• By Author
• By Title
• By Year
• Keyword Search

	Twelfth National Conference on Communications Organised by The Joint Telematics Group of the IITs/IISc Held at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi JANUARY 27-29, 2006

PREFACE

The Joint Telematics Group (JTG) of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) at Bombay, Delhi, Kanpur, Kharagpur,and Madras, and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, organizes the National Conference on Communications(NCC) annually. This national conference aims to stimulate, encourage, and promote basic and applied research in communications and allied areas. It particularly tries to provide a regular platform for professionals in industry and researchers in academic institutions to discuss and publish their current research work.

This year the conference is being held in IIT Delhi during January 27-29, 2006. It is satisfying to note that NCC has established itself as a high quality conference. This year we received 232 papers in various areas of communications.A large number of the submissions were of good quality and worthy of inclusion in the Program and the Proceedings. However, due to both time and space limitations, we could accept only 112 technical papers. These papers span areas like telecommunications, signal processing, image processing, coding, networking, security, optical communications, and wireless communications. Experts reviewed all the contributed papers, and we would like to sincerely thank them for their time and effort. We also wish to thank the contributors of accepted papers as well as of those whose could not be accepted due to resource and time limitations. We gratefully acknowledge their effort, since it is the contributors who are instrumental in the success of a conference of this nature.

This conference also has four pre-conference tutorials. These tutorials are (1) "Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs): Architectures, Protocols, and Applications" by Dr. Rajeev Shorey of General Motors, Bangalore, and Dr. Arzad A. Kherani of IIT Delhi, (2) "Technology Drivers for Mobile Multimedia Communication" by Dr. Aloknath De of ST Microelectronics, Noida, (3) "Recent Advances in the Performance Evaluation of Wireless Communication Systems" by Dr. George K. Karagiannidis of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, and Dr. A. Chockalingam of IISc Bangalore, and (4) "Image Super-Resolution: Principles and Applications" by Prof. Subhasis Chaudhuri of IIT Bombay. The tutorials have received good response from interested persons, spanning students, faculty, and professionals from industry.

The conference is being inaugurated on the 27th of January by a keynote address by Dr. Anand Srivastava of Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DOT), Delhi. The rest of the conference has been organized in the form of twenty-eight technical sessions, plenary lectures, and invited lectures, spread over two days on the 28th and 29th of January. There are two plenary lectures by Prof. Vijay K. Bhargava of University of British Columbia, Canada, and Prof. Anurag Kumar of IISc Bangalore, and some invited lectures by eminent people. We are extremely grateful to all the invited speakers who have kindly agreed to give these lectures and add significantly to the value of the conference.

No conference can be organized without the support of a large number of technical and supporting staff, and this conference is no exception. We would like to thank every one concerned for their time, enthusiasm and effort. In particular, we would like to thank Mr. Subhash Chand, Mr. S. K. Gandhi, Mr. R. K. Pathak, Mr. S. K. Khanna, Mr. G. S. Negi, Mr. Y. S. Aswal, Mr. Baban Shah, and Mr. Rajpal.

We hope that this conference will be used by all the participants to exchange ideas, discuss research and enhance their knowledge. We also hope that the conference will reflect the state-of-the-art research in the country. Finally, we regret any inadvertent errors that might have crept in.

Welcome to Delhi, and we hope that you will enjoy the conference!

Shankar Prakriya
Ranjan K. Mallik
Ranjan Bose

PLENARY LECTURE

Plenary Lecture 1: Wireless Communications: Trends and Challenges
Vijay K. Bhargava

Plenary Lecture 2: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Networks: New Insights from Stochastic Models
Anurag Kumar