 9
Introduction – Types of Inventory – Costs and factors of inventory – Basics of constrained and unconstrained
optimization - Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) model with and without shortages – Economic Production Quantity
(EPQ) model with and without shortages.
Unit II EXTENSIONS OF DETERMINISTIC INVENTORY SYSTEM 9
Multi product Inventory system – Constraints of Inventory system – Inventory model with one and multiple Price
Break – Inventory with variable Setup/or Ordering cost - Integrated Procurement Production (IPP) model - EOQ and
EPQ model with various demand patterns.
Unit III PROBABILISTIC INVENTORY SYSTEM 9
Inventory problem with uncertain demand – Forecasting demand - One period inventory problem – Probabilistic
scheduling period - Uncertain received quantity model - Probabilistic order level system - Dynamic order quantity –
Controllable lead time.
Unit IV PROBABILISTIC INVENTORY REORDER SYSTEM 9
Probabilistic order level with instantaneous demand – Probabilistic reorder point with and without Lead time -
Periodic review (r, q) policy – Continuous review (s, S) policy–Comparison of (r, q) and (s, S) Policies - Service Level
Constraint (SLC).
Unit V SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT 9
Introduction to supply chain management - Supply Chain Performance- Designs of multi echelon supply chain –
Reverse supply chain - Permissible delay in payments – Advance payments – Selective Inventory Analysis.
Reference Book:
1. Nick T Thomopoulos, “Fundamentals of Production, Inventory and the Supply Chain” Atlantic Publishers, New
Delhi, 2012.
2. Max Muller, “Essentials of Inventory Management” Amacom, New York, 2011.
3. Eliezer Naddor, “Inventory Systems”, John Wiley and Sons, INC. 1982 (Digitized 2007).
4. G. Hadley and T.M. Whitin, “Analysis of Inventory Systems” Englewood Cliffs, New Jercy, Prentice-Hall, 1963.
5. Kanti Swarup, P.K.Gupta, Man Mohan, “An Introduction to Management Science-Operations Research” 18th
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19MAP03 GRAPH ALGORITHM L T P C


Offered by MAT (Open Elective offered to MBT, MCO, MCS, MIS, MSE, MVL, PED) 3 0 0 3
Course Objective:
To impart knowledge on
• To introduce the basic concepts of graphs and algorithms.
• To introduce time P and NP complete concepts.
• To provide information about some basic graph algorithms.
• To enable the students to apply graph theory in networks.
• To understand the optimization algorithms in Graph theory.
Course Outcome:
At the end of the course, the students will be able to
• Acquire knowledge about basic concepts in graphs and algorithms.
• Characterize P and NP complete problems.
• Learn how to write an algorithm.
• Apply graph algorithms in networks involved in engineering problems.
• Perform optimization tests using optimization algorithms in their research areas.
Unit I INTRODUCTION TO GRAPHS 9
Graphs - Subgraphs and factors - Paths – Cycle – Degree sequences – Trees – Euler tours – Euler’s theorem –
Hamiltonian cycles – Necessary and sufficient condition for Graph to be Hamiltonian.
Unit II FUNDAMENTALS OF ALGORITHMS 9
Algorithms – Properties of algorithms – Representing Graphs – Hierholzer algorithm – Time complexity – P and NP-
compelete – Definition and examples.
Unit III BASIC GRAPH ALGORITHMS 9
Shortest paths – Shortest path problem – Weighted graphs – Dijkstra’s algorithm – Floyd’s algorithm – Breadth first
search algorithm – Depth first search algorithm.
Unit IV GRAPH ALGORITHM IN NETWORKS 9
Spanning tree - Minimum Spanning tree – Prim’s algorithm – Krushkal’s algorithm – Travelling salesman problem –
Max flow Min cut algorithm – Network reliability problem - Bottleneck problem.
Unit V GRAPH OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS 9
Greedy algorithm – Colouring, chromatic number, matching – Definitions and examples – BFS colouring algorithm –
DFS colouring algorithm – NP- completeness of three colouring problem - Hungarian algorithm – Complexity of
Hungarian algorithm.
Reference Book:
1. Jungnickel, Dieter, “Graphs, Networks and Algorithms”, Springer (India) Pvt. Ltd, New Delhi, second edition
(First Indian reprint), 2006.
2. Kocay, William & Kreher, Donald, “Graphs, algorithms and optimization”, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 2016.
3. Bose N.K & Liang P, “Neural Network Fundamentals with Graphs, Algorithms, and Applications”, TMH, New
Delhi, 1996.
4. Fould L R, “Graph theory Applications”, Narosa Publishing, New Delhi, 1995.
5. Richard Jhonsonbaugh, Marcus Schaefer, “Algorithms”, Pearson Education, 2007.

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19MBP01 CELL AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY L T P C


Offered by BT (Open Elective offered to MBT, MCO, MCS, MIS, MSE, MVL, PED) 3 0 0 3
Course Objective:
To impart knowledge on
• cellular basis of development.
• stages of development.
• molecular basis of development.
• mechanisms for the process of ageing, abnormal cell cycle and cancer.
• normal and abnormal development pattern.
Course Outcome:
At the end of the course, the students will be able to
• Learn the role of cell-cell communication and interaction in development.
• Learn the normal process of development.
• Have a better insights of the various molecular process and gene expressions related to the development of
specific organs and tissues.
• Delineate the abnormal regulation of cell cycle and the consequences of cellular ageing.
• Analyze the consequences of abnormality in the normal process of development.
Unit I CELL INTERACTIONS IN DEVELOPMENT 9
Morphogenesis and cell adhesion- cell to cell communication in development. Induction and competence.
Paracrine factors and their importance. Adhesion of cells to non-cellular substrates; integrins, selectins and
cadherins. Adhesion junctions and desmosomes: tight junctions.
Unit II STAGES OF EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT 9
Fertilization - Recognition of sperm and egg. From fertilization to cleavage. Patterns of embryonic cleavage -
blastulation, gastrulation, axis formation –anterior and posterior. Sex determination – chromosomal and
environmental in mammals.
Unit III MOLECULAR BASIS OF DEVELOPMENT 9
Differential gene expression in organ development. The genetics of axis specification in Drosophila. Central nervous
system and the epidermis, neural crest cells and axonal specificity, paraxial and intermediate mesoderm, lateral
plate mesoderm and endoderm. Development of the tetrapod limb. Plant development
Unit IV CELLULAR AGEING AND CANCER 9
Genetic ageing program: cell ageing: role of free radicals, antioxidants - enzymes and minerals. Cancer genetics –
role of proto-oncogenes, activation, function and loss of control. Apoptosis and Necrosis. Oncogene induction and
introduction. c-src product – tyrosine protein kinases. Tumor suppression kinases. Tumor suppressor genes.
Telomerase expression – role in cell immortalization.
Unit V DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS 9
Histopathological studies – organ specific morphohistological examination; identification of morphological changes
related to pathology. Medical implications of developmental biology – genetic disorders in human development,
environmental regulation of human development.
Reference Book:
1. Scott F. Gilbert, “Developmental Biology”, Sinauer Associates Inc. Pub., Sunderland, Massachusetts,10th
edition,2013.
2. Gerald Karp, “Cell and Molecular Biology – Concepts and Experiments”, John Wiley & Sons Inc, 8th edition,
2015.
3. Jean Brachet and Alfred E Mirsky, “The Cell Biochemistry, Physiology and Morphology”, Academic Press, New
York, 2014.
4. Harvey Lodish et al., “Molecular Cell Biology” W H Freeman, NY, 7th edition, 2012.

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19MBP02 PHARMACOLOGY L T P C
Offered by BT (Open Elective offered to MBT, MCO, MCS, MIS, MSE, MVL, PED) 3 0 0 3
Course Objective:
To impart knowledge on
• basic principles of pharmacology.
• physiological and pharmacological effects of hormones, antimicrobial agents, autacoids and related drugs.
• role of drugs in the treatment of respiratory and gastrointestinal system disorders.
Course Outcome:
At the end of the course, the students will be able to
• describe and define the basic terms and concepts of pharmacology.
• explain the action of drugs used to treat the disorders of respiratory and gastrointestinal system.
• explain synthesis, pharmacological action and clinical uses of autacoids and related drugs.
• describe the physiological and pharmacological effects, clinical uses and side effects of hormones.
• describe mechanism of action and uses of antimicrobial drugs, anticancer drugs and immunosuppressive
agents.
Unit I PRINCIPLES OF PHARMACOLOGY 9
Overview of drug discovery and development, Drug dosage forms and routes of drug administration;
Pharmacodynamics: mechanism of action of drugs, dose response relationship, Combined effect of drugs; Principles
of pharmacokinetics - Absorption, Distribution, Metabolism and Excretion of drugs; Adverse drug reactions;
Unit II AUTACOIDS AND RELATED DRUGS 9
Histamine and Antihistamine ; Prostaglandins, Thromboxanes and Leukotrienes; Nonsteroidal Anti-
inflammatory Drugs and Antipyretic-Analgesics- Nonselective COX inhibitors (traditional NSAIDs), Preferential COX-2
inhibitors, Selective COX-2 inhibitors, Analgesic-antipyretics with poor anti-inflammatory action.
Unit III RESPIRATORY AND GASTROINTESTINAL DRUGS 9
Drugs for Cough – Demulcents, Expectorants, Antitussives; Peptic ulcer- Antacids, anti-secretory Anti- H. pylori
drugs, Laxatives and Anti-diarrhoeal drugs, Appetite stimulants and suppressants, Emetics and anti-emetics.
Unit IV HORMONES 9
Hypothalamic and pituitary hormones, Thyroid hormones and antithyroid drugs, Parathormone, Calcitonin and
Vitamin D, Insulin, Oral hypoglycemic agents and glucagon. Corticosteroids, Androgens and anabolic steroids,
Estrogens and progesterone, Drugs acting on the Uterus.
Unit V CHEMOTHERAPY 9
Antibacterial drugs- Sulfonamides, Penicillins, Cephalosporins, Chloramphenicol, macrolides, Quinolones,
fluoroquinolones; Chemotherapy of tuberculosis; Antifungal drugs – polyene, azoles; Antiviral drugs – Anti-influenza
viral drug, Retro viral drugs; Chemotherapy of malignancy and immunosuppressive agents.
Text Book:
1. Rang, H.P., Ritter, J.M., Flower, R.J., and Henderson, G., “Rang and Dale’s Pharmacology”, 8th edition, Churchill
Livingstone, 2015.
2. Tripathi, K.D., “Essentials of Medical Pharmacology”, 7th Edition, Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers (P) Ltd,
2013.
3. Karen Whalen, “Lippincott’s Illustrated Reviews: Pharmacology”, 6th Edition, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins,
2014.
Reference Book:
1. Carruthers, S.G., Hoffman, B.B., Melmon, K.L., and Nierenberg D. W., “Melmon and Morrelli's Clinical
Pharmacology”, 4th Edition, McGraw Hill Education, 2000.
2. Brunton, L., Chabner, B.A., Knollman, B., “Goodman and Gilman’s The Pharmacological basis of therapeutics”,
Twelfth edition, McGraw Hill Education, 2011.
3. Katzung, B.G., “Basic and Clinical Pharmacology”, 13th edition, McGraw-Hill Education, 2015.

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19MBP03 BIOMATERIALS L T P C
Offered by BT (Open Elective offered to MBT, MCO, MCS, MIS, MSE, MVL, PED) 3 0 0 3
Course Objective:
To impart knowledge on
• basic biomaterials used in medicine
• properties of biomaterials and its evaluation.
• techniques used in the characterization of biomaterials.
• biological responses of biomaterials.
• applications of biomaterials.
Course Outcome:
At the end of the course, the students will be able to
• Classify the types of biomaterials
• Analyze the properties of biomaterials
• Identify the analytic tools to characterize the biomaterials
• Evaluate the biological responses of biomaterials
• Apply the biomaterials in healthcare.
Unit I INTRODUCTION TO BIOMATERIALS 9
History of biomaterials - Classification of Biomaterials – Metals: different types, properties and interaction with the
tissue, Polymers: classification and properties, Ceramics: Types, properties and interactions with the tissue,
Composites: matrix and reinforcing agents/fillers and properties, Cell adhesion, host- tissue reactions- Criteria for
material selection.
Unit II PROPERTIES OF BIOMATERIALS 9
Mechanical properties: Stress strain behavior, Mechanical failure, Viscoelasticity - Electrical properties - Optical
properties – Acoustic and Ultrasonic properties
Unit III CHARACTERIZATION OF BIOMATERIALS 9
Bulk Characterization: X-ray Diffraction (XRD), FT-IR, Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), Energy Dispersive X-ray
(EDX), Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC), Thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), dielectric analysis (DEA); Surface
analysis: X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (SIMS), Auger Electron
Spectroscopy (AES), surface enhances Raman spectroscopy (SERS), AFM/STM; Structural properties of tissues-bone,
teeth and elastic tissues
Unit IV BIOLOGICAL RESPONSES TO BIOMATERIALS AND ITS EVALUATION 9
Inflammation, Wound Healing, and the Foreign-Body Response - Blood Coagulation and Blood–Biomaterials
Interactions – carcinogenicity - Tissue response - cellular response- systemic effects of implants- in vitro and in vivo
assessment of tissue compatibility - Large Animal Models in Cardiac and Vascular Biomaterials Research and Testing.
Unit V APPLICATIONS 9
Tissue replacements, sutures, surgical tapes, adhesive, percutaneous and skin implants, Blood interfacing implants,
Hard tissue replacement implants, Internal fracture fixation devices, Joint replacements. Artificial heart, prosthetic
cardiac valves, Limb prosthesis, Externally powered limb prosthesis, Dental implants, Sutures.
Text Book:
1. Ratner B. D., Hoffman, A.S., Schoen F.J., Lemons J.E., “Biomaterials Science”. Elsevier academic press, 2nd
edition, 2011.
2. Wong J Y., Bronzino J.D., “Biomaterials”, CRC press,2007
3. Wnek G.E., Bowlin G.L., “Encyclopedia of Biomaterials”, Informa healthcare USA, 2nd edition, 2008
Extensive Reading:
• https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc18_bt08/course

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19MCP01 CLOUD SECURITY L T P C


Offered by CSE (Open Elective offered to MBT, MCO, MCS, MIS, MSE, MVL, PED) 3 0 0 3
Course Objective:
To impart knowledge on
• To introduce the Cloud Computing Model and Cloud Infrastructure Security
• To discuss the threats to data security and identity management
• To explore the methods for security management and privacy in cloud Computing
• To examine the role of Audit and Compliance in Cloud Computing Security
• To discuss Security-as-a-service and its providers
Course Outcome:
At the end of the course, the students will be able to
• Design a Cloud Computing Model and Cloud Secure Infrastructure
• Manage the threats to data security and do identity management in Cloud
• Deploy the appropriate methods for security management in cloud computing
• Plan for the Security Audit and Compliance in Cloud Computing
• Design and deploy Security-as-a-service
Unit I CLOUD COMPUTING FUNDAMENTALS, ARCHITECTURE & RISK ISSUES 10
Fundamentals: Cloud computing – Essential characteristics – Architectural, Technical and Operational Influences.
Architecture: Cloud delivery models (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS) – Cloud Service Providers (Amazon, Google, Azure, Salesforce)
– Cloud deployment models (Public, Private, Community, Hybrid) – Benefits. Risk Issues: CIA – Privacy & Compliance
Risks – Threats to infrastructure, data and access control – Cloud service provider risks.
Unit II CLOUD COMPUTING SECURITY CHALLENGES AND ARCHITECTURE 8
Security Challenges: Security policy types – Virtualization Security Management – Virtual Threats – VM Security
recommendations – VM specific security techniques.
Security Architecture: General Issues – Trusted cloud computing – Secure execution environments and
communications – Identity management – Access control – Autonomic security.
Unit III INFRASTRUCTURE, DATA SECURITY AND IDENTITY MANAGEMENT 9
Infrastructure & Data Security: Network Level – Host Level – Application Level – Data security Mitigation – Provider
data and its security.
Identity & Access Management (IAM): Trust Boundaries and IAM – IAM Challenges – IAM Architecture and Practice
– IAM Standards and Protocols for Cloud Services – IAM Practices in the Cloud – Cloud Authorization Management –
Cloud Service Provider IAM Practice
Unit IV SECURITY MANAGEMENT AND PRIVACY 9
Security Management: Standards – Security management in the Cloud – SaaS, PaaS and IaaS Availability
Management – Access Control – Security Vulnerability, Patch, and Configuration Management.
Privacy: Definition – Data Life Cycle – Key Privacy Concerns – Privacy Risk Management and Compliance – US and
International Laws & Regulations
Unit V AUDIT AND COMPLIANCE, SECURITY-AS-A-SERVICE 9
Audit & Compliance: Internal Policy Compliance – Governance, Risk and Compliance – Control Objectives – Control
Considerations for CSP Users – Regulatory Compliance – Cloud Security Alliance – Auditing the Cloud for
Compliance.
Security-As-A-Service – Potential Threats of Using CSPs – Potential Changes in the IT Profession Caused by Cloud
Computing – Governance Factors in using Cloud Computing – Future of security in cloud computing
Reference Book:
1. Ronald L.Krutz and Russell Dean Vines, “Cloud Security – A Comprehensive Guide to Secure Cloud Computing”,
Wiley Publishing, 2010
2. Tim Mather, Subra Kumaraswamy, Shahed Latif, "Cloud Security and Privacy An Enterprise Perspective on Risks
and Compliance", O'Reilly, 2009
3. Raj Samani, Brian Honan, Jim Reavis and Vladimir Jirasek, "CSA Guide to Cloud Computing Implementing Cloud
Privacy and Security", Elsevier, 2015.
4. Siani Pearson, George Yee (Eds), "Privacy and Security for Cloud Computing", Springer-Verlag 2013.
Extensive Reading:
• https://www.isc2.org/Certifications/CCSP
• https://www.coursera.org/learn/cloud-computing-security
• https://www.edx.org/course/cloud-computing-security-umuc-usmx-cc617x-0

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19MCP02 ETHICAL HACKING L T P C


Offered by CSE (Open Elective offered to MBT, MCO, MCS, MIS, MSE, MVL, PED) 3 0 0 3
Course Objective:
To impart knowledge on
• To examine the different phases involved in ethical hacking.
• To learn technologies for scanning and the steps involved in performing enumeration.
• To get exposure on the password cracking techniques and wireless network hacking.
• To study about the Trojans and Backdoors, Sniffers and Denial-Of-Service attack.
• To understand about and other applications.
Course Outcome:
At the end of the course, the students will be able to
• Identify appropriate hacking tools for different phases of hacking.
• Work with scanning tools and enumeration techniques.
• Apply various hacking tools for system hacking & wireless network hacking and recovery.
• Design and transmit Trojans, Backdoors in different modes, construct Denial-Of-Service attack and work with
sniffing tools.
• Construct and Sql Injection Attack.
Unit I INTRODUCTION AND GATHERING TARGET INFORMATION 9
Introduction to Ethical Hacking: Problem Definition –Need for Security – Can Hacking Be Ethical? - Essential
Terminology – Elements of Security –Phases – Hacktivism – Modes of Ethical Hacking – Keeping it Legal.
Footprinting: Information Gathering Methodology – Unearthing Initial Information -Tool: Sam spade – Locate the
Network Range – Tool: NeoTrace , Visual Route – Social engineering.
Unit II GATHERING NETWORK AND HOST INFORMATION 9
Scanning: Detecting ‘Live’ Systems On Target Network –Tools: War Dialers, Ping Utilities – Port Scanning – Tool:
SuperScan 3.0,NMap(Network Mapper) – Active Stack Fingerprinting – Passive Fingerprinting - Proxy Servers –
Anonymizers. Enumeration: Net Bios Null Sessions – NetBIOS Enumeration – SNMP Enumeration- Hacking Tool:
GetAcct - Active Directory Enumeration – AD Enumeration countermeasures.
Unit III SYSTEM AND NETWORK HACKING 9
System Hacking: Administrator Password Guessing– Performing automated password guessing– Tool: Legion,
NTInfoScan – Password Types- Cracking a password - Tool: Keyloggers - Password Sniffing - Privilege Escalation -
Manual Password Cracking Algorithm - Automatic Password Cracking Algorithm – Understanding Rootkits – Hiding
Files – Covering tracks and erasing evidence. Wireless Network Hacking.
Unit IV TROJANS, BACKDOORS, SNIFFERS AND DOS ATTACKS 9
Trojans and Backdoors: Working of Trojans - Various Trojan Genre – Modes of Transmission – Tools: Donald Dick,
SubSeven, Back Oriffice 2000, NetBus, Beast.
Sniffers: Security Concern- Tool: Ethereal, Windump – Passive Sniffing-Active Sniffing- Tool: EtherFlood dsniff- ARP
Spoofing– Sniffing HTTPS and SSH– Man in the Middle Attack - MailSnarf, URLSnarf, WebSpy - Mac Changer – DNS
Sniffing and Spoofing. Denial of Service and Session Hijacking.
Unit V ATTACKING APPLICATIONS AND BYPASSING NETWORK SECURITY 9
Sql Injection – Buffer Overflows: Types of Buffer Overflows and Methods of Detection - Buffer Overflow
Countermeasures. Types of IDSs and Evasion Techniques - Firewall Types and Honeypot Evasion Techniques -
Penetration Testing - Pen Test Deliverables.
Reference Book:
1. Kimberly Graves, Certified Ethical Hacker STUDY GUIDE, Wiley publication, 2010.
2. Michael Gregg, Certified Ethical Hacker, Pearson publication, 2014.
3. Matt Walker, All-in-one Certified Ethical Hacker Exam Guide, McGraw Hill Edition, 2012.
Extensive Reading:
• http://index-of.es/Hacking-Webserver/Certified_Ethical_Hacker_3.0_Official_Course.pdf
• http://ptgmedia.pearsoncmg.com/images/9780789751270/samplepages/9780789751270.pdf
• https://cert.eccouncil.org/images/doc/CEH-Handbook-v2.0.pdf

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19MCP03 SENSING TECHNIQUES AND SENSORS L T P C


Offered by CSE (Open Elective offered to MBT, MCO, MCS, MIS, MSE, MVL, PED) 3 0 0 3
Course Objective:
To impart knowledge on
• To gain knowledge on the sensor characteristics and the fundamental principles of sensing
• To learn the optical components of sensors and characteristics of interface electronic circuits
• To get acquainted with motion-related sensors
• To learn how to use flow sensors and light detectors
• To find out the importance of selected temperature and chemical sensors
Course Outcome:
At the end of the course, the students will be able to
• Extrapolate the characteristics of sensors by knowing the physical principles of sensors
• Predict the optical components of sensors
• Apply appropriate motion-related sensors
• Use relevant flow sensors and light detectors for an application
• Choose and use appropriate temperature and chemical sensors
Unit I PRINCIPLES OF SENSING 9
Data acquisition – Sensor characteristics: Transfer function – Calibration – Accuracy – Calibration error -
Nonlinearity – Saturation – Repeatability – Reliability – Uncertainty. Physical principles of sensing: electric charges,
fields, potentials – capacitance – magnetism – resistance – piezoelectric effect – pyroelectric effect – Hall effect –
thermoelectric effects – sound waves –Temperature and thermal properties of materials - heat transfer – light –
dynamic models of sensor elements.
Unit II OPTICAL COMPONENTS AND INTERFACE ELECTRONICS 9
Optical Components of sensors: Radiometry – Photometry – Windows - mirrors – lenses – Fresnel Lenses - fiber
optics – concentrators. Interface electronic circuits: Input characteristics – amplifiers – light-to-voltage converters –
Excitation circuits – Analog-to-Digital converters – Direct digitization – Capacitance-to-voltage converters – Bridge
circuits – data transmission – noise in sensors and circuits – calibration – Batteries for low power sensors.
Unit III MOTION RELATED SENSORS 9
Occupancy and motion detectors: Ultrasonic – microwave motion – capacitive occupancy – triboelectric –
optoelectronic motion – optical presence sensors – Pressure-gradient sensors. Velocity and acceleration:
Accelerometer characteristics – capacitive accelerometers – piezoresistive accelerometers – piezoelectric
accelerometers – thermal accelerometers – Gyroscopes – piezoelectric cables – gravitational sensors.
Unit IV FLOW SENSORS AND LIGHT DETECTORS 9
Flow sensors: Basics of flow dynamics - Pressure gradient technique - Ultrasonic - Electromagnetic - Breeze - Drag
Force sensors - Dust and smoke detectors. Light Detectors: Photodiodes – phototransistor – photoresistors – Cooled
detectors – Image sensors – Thermal detectors: Bolometers, Active far-infrared sensors – optical design – gas flame
detectors.
Unit V TEMPERATURE AND CHEMICAL SENSORS 9
Temperature Sensors: coupling with objects – temperature reference points – thermoresistive sensors –
thermoelectric contact sensors – acoustic temperature sensors – piezoelectric temperature sensors. Chemical
sensors: characteristics – classes of chemical sensors – biochemical sensors – multisensor arrays – electronic noses
and tongues. Humidity and moisture sensors.
Text Book:
1. Jacob Fraden, “Handbook of Modern Sensors: Physics, Designs, and Applications”, Fourth Edition, Springer,
2010.
2. Ian Sinclair, “Sensors and Transducers”, Third Edition, Elsevier, 2011.
Reference Book:
1. John Vetelino and AravindReghu, “Introduction to sensors”, CRC Press, 2011.
Extensive Reading:
• http://www.newhavendisplay.com/app_notes/parallel-serial.pdf
• http://www.electronics-tutorials.ws/io/io_1.html
• https://www.fkit.unizg.hr/_download/repository/IUPAC_definition_chemical_sensor%5B1%5D.pdf

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19PEP01 ENERGY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS L T P C


Offered by EEE (Open Elective offered to MBT, MCO, MCS, MIS, MSE, MVL, PED) 3 0 0 3
Course Objective:
To impart knowledge on
• To impart the concept of energy management and auditing.
• To educate the students on energy management in various devices and systems.
• To illustrate the concepts of metering for energy management.
• To make the students grasp the concepts of lighting systems and co-generation.
Course Outcome:
At the end of the course, the students will be able to
• Explain the concept of energy management.
• Illustrate the method of determining electricity cost and loss evaluation.
• Depict the choice and rating of electrical machineries for selected applications.
• Explicate the energy efficient technologies in electrical systems.
• Explain the energy management in lighting systems & cogeneration
Unit I INTRODUCTION 9
Energy - Need for energy management - designing and starting an energy management program – energy audit
process ; accounting, monitoring, targeting and reporting – BEE standards and star ratings
Unit II ENERGY COST AND LOAD MANAGEMENT 9
Important concepts in an economic analysis - Economic models-Time value of money-Utility rate structures- cost of
electricity-Loss evaluation
Load management: Demand control techniques-Utility monitoring and control system-Economic justification.
Unit III ENERGY MANAGEMENT FOR MOTORS, SYSTEMS, AND ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT 9
Systems and equipment- Electric motors- Transformers and reactors-Capacitors and synchronous machines – Choice
and rating of Electrical Machines - Energy Management in Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning.
Unit IV ENERGY EFFICIENT TECHNOLOGIES IN ELECTRICAL SYSTEMS 9
Maximum demand controllers, Automatic power factor controllers, Energy efficient motors, Soft starters with
energy saver, Variable speed drives, Energy efficient transformers, Electronic ballast, Occupancy sensors, Energy
efficient lighting controls, Energy saving potential of each technology.
Unit V LIGHTING SYSTEMS & COGENERATION 9
Concept of lighting systems - The task and the working space -Light sources - Ballasts -Luminaries - Lighting controls-
Optimizing lighting energy - Power factor and effect of harmonics on power quality - Cost analysis techniques-
Lighting and energy standards
Cogeneration: Forms of cogeneration - feasibility of cogeneration- Electrical interconnection.
Reference Book:
1. Barney L. Capehart, Wayne C. Turner, and William J. Kennedy, “Guide to Energy Management”, 5th Edition,
The Fairmont Press, Inc., 2006
2. Eastop T.D & Croft D.R, “Energy Efficiency for Engineers and Technologists”, Logman Scientific & Technical,
ISBN-0-582-03184, 1990.
3. Reay D.A, “Industrial Energy Conservation”, 1stedition, Pergamon Press, 1977.
4. IEEE Recommended Practice for Energy Management in Industrial and Commercial Facilities, IEEE, 1996.
5. Amit K. Tyagi, “Handbook on Energy Audits and Management”, TERI, 2003.
6. BEE standards

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19PEP02 INTELLIGENT OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES L T P C


Offered by EEE (Open Elective offered to MBT, MCO, MCS, MIS, MSE, MVL, PED) 3 0 0 3
Course Objective:
To impart knowledge on
• To impart in-depth knowledge on different advanced optimization techniques to solve engineering problems.
• To impart the concept of multi-objective optimization and its applications to real world problems.
Course Outcome:
At the end of the course, the students will be able to
• Familiarize with the basic concept of optimization techniques.
• Apply Genetic Algorithm for solving engineering problems.
• Apply Swarm Optimization techniques for solving engineering problems.
• Explain the concept of different advanced optimization techniques and their applications.
• Explain the concept of Multi-objective optimization and apply it for solving real world problems.
Unit I FUNDAMENTALS OF OPTIMIZATION 9
Definition - Classification of optimization problems - Unconstrained and Constrained optimization - Optimality
conditions - Classical Optimization techniques - Linear and non - linear programming - Quadratic programming -
Mixed integer programming - Intelligent Search methods - Evolutionary algorithms - Tabu search - Particle swarm
optimization – Advantages of intelligent techniques over classical optimization techniques
Unit II EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION TECHNIQUES 9
Evolution in nature - Fundamentals of Evolutionary algorithms - Principle of Genetic Algorithm - Evolutionary
Strategy and Evolutionary Programming - Genetic Operators - Selection, Crossover and Mutation - Issues in GA
implementation - Differential Evolution technique.
Unit III PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION 9
Fundamental principle - Velocity Updation - Parameter selection- hybrid approaches - hybrid of GA and PSO - hybrid
of EP and PSO - Binary, discrete and combinatorial PSO - Implementation issues - Convergence issues – Fly Bee
Algorithm.
Unit IV ADDITIONAL OPTIMIZATION METHODS 9
Simulated annealing algorithm - Tabu search algorithm - Ant colony optimization - Bacteria Foraging optimization -
Artificial immune system.
Unit V MULTI OBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION 9
Concept of pareto optimality - Conventional approaches for MOO - Weighted Sum and Constrained methods - Multi
objective GA - Fitness assignment - Multi-objective PSO -Dynamic neighbourhood PSO - Vector evaluated PSO –
Necessity for multi-criteria decision making.
Reference Book:
1. Kalyanmoy Deb, “Optimization for Engineering Design - Algorithms and Examples”, Prentice Hall of India, 1995.
2. David Goldberg, Genetic Algorithms in Search, Optimization, and Machine Learning, Addison-Wesley, Reading,
1989.
3. Kwang Y.Lee, Mohammed A.El Sharkawi, “Modern heuristic optimization techniques”, John Wiley and Sons,
2008.
4. Kalyanmoy Deb, “Multi objective optimization using Evolutionary Algorithms”, John Wiley and Sons, 2008.
5. Carlos A.Coello Coello, Gary B.Lamont, David A.Van Veldhuizen, “Evolutionary Algorithms for solving Multi
Objective Problems”, 2nd Edition, Springer, 2007.

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19PEP03 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY L T P C


Offered by EEE (Open Elective offered to MBT, MCO, MCS, MIS, MSE, MVL, PED) 3 0 0 3
Course Objective:
To impart knowledge on
• To impart knowledge on the basic research process.
• To provide knowledge on the different types of research.
• To educate the students on report writing.
Course Outcome:
At the end of the course, the students will be able to
• Explain the basic research process.
• Identification of research problems
• Explain various design methods for formulating research problem
• Depict the methods of data collection and processing
• Write a technical report and a thesis.
Unit I TYPES OF RESEARCH 9
Motivation and objectives – Research methods vs Methodology. Types of research – Descriptive vs. Analytical,
Applied vs. Fundamental, Quantitative vs. Qualitative, Conceptual vs. Empirical
Unit II RESEARCH FORMULATION 9
Defining and formulating the research problem - Selecting the problem - Necessity of defining the problem -
Importance of literature review in defining a problem – Literature review – Primary and secondary sources –
reviews, treatise, monographs-patents – web as a source – searching the web - Critical literature review –
Identifying gap areas from literature review - Development of working hypothesis.
Unit III RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS 9
Research design – Basic Principles- Need of research design – Features of good design – Important concepts relating
to research design – Observation and Facts, Laws and Theories, Prediction and explanation, Induction, Deduction,
Development of Models. Developing a research plan - Exploration, Description, Diagnosis and Experimentation.
Determining experimental and sample designs.
Unit IV DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS 9
Execution of the research - Observation and Collection of data - Methods of data collection – Sampling Methods-
Data Processing and
Analysis strategies-Data Analysis with Statistical Packages - Hypothesis-testing - Generalization and Interpretation.
Unit V REPORTING AND THESIS WRITING 9
Structure and components of scientific reports - Types of report – Technical reports and thesis – Significance –
Different steps in the preparation – Layout, structure and Language of typical reports – Illustrations and tables -
Bibliography, referencing and footnotes- Plagiarism - Citation and acknowledgement - Reproducibility and
accountability.
Text Book:
1. Garg, B.L., Karadia, R., Agarwal, F. and Agarwal, U.K., 2002. An introduction to Research Methodology, RBSA
Publishers.
2. Kothari, C.R., 1990. Research Methodology: Methods and Techniques. New Age International. 418p.
3. Sinha, S.C. and Dhiman, A.K., 2002. Research Methodology, ESS Publications. 2 volumes

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19SEP01 ACTION AND RESPONSE OF STRUCTURAL SYSTEMS L T P C


Offered by CIV (Open Elective offered to MBT, MCO, MCS, MIS, MSE, MVL, PED) 3 0 0 3
Course Objective:
To impart knowledge on
• To introduce the students about the codal provisions for calculation of Dead and Live loads.
• To provide the basic knowledge of effect of wind loads in high rise buildings.
• To give idea about the prediction of seismic load as per IS: 1893.
• To provide an exposure on vehicle load calculation as per standards.
• To impinge the basics of behaviour of tall buildings.
Course Outcome:
At the end of the course, the students will be able to
• Perform Dead and live load calculations.
• Predict the wind load for various building configurations.
• Do the dynamic analysis of structures subjected to seismic loads.
• Perform vehicle load analysis as per standards.
• Get familiarized with analysis and behaviour of tall buildings.
Unit I DEAD LOAD & LIVE LOAD 9
Sources - Nature and Magnitude - Probabilistic assessment, Characteristic and Design values - IS 875 PART 1 and 2
code provisions - Load combination rules for design - DL and LL Calculation on structural elements such as Slab,
Beams, Columns - Joint Loads on Trusses, Distributed load on Purlins - Accidental loads - Impact and collisions -
Explosions and Fire - Numerical examples.
Unit II WIND LOAD 9
Nature and Magnitude - Factors influencing wind loads - Internal and External pressure distribution - Design Wind
Speeds and Pressure - External and internal pressure for different types of buildings and regions - Flat roof, Pitched
Roof, mono slope roof, Hipped roof, Sign board - Water tank on braced and shaft staging, Multistory Frames.
Unit III SEISMIC LOAD 9
Centre of mass and rigidity - IS 1893 Code provisions - Calculation of Design Seismic Force by Static Analysis and
Dynamic Analysis - Location of Centre of Mass - Centre of Stiffness - Lateral Force Distribution.
Unit IV VEHICLE LOAD 9
Load calculation as per IRC 6 : 2010 on highway Bridges - Class 70 R, Class AA, Class A , Class B, Tracked Vehicle,
Wheeled Vehicle - Load Combinations - Impact, Wind, Water Currents - Longitudinal Forces : acceleration, breaking
and frictional resistance - Centrifugal forces, temperature - Seismic forces - Snow Load - Collision Loads.
Unit V ANALYSIS AND BEHAVIOR OF TALL BUILDINGS 9
Linear and Non-linear behavior - Material non-linearity - Geometric non-linearity - Rigid and Elastic Supports - First
Order Elastic Analysis - Second Order Elastic Analysis - First order Inelastic Analysis - Second order Inelastic Analysis -
Behavior of Structural forms in Tall buildings - Rigid frame, Braced Frames, Shear Walls, Core walls, Tubular, Belt
truss, Outrigger (Concepts only).
Reference Book:
1. An explanatory Handbook on IS 875 (PART 3); Wind Load on Building and Structures, Document No: IITK-
GSDMA Wind 07 V1.0 - IITK-GSDMA Project on Building Codes.
2. Explanatory Examples on Indian Seismic Code IS 1893 (Part I): Document No.: IITKGSDMA-EQ21-V2.0 - IITK-
GSDMA Project on Building Codes.

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19SEP02 MECHANICS OF COMPOSITE MATERIALS L T P C


Offered by CIV (Open Elective offered to MBT, MCO, MCS, MIS, MSE, MVL, PED) 3 0 0 3
Course Objective:
To impart knowledge on
• To understand the composite materials and properties of composite fiber and matrix constituents.
• To idealize stress strain relation of orthotropic and anisotropic materials.
• To know the static, dynamic and stability analysis for simpler cases of composite plates.
• To elucidate the failure criterion and fracture mechanism of composites.
• To know the metal and ceramic composite & design with composites.
Course Outcome:
At the end of the course, the students will be able to
• Identify the fiber types and classify the composite material.
• Relate the stress – strain properties, longitudinal and transverse properties of composites lamina.
• Analyse the laminated composites and compute the lamina strength.
• Find the failure criterion and fracture mechanics of composites.
• Apply the load deformation relation, residual stresses for the design of composites.
Unit I INTRODUCTION TO COMPOSITES 9
Introduction to Composites - Classifying composite materials and their properties - Commonly used fiber and matrix
constituents - Composite Construction - Properties of Unidirectional Long Fiber Composites - Short Fiber
Composites.
Unit II STRESS STRAIN RELATIONS 9
Concepts in solid mechanics - Hooke’s law for orthotropic and anisotropic materials - Linear Elasticity for Anisotropic
materials - rotations of stresses, strains, residual stresses.
Unit III ANALYSIS OF LAMINATED COMPOSITES 9
Governing equations for an isotropic and orthotropic plate - Angle-ply and cross ply laminates. Static, dynamic and
stability analysis for simpler cases of composite plates - Inter laminar stresses.
Unit IV FAILURE AND FRACTURE OF COMPOSITES 9
Netting analysis - Failure criterion - Maximum stress, maximum strain - fracture mechanics of composites -
Sandwich construction.
Unit V APPLICATIONS AND DESIGN 9
Metal and ceramic matrix composites - Applications of composites - Composite joints - Design with composites -
Environmental issues.
Reference Book:
1. Daniel and Ishai, “Engineering Mechanics of Composite Materials”, Oxford University Press, 2013.
2. Jones. R.M., “Mechanics of composite materials”, CRC publishers 2015.
3. Agarwal. B.D and Broutman.L.J., “Analysis and Performance of fiber composites”, John-Wiley and Sons, 2006.
4. Michael W.Hyer, “Stress Analysis of Fiber-Reinforced Composite Materials”, McGrawHill, 2009.
5. Mukhopadhyay.M, “Mechanics of Composite Materials and Structures”, University Press, India, 2005.

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19SEP03 NON-LINEAR ANALYSIS OF STRUCTURES L T P C


Offered by CIV (Open Elective offered to MBT, MCO, MCS, MIS, MSE, MVL, PED) 3 0 0 3
Course Objective:
To impart knowledge on
• To study the concept of non-linear behaviour of beams and vibrations of beams.
• To know the elastic analysis of statically determinate and indeterminate flexural members.
• To know the governing equation for static and dynamic analysis of composite plate.
• To know the inelastic analysis of statically determinate and indeterminate flexural members.
• To study the non-linear analysis of plates and its governing equation.
Course Outcome:
At the end of the course, the students will be able to
• Analyze the beam using basic concept of non-linearity and vibration.
• Analyze statically determinate and indeterminate flexural members.
• Analyze the composite plates for static and dynamic condition.
• Understand the inelastic analysis with various boundary conditions of thin walled structural members.
• Perform static and dynamic analysis of plates.
Unit I NON LINEAR BENDING AND VIBRATION OF BEAMS 9
Introduction -Types of non-linearity - Non-linear governing equation for beams - Geometrically non-linear beam
problems - Vibrations of beams with various boundary conditions - Forced vibration of beams - Post buckling-
cantilever column - Behaviour of beams with material non-linearity - Non-linear vibration and instabilities of
elastically supported beams.
Unit II ELASTIC ANALYSIS OF FLEXURAL MEMBERS 9
Flexural behavior - Statically determinate and statically - Indeterminate bars - Uniform and varying thickness.
Unit III ANALYSIS OF LAMINATED COMPOSITES 9
Governing equations for an isotropic and orthotropic plate - Angle-ply and cross ply laminates - Static, dynamic and
stability analysis for simpler cases of composite plates - Inter laminar stresses.
Unit IV IN ELASTIC ANALYSIS OF FLEXURAL MEMBERS 9
Inelastic analysis of uniform and variable thickness members subjected to small deformations - Inelastic analysis of
flexible bars of uniform and variable stiffness - Members with and without axial restraints.
Unit V NON LINEAR STATIC AND DYNAMIC ANALYSIS OF PLATES 9
Introduction - Governing non-linear equations for plates - Boundary conditions and methods of solutions - Large
deflection analysis of rectangular and non-rectangular plates - Free and forced vibrations of rectangular and non-
rectangular plates - Post buckling behaviour of plates - Effects of transverse shear deformations and material non-
linearity.
Reference Book:
1. Sathyamoorthy. M.,”Non-linear Analysis of Structures”, CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, 1997.
2. Fertis. D. G.,”Non-linear Mechanics”, CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, 1998.
3. Reddy.J.N, “An introduction to Non - linear Finite Element Analysis”, Oxford University Press, 2008.
4. Majid K.I.,“Non LinearStructures”, Butterworth publishers, London,1972.
5. Iyengar NGR,“Elastic Stability of Structural elements”, Macmillan India Ltd, 2007.

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19SEP04 THEORY OF PLASTICITY L T P C


Offered by CIV (Open Elective offered to MBT, MCO, MCS, MIS, MSE, MVL, PED) 3 0 0 3
Course Objective:
To impart knowledge on
• To review fundamentals of elasticity theory.
• To give students an understanding of large and non-reversible deformation of metals and its importance in non-
linear analysis.
• To learn the plastic stress-strain relations and its applications in design.
• To know the yield criteria for ductile metal.
• To provide students a mathematical framework and knowledge base to facilitate problem solving using classical
plasticity.
Course Outcome:
At the end of the course, the students will be able to
• Demonstrate the applications of elasticity to field problems.
• Get familiarized with advanced concepts of plasticity and plastic deformation analysis.
• Describe the elastic and plastic behavior from typical stress-strain curves for materials.
• Apply the typical plastic yield criteria and accordingly design the elements.
• Solve analytically the beam bending and torsion problems as per plasticity theory.
Unit I FUNDAMENTALS OF ELASTICITY 9
Concept of stress - Stress transformation - Spherical and deviator stress tensors - Equilibrium equations - Octahedral
stresses - Concept of strain - deviator and spherical strain tensors - strain transformation laws - Generalized Hooke’s
law - Compatibility equations - Theories of strength - Problems.
Unit II PLASTIC DEFORMATION OF METALS 9
Crystalline structure in metals - Mechanism of plastic deformation - Factors affecting plastic deformation - Strain
hardening - Recovery, recrystallization and grain growth.
Unit III STRESS STRAIN RELATIONS 9
Introduction - Types of materials - Empirical equations - Theories of plastic flow - Experimental verification of
St.Venant’s theory of plastic flow - Concept of plastic potential, the maximum work hypothesis and mechanical work
for deforming a plastic substance.
Unit IV YIELD CRITERIA 9
Yield or plasticity conditions - Von Mises and Tresca criteria - Geometrical representation - yield surface and yield
locus (two dimensional stress spaces) - Experimental evidence for yield criteria - Introduction to Slip Line Field
Theory.
Unit V BENDING OF BEAMS AND TORSION OF BARS 9
Analysis for stresses - Non-linear stress strain curve - Shear stress distribution - Residual stresses in plastic bending -
Problems - Introduction to plastic torsion of a circular bar - Elastic perfectly plastic material - Elastic work hardening
of material - Residual stresses and problems.
Reference Book:
1. Chakrabarthy.T.,"Theory of Plasticity",Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann publications, 2012.
2. Sadhu Singh, "Theory of Plasticity", Khanna Publishers, New Delhi, 2008.
3. Mendelson. A., "Plasticity, Theory and Applications", MacMillan Co., New York, 1968.
4. Haffman and Sachs, “Introduction to Theory of Plasticity for Engineers”, McGraw-Hill, 1953.

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19SEP05 TRANSMISSION LINE STRUCTURES L T P C


Offered by CIV (Open Elective offered to MBT, MCO, MCS, MIS, MSE, MVL, PED) 3 0 0 3
Course Objective:
To impart knowledge on
• To introduce the basics of construction of transmission line structures.
• To impose knowledge on various loads acting on transmission towers.
• To learn the analysis of transmission line structures by idealizing behaviour in 2D as well as in 3D.
• To study the structural design of members and connections in a typical transmission towers.
• To provide an exposure on recent advancement in the field of analysis and design of transmission towers.
Course Outcome:
At the end of the course, the students will be able to
• Understand the step by step procedure in fabrication and erection of a transmission line structure.
• Calculate the various loads acting on a tower as per standards.
• Analyse the transmission line structures by assessing the various forces acting on it.
• Design a typical transmission line towers.
• Get exposed to recent advancements in transmission line towers.
Unit I TOWER CONSTRUCTION 9
Materials and their properties - Tower configurations and types of towers - Transmission poles - Tower accessories -
Fabrication - Line construction.
Unit II LOADS 9
Loads on towers and conductors - Broken wire condition - Load combinations - Sag tension - parabolic and catenary
formulae - Charts for sag tension.
Unit III ANALYSIS OF TOWERS 9
Idealization - Plane truss analysis - manual and matrix methods - Estimation of forces and deflection - Analysis for
3D behaviour.
Unit IV TOWER DESIGN 9
Bracing systems - Design of tension and compression members – Buckling modes - Types of Connections –
connection design - Introduction to computer aided design.
Unit V RECENT ADVANCEMENTS 9
Improvement in materials and testing methods - Optimization of towers - Limit analysis for forces in towers -
Reliability based design.
Reference Book:
1. S.S. Murthy and A.R. Santhakumar, “Transmission line structures”, McGraw-Hill Book CO., Singapore, 1992.
2. Peter Catchpole and Buck Fife , “Structural Engineering of Transmission Lines”, ICE Publishing Co., 2014.
3. Sriram Kalaga and Prasad Yenumula, “Design of Electrical Transmission Lines: Structures and Foundations”, CRC
press, 2016.
4. Stephen P. Timoshenko, James M. Gere, “ Theory of elastic stability”, Mc Grawhill, 2009.

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19VDP01 ADVANCED ELECTRONIC TESTING L T P C


Offered by ECE (Open Elective offered to MBT, MCO, MCS, MIS, MSE, MVL, PED) 3 0 0 3
Course Objective:
To impart knowledge on
• Evaluate the Testing Schemes and Testing Interfaces.
• Implement the Embedded Core Testing
Course Outcome:
At the end of the course, the students will be able to
• Analyze the defect and faults by testing
• Analyze the VLSI Testing and Delay.
• Analyze the digital test interfaces
• Design the DFT Testers with l/O cost.
• Analyze the Embedded core, Memory and SOC Testing
Unit I DEFECT-ORIENTED TESTING 9
Classic Defect Mechanisms - Defect Mechanisms in Advanced Technologies- Defects and Faults- Defect-Oriented
Test Types - Experimental Results- Scaling CMOS Technology -Failure Modes in Nanometer Technologies- Test
Methods for Nanometer ICs.
Unit II SILICON DEBUG & DELAY TESTING 9
Silicon Debug Process - Debug Flow- Circuit Failures -Delay Test Basics-Test Application, Scan Architectures, Last-
Shift-Launch, BIST and Delay Testing - Vector Generation, Last-Shift-Launch, Fault Model Tweaks - Chip Design
Constructs, Phase-Locked Loops (PLLs) - ATE Requirements.
Unit III HIGH-SPEED DIGITAL TEST INTERFACES & DFT-ORIENTED TESTERS 9
Technology and Design Techniques -Characterization and Modeling- Test Cost – the Chicken and the Low Cost
Tester- Tester Use Models - Functional vs. Structural Test, Defect Coverage and Fault Models, DFT and First Silicon
Validation, Characterization, Yield Learning, Achieving Test Goals Without Precision, Accuracy, Flexibility, The LCST is
Not the Silver Bullet.
Unit IV EMBEDDED CORES AND SYSTEM-ON-CHIP TESTING 9
Design and Test Paradigm with Cores and SOCs -DFT for Embedded Cores and SOCs - Test Access Mechanisms -
ATPG for Embedded Cores and SOCs - SOC Test Modes - Design for At-speed Testing, SOC At-speed Test, Scan
Design and Scan Control, Pattern Generation Techniques- Design for Memory and Logic BIST, Design Techniques for
Memory, Logic BIST.
Unit V EMBEDDED MEMORY TESTING 9
Memory Design Under Test, Static Memory, Register Files, CAM, DRAM - Memory Faults- Memory Test Patterns,
Pattern Nomenclature, Memory Data Backgrounds, CAM Test Patterns - Self Test- Advanced Memories &
Technologies -Emerging Techniques and Directions - EDA Tools for Mixed-Signal Testing.
Reference Book:
1. DimitrisGizopoulos, Advances In Electronic Testing - Challenges And Methodologies, Springer, The Netherlands,
2007.
2. Charles E. Stroud, "A Designer’s Guide to Built-In Self-Test", Springer, 2002.
Extensive Reading:
• http://www.atecorp.com/
• www.advancedco.com

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19VDP02 EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTING L T P C


Offered by ECE (Open Elective offered to MBT, MCO, MCS, MIS, MSE, MVL, PED) 3 0 0 3
Course Objective:
To impart knowledge on
• Formulate and assess problems in evolutionary computation.
• Assess the strengths and weaknesses of several approaches to evolutionary computation.
Course Outcome:
At the end of the course, the students will be able to
• Practice evolutionary and genetic algorithm
• Apply evolution algorithm for hardware design
• Analyze various classifier systems.
• Analyze the algorithms for multimodal problems
• Analyze the forms of evolution
Unit I EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHM 9
Evolutionary Algorithm: Introduction – Components of Evolutionary Algorithms -Working of an Evolutionary
Algorithm – Evolutionary Computing and Global Optimization – Genetic Algorithms: Representation of Individuals –
Mutation – Recombination - Population Models – Parent Selection–Survivor Selection
Unit II EVOLUTION STRATEGIES AND PROGRAMMING 9
Evolution Strategies :Representation – Uncorrelated Mutation with One Step Size and n Step Sizes– Correlated
Mutations – Self-Adaptation – Example: Ackley Function – Subjective Evolution of Colour Mixes – Evolutionary
Programming: Recombination – Parent Selection –Survivor Selection.
Unit III LEARNING CLASSIFIER SYSTEMS 9
ZCS: A Zeroth-Level Classifier System – XCS – Motivation – Description – Extensions – Applications – Modelling
Financial Market Traders-A Multistep Problem–Parameter Control in Evolutionary Algorithms–Examples of Changing
Parameters –Changing the Mutation Step Size and Penalty Coefficients – Classification of Control Techniques –
Examples of Varying EA Parameters.
Unit IV MULTIMODAL PROBLEMS AND SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION 9
Multimodal Problems and the Need for Diversity – Implicit Measures – Explicit Diversity Maintenance –
Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithms– Example Application: Distributed Coevolution of Job Shop Schedules –
Memetic Algorithms : Introduction to Local Search – Structure of a Memetic Algorithm– Design Issues for Memetic
Algorithms, Multistage Memetic Timetabling.
Unit V CONSTRAINT HANDLING AND SPECIAL FORMS OF EVOLUTION 9
Constrained Problems – Two Main Types of Constraint Handling –Ways to Handle Constraints in EAs –Example:
Graph Three-Coloring – Special Forms Of Evolution :Coevolution –Interactive Evolution – Optimization, Design,
Exploration –Interactive Evolutionary Design and Art –Application: The Mondriaan Evolver – Nonstationary Function
Optimization –Algorithmic Approaches –Selection and Replacement Policies–Application: Time-Varying Knapsack
Problem.
Reference Book:
1. A.E. Eiben, and J.E. Smith, “Introduction to Evolutionary Computing”, Springer 2nd Edition 2009.
2. Daniel Ashlock,“Evolutionary Computation for Modeling and Optimization, Springer,2006.
3. David B. Fogel, “Evolutionary Computation: Principles and Practice for Signal Processing”, International Society
for optical Engineering, 2000.
Extensive Reading:
• http://www.cs.vu.nl/~gusz/ecbook/ecbook.html
• http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783540401841

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19VDP03 NANOELECTRONIC DEVICES AND NANOSENSORS L T P C


Offered by ECE (Open Elective offered to MBT, MCO, MCS, MIS, MSE, MVL, PED) 3 0 0 3
Course Objective:
To impart knowledge on
• Make students to learn the basic concepts of Nano-electronics.
• Enable the students to understand the quantum devices.
• Enable the students to know the tunneling devices and its uses.
• Make the students to analyze the superconducting devices and photonics.
• Make students to learn the basic concepts of Nano sensors and its applications.
Course Outcome:
At the end of the course, the students will be able to
• Understand basic and advanced concepts of Nano electronic devices, sensors and transducers and their
applications in Nanotechnology.
• Design advanced electronic systems integrated on a miniaturized Silicon chip.
• Have detailed knowledge of the operation of micro- and Nano-scale devices, their applications and the
technologies used to fabricate them.
• Analyze & design a range of devices using relevant mechanical/electrical engineering principles.
• Apply the basic Nano-sensor concepts for their applications.
Unit I BASICS OF NANOELECTRONICS AND QUANTUM DEVICES 9
Physical fundamentals – basic information theory – data & bits – data processing - Quantum Electronic devices –
Electrons in mesocopic structures – Short channel, MOS Transistor – split Gate Transistor – Electron wave transistor
– Electron spin transistor – Quantum Dot array – Quantum computer- Bit and Qubit - Carbon Nanotube based logic
gates.
Unit II TUNNELING DEVICES 9
Tunneling element – Tunnel Effect -Tunneling Diode – Resonant Tunneling Diode – Three -Terminal Resonate
Tunneling Devices-Technology of RTD-Digital circuits design based on RTDs - Basics Logic Circuits – Single Electron
Transistor (SET) – Principle – Coulomb Blockade- Performance – Technology- Circuit Design- Logic and Memory
Circuits – SET adder as an Example of a Distributed Circuit.
Unit III SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES AND PHOTONICS 9
Basics - Macroscopic model- Super conducting switching Devices – Cryotron- Josephson Tunnelling Devices-
Elementary circuits – Associative or Content – Addressable Memory - SQUID – Flux Quantum device –LC –Gate –
Magnetic Flux Quantum – Quantum cellular Automata- Quantum computer with Single Flux devices – SFQD- RSFQD
– Application of superconducting devices.
Unit IV LIMITS OF INTEGRATED ELECTRONICS AND REPLACEMENT TECHNOLOGIES 9
Survey about the limits- replacement technologies-energy supply and heat dissipation-parameter spread as limiting
effect- limits due to thermal particle motion- reliability as limiting factor-physical limits-final objectives of integrated
chips and systems.
Unit V NANOSENSORS 9
Micro and Nano-sensors - Fundamentals of sensors – biosensor - micro fluids - Packaging and characterization of
sensors - Method of packaging at zero level - dye level and first level – Electromagnetic sensors- electrical resistance
sensors, electrical current sensors, electrical voltage sensors, electrical power sensors- pressure sensors, gas and
liquid flow sensors, position sensors.
Reference Book:
1. Keith Barnham, DimitriVvedensky, “Low-dimensional semiconductor structures: Fundamentals and device
applications”, Cambridge University Press, 2001.
2. K. Goser, P. Glosekotter and J. Dienstuhl, “Nanoelectronics and Nanosystems: From Transistors to Molecular
Quantum Devices”, Springer, 2004.
3. HerveRigneault, Jean-Michel Lourtioz, Claude Delalande, Ariel Levenson,“Nanophotonics”, Wiley-ISTE, 2006.
4. W.R.Fahrner, “Nanotechnology and Nanoelectronics: Materials, Devices and Measurement Techniques”
Springer, 2005.
5. Tai–Ran Hsu, “MEMS & Microsystems Design and Manufacture”, Tata McGraw-Hill, 2001.
6. P.Rai-Choudhury, “MEMS and MOEMS technology and applications”, SPIE Press, 2000.

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19CMP04 RF MEMS L T P C
Offered by ECE (Open Elective offered to MBT, MCO, MCS, MIS, MSE, MVL, PED) 3 0 0 3
Course Objective:
To impart knowledge on
• To analyze the circuit elements in MEMS systems
• To analyze the model of Phase shifters, transmission lines and Antennas
Course Outcome:
At the end of the course, the students will be able to
• Illustrate the concepts of MEMS mechanisms
• Synthesis the MEMS based IC
• Develop a model based on the MEMS properties
• Design an Intelligent Control of MEMS
• Propose a MEMS design for the real time applications
Unit I INTRODUCTION TO RF MEMS 9
Introduction to RF MEMS: Application in wireless communications, space and defense applications, Benefits of
Miniaturization and Scaling, RF MEMS in industry and academia,Actuation Mechanisms in MEMS: Piezoelectric,
Electrostatic, Thermal, Magnetic.
Unit II RF MEMS COMPONENTS 9
MEMS Switch: Example of RF MEMS switches and applications, Mechanical design, Electromagnetic modeling
(Capacitance, Loss, Isolation), Current research Tunable Capacitors and Inductors: Example of tunable capacitors
and inductors and their applications in circuits, Effect of inductor layout, reduction of stray capacitance of planar
inductor , Approaches for improving quality factor, Polymer based inductors, MEMS gap tuning, area tuning and
dielectric tuning capacitors.
Unit III MICROMACHINED PHASE SHIFTERS AND TRANSMISSION LINES 9
Types of phase shifters and their limitations, MEMS phase shifters: Switched delay line phase shifters, Distributed
phase shifters, Polymer based phase shifters, Losses in transmission lines , Micro shield and membrane supported
transmission lines – Radar applications.
Unit IV MICROMACHINED ANTENNAS 9
Overview of microstrip antennas, Micromachining techniques to improve antenna performance, micro machined
reconfigurable antennas,Micro fabrication Techniques: Materials Properties, Bulk and surface micromachining, Wet
and dry etching Thin-film depositions (LPCVD, Sputtering, Evaporation), other techniques (LIGA, Electroplating)
Unit V PACKAGING &COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN OF MEMS 9
Packaging of RF MEMS:Role of MEMS packaging, Types of MEMS Packages, Reliability issues of MEMS
packaging.Computer aided design of MEMS: Introduction to Commercial packages, Introduction and usage of
Intellisuite and Coventorware, RF MEMS Switch simulation using Intellisuite, RF MEMS Phase shifter simulation.
Reference Book:
1. G.K.Anantha Suresh, K.J.Vinoy, K.N.Bhatt, V.K.Aatre, “Micro and Smart Systems”, John Wiley & Sons, First
Edition, 2010.
2. Vijay K.Varadan, K.J. Vinoy, K.A. Jose., “RF MEMS and their Applications”, John Wiley and sons, LTD, 2011.
3. Gabriel M. Rebeiz, “RF MEMS Theory, Design & Technology”, Wiley Interscience, First Edition, 2003.
4. Hector J. De Los Santos, “RF MEMS Circuit Design for Wireless Communications”, Artech House, First Edition,
2002.
Extensive Reading:
• http://heim.ifi.uio.no/~oddvar/rfmems.htm
• http://www.inems.com/MEMS_course_AREA/06_Applications/RF_MEMS/RF-MEMS.htm

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19CMP05 NEXT GENERATION WIRELESS NETWORKS L T P C


Offered by ECE (Open Elective offered to MBT, MCO, MCS, MIS, MSE, MVL, PED) 3 0 0 3
Course Objective:
To impart knowledge on
• To know how Convergence of video/voice/data, high-performance wireless networks, mobile networking has
been implemented for broad band applications
• To know about the broad landscape of emerging networking and inter-networking technologies
Course Outcome:
At the end of the course, the students will be able to
• Analyze Packet Switching Services of the Next Generation wireless services
• Explain the architectures of wireless IP network.
• Evaluate the performance of Voice and data over Internet Protocol
• Explain the Mobility management schemes of the Next Generation wireless services.
• Evaluate integrated broadband access using telecommunications systems in terms of QoS.
Unit I HETEROGENEOUS RADIO TECHNOLOGIES 9
Evolution of Wireless Networks - Wireless Local Area Networks - Public Wide-Area Wirelessnetworks. Introduction
to 1G/2G/3G/4G Terminology -Evolution of Public Mobile Services – FirstWave of Mobile Data Services: Text-Based
Instant Messaging - Second Wave of Mobile Data Services:LowSpeed Mobile Internet Services - Current Wave of
Mobile Data Services: High-Speed andMultimedia Mobile Internet Services - IP-Based Wireless Networks - 3GPP,
3GPP2.
Unit II WIRELESS IP NETWORK ARCHITECTURES 9
3GPP Packet Data Networks - Network Architecture-3GPP2 Packet Data - MWIF All-IPMobileNetworks - Network
Architectures - Access to MWIF Networks - Session Management.
Unit III IP MULTIMEDIA SUBSYSTEMS AND APPLICATION-LEVEL SIGNALING 9
Signaling in IP Networks -Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) -Session Description Protocol (SDP)3GPP IP Multimedia
Subsystem (IMS) - IMS Architecture - Mobile Station Addressing forAccessing the IMS - Reference Interfaces -Service
Architecture - Registration with the IMS -Deregistration with the IMS -End-to-End Signaling Flows for Session
Control- 3GPP2 IP MultimediaSubsystem (IMS).
Unit IV MOBILITY MANAGEMENT 9
Basic Issues in Mobility Management - Mobility Management in IP Networks - Mobility Management
in 3GPP Packet Networks -Mobility Management in 3GPP2 - Packet Data Networks – MobilityManagement in MWIF
Networks - Comparison of Mobility Management in IP, 3GPP and 3GPP2Networks.
Unit V QUALITY OF SERVICE 9
Internet QoS - QoS Challenges in Wireless IP Networks - QoS in 3GPP - QoS in 3GPP2 -3GPP2 QoS Architecture -
3GPP2 QoS Management -3GPP2 QoS Classes - QoS Attributes (QoS Profile) -Management of End-to-End IP QoS.
Reference Book:
1. Jyh-Cheng Chen and Tao Zhang, “IP-Based Next-GenerationWireless Networks Systems, Architectures, and
Protocols,” John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Publication, First Edition, 2008.
2. Crosspoint Boulevard, “Wireless and Mobile All-IP Networks,” Wiley Publication, 2005.
3. Minoru Etoh, “Next Generation Mobile Systems3G and Beyond”, Wiley Publications, First Edition, 2005.
4. SavoGlisic, “Advanced Wireless Communications 4G Technologies,” Wiley Publications, First Edition,2009
Extensive Reading:
• http://cs.ucsb.edu/~almeroth/classes/W03.595N/papers/all-ip.pdf
• http://www.cse.lehigh.edu/~chuah/publications/ip_ran.pdf

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19CMP06 ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERFERENCE AND COMPATIBILITY IN SYSTEM L T P C


Offered by ECE
DESIGN 3 0 0 3
(Open Elective offered to MBT, MCO, MCS, MIS, MSE, MVL, PED)
Course Objective:
To impart knowledge on
• To formulate the new adaptable procedures for EMI and EMC principles
• To design the Electromagnetic compatible PCBs
Course Outcome:
At the end of the course, the students will be able to
• Apply EMI/EMC concepts to practical electronic design.
• Apply various EMIcoupling principles
• Apply the concepts of EMI control techniques
• Apply the concept for EMC design of PCBs
• Analyse EMI / EMCmeasurements and standards
Unit I EMI/EMC CONCEPTS 8
EMI-EMC definitions and Units of parameters; Sources and victim of EMI; Conducted and Radiated EMI Emission
and Susceptibility; Transient EMI, ESD; Radiation Hazards
Unit II EMI COUPLING PRINCIPLES 10
Conducted, radiated and transient coupling; Common ground impedance coupling; Common mode and ground loop
coupling; Differential mode coupling; Near field cable to cable coupling, cross talk; Field to cable coupling; Power
mains and Power supply coupling.
Unit III EMI CONTROL TECHNIQUES 9
Shielding, Filtering, Grounding, Bonding, Isolation transformer, Transient suppressors, Cable routing, Signal control.
Unit IV EMC DESIGN OF PCBS 8
Component selection and mounting; PCB trace impedance; Routing; Cross talk control; Power distribution
decoupling; Zoning; Grounding; Vias connection; Terminations.
Unit V EMI MEASUREMENTS AND STANDARDS 10
Open area test site; TEM cell; EMI test shielded chamber and shielded ferrite lined anechoic chamber; Tx /Rx
Antennas, Sensors, Injectors / Couplers, and coupling factors; EMI Rx and spectrum analyzer; Standard for
EMI/EMC- MILSTD461/462, IEEE/ANSI, CISPR/IEC, FCC regulations, British and Japan standard, VDE standard, EURO
norms and Comparison of Standards.
Reference Book:
1. V.P.Kodali, “Engineering Electromagnetic Compatibility Principles, Measurements and Technologies and
Computer Models”, IEEE Press, New York, Second Edition, 2001.
2. C.R.Paul,”Introduction to Electromagnetic Compatibility”, John Wiley and Sons, Inc, Second Edition, 2006.
3. Bemhard Keiser, “Principles of Electromagnetic Compatibility”, Artechhourse, Norwood, Third Edition, 1989.
4. Henry W.Ott. “Noise Reduction Techniques in Electronic Systems”, A Wiley Inter Science Publications, John
Wiley and Sons, New York, Second Edition, 1988.
5. Donald R. J. White, William G. Duff, “A Handbook Series on Electromagnetic Interference and Compatibility:
Electrical noise and EMI specifications, Standards and Regulations”, Don White Consultants, 1981.
6. Xingcun Colin Tong, “Advanced Materials and Design for Electromagnetic Interference Shielding”, CRC Press,
2008
Extensive Reading:
• http:// www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/

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19ISP05 NUCLEAR ENGINEERING AND SAFETY L T P C


Offered by MECH (Open Elective offered to MBT, MCO, MCS, MIS, MSE, MVL, PED) 3 0 0 3
Course Objective:
To impart knowledge on
• To know about nuclear energy and fission fusion process.
• To gain knowledge in reactor types, design considerations and their operational problems
• To know the current status of India in nuclear energy.
• To study about the nuclear reactors operational safety and their emergency preparedness.
• To understand the concepts in nuclear waste treatments and disposal practices.
Course Outcome:
At the end of the course, the students will be able to
• gain knowledge in nuclear fission and fusion process and their utilization.
• understand the control measures carried out in Reactor control.
• understand the function of various types of nuclear reactors.
• understand the safety design principles and safety regulation process being followed in the nuclear reactor.
• acquire knowledge on controlling measures caused by nuclear radiation.
Unit I BASICS OF NUCLEAR SCIENCE 9
Binding energy – fission process – radio activity – alpha, beta and gamma rays radioactive decay – decay schemes –
effects of radiation – neutron interaction – cross section – reaction rate – neutron moderation – multiplication –
scattering – collision – fast fission – resonance escape – thermal utilization – criticality.
Unit II REACTOR CONTROL 9
Control requirements in design considerations – means of control – control and shut down - rods – their operation
and operational problems –control instrumentation and monitoring – online central data processing system.
Unit III REACTOR TYPES 9
Boiling water reactors – radioactivity of steam system – direct cycle and dual cycle power plants-pressurized water
reactors and pressurized heavy water reactors – fast breeder reactors and their role in power generation in the
Indian context – conversion and breeding – doubling time – liquid metal coolants – nuclear power plants in India
Unit IV SAFETY OF NUCLEAR REACTORS 9
Safety design principles – engineered safety features – site related factors – safety related systems – heat transport
systems – reactor control and protection system – fire protection system – quality assurance in plant components –
operational safety – safety regulation process – public awareness and emergency preparedness. Accident Case
studies- Three Mile island and Chernobyl accident.
Unit V RADIATION CONTROL 9
Radiation shielding – radiation dose – dose measurements – units of exposure – exposure limits – barriers for
control of radioactivity release – control of radiation exposure to plant personnel – health physics surveillance –
waste management and disposal practices – environmental releases.
Reference Book:
1. Wakil M.M.E.L, “Nuclear Power Engineering”, International Text Book Co, 1962.
2. Sterman L.S. “Thermal and Nuclear Power Stations”, MIR Publications, Moscow, 1986.
3. “Loss prevention in the process Industries” Frank P.Lees Butterworth-Hein-UK, 1990.
4. Wakil M.M.E.L, “Nuclear Energy Conversion”, International Text Book Co, 1978.
5. Murray R.L, “Introduction to Nuclear Engineering”, Prentice Hall, 1961.
6. Sri Ram K, “Basic Nuclear Engineering” Wiley Eastern Ltd., New Delhi, 1990.
7. Loffness R.L., “Nuclear Power Plant” Van Nostrand Publications, 1979.
8. Sam Mannan M., “Loss prevention in the process Industries”, Butterworth-Heinemann, 4th edition, 2012.

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19ISP06 PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL TREATMENT OF WATER AND WASTEWATER L T P C


Offered by MECH (Open Elective offered to MBT, MCO, MCS, MIS, MSE, MVL, PED) 3 0 0 3
Course Objective:
To impart knowledge on
• To know the Sources of pollutants in water and wastewater and its characterization.
• To study the physical treatments processes such as sedimentation, reverse osmosis, nano filtration, electro
dialysis etc.,
• To study the chemical treatment processes such as coagulation flocculation, precipitation, flotation, ion
exchange, electrolytic etc.,
• To design different type of treatment plants for industrial effluents.
Course Outcome:
At the end of the course, the students will be able to
• To gain knowledge about the classification of water pollution and its characteristisation.
• To understand the various physical treatment methods and its recent advancements.
• Understand various chemical treatment practices followed in industries.
• Understand the various methods followed in designing of conventional treatment methods.
• To design water treatment plants for industrial applications.
Unit I CHARACTERISTICS OF WATER 3
Pollutants in water and wastewater – Characteristics – Standards for performance –Significance and need for
physico-chemical treatment.
Unit II PHYSICAL TREATMENT PRINCIPLES 10
Principles of Screening – Mixing, equalisation – Sedimentation – Filtration – Modelling – Back washing – Evaporation
– Incineration – Gastransfer – Mass transfer coefficients – Adsorption – Isotherms – Principles, equilibria and
kinetics, reactors, regeneration, membrane separation, Reverse Osmosis, nano filtration, ultra filtration and hyper
filtration – Electrodialysis, distillation – Stripping and crystallization – Recent Advances.
Unit III CHEMICAL TREATMENT PRINCIPLES 9
Principles of Chemical treatment – Coagulation flocculation – Precipitation – flotation, solidification and
stabilization – Disinfection – Ion exchange, Electrolytic methods, Solvent extraction – advance oxidation /reduction
– Recent Advances.
Unit IV DESIGN OF CONVENTIONAL TREATMENT PLANTS 15
Selection of unit operations and processes – Design of conventional water treatment plant units – Aerators –
chemical feeding – Flocculation – clarifier – filters – Rapid sand filter, slow sand filter, pressure filter–Chlorinators –
Displacement and gaseous type. Layouts – flow charts – Hydraulic Profile – O and M aspects – Case studies –
Residue management – Upgradation of existing plants – Recent Advances.
Unit V DESIGN OF INDUSTRIAL WATER TREATMENT AND RECLAMATION 8
Selection of process – Design of softeners – Demineralisers – Wastewater reclamation – Reverse osmosis plants –
Residue management – O and M aspects – Recent Advances – Case studies.
Reference Book:
1. Metcalf and Eddy, “Wastewater Engineering, Treatment and Reuse”, Tata McGraw-Hill, Fourth Edition, 2009.
2. “Manual on Water Supply and Treatment”, CPHEEO, Ministry of Urban Development, Government of India,
1999.
3. Lee, C.C. and Shun Dar Lin, “Handbook of Environmental Engineering Calculations”, McGraw-Hill, Second
edition, 2007.
4. Qasim, S.R., Motley, E.M. and Zhu, G., “Water works Engineering - Planning, Design and Operation”, Prentice
Hall, 2002.
5. Casey. T.J., “Unit Treatment Processes in Water and Wastewater Engineering”, John Wiley and Sons, 1997.

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19ISP07 SAFETY IN CONSTRUCTION L T P C


Offered by MECH (Open Elective offered to MBT, MCO, MCS, MIS, MSE, MVL, PED) 3 0 0 3
Course Objective:
To impart knowledge on
• To know causes of accidents related to construction activities and human factors associated with these
accidents.
• To understand the construction regulations and quality assurance in construction.
• To have the knowledge in hazards of construction and their prevention methods.
• To know the working principles of various construction machinery.
• To gain knowledge in health hazards and safety in demolition work.
Course Outcome:
At the end of the course, the students will be able to
• identify the problems, types and causes of accidents in construction industries.
• understand the various hazards during construction work.
• understand the safety procedure for working at heights during construction.
• explain safe operation, inspection and testing of various construction machinery.
• list out construction regulations and Indian standards for construction and demolition work.
Unit I ACCIDENTS CAUSES AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS 9
Problems impeding safety in construction industry- causes of fatal accidents, types and causes of accidents related
to various construction activities, human factors associated with these accident – construction regulations,
contractual clauses – Pre contract activities, preconstruction meeting - design aids for safe construction – permits to
work – quality assurance in construction - compensation – Recording of accidents and safety measures – Education
and training.
Unit II HAZARDS OF CONSTRUCTION AND PREVENTION 9
Excavations, basement and wide excavation, trenches, shafts – scaffolding , types, causes of accidents, scaffold
inspection checklist – false work – erection of structural frame work, dismantling – tunnelling – blasting, pre blast
and post blast inspection – confined spaces – working on contaminated sites – work over water - road works –
power plant constructions – construction of high rise buildings.
Unit III WORKING AT HEIGHTS 9
Fall protection in construction OSHA 3146 – OSHA requirement for working at heights, Safe access and
egress – safe use of ladders- Scaffoldings , requirement for safe work platforms, stairways, gangways and ramps –
fall prevention and fall protection , safety belts, safety nets, fall arrestors, controlled access zones, safety monitoring
systems – working on fragile roofs, work permit systems, height pass – accident case studies.
Unit IV CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY 9
Selection, operation, inspection and testing of hoisting cranes, mobile cranes, tower cranes, crane inspection
checklist - builder’s hoist, winches, chain pulley blocks – use of conveyors - concrete mixers, concrete vibrators
– safety in earth moving equipment, excavators, dozers, loaders, dumpers, motor grader, concrete pumps, welding
machines, use of portable electrical tools, drills, grinding tools, manual handling scaffolding, hoisting cranes – use of
conveyors and mobile cranes – manual handling.
Unit V SAFETY IN DEMOLITION WORK 9
Safety in demolition work, manual, mechanical, using explosive - keys to safe demolition, pre survey inspection,
method statement, site supervision, safe clearance zone, health hazards from demolition - Indian standard -
trusses, girders and beams – first aid – fire hazards and preventing methods – interesting experiences at the
construction site against the fire accidents.
Reference Book:
1. Davies V.J and Thomasin K “Construction Safety Hand Book” Thomas Telford Ltd., London, 1996.
2. David L. Goetsch, “Construction Safety and the OSHA Standards”, Prentice Hall, 2009.
3. Hudson, R. “Construction hazard and Safety Hand book”, Butter Worth’s, 1985.
4. Jonathan D.Sime, “Safety in the Built Environment”, London, 1988.
5. Charles D. Reese and James V.Edison “Handbook of OSHA Construction safety and health” CRC Press, 2nd
edition, 2012.
6. Philip Hagan, “Accident Prevention Manual for Business and Industry”, N.S.C. Chicago, 13th edition 2009.
7. R. K. Mishra, “Construction Safety”, AITBS Publishers, 2011.

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19MBP04 SYSTEMS BIOLOGY OF MICROBIAL NETWORKS L T P C


Offered by BT (Open Elective offered to MBT, MCO, MCS, MIS, MSE, MVL, PED) 3 0 0 3
Course Objective:
To impart knowledge on
• Basic concepts of systems biology.
• Terminologies and tools for modeling biological systems.
• Biological Networks, structure and properties.
• Modeling of networks for specific biological phenomena.
• Applying the models and networks in microbial processes / pathways.
Course Outcome:
At the end of the course, the students will be able to
• Visualize and draw the biochemical interactions in biology
• Identify constants, parameters and nature of biological processes.
• Draw a simple biochemical network
• Model a simple regulatory pathway
• Able to apply simple network designs and models in microbial systems.
Unit I BASIC BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY CONCEPTS 9
Allosteric regulation of Enzyme, Effect of pH and temperature on enzymes and deactivation kinetics, kinetics of
single-substrate reactions, estimation of Michaelis-Menten Parameters, Law of Conservation of Mass and Energy,
Evolution, Host-Pathogen Interaction, Transcription, Regulation of Gene Expression, Signal Transduction, Molecular
Basis of Diseases.
Unit II FUNDAMENTALS OF BIOCHEMICAL MODELING 9
Dynamic Mathematical Model (DMM): definition, need, application; Features of DMM: State variable, model
parameters, behaviour: steady-state / transient, linear/non-linear, global/local, deterministic / stochastic; Balancing
Equations, Rate Laws, flux analysis, chemical reaction network, closed and open networks, Steady states of
biochemical networks, metabolic / regulatory oscillations
Unit III CONCEPTS IN MODELLING NETWORKS 9
Structure of biological networks - Global structure of transcription networks - Metabolic Networks - regulatory
feedback, cell regulatory apparatus, Transcriptional Regulatory Networks - Signaling networks and neuron circuits;
Operating Principles, Data-driven (top-down) networks, Knowledge-driven (bottom-up) networks; Design Principles
Unit IV MODELING OF BIOLOGICAL NETWORKS 9
Metabolic Regulation, Cell Cycle models, Integration of environmental signals into regulatory circuits,
Developmental switches, Issues in modeling genetic circuits; Kinetic Modeling of metabolism – time course
simulations, steady-state analysis, stoichiometry, kinetic data, thermodynamic datamaximal enzymatic activity data
and other modal parameters – case study; Tools for kinetic modeling of biological networks - Metabolic Databases:
KEGG database, BioModels database – Biochemical Databases: BRENDA and Simulation; Kinetic modeling of
metabolic pathways.
Unit V SYSTEMS APPROACH IN MICROBIOLOGY 9
Static large-scale biological network modeling, Dynamic Quantitative modeling, Constraint-based reconstruction
and analysis, Diverse pathways to drug resistance by changes in gene expression; A Systems Approach of Disease
Model of Tuberculosis.
Reference Book:
1. Micahedl T.M., John M.P., “Brock Biology of Microorganisms”, Pearson Prentice Hall, 11th Edition, 2005.
2. Darren J.W., “Stochastic Modeling for Systems Biology”, CRC Press, 2nd Edition, 2011.
3. Majorie K. C., “Microbiology: A Systems Approach”, Mc-Graw Hill, 3rdEdition, 2011.
4. Brian D. R., Brendan W.W., “Systems Microbiology: Current Topics and Applications”, Caister Academic Press.
1st edition, 2012.
5. Ingalls B.P., “Mathematical Modeling in Systems Biology: An Introduction”, MIT Press, 2013.
6. Mark Ptashne and Alexander Gann, “Genes and Signals” Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2002.
7. Hiroaki K., “Foundations of Systems Biology”, The MIT Press, 2001.
8. Uri A., “An Introduction to Systems Biology: Design Principles of Biological Circuits”, Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2007.
9. Stan T.C., “An Introduction to Computational Biochemistry”, Wiley-Liss, Inc., 2002.

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19MBP05 NANOTECHNOLOGY IN HEALTH CARE L T P C


Offered by BT (Open Elective offered to MBT, MCO, MCS, MIS, MSE, MVL, PED) 3 0 0 3
Course Objective:
To impart knowledge on
• Biological molecules and various methods in nano scale reactions.
• Recent trends in biotechnology.
• Nanoscale experiments in immuno technology.
• Various disease diagnosis methods based on nanotechnology.
• Treatments and nano drug delivery methodologies.
Course Outcome:
At the end of the course, the students will be able to
• Acquire knowledge on biomolecules and design nano devices using biomimicry.
• Gain knowledge on various techniques in biotechnology, nano probes and application of nanotechnology in
gene therapy and scaffold design.
• Learn about the nanoscale experiments in immuno technology.
• Describe tumors and other diseases diagnosis using in-vivo imaging and sensors.
• Comprehend the role of nanoparticles in drug delivery and nano medicine.
Unit I NANO BIOLOGY AND BIOCONJUGATION OF NANO MATERIALS 9
Properties of DNA and motor proteins - Reactive groups on biomolecules (DNA & Proteins) - Surface modification
and conjugation to nano materials - Lessons from nature on making nano devices - Fabrication and application of
DNA nanowires - Nano fluidics to solve biological problems.
Unit II TRENDS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY 9
Nanotechnology in gene therapy - PCR, ELISA, DNA profiling and blotting techniques - nanoprobes, nano scaffolds -
stem cell technology.
Unit III IMMUNO TECHNIQUES IN NANO SCIENCES 9
Immunoassay and immuno sensors - bio-barcode assay - use of magnets, gold, DNA and antibodies - magnetic
nanoparticles.
Unit IV NANO TECHNOLOGY BASED MEDICAL DIAGNOSTICS 9
Improved diagnosis by in vivo imaging - detection of tumors and central nervous system disorders, plaque and
genetic defects, nano bot medical devices - cantilever sensors.
Unit V NANO DRUG DELIVERY AND NANO MEDICINE 9
Properties of nano carriers - drug delivery systems used in nano medicine - enhanced permeability and retention
effect - blood-brain barrier - active and passive targeting of diseased cells - health and environmental impacts of
nanotechnology.
Reference Book:
1. Sanjeeb K. S., “Nanotechnology in Health Care” Pan Stanford, 1stedition, 2012.
2. Zeynep Altintas, “Biosensors and Nanotechnology: Applications in Health Care Diagnostics”, Wiley-Blackwell,
1stedition, 2018.
3. Ed. David Wild, “The immunoassay handbook”, Elsevier, 4th Edition, 2013.

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19MBP06 BIOSENSORS L T P C
Offered by BT (Open Elective offered to MBT, MCO, MCS, MIS, MSE, MVL, PED) 3 0 0 3
Course Objective:
To impart knowledge on
• Principles of protein based biosensors
• Applications and functioning of DNA based biosensors
• Different transduction principles in biosensors
• Microfabrication procedures for developing biosensors
• Nanobiosensors and its application
Course Outcome:
At the end of the course, the students will be able to
• Summarize the role of nanostructures in enzyme immobilization for designing biosensors
• Discuss the DNA based sensing and detection of heavy metals
• Differentiate the working phenomenon of different transduction principles applied in biosensors
• Elaborate the steps involved in microfabrication
• Comprehend the role of nanotechnology in developing smart biosensors
Unit I PROTEIN BASED BIOSENSORS 9
Introduction to protein structure and characteristics-Immobilization of enzymes using nanostructures –
Nanoentrapment - Nanosystems by Self-Assembly- Single Enzyme Nanoparticles- Role of Carbon nanotubes
,Environmental monitoring and Medical Diagnostics.
Unit II DNA BASED BIOSENSOR 9
Introduction to DNA structure, Oligonucleotides, Hybridization conditions , efficiency and sensitivity, Probe
oligonucleotide structure and dynamics, Heavy metal determination using DNA sensors- DNA zymo biosensors.
Unit III TRANSDUCTION METHODS 9
Detection in biosensors – Electrochemical, Optical (Absorption, fluorescence), Thermal and Piezoelectric -
Integration of various techniques – Fiber optic biosensors.
Unit IV FABRICATION 9
Microfabrication process, Self-assembled Monolayers, Micromachining, Microfabricated structures for biosensors,
Microchip for electrochemical detection of heavy metal in water.
Unit V NANOBIOSENSORS 9
Nano scale biosensors -Biosensing using Carbon Nanotube Field-effect Transistors - Nanowires, and Nanocantilevers
in Biosensor Development – Fullerene based Electrochemical Detection- Quantum Dot based Nanobiohybrids for
Fluorescent Detection of Molecular and Cellular Biological Targets.
Text Book:
1. Cooper J & Tass C, “Biosensors: A practical approach”, Oxford University Press,2nd Edition 2004.
2. Kumar C.S , “Nano materials for biosensors”, Wiley – VCH, 1st Edition, 2007.
3. Knopf G.K, Bassi A.S, “Smart biosensor technology”, CRC Press, 1st Edition, 2006.
Reference Book:
1. Li S, Singh J, Li H , and Banerjee I.A., ”Biosensor Nanomaterials”, Wiley –VCH ,1st edition, 2011
2. Ozsoz M.S., “Electrochemical DNA Biosensors”, Pan Stanford, 1st Edition, 2012

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19MCP04 INTERNET OF THINGS L T P C


Offered by CSE (Open Elective offered to MBT, MCO, MCS, MIS, MSE, MVL, PED) 3 0 0 3
Course Objective:
To impart knowledge on
• To understand the basics and components of the Internet of Things (IoT)
• To describe various protocols and wireless technologies
• To elucidate the IoT reference architecture for the ecosystem
• To learn how to program for IoT using microcontrollers
• To familiarize the concepts of Web ot Things and IoT cloud platforms
Course Outcome:
At the end of the course, the students will be able to
• Identify the various components of IoT, the different communication technologies and sensors
• Discover the usage of IoT communication protocols in wireless sensor network technology
• Model a reference architecture for IoT with renowned protocols
• Build IoT applications by communicating with external world using wired / wireless protocols
• Develop cloud-based IoT programs for different applications
Unit I INTRODUCTION TO IOT 8
Definitions and functional requirements – Vision and concept – identification – Open research issues – security and
privacy – Components of Internet of Things: Control units – Sensors – Communication modules – Power sources.
Communication technologies: RFID – Bluetooth – ZigBee – WiFi – RF Links –Wired Communication. Basics of sensors
and actuators – Sensor technology – Actuators.
Unit II IOT ECOSYSTEM USING WIRELESS TECHNOLOGIES 9
Sensor data communication protocols – Radio frequency identification (RFID) technology – Wireless sensor
networks technology – Architecture for IoT using mobile devices - Mobile technologies for supporting IoT ecosystem
- Energy harvesting for power conservation in the IoT system - Data analytics – Knowledge acquiring, managing and
storing processes.
Unit III IOT REFERENCE ARCHITECTURE FOR ECOSYSTEM 9
Infrastructure and Service discovery protocols for the IoT Ecosystem: Introduction - Layered architecture for IoT -
Protocol architecture of IoT - Infrastructure Protocols - Device or service discovery for IoT - Protocols for IoT service
discovery. Device integration protocols and Middleware. Internet-based connection: 6LoWPAN, TCP / IP suite. Web
communication protocols for connected devices – Message communication protocols for connected devices – Web
connectivity for connected devices network using gateway, SOAP, REST, HTTP RESTful and web sockets.
Unit IV PROGRAMMING THE MICROCONTROLLER FOR IOT 10
Arduino / equivalent Microcontroller platform: Microcontrollers – Development environment – Writing Arduino /
equivalent software – Programming microcontroller for IoT. Reading from sensors – Connecting microcontroller
with mobile devices: Communicating using Bluetooth and USB. Connecting microcontroller using Ethernet and WiFi.
Unit V FROM THE INTERNET OF THINGS TO THE WEB OF THINGS 9
Designing RESTful smart things – Web-enabling constrained devices – The future Web of Things – Cloud computing:
Basic services and architectures – Open cloud computing services for sensor management: COSM – Nimbits –
SensorCloud. IoT cloud-based services using the Xively, Nimbits. Send data from microcontroller to cloud application
–Case study: Big sensor data systems for smart cities– Other recent projects.
Reference Book:
1. Raj Kamal, “Internet of Things: Architecture and Design Principles”, McGraw-Hill Education Pvt. Ltd., 2018.
2. Charalampos Doukas, “Building Internet of Things with the Arduino”, Create Space, April 2002.
3. Pethuru Raj and Anupama C. Raman, “The Internet of Things: Enabling Technologies, Platforms, and Use Cases”,
CRC Press, 2017.
4. Dieter Uckelmann, Mark Harrison, Florian Michahelles, “Architecting the Internet of Things”, Springer, 2011.
5. Daniele Miorandi , Sabrina Sicari, Francesco De Pellegrini, Imrich Chlamtac , “Internet of Things: Vision,
applications and research challenges”, Ad Hoc Networks, No. 10, pp. 1497–1516, 2012.
6. "A Survey on Security and Privacy Issues in Internet-of-Things”, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Vol. 4, Issue5,
pp. 1250 – 1258, 2017.
7. Luigi Atzor, Antonio Iera, Giacomo Morabito, “The Internet of Things: A survey”, Computer Networks, No. 54,
pp. 2787-2805, 2010.
8. Li-Minn Ang, Kah Phooi Seng, Adamu Murtala Zungeru, and Gerald K. Ijemaru, “Big Sensor Data Systems for
Smart Cities”, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Vol. 4, No. 5, pp. 1259-1271, 2017.
Extensive Reading:
• http://postscapes.com/iot-device-discovery
• http://www.internetofthings.fi/

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• http://www.theinternetofthings.eu/what-is-the-internet-of-things
• http://www.buildinginternetofthings.com/
• http://www.cosm.com
• http://mqtt.org/

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19MCP05 WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS AND APPLICATIONS L T P C


Offered by CSE (Open Elective offered to MBT, MCO, MCS, MIS, MSE, MVL, PED) 3 0 0 3
Course Objective:
To impart knowledge on
• To understand the basics of Sensor Networks
• To learn various fundamental and emerging protocols in the Wireless Sensor Network (WSN)
• To study about the issues pertaining to establishment and management of sensor networks
• To understand the platforms and tools of sensor networks
• To understand various security practices and protocols of Sensor networks
Course Outcome:
At the end of the course, the students will be able to
• Identify the functions of various components in sensor
• Work with MAC and network layer protocols
• Illustrate the issues pertaining to the establishment and management of sensor networks
• Design and deploy a Sensor network environment for different type of applications.
• Implement various security techniques in WSN
Unit I SENSOR NETWORKS FUNDAMENTALS AND ARCHITECTURE 9
Introduction and Overview of WSN’s, Application of WSN’s, Challenges and constraints for Wireless Sensor
Networks. Node Architecture- Sensing Subsystem, Processing Subsystem, Communication Interfaces - Prototypes-
Sensor Network Applications-Structural Health Monitoring-Traffic Control-Health Care
Unit II MAC AND NETWORK LAYER PROTOCOLS 10
Fundamentals of (Wireless) MAC Protocols- Low duty cycle protocols and wakeup concepts - Contention based
Protocols Naming and Addressing- Fundamentals- Address and Name Management in WSN- Assignment of MAC
Addresses-Content based and geographic addressing-Routing Metrics-Data-Centric Routing-Hierarchical-Location-
Based Routing
Unit III SENSOR NETWORK MANAGEMENT AND PROGRAMMING 9
Power management-Time Synchronization-Sender/sender synchronization, Sender/receiver synchronization -
Localization and Positioning – Sensor Network Programming -Node-Centric Programming –Macro
programmingDynamic Reprogramming – Sensor Network Simulators
Unit IV SENSOR NETWORK DATABASES, PLATFORMS AND TOOLS 8
Sensor Database Challenges, Query Interface-Sensor Node Hardware – Berkeley Motes, Programming Challenges,
Node-level software platforms, Node-level Simulators, State-centric programming-Programming Environments-
NesC- NS2-TOSSIM -TinyOS-TinyDB
Unit V SENSOR NETWORK SECURITY 9
Security in Sensor Networks -Fundamentals of Network Security-Challenges of Security in Wireless Sensor Networks
- Security Attacks in Sensor Networks-Protocols and Mechanisms for Security-IEEE 802.15.4 and ZigBee Security
Reference Book:
1. Waltenegus Dargie, Christian Poellabauer, “Fundamentals of Wireless Sensor Networks Theory and Practice”,
John Wiley and Sons, 2010.
2. Feng Zhao and Leonidas Guibas,”Wireless Sensor Networks: An Information Processing Approach”, Morgan
Kaufman Publishers,2004
3. KazemSohraby, Daniel Minoli,TaiebZnati, “Wireless Sensor Networks: Technology, Protocols, and Applications” ,
John Wiley & Sons, Inc .2007.
4. Holger Karl, Andreas willig, “Protocols and Architectures for Wireless Sensor Networks”, John Wiley & Sons, Inc
.2005.
5. ErdalÇayırcı , ChunmingRong, “Security in Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks”, John Wiley and Sons, 2009.
6. Miguel A. Lopez-Gomez and Juan C. Tejero-Calado, Nonmember “A Lightweight and Energy-Efficient
Architecture for Wireless Sensor Networks“ ,IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, Vol. 55, No. 3, August
2009.
7. Yingying Chen, Jie Yang, Wade Trappe, and Richard P. Martin, “Detecting and Localizing Identity-Based Attacks
in Wireless and Sensor Networks “, IEEE transactions on vehicular technology, Vol. 59, No. 5,June 2010.
8. KealanMcCusker and Noel E. O’Connor, ”Low-Energy Symmetric Key Distribution in Wireless Sensor Networks”
,IEEE Transactions On Dependable and Secure Computing, Vol. 8, No. 3, May/June 2011.
Extensive Reading:
• www.nptel.ac.in
• http://www.wsn-security.info
• http://www.senslab.info
• http://db.cs.berkeley.edu/papers/tods05-tinydb.pdf

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19MCP06 DATA ANALYSIS FOR BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE L T P C


Offered by CSE (Open Elective offered to MBT, MCO, MCS, MIS, MSE, MVL, PED) 3 0 0 3
Course Objective:
To impart knowledge on
• To introduce the concept of data analysis and its application on business problems
• To formulate the statistical model with the given data
• To avoid overfitting of model and cluster the similar set of objects
• To classify and visualize the data
• To mine the text data and use advanced algorithms for extracting business information
Course Outcome:
At the end of the course, the students will be able to
• Realize the concept of data analysis and its application on business problems
• Formulate the statistical model with the given data
• Avoid overfitting of the model and cluster similar objects together
• Classify and visualize the data for the given problem
• Mine and extract useful business information
Unit I INTRODUCTION TO DATA ANALYSIS, BUSINESS PROBLEMS 9
Introduction To Data Analytic Thinking - From Business Problems to Data Mining Tasks - Supervised Versus
Unsupervised Methods - Data Mining Process - Implications for Managing the Data Science Team - Analytics
Techniques and Technologies: Statistics, Database Querying, Data Warehousing, Regression Analysis, Machine
Learning and Data Mining - Answering Business Questions with all Techniques
Unit II PREDICTIVE MODELING AND MODEL FITTING 9
Models, Induction, and Prediction - Supervised Segmentation - Visualizing Segmentations – Trees as set of rules –
Probability Estimation - Classification via Mathematical Functions - Regression via Mathematical Functions - Class
Probability Estimation and Logistic Regression - Nonlinear Functions, Support Vector Machines, and Neural
Networks
Unit III OVERFITTING AND CLUSTERING 9
Generalization – Overfitting - Holdout Evaluation to Cross-Validation - Learning Curves - Overfitting Avoidance and
Complexity Control - Similarity and Distance - Nearest-Neighbour Reasoning – Clustering - Solving a Business
Problem Versus Data Exploration
Unit IV CLASSIFICATION AND VISUALIZATION 9
Evaluating Classifiers - Generalizing Beyond Classification - Evaluation, Baseline Performance, and Implications -
Visualizing Model Performance: Ranking, Profit Curves, ROC Graphs and Curves - Cumulative Response and Lift
Curves
Unit V TEXT MINING AND ADVANCED TECHNIQUES 9
Representing and Mining Text: Text representation, N-Gram sequence, Named entity extraction, Topic Models,
Examples - Analytical Engineering
Co-occurrences and Associations - Profiling: Finding Typical Behavior - Link Prediction and Social Recommendation -
Data Reduction, Latent Information, and Movie Recommendation - Bias, Variance, and Ensemble Methods
Text Book:
1. Foster Provost and Tom Fawcett, “Data Science for Business”, First Edition, O’Reilly Media, Inc., 2013
Reference Book:
1. Andrew Gelman and Jennifer Hill, "Data Analysis using Regression and multilevel/Hierarchical Models",
Cambridge University Press, 2006.
2. Philipp K. Janert, "Data Analysis with Open Source Tools", O'Reilley, 2010.
3. Wes McKinney, "Python for Data Analysis", O'Reilley, 2012.
4. DavinderjitSivia and John Skilling, "Data Analysis: A Bayesian Tutorial", Second Edition, Oxford University Press,
2006.
5. Robert Nisbelt, John Elder, and Gary Miner, "Handbook of statistical analysis and data mining applications",
Academic Press, 2009.
6. Michael Minelli, Michelle Chambers, and AmbigaDhiraj, "Big Data, Big Analytics: Emerging Business Intelligence
and Analytic Trends for Today's Businesses", Wiley, 2013.
7. John Maindonald and W. John Braun, "Data Analysis and Graphics Using R: An Example-based Approach", Third
Edition, Cambridge University Press, 2010.
8. David Ruppert, "Statistics and Data Analysis for Financial Engineering", Springer, 2011.
9. Donald E.Fischer, Ronald J.Jordan, “Security Analysis and Portfolio Management”, 6th Edition, Pearson, 1995.
10. Donald R.Cooper, “Business Research Methods”, 12th Edition, 2013.
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Extensive Reading:
• http://www.coursera.org/courses/dataanalysis
• http://searchdatamanagement.techtarget.com/definition/business-intelligence
• https://www.udemy.com/my-first-business-intelligence-analytics-project-training/
• https://www.cleverism.com/business-analytics-tutorial-for-beginners/
• https://www.analyticsvidhya.com/blog/2016/01/complete-tutorial-learn-data-science-python-scratch-2/

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19PEP04 APPLICATION OF MEMS TECHNOLOGY L T P C


Offered by EEE (Open Elective offered to MBT, MCO, MCS, MIS, MSE, MVL, PED) 3 0 0 3
Course Objective:
To impart knowledge on
• To introduce the concept of MEMS technology and the materials used.
• To make the students grasp new fabrication methods used in MEMS technology.
• To make the students differentiate MEMS sensors and actuators based on electrostatic and thermal principles.
• To impart knowledge on the design of new MEMS devices based on various principles.
Course Outcome:
At the end of the course, the students will be able to
• Explain the concept of MEMS technology and MEMS materials.
• Express the different fabrication methods used of MEMS technology and issues related to packaging and
reliability.
• Differentiate MEMS sensors and actuators based on electrostatic and thermal principles.
• Find suitable applications of MEMS sensors and actuators working based on thermal principles.
• Explicate the design of new MEMS devices based on various principles.
Unit I MICRO-FABRICATION, MATERIALS AND ELECTROMECHANICAL CONCEPTS 9
Overview of micro fabrication–silicon and other material based fabrication processes- conductivity of
semiconductors-crystal planes and orientation-stress and strain-flexural beam bending analysis-torsional
deflections-Intrinsic stress-resonant frequency and quality factor-photolithography
Unit II ELECTROSTATIC SENSORS AND ACTUATION 9
Principle-material-design and fabrication of parallel plate capacitors as electrostatic sensors-capacitive pressure
sensor- comb drive -micro motors- actuators-.Applications.
Unit III THERMAL SENSING AND ACTUATION 9
Principle-material-design and fabrication of thermocouples- thermal bimorph sensors- thermal resistor sensors-
actuators- Applications
Unit IV PIEZOELECTRIC SENSING AND ACTUATION 9
Piezo-electric effect - cantilever piezo electric actuator model - properties of piezo-electric materials- Applications.
Unit V CASE STUDIES 9
Acceleration sensors - gyroscopes-piezo-resistive sensors-magnetic actuation-micro fluids applications-medical
applications- optical MEMS.
Reference Book:
1. Chang Liu, “Foundations of MEMS”, Pearson International Edition, 2006.
2. Tai-Ran Hsu, “MEMS and Microsystems Design and Manufacture”, McGraw Hill, 2002.
3. Stephen Senturia, “Microsystems Design”, Springer, 2006.
4. Marc Madou, “Fundamentals of micro fabrication”, CRC Press, 1997.
5. Boston, “Micro machined Transducers Sourcebook”, WCB McGraw Hill, 1998.
6. M.H.Bao, “Micromechanical Transducers: Pressure sensors, accelerometers and gyroscopes”, Elsevier, New
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19PEP05 SOLAR AND ADVANCED ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM L T P C


Offered by EEE (Open Elective offered to MBT, MCO, MCS, MIS, MSE, MVL, PED) 3 0 0 3
Course Objective:
To impart knowledge on
• To impart knowledge on Thermal and Solar Photovoltaic systems.
• To make the students grasp Photovoltaic module configurations and MPPT algorithms.
• To introduce the students to Magnetic, Electric and Chemical Energy Storage systems and their applications.
• To have a knowledge in the applications of Superconductors in Energy generation.
Course Outcome:
At the end of the course, the students will be able to
• Explain the basics of solar thermal energy conversion system.
• Explicate Photovoltaic principle and techniques of solar energy conversions systems.
• Depict the role of super conductors in energy storage system.
• Evaluate the performance of different energy generation technologies and Superconducting magnetic energy
storage system.
• Choose fuel cells for various applications.
Unit I SOLAR RADIATION, COLLECTORS AND THERMAL TECHNOLOGIES 9
Introduction to solar energy - Solar angles - day length, angle of incidence on tilted surface - Sun path diagrams -
shadow determination - extraterrestrial characteristics - measurement and estimation on horizontal and tilted
surfaces - flat plate collector - evacuated tubular collectors - concentrator collectors – concentrators with point
focus - heliostats - applications of solar thermal technology- operation of solar heating and cooling systems.
Unit II SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS 9
Solar photovoltaic systems - operating principle- photovoltaic cell concepts- characteristics –equivalent circuit- cell,
module and array- series and parallel connections- maximum power point tracking- applications.
Unit III CHEMICAL ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEMS 9
Introduction about fuel cells – design and principles of operation of a fuel cell – classification of fuel cells,
conversion efficiency of fuel cells. Types of electrodes, work output and emf of fuel cell, Applications of fuel cells.
Introduction about Hydrogen energy – hydrogen production – electrolysis, thermo chemical methods. Battery -
Types of Batteries - Equivalent Electrical Circuit - Battery Charging - Charge Regulators - Battery Management
Unit IV MAGNETIC AND ELECTRIC ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEMS 9
Superconducting Magnet Energy Storage (SMES) systems; capacitor and batteries: comparison and application;
super capacitor: Electrochemical Double Layer Capacitor (EDLC), principle of working, structure, performance and
application.
Unit V APPLICATIONS OF SUPERCONDUCTORS IN ENERGY 9
Introduction to Superconducting wires – characteristics - High field magnets for production of energy by magnetic
fusion - Energy generation - Magneto hydrodynamics (MHD), energy storage, electric generators.
Reference Book:
1. Mukund R. Patel, ‘Wind and Solar Power Systems: Design, Analysis, and Operation, Second Edition, CRC Press,
2005.
2. S.P.Sukatme, ‘Solar Energy – Principles of thermal collection and storage,’ Second edition, McGraw Hill,
1996.
3. Roger Messenger and Jerry Vnetre, ‘Photovoltaic Systems Engineering,’ CRC Press, Third edition, 2010.

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19PEP06 ELECTRICAL SAFETY ENGINEERING L T P C


Offered by EEE (Open Elective offered to MBT, MCO, MCS, MIS, MSE, MVL, PED) 3 0 0 3
Course Objective:
To impart knowledge on
• basics of electrical fire and statutory requirements for electrical safety
• the causes of accidents due to electrical hazards
• the various protection systems in Industries from electrical hazards
• the importance of earthing
• the various hazardous zones and applicable fire proof electrical devices
Course Outcome:
At the end of the course, the students will be able to
• Explain the statutory requirements related to electrical safety
• Explain the basic concepts in electrical circuit and hazards involved in it.
• Explicate the electrical hazards in Industries.
• Expound the operation of various protection systems from electrical hazards.
• Recognize different hazardous zones in Industries
Unit I INTRODUCTION ABOUT ELECTRICAL SAFETY AND SAFETY MANAGEMENT 9
Introduction – electrostatics, electro magnetism, stored energy, energy radiation and electromagnetic interference
–Indian electricity act and rules-statutory requirements from electrical inspectorate-international standards on
electrical safety – first aid-cardio pulmonary resuscitation (CPR).
Unit II ELECTRICAL HAZARDS 9
Primary and secondary hazards - shocks, burns, scalds, falls - Human safety in the use of electricity - Classes of
insulation-voltage classifications -current surges- over current and short circuit current-heating effects of current-
electrical causes of fire and explosion. Lightning hazards, lightning arrestor, installation – earthing, specifications,
earth resistance, earth pit maintenance.
Unit III PROTECTION SYSTEMS 9
Fuse, circuit breakers and overload relays – protection against over voltage and under voltage – safe limits of
amperage – voltage –safe distance from lines - overload and short circuit protection. Earth leakage circuit breaker
(ELCB)- use of low voltage-electrical guards-Personal protective equipment.
Unit IV SELECTION, INSTALLATION, OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE 9
Role of environment in selection- protection and interlock self diagnostic features and fail safe concepts-lock out
and work permit system - safety in the use of portable tools-cabling and cable joints-preventive maintenance.
Unit V HAZARDOUS ZONES 9
Classification of hazardous zones-intrinsically safe and explosion proof electrical apparatus-increase safe
equipment-their selection for different zones-temperature classification- use of barriers and isolators.
Reference Book:
1. Rao .S,”Electrical Safety Fire Safety Engineering and Safety Management”, Khanna Publications, 2nd Edition,
2012.
2. Fordham Cooper, W., “Electrical Safety Engineering” Butterworth and Company, London, 2006.
3. Indian Electricity Act and Rules, Government of India.
4. Power Engineers – Handbook of TNEB, Chennai, 2009.
5. Martin Glov, ‘Electrostatic Hazards in powder handling’, Research Studies Pvt.LTd., England, 2008.
6. Dr.Massim A.G.Mitolo, ‘Electrical safety of Low voltage systems’, Mc Graw Hill 2009
7. John Cadick et al., ‘Electrical safety Handbook’, Third Edition, Mc Graw Hill 2006

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19SEP06 MACHINE FOUNDATION L T P C


Offered by CIV (Open Elective offered to MBT, MCO, MCS, MIS, MSE, MVL, PED) 3 0 0 3
Course Objective:
To impart knowledge on
• Understand the fundamentals of vibration theory.
• Appreciate the isolation concepts related to machine foundations.
• Know the importance of dynamic soil properties.
• Get exposed to various machine foundation types.
• Realize the concepts of analysis and design of machine foundations.
Course Outcome:
At the end of the course, the students will be able to
• Apply the basic principles of vibration theory.
• Use vibration isolation concepts.
• Determine dynamic properties of soil.
• Suggest suitable foundation for a particular machine type.
• Carry out dynamic analysis and design of machine foundation.
Unit I THEORY OF VIBRATIONS 9
Introduction - Soil behavior under dynamic loads - Vibration of single and two degree freedom system - Vibration of
multi degree freedom system - Mass spring analogy - Barkan’s Theory.
Unit II VIBRATION ISOLATION 9
Introduction - Active and passive isolation - Methods of vibration isolation - Contemporary issues.
Unit III DYNAMIC SOIL PROPERTIES 9
General factors affecting shear modulus, elastic modulus and elastic constants, Field Techniques – Cyclic plate load
test, block vibration test, Standard Penetration Test, Seismic bore hole surveys, Laboratory techniques – Resonant
column test, Cyclic simple shear and Triaxial compression test Problems.
Unit IV MACHINE FOUNDATIONS 9
Machine foundation design - General principles and requirements - Permissible amplitudes and stresses - Types of
machines and foundations - Dynamic stiffness of single pile and pile group.
Unit V ANALYSIS AND DESIGN 9
Foundations - Reciprocating, Impact type and rotary type machines - Dynamic analysis and Design procedures.
Reference Book:
1. Srinivasulu.P. and Vaidyanathan.C, “Hand book on Machine Foundations”, McGraw Hill Publications, New York,
2017.
2. Swami Saran, “Soil Dynamics and Machine Foundations”, Galgotia Publications Pvt Ltd., New Delhi, 2016.
3. Prakash. S. and Puri. V. K., “Soil Dynamics and Design Foundation”, McGraw Hill Publications, New York, 1997.
4. Das B.M and Ramanna G.V. “Principles of soil dynamics” 2nd Edition, Cengage learning, Stanford, USA, 2011.

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19SEP07 STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING L T P C


Offered by CIV (Open Elective offered to MBT, MCO, MCS, MIS, MSE, MVL, PED) 3 0 0 3
Course Objective:
To impart knowledge on
• Understand the fundamentals of health monitoring of structures.
• Apply Structural health monitoring principles to inspect distressed structures.
• Using static field methods as tool of SHM.
• Employ dynamic field tests to assess the structure.
• Select repairs and rehabilitation measures for the distressed structure.
Course Outcome:
At the end of the course, the students will be able to
• Explain the fundamentals and need of health monitoring of structures.
• Diagnose the distress in the structure understanding the causes and factors.
• Assess the health of structure using static field methods.
• Assess the health of structure using dynamic field tests.
• Suggest repairs and rehabilitation measures of the structure.
Unit I STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING - OVERVIEW 9
Structural Health - Factors affecting Health of Structures, Causes of Distress and Regular Maintenance - Structural
Health Monitoring - Concepts, Various Measures and Structural Safety in Alteration.
Unit II STRUCTURAL AUDIT 9
Assessment of Health of Structure - Collapse and Investigation - Investigation Management - SHM Procedures -
Report preparation.
Unit III STATIC FIELD TESTING 9
Types of Static Tests - Simulation and Loading Methods - sensor systems and hardware requirements - Static
Response Measurement - optimal placement of sensors.
Unit IV DYNAMIC FIELD TESTING 9
Types of Dynamic Field Test - Stress History Data - Dynamic Response Methods - Hardware for Remote Data
Acquisition Systems - Remote Structural Health Monitoring.
Unit V ADVANCED CONCEPTS 9
Case Studies /Site Visits - Piezo - electric materials and other smart materials - electro-mechanical impedance (EMI)
technique and adaptations.
Reference Book:
1. Daniel Balageas, Claus Peter Fritzen and Alfredo Güemes, “Structural Health Monitoring”, John Wiley and Sons,
2006.
2. Douglas E Adams, “ Health Monitoring of Structural Materials and Components-Methods with Applications”,
John Wiley and Sons, 2007.
3. J. P. Ou, H. Li and Z. D. Duan "Structural Health Monitoring and Intelligent Infrastructure”, Vol1, Taylor and
Francis Group, London, UK, 2006.
4. Victor Giurglutiu, “Structural Health Monitoring with Wafer Active Sensors”, Academic Press Inc, 2007.

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19SEP08 SOIL STRUCTURE INTERACTION L T P C


Offered by CIV (Open Elective offered to MBT, MCO, MCS, MIS, MSE, MVL, PED) 3 0 0 3
Course Objective:
To impart knowledge on
• Make students understand soil structure.
• Understand stress-strain characteristics of soils.
• The mechanism of failure, the factors that affects the shear strength.
• Structural behaviour with soils.
Course Outcome:
At the end of the course, the students will be able to
• Explain the importance of soil structure interaction.
• Analyse the behaviour of the soil under elastic and plastic condition as beam element.
• Analyse the behaviour of the soil as plate element.
• Predict the behaviour of the pile under static and dynamic loads.
• Demonstrate the behaviour of the laterally loaded piles.
Unit I 9
Soil-Foundation Interaction - Introduction to soil-foundation interaction problems - Soil behavior, Foundation
behavior and Interface behavior - Scope of soil foundation interaction analysis - soil response models - Winkler -
Elastic continuum - Two parameter elastic models - Elastic plastic behavior - Time dependent behavior.
Unit II BEAM ON ELASTIC FOUNDATION 9
Soil Models: Infinite beam - Two parameters - Isotropic elastic half space - Analysis of beams of finite length -
Classification of finite beams in relation to their stiffness - Plate on Elastic Medium: Thin and thick plates, Analysis of
finite plates, Numerical analysis of finite plates and simple solutions.
Unit III PLATES ON ELASTIC CONTINUUM 9
Thin and thick rafts - Analysis of finite plates - Numerical Analysis of Pile analysis of finite plates.
Unit IV ANLYSIS OF PILE 9
Elastic analysis of single pile - Theoretical solutions for settlement and load distributions - Analysis of pile group -
Interaction analysis - Load distribution in groups with rigid cap
Unit V LATERALLY LOADED PILES 9
Load deflection prediction for laterally loaded piles - Sub-grade reaction and elastic analysis - Interaction analysis -
Pile-raft system, Solutions through influence charts - An introduction to soil - foundation interaction under dynamic
loads.
Reference Book:
1. Joseph E. Bowles , “Foundation Analysis and Design”, Tata McGraw Hill New York, 2001.
2. Karl Terzaghi and R B Peck, “Soil Mechanics in Engineering Practice” Wiley - Interscience, 1996 .
3. Miklos, Hetenyi, “ Beams on elastic foundation”, University of Michigan Press, 1976.
4. APS Selvadurai, “Elastic analysis of soil foundation interaction”, Elsevier publications, 2015.
5. Tomlinson, “Pile design and construction practice”, CRC Press, 2015.
6. Swami saran, “ Shallow foundations and soil constitutive laws”, CRC Press, 2018.

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19SEP09 WIND AND CYCLONE EFFECTS ON STRUCTURES L T P C


Offered by CIV (Open Elective offered to MBT, MCO, MCS, MIS, MSE, MVL, PED) 3 0 0 3
Course Objective:
To impart knowledge on
• Be familiar with various code provisions for the design of structures for wind load.
• Understand wind tunnel studies to model wind experimentally.
• Study the effect of wind on structures.
• Use codal provisions for design structures subjected to wind.
• Gets exposed to the behaviour of cyclone on buildings.
Course Outcome:
At the end of the course, the students will be able to
• Conversant with various code provisions for the design of structures for wind load.
• Perform wind tunnel studies to model wind experimentally.
• Predict the effect of wind on structures.
• Design tall structures subjected to wind as per codal provisions.
• Analyse the behaviour of cyclone on buildings.
Unit I WIND LOADING ON STRUCTURES 9
Introduction, Types of wind - Characteristics of wind - Wind velocity, Method of measurement, variation of speed
with height, shape factor, aspect ratio and drag effects - Dynamic nature of wind - Pressure and suctions - Spectral
studies, Gust factor.
Unit II WIND TUNNEL STUDIES 9
Wind Tunnel Studies, Types of tunnels - Prediction of acceleration - Load combination factors - Wind tunnel data
analysis - Calculation of Period and damping value for wind design - Modeling requirements, Aero dynamic and
Aero-elastic models.
Unit III EFFECT OF WIND ON STRUCTURES 9
Classification of structures - Rigid and Flexible - Effect of wind on structures - Static and dynamic effects on Tall
buildings - Chimneys.
Unit IV DESIGN OF SPECIAL STRUCTURES 9
Design of Structures for wind loading - as per IS/ASCE, BS and NBC provisions - design of Tall Buildings - Chimneys -
Transmission towers and steel monopoles - Industrial sheds.
Unit V CYCLONE EFFECTS 9
Types - Cyclone effect on - low rise structures - sloped roof structures - Tall buildings - Effect of cyclone on claddings
- design of cladding - use of code provisions in cladding design - Analytical procedure and modeling of cladding -
codal provisions.
Reference Book:
1. Cook.N.J., “The Designer's Guide to Wind Loading of Building Structures”, Butterworths, 1990.
2. Kolousek.V, Pirner.M, Fischer.O and Naprstek.J, “Wind Effects on Civil Engineering Structures”, Elsevier
Publications, 1984.
3. Lawson T.V., “Wind Effects on Building Vol. I and II”, Applied Science Publishers, London, 1980.
4. Peter Sachs, “Wind Forces in Engineering”, Pergamon Press, New York, 2013.
5. John D Holmes, “ Wind load on structures” Taylor and Francis group, 2015.

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19SEP10 ADVANCED DESIGN OF FOUNDATIONS L T P C


Offered by CIV (Open Elective offered to MBT, MCO, MCS, MIS, MSE, MVL, PED) 3 0 0 3
Course Objective:
To impart knowledge on
• Elucidate the importance of soil exploration for major construction projects.
• Analyse and design shallow foundations.
• Analyse the capacity of pile as single and in group.
• Exposure to well foundations and tunnels.
• Introduce the suitability of miscellaneous foundations like cofferdams.
Course Outcome:
At the end of the course, the students will be able to
• Decide the suitability of soil strata for different projects.
• Design shallow foundations deciding the bearing capacity of soil.
• Analyze and design the pile foundation.
• Analyse well foundation and tunnels.
• Apply theoretical concepts related to analysis of other miscellaneous foundations.
Unit I PLANNING OF SOIL EXPLORATION 9
Different Projects, Methods of Subsurface Exploration, Methods of Borings along with Various Penetration Tests.
Unit II SHALLOW FOUNDATIONS 9
Requirements for Satisfactory Performance of Foundations, Methods of Estimating Bearing Capacity, Settlements of
Footings and Rafts, Proportioning of Foundations using Field Test Data, Pressure - Settlement Characteristics from
Constitutive Laws.
Unit III PILE FOUNDATIONS 9
Methods of Estimating Load Transfer of Piles, Settlements of Pile Foundations, Pile Group Capacity and Settlement,
Laterally Loaded Piles, Pile Load Tests, Analytical Estimation of Load- Settlement Behavior of Piles, Proportioning of
Pile Foundations, Lateral and Uplift Capacity of Piles.
Unit IV WELL FOUNDATION AND TUNNELS 9
Well foundation - IS and IRC Code Provisions, Elastic Theory and Ultimate Resistance Methods. Tunnels - Arching in
Soils, Pressure Computations around Tunnels.
Unit V OPEN CUTS AND COFFER DAMS 9
Open Cuts - Sheeting and Bracing Systems in Shallow and Deep Open Cuts in Different Soil Types - Coffer Dams -
Various Types, Analysis and Design, Foundations under uplifting loads, Soil-structure Interaction.
Reference Book:
1. Nainan P. Kurian , “Design of foundation system – Principles and Practices”, Alpha science, 2005.
2. Joseph E. Bowles , “Foundation Analysis and Design”, Tata McGraw Hill New York, 2001.
3. Sawmi Saran, “Analysis and Design of Substructures”, Oxford and IBH Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd, New Delhi, 2006.

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19VDP04 SILICON TECHNOLOGY FOR MM-WAVE COMMUNICATION L T P C


Offered by ECE (Open Elective offered to MBT, MCO, MCS, MIS, MSE, MVL, PED) 3 0 0 3
Course Objective:
To impart knowledge on
• Model the active and passive devices
• Implement the Beam forming arrays
Course Outcome:
At the end of the course, the students will be able to
• Analyze the mm Wave devices in VLSI
• Design the Active and Passive Devices
• Analyze the design of amplifiers and mixers
• Analyze the design of oscillators and dividers
• Analyze the Beam forming Arrays
Unit I INTRODUCTION 9
The Birth of Silicon mm-Wave - Communication in the 60 GHz Band - mm-Wave Applications - Modern SiGe and
CMOS Technology - Active Devices on Recent Bulk and SOI Technologies - Impact of the Back-End of Line on mm-
Wave Design.
Unit II DESIGN AND MODELING OF ACTIVE AND PASSIVE DEVICES 9
Passive Devices, Transmission Lines, Inductors, Capacitors, Transformers, Resonators - Active Devices, Modeling,
Active Device Design, Small-Signal Model, Large-Signal Model, FET Noise Model, Comparision.
Unit III AMPLIFIERS AND MIXERS 9
60GHz Low-Noise Amplifiers - Low-Noise Amplifier Design Methodology, Bipolar LNA, CMOS Common Source / Gate
Amplifiers, Differential Pair Amplifiers – Mixers and Frequency Translation - Examples of Integrated Front-Ends.
Unit IV VOLTAGE - CONTROLLED OSCILLATORS, FREQUENCY DIVIDERS & POWER AMPLIFIERS 9
Cross-Coupled Oscillators - Colpitts Oscillator – Other Topologies - Static Dividers - Regenerative (Miller) Dividers -
Injection-Locked Dividers-Power Amplifiers: Passive Components - Power Transistors - Power Combining
Techniques.
Unit V INTEGRATED BEAMFORMING ARRAYS 9
Phased Arrays versus Timed Arrays - Conventional Phased Array architectures – The VPRO-PLL Phased Array
Architecture - The Effect of Mismatch in Phased Arrays - Antenna Arrays and Multiple Input Multiple Output
(MIMO)Transceivers
Reference Book:
1. Michael Orshansky, Sani R. Nassif, Duane Boning.-mm-Wave Silicon Technology 60 GHz and Beyond-Springer
Series on Integrated Circuits and Systems, 2008.
2. B. Baliga, "Epitaxial Silicon Technology", Elseiver Science, 2009.
Extensive Reading:
• http://www.doe.carleton.ca/~ramaya/MMIC_2013.htm
• http://sites.ieee.org/gm/2014/07/24/seminar-monolithic-wideband-mm-wave-beam-forming-transceivers/

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19VDP05 VLSI DESIGN OF NEURAL NETWORKS L T P C


Offered by ECE (Open Elective offered to MBT, MCO, MCS, MIS, MSE, MVL, PED) 3 0 0 3
Course Objective:
To impart knowledge on
• Analyze the Architectures for Artificial Intelligence processing.
• Design for Analogue and Digital and Pulse stream networks.
Course Outcome:
At the end of the course, the students will be able to
• Design Hardware for an Artificial Intelligent network.
• Analyze the mixed signal Neural Network.
• Analyze the analogue and pulse firing neural Network
• Analyze the digital implementations of Neural Network
• Create a neural network based arrays for VLSI circuits.
Unit I ARCHITECTURE AND HARDWARE SUPPORT FOR AI PROCESSING 9
VLSI Design of a 3-D Highly PamUel Message-Passing Architecture - Design of the Rewrite Rule Machine Ensemble -
Dataflow Architecture for AI - Incremental Garbage Collection Scheme in KLI and Its Architectural Support of PIM -
COLIBRI - CAM Based Architecture for Production System Matching - SIMD Parallelism for Symbol Mapping - Logic
Flow in Active Data.
Unit II MACHINES FOR PROLOG 9
Extended Prolog Instruction Set for RISC Processors - VLSI Engine for Structured Logic Programming - Performance
Evaluation of a VLSI Associative Unifier in a WAM Based Environment - Parallel Incremental Architecture for Prolog
Program Execution - An Architectural Characterization of Prolog Execution - Prolog abstract Machine for Content
Addressable Memory - Multi-Transputer Architecture for a Parallel Logic Machine.
Unit III ANALOGUE AND PULSE STREAM NEURAL NETWORKS 9
Computational Capabilities of Biologically-Realistic Analog Processing Elements - Analog VLSI Models of Mean Field
Networks - An Analogue Neuron Suitable for a Data Frame Architecture - Fully Cascadable Analogue Synapses Using
Distributed Feedback - Results from Pulse-Stream VLSI Neural Network Devices - Working Analogue Pulse-Firing
Neural Network Chips - An Analog Circuit with Digital I/O for Synchronous Boltzmann Machines.
Unit IV DIGITAL IMPLEMENTATIONS OF NEURAL NETWORKS 9
Cascadable VLSI Architecture for the Realization of Large Binary Associative Networks - Digital VLSI Implementations
of an Associative Memory Based on Neural Networks - Probabilistic Bit Stream Neural Chip: Implementation - Binary
Neural Network with Delayed Synapses - Syntactic Neural Networks in VLSI - VLSI Implementation of a Generic
Systolic Synaptic Building Block for Neural Networks - Compact and Fast Silicon Implementation for Layered Neural
Nets.
Unit V ARRAYS FOR NEURAL NETWORKS 9
Highly Parallel Digital Architecture for Neural Network Emulation - Delay-Insensitive Neural Network Engine - VLSI
Implementation of Multi-Layered Neural Networks: Performance - Efficient Implementation of Massive Neural
Networks - Implementing Neural Networks with the Associative String Processor.
Reference Book:
1. Jose G. Delgado-Frias, William R. Moore, “VLSI For Artificial Intelligence And Neural Networks”, Springer Science
Business Media, LLC, 2001.
2. Mohamed I. Elmasry, “VLSI Artificial Neural Networks Engineering”, Springer Science Business Media, LLC, 2000.
3. Sied Mehdi Fakhraie, Kenneth C. Smith, “VLSI - Compatible Implementations for Artificial Neural Networks”,
Springer Science Business Media, LLC, 1996.
Extensive Reading:
• www.neural.com.au/
• http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Artificial_Intelligence/Neural_Networks

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19VDP06 VLSI ARCHITECTURES FOR CRYPTOGRAPHY L T P C


Offered by ECE (Open Elective offered to MBT, MCO, MCS, MIS, MSE, MVL, PED) 3 0 0 3
Course Objective:
To impart knowledge on
• Explore the VLSI algorithms in Cryptography
• Evaluate and develop the block ciphers for various applications.
Course Outcome:
At the end of the course, the students will be able to
• Expertise the Reconfigurable Hardware Technology
• Analyze the modeling of PFFA
• Analyze the modeling of BFFA
• Analyze the architecture for SDA
• Identify the architecture for CIPHERS
Unit I MODERN CRYPTOGRAPHY AND RECONFIGURABLE HARDWARE TECHNOLOGY 9
Secret Key Cryptography - Hash Functions - Public Key Cryptography - Digital Signature Schemes -Cryptographic
Security Strength - Potential Cryptographic Applications - Fundamental Operations for Cryptographic Algorithms -
FPGA Platforms versus ASIC and General Purpose Processor Platforms - Reconfigurable Computing Paradigm -
Implementation Aspects - FPGA Architecture Statistics - Security in Reconfigurable Hardware Devices.
Unit II PRIME FINITE FIELD ARITHMETIC 9
Finite Fields – Elliptic curves – Elliptic curves over GF – Point and scalar Representation - Addition operation -
modular binary operation- omura’s method -modular multiplication operation- brickells method- Montgomery’s
method-modular exponential operation- binary strategies-window strategy.
Unit III BINARY FINITE FIELD ARITHMETIC 9
Field multiplication – Multipliers – Comparison of field multiplier designs - field squaring and field square root for
irreducible trinomials - multiplicative inverse - The IToh – Tsujii algorithm – ITMIA algorithm – Square Root ITMIA -
other arithmetic operations – Trace function – Quadratic Equation over GF – Exponentiation over Binary Finite
Fields.
Unit IV SPHERE DECODER ARCHITECTURE 9
Reduced Complexity K – best SDA – K – Best Sorting architecture – Combination of K – best SDA and Merge sorting –
Comprehensive complexity Analysis – Conventional Sphere Decoder architecture – Parallel and Pipeline Interleaved
Sphere Decoder – Early Pruning K- best sphere decoder – List Sphere decoder – Fast Radius Updating Architecture.
Unit V BLOCK CIPHERS IN FPGA’S AND ADVANCED ENCRYPTION STANDARD 9
Block ciphers - data encryption standard - FPGA implementation of DES algorithm - other DES algorithms - Rijindael
algorithm - AES in different modes - implementing AES round based transformations on FPGA’s – Performance –
Hessian form – Scalar multiplication on Reconfigurable Hardware - Koblitz Curves.
Reference Book:
1. Cryptography and Network Security, William Stallings, Pearson Education, Noida, 2012.
2. Francisco Rodriguez-Henrique and Harris, Cryptographic algorithms on Reconfigurable Hardware, Springer
2006.
3. Qingwei Li, Efficient VLSI Architectures for MIMO and Cryptography Systems, ProQuest, UMI Dissertation
Publishing, 2011.
4. Trappe, Wade & Washington Lawrence C, Introduction to Cryptography with Coding Theory, Pearson Education,
Noida, 2011.
5. Forouzan, Behrouz A, Data Communications and Networking, McGraw-Hill Publications, 2013.
Extensive Reading:
• http://engr.case.edu/zhang_xinmiao/
• http://digital.lib.usf.edu:8080/fedora/get/usfldc:E14-SFE0000163/DOCUMENT
• https://www.iacr.org/phds/?p=detail&entry=203

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