Programs

Date	Timings	Session1	Session2	Session3
May 23, 2022	9:30 am - 12:00 pm	Tutorial 1: Lalitha Vadlamani	Tutorial 2: Pranab Sen
May 24, 2022	9:30 am - 12:00 pm	Tutorial 3: Radhakrishna Ganti	SDR Workshop (will start at 10 am)	AI for Wireless Communications Workshop
	12:30 pm - 3:00 pm	Tutorial 4: Aaditya Ramdaas	SDR Workshop
	3:15 pm - 6:00 pm	Tutorial 5: Aditya Gopalan	SDR Workshop (will end at 5 pm)
	6:30 pm - 9:30 pm	Tutorial 6: Mokshay Madiman
May 25, 2022	9:50 am - 10:00 am	Inauguration
	10:00 am - 11:00 am	Plenary 1: Chandra Murthy, IISc
	11:15 am - 12:15 pm	A1	B1	C1
	12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	A2	B2	C2 (will end at 1:50 pm)
	2:30 pm - 3:00 pm	Samsung session
	3:15 pm - 4:15 pm	A3	B3	D1 (will end at 5:15 pm)
	4:30 pm - 5:30 pm	A4	B4
	7:30 pm - 8:30 pm	Plenary 2: Augustin Chaintreau, Columbia University
May 26, 2022	8:30 am - 9:30 am	Plenary 3: Lara Dolecek, UCLA
	11:15 am - 12:15 pm	A5	B5	C3
	12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	A6	B6	C4
	2:30 pm - 3:00 pm	Qualcomm session
	3:15 pm - 4:15 pm	A7	B7	D2 (will end at 5:45 pm)
	4:30 pm - 5:30 pm	A8	B8
	7:30 pm - 8:30 pm	Plenary 4: Plenary 4: Robert Heath, North Carolina State University
May 27, 2022	10:00 am - 11:00 am	Plenary 5: Vincent Tan, NUS
	11:15 am - 12:15 pm	A9	B9	D3 (11:30 am - 1:30 pm)
	12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	A10	B10
	2:40 pm - 3:00 pm	Tejas Networks and TI session
	3:15 pm - 3:45 pm	TCS session
	4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Plenary 6: Sandeep Juneja, TIFR
	5:00 pm - 5:30 pm	Closing remarks

A1: Next Generation Communication-I (11:15 AM – 12:15 PM)

Session chair: Vimal Bhatia

1. Uplink Throughput Enhancement by Employing Transmit-Only AUX Antennas at Nomadic Terminals: A Capacity Analysis - Anil Kumar, Sibi Raj B Pillai

2. Performance Analysis of RIS Assisted RSMA Communication System - Divyanshu S Shambharkar; Shivani Dhok; Prabhat Kumar Sharma

3. On RIS-Assisted Random Access Systems with Successive Interference Cancellation - Arzad Kherani; Thazhathe Veetil Sreejith

B1: Signal Processing and its applications (11:15 AM – 12:15 PM)

Session chair: Preeti Rao

1. Theoretical Analysis of an Inverse Radon Transform Based Multicomponent Micro-Doppler Parameter Estimation Algorithm - Shrikant Sharma; Adway Girish; Nikhar P Rakhashia; Vikram M. Gadre; Ram Bilas Pachori; P Radhakrishna; Peeyush Sahay; Shaan ul Haque; Aseer Ansari

2. Feedback Based Compensation of Second Order Modal Dispersion in Principal Mode Based Multiplexed MMF Links - Komal Ojha; Kumar Appaiah

3. Low-Resource Dialect Identification in Ao Using Noise Robust Mean Hilbert Envelope Coefficients - Moakala Tzudir; Mrinmoy Bhattacharjee; Priyankoo Sarmah; Mahadeva Prasanna

C1: Scheduling and control of networks (11:15 AM – 12:15 PM)

Session chair: Sharayu Moharir

1. A Scheduling Approach to Harness Synergy from Two Server Farms - Vanukuru Hari Rohit; Vamsi Krishna Velidi

2. QoS-Aware Dynamic Network Slicing and VNF Embedding in Softwarized 5G Networks - Deborsi Basu; Abhishek Jain; Uttam Ghosh; Raja Datta

3. Scheduling in Wireless Networks Using Whittle Index Theory - Karthik Gvb; Vivek Borkar; Gaurav S. Kasbekar

A2: Molecular and Optical communication (12:30 PM – 1:30 PM)

Session chair: Kumar Appaiah

1. Performance Analysis of IRS-Assisted Hybrid FSO/RF Communication System - Sandesh Sharma; Narendra Vishwakarma; Swaminathan Ramabadran

2. Modelling the Impact of Multiple Pro-Inflammatory Cytokines Using Molecular Communication - Shivam Nileshbhai Thakker; Dhaval Karshanbhai Patel; Kathan S Joshi; Miguel López-Benítez

3. Emission Time Estimation with Rectangular Input Concentration in Molecular Communication Systems - Ajit Kumar; Sudhir Kumar

B2: Audio Processing (12:30 AM – 1:30 PM)

Session chair: S. R. M. Prasanna

1. Classification of Auscultation Sounds into Objective Spirometry Findings Using MVMD and 3D CNN - Sonia Gupta; Monika Agrawal; Desh Deepak

2. Tabla Gharana Recognition from Tabla Solo Recordings - Gowriprasad R; Vayyavuru Venkatesh; Kodukula Sri Rama Murty

3. Whisper to Neutral Mapping Using i-Vector Space Likelihood and a Cosine Similarity Based Iterative Optimization for Whispered Speaker Verification - Abinay Reddy Naini; Achuth Rao MV; Prasanta Kumar Ghosh

C2: Wireless Networks (12:30 PM – 1:50 PM)

Session chair: Neelakandan

1. APEX-Net: Automatic Plot Extraction Network - Aalok Gangopadhyay; Prajwal Kumar Singh; Shanmuganathan Raman

2. Emulation as a Service (EaaS): A Plug-n-Play Framework for Benchmarking Network Analytics - Hemant Kumar Rath; Shameemraj Mohinuddin Nadaf; Garima Mishra

3. Performance Analysis of RIS Aided IBFD STAR Wireless Networks - Atiquzzaman Mondal; Sudip Biswas

4. Dynamic Distributed Threshold Control for Spatial Reuse in IEEE 802.11ax - Sarthak Joshi; Rishabh Roy; Rajshekhar Vishweshwar Bhat; Preyas Hathi; Nadeem Akhtar

A3: Machine learning and its applications in communication (3:15 PM – 4:15 PM)

Session chair: Rajshekhar Bhat

1. Fingerprint Image-Based Multi-Building 3D Indoor Wi-Fi Localization Using Convolutional Neural Networks - Amala Sonny; Abhinav Kumar

2. Performance Analysis of Cooperative Automatic Modulation Classification Using Higher Order Statistics - Abdul Rahim, V C; Chris Prema

3. Proactive Mobility Management of UEs Using Sequence-To-Sequence Modeling - Vijaya Parampalli Yajnanaraya

B3: Speech and language processing-I (3:15 PM – 4:15 PM)

Session chair: Prasanta Kumar Ghosh

1. Importance of Excitation Source and Sequence Learning Towards Spoken Language Identification Task - Jagabandhu Mishra; Siddhartha Soma; Mahadeva Prasanna

2. Analyzing RMFCC Feature for Dialect Identification in Ao, an Under-Resourced Language - Moakala Tzudir; Shikha Baghel; Priyankoo Sarmah; Mahadeva Prasanna

3. Excitation Epoch and Voicing Detection Using Hilbert Envelope with Single-Pass Processing - Hirak Dasgupta; Prem C. Pandey

D1: Invited Talks I (3:15 PM – 5:15 PM)

Session chair: V. Lalitha

1. A Family of Capacity-Achieving Abelian Codes for the Binary Erasure Channel, Laxmi Prasad Natarajan, IIT Hyderabad

2. Asymmetry of Commitment Capacity under Channel Elasticity, Amitalok Budkuley, IIT Guwahati

3. Fast and Secure Routing Algorithms for Quantum Key Distribution Networks, Abhishek Sinha, TIFR

4. Achieving the Capacity of a Unital Qubit Channel Using (Almost) Classical Decoding, Abhishek Chatterjee, IIT Madras

A4: Underwater and Visible Light Communication (4:30 PM – 5:30 PM)

Session chair: Srikrishna Bhashyam

1. Low Complexity Passive Beamforming Algorithms for Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces with Discrete Phase-Shifts over OFDM Systems - Adit Jain; Rahul D; Salil Kashyap; Rimalapudi Sarvendranath

2. Performance Analysis of Vertical Underwater Visible Light Communication System with Cross-QAM - Chaitanya Chhichhia; Aakarshak Nandwani; Rachna Sharma; Yogesh N Trivedi

3. On Study and Analysis of the Impact of the Time Reversal Mirror on Characteristics of the Underwater Acoustic Channel - Vijay Bhadouria; Ritesh Kumar; Monika Agrawal

B4: Speech and language processing-II (4:30 PM – 5:30 PM)

Session chair: Sujit Kumar Sahoo

1. Contrastive Learning-Based Domain Adaptation for Semantic Segmentation - Rishika Bhagwatkar; Saurabh Ravi Kemekar; Vinay K Domatoti; Khursheed Munir Khan; Anamika Singh

2. Automatic Detection of Ocean Eddy Based on Deep Learning Technique with Attention Mechanism - John Saida Shaik; Samit Ari

3. Semantic Masking: A Novel Technique to Mitigate the Class-Imbalance Problem in Real-Time Semantic Segmentation - Nadeem Atif; Hosur Balaji; Saquib Mazhar; Shaik Rafi Ahamed; Manas Kamal Bhuyan

A5: Communication theory COMM3 (11:15 AM – 12:15 PM)

Session chair: B. N. Bharath

1. Digital Predistortion for mm-Wave MIMO Phased Arrays - Varsha Balakumar; Radha Krishna Ganti

2. Properties of Maximal Recoverable Product Codes and Higher Order MDS Codes - D. Shivakrishna; V. Lalitha

3. Blind Reconstruction of BCH Encoder over Erroneous Channel Conditions - Dinesh Ambati; Swaminathan Ramabadran

B5: Machine learning and its applications-I (11:15 AM – 12:15 PM)

Session chair: Nikhil Karmchandani

1. Resolving the Ambiguity in Recognizing Case-Sensitive Characters Gesticulated in Mid-Air Through Post-Decision Support Modules - Anish Monsley K.; Kuldeep Singh Yadav; Rabul Laskar

2. Best Arm Identification in Sample-Path Correlated Bandits - R Sri Prakash; Nikhil Karamchandani; Sharayu Moharir

3. Improved Language Models for ASR Using Written Language Text - Kaustuv Mukherji; Meghna Abhishek Pandharipande; Sunil Kumar Kopparapu

C3: Antennas and RF (11:15 AM – 12:15 PM)

Session chair: Kuntal Deka

1. A Metasurface-Enabled Lens Antenna Demonstrating Electromechanical Beam-Tilting for 5G Applications - Soumya Chakravarty; Aman Kumar; Tapas Chakravarty; Arpan Pal; Rowdra Ghatak

2. Analysis of the Matched Filter Detector of the Antenna Index in the Spatial Modulation Systems - Bibin Baby John; Yash Vasavada

3. Novel Wideband Bow Tie Shaped Hemispherical Dielectric Resonator Antenna - Pragati Patel; Abhijeet Gaonkar; Ayyappan M

A6: Next Generation communication system-II (12:30 PM – 1:30 PM)

Session chair: Prasanna Chaporkar

1. Performance Analysis of SWIPT-Enabled Cooperative NOMA System with Partial Relay Selection - Kalla Satya Ganapathi Kiran; Swaminathan Ramabadran

2. Centralized and Distributed Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces Assisted NOMA - M. Hemanta Kumar; Sanjeev Sharma; Kuntal Deka; Thottappan M

3. CoRAL: Coordinated Resource Allocation for Intercell D2D Communication in Cellular Networks - Pradip Kumar Barik; Raja Datta

B6: Machine learning and its applications-II (12:30 AM – 1:30 PM)

Session chair: Rahul Pandya

1. Unsupervised Learning of Spatio-Temporal Representation with Multi-Task Learning for Video Retrieval - Vidit Kumar

2. Deep Learning-Based Facial Emotion Recognition for Driver Healthcare - Goutam Kumar Sahoo; Santos Ku Das; Poonam Singh

3. Linear Classification on Noisy Hardware - Prakruthi Pradeep; Venkata Sai Chelagamsetty; Avhishek Chatterjee

C4: Antennas and RF (12:30 AM – 1:30 PM)

Session chair:Shakthi Prasad

1. Fractal Based Rectangular DRA for Multi-Band Applications - Abhijeet Gaonkar; Pragati Patel; Deven Patanvariya

2. Minimally Invasive Microwave Ablation Antenna Designs at 2.45 GHz and 915 MHz - Aparna Chandran; Bhaskara Naik; Abhay Gandhi; Rajesh Harsh

3. Analysis of Smart Grid Wide Area Network for Three Hop Mixed PLC/RF/FSO Channel - Ashish Kumar Padhan; Hemanta Kumar Sahu; Pravas Ranjan Sahu; Subhransu Samantaray

A7: Next generation communication system-III (3:15 PM – 4:15 PM)

Session chair:Salil Kashyap

1. UAV Altitude Optimization for Efficient Energy Harvesting in IoT Networks - Aditya Singh; Surender Redhu; Rajesh M Hegde

2. On Performance of IoT Devices Utilizing Energy Harvesting and Carrier Sensing in NOMA-HCN - Abhinav Singh Parihar; Pragya Swami; Vimal Bhatia

3. Performance Analysis of a Relay-Assisted D2D Underlay Cellular Network - Kalpana Dhaka; Mahari Berhe Tsegay; Ratnajit Bhattacharjee

B7: Machine learning and its applications-III (3:15 PM – 4:15 PM

Session chair:Avhishek Chatterjee

1. Multi-Task Federated Edge Learning (MTFeeL) with SignSGD - Sawan Singh Mahara; Shruti Parashuram Maralappanavar; Bharath Bettagere Nagaraja

2. ShuffleBlock: Shuffle to Regularize Convolutional Neural Networks - Sudhakar Kumawat; Gagan Kanojia; Shanmuganathan Raman

3. Sequential Nonparametric K-Medoid Clustering of Data Streams - Sreeram C Sreenivasan; Srikrishna Bhashyam

D2: Invited Talks II (3:15 PM - 5:45 PM)

Session chair:Rajshekhar Bhat

1. Learning for Restless Multi-Armed Multi-Action Bandits, Rahul Singh, IISc

2. Performance analysis of 802.11p-based vehicular communication under heterogeneous traffic conditions, Sreelakshmi Manjunath, IIT Mandi

3. Diversity Combining in a Single-Input-Multiple- Output Molecular Communication System, Abhishek Gupta, IIT Kanpur

4. GoPro: A Low Complexity Task Allocation Algorithm for a Mobile Edge Computing System, Arghyadip Roy, IIT Guwahati

5. Economics of Participation-Dependent Social-Learning Markets, K P Naveen, IIT Tirupati

A8: Biomedical Image processing-I (4:30 PM – 5:30 PM)

Session chair:V. M. Gadre

1. Comparative Performance Analysis of Scalp EEG and Ear EEG Based P300 Ambulatory Brain-Computer Interfaces Using Riemannian Geometry and Convolutional Neural Networks - Vartika Gupta; Tushar Kendre; Tharun Reddy; Vipul Arora

2. Automated Volumetric Examination of Muscle for Sarcopenia Assessment in CT Scan: Generalization of Psoas-Based Approach? - Pranaya Yellu; Satyam Singh; Swati Joshi; Rahuldeb Sarkar; Soumya Jana

3. STPGANsFusion: Structure and Texture Preserving Generative Adversarial Networks for Multi-Modal Medical Image Fusion - Dhruvi Shah; Hareshwar Wani; Manisha Das; Deep Gupta; Petia Radeva; Ashwini Bakde

B8: Next Generation Communication-IV (4:30 PM – 5:30 PM)

Session chair:Naveen M. B.

1. SVM-D: Efficient SHVC Video Multicast Through D2D Offloading over 5G Cellular Networks - Pradip Kumar Barik; Raja Datta

2. On the Performance of Cooperative Spectrum Sensing Under Binary Erasure Reporting Channels - Ashok Parmar; Kamal Manharlal Captain; Rahul Kumar; Ankit Chauhan

3. Intelligent On/Off Switching of mmRSUs in Urban Vehicular Networks: A Deep Q-Learning Approach - Moyukh Laha; Raja Datta

A9: Biomedical Image processing-II (11:15 AM – 12:15 PM)

Session chair:Soumya Jana

1. Heart Rate Estimation from Facial Video Sequences Using Fast Independent Component Analysis - Hemlata Biradar; Jayanand Gawande

2. Semantic Segmentation on Low Resolution Cytology Images of Pleural and Peritoneal Effusion - Shajahan Aboobacker; Deepu Vijayasenan; Sumam David S.; Pooja Suresh; Saraswathy Sreeram; Akash Verma

3. Performance Study of Neural Structured Learning Using Riemannian Features for BCI Classification - Kurusetti Vinay Gupta; Jayasandhya Meenakshinathan; Tharun Reddy; Laxmidhar Behera

B9: Next Generation Communication V (11:15 AM – 12:15 PM)

Session chair:Salil Kashyap

1. Multiplexed Principal Modes in Few-Mode Fiber Links with Limited Delayed Feedback - Anju Radhakrishnan; Kumar Appaiah

2. Hybrid Transceiver Design and Optimal Power Allocation in Downlink mmWave Hybrid MIMO Cognitive Radio Systems - Jitendra Singh; Indranil Chatterjee; Suraj Srivastava; Aditya K Jagannatham

3. A Survey on Multicast Broadcast Services in 5G and Beyond - Pranav Jha; Abhay Karandikar; Rashmi Kamran; Shwetha Kiran; Prasanna Chaporkar; Anindya Saha; Arindam Chakraborty

A10: Video processing and its applications (12:30 PM – 1:30 PM)

Session chair:Naveen M. B.

1. Non-Contact HR Extraction from Different Color Spaces Using RGB Camera - Arpita Panigrahi; Hemant Sharma

2. Deep Imbalanced Data Learning Approach for Video Anomaly Detection - Avinash Ratre; Vinod Pankajakshan

3. A Fast and Efficient No-Reference Video Quality Assessment Algorithm Using Video Action Recognition Features - Suresh N; Pavan Manesh Mylavarapu; Naga Sailaja Mahankali; Sumohana Channappayya

B10: Speech and language processing-III (12:30 PM – 1:30 PM)

Session chair: Priti Rao

1. Subtitle Synthesis Using Inter and Intra Utterance Prosodic Alignment for Automatic Dubbing - Pamisetty Giridhar; Kodukula Sri Rama Murty

2. Significance of Prosody Modification in Privacy Preservation on Speaker Verification - Ayush Agarwal; Amitabh Swain; Jagabandhu Mishra; Mahadeva Prasanna

D3: Invited talks III (11:30 PM – 1:30 PM)

Session chair: Sharayu

1. Modeling and simulating satellite and space communication systems in MATLAB, Nanda Kishore Chavali (MathWorks)

2. AI/ML as a New Tool for Design of Next Generation Wireless Communication Systems – An Industry Perspective,Ashok Kumar Reddy Chavva (Samsung)

3. Hyper-Connected Networks - the future of Digital Transformation, Hemant Kumar Rath (TCS)

4. 802.11be WLAN Physical Layer, Ashutosh Gore (Qualcomm)


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