SPCOM 2018 Program (PDF)

SPCOM 2018 Complete Book of Abstracts (PDF)

PROGRAM AT A GLANCE

A note on venues

The Golden Jubilee Hall (ECE GJH), ECE 1.08 and ECE 1.07 are in the Electrical Communication Engineering (ECE) building. The JN Tata Auditorium and Halls A, B and C are in the National Science Seminar Complex. The IISc Main Guest House is near the ECE building.

Time	ECE GJH	ECE 1.08	ECE 1.07
Monday, July 16: TUTORIALS
08:00 - 09:30	Registration for SPCOM 2018 at Dept of ECE
09:30 - 13:00	AM1: PCA and Robust PCA for Modern Datasets	AM2: 5G: An Evolution Towards a Revolution	AM3: Teasing out the multi-scale representational space of cross-modal speech perception: Methods and mechanisms
13:00 - 14:15	Lunch
14:15 - 17:45	PM1: Introduction to Reinforcement Learning	PM2: Video Streaming: On Rate-Adaptation, Multipath, Virtual Reality, and Content Distribution Network	PM3: Need for Low Power Communications and Localization

Time	JN Tata Auditorium	Hall A	Hall B	Hall C
Tuesday, July 17
08:00 - 09:00	Registration for SPCOM 2018 at JN Tata Auditorum
09:00 - 09:15	Conference Inauguration [JN Tata Auditorium]
09:15 - 10:30	TU01: Coding for Data Communications and Storage	TU02: Audio and Speech Recognition and Classification	TU03: Optical Communications and Networks	TU04: Compressive Sensing and Applications
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:00	Plenary Talk by Prof. Alexander Vardy [JN Tata Auditorium]
12:00 - 12:15	Break
12:15 - 13:15	TU05: Cognitive Radio	TU06: Applications of Audio and Speech Processing	TU07: RF Systems for Communication - 1	TU08: Energy Harvesting Communication Systems
13:15 - 14:15	Lunch
14:15 - 15:30	TU09: RF Systems for Communication - 2	TU10: Audio and Speech Processing - 1	TU11: Image and Video Signal Processing	TU12: Signal Processing Algorithms and Architecture
15:30 - 16:00	Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:45	SP.TU13: Full Duplex and LPWAN	SP.TU14: Caching in cellular networks	SP.TU15: Computational Imaging	SP.TU16: Estimation and information theory
Wednesday, July 18
08:00 - 09:00	Registration for SPCOM 2018 at JN Tata Auditorum
09:00 - 10:15	WE01: Wireless, Vehicular and Smart Grid Networks	WE02: Speech Recognition	WE03: OFDM and Multicarrier Techniques	WE04: VLSI for Communication and Signal Processing
10:15 - 10:45	Coffee Break
10:45 - 11:45	Plenary Talk by Dr. Goutam Chattopadhyay [JN Tata Auditorium]
11:45 - 12:00	Break
12:00 - 13:00	WE05: NB-IoT	WE06: Spoken Language Processing	WE07: Forensics and Security	WE08: Physical Layer Security
13:00 - 14:00	Lunch
14:00 - 15:15	WE09: Massive MIMO	WE10: Audio and Speech Processing - 2	WE11: Machine Learning/AI for Signal Processing	WE12: Bio Signal Processing
15:15 - 15:45	Coffee Break
15:45 - 17:30	SP.WE13: Speech Processing	SP.WE14: Full Duplex Communications	SP.WE15: Security and privacy	SP.WE16: Quantum information technology
19:00 - 21:00	Conference Dinner [Main Guest House Lawns]
Thursday, July 19
08:00 - 09:00	Registration for SPCOM 2018 at JN Tata Auditorum
09:00 - 10:15	TH01: Information Theory	TH02: Topics in Signal Processing	TH03: Machine Learning/AI and Applications	TH04: Cooperative and Visible Light Communications
10:15 - 10:20	Break
10:20 - 11:20	Plenary Talk by Prof. Volkan Cevher [JN Tata Auditorium]
11:20 - 11:45	Coffee Break
11:45 - 13:30	SP.TH05: 5G and next generation networking	SP.TH06: Mm-wave and THz systems	SP.TH07: Deep learning
13:30 - 14:30	Lunch
14:30 - 16:00	Graduation Day Event

SESSION DETAILS

Tuesday, July 17

Tuesday, July 17, 09:15 - 10:30

TU01: Coding for Data Communications and Storage

9:15 On the Exact Rate-Memory Trade-off for Multi-access Coded Caching with Uncoded Placement: Srinivas Reddy Kota (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India); Nikhil Karamchandani (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India)
9:33 Stall-Quality Tradeoff for Cloud-based Video Streaming: Abubakr O. Al-Abbasi and Vaneet Aggarwal (Purdue University, USA)
9:52 A Novel Truncation Rule for the EMS Decoding of Non-binary LDPC Codes: Kuntal Deka (IIIT Guwahati, India); Alentattil Rajesh (IIT G, India); Prabin Kumar Bora (Indian Instituite of Technology, India)
10:11 Locality and Availability with Multiple Erasure Correction: Ujwal Deep Kadiyam (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India)

TU02: Audio and Speech Recognition and Classification

9:15 Exploring the Role of Speaking-Rate Adaptation on Children's Speech Recognition: Syed Shahnawazuddin (National Institute of Technology Patna, India); Hemant Kathania (NIT SIkkim, India); Chaman Singh (National Institute of Technology Patna, India); Waquar Ahmad (National Institute of Technology Sikkim, India); Gayadhar Pradhan (NIT patna, India)
9:33 Proportionate Subband Filtering Technique with L1-Norm for Feedback Cancellation in Hearing Aids: Vasundhara Vasundhara (IIT Bhubaneswar, India); Niladri Puhan and Ganapati Panda (Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar, India)
9:52 Poetic Meter Classification Using Acoustic Cues: Rajeev Rajan (Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Technology Kottayam Kerala India); Anu Raju (Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Technology, Kottayam, India)
10:11 Classification of Story-Telling and Poem Recitation Using Head Gesture of the Talker: Anurag Das, Prasanta Ghosh and Valliappan CA (Indian Institute of Science, India)

TU03: Optical Communications and Networks

9:15 A Novel Protection Strategy for Elastic Optical Networks Based on Space Division Multiplexing: Sridhar Iyer (Jain College of Engineering, India); Shree Prakash Singh (NSIT, India)
9:33 Limited Feedback and Interpolation of Principal Modes in Spatially Multiplexed WDM Fiber Links: Jinesh C Jacob and Kumar Appaiah (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India)
9:52 Utility of Delayed CSI Feedback in Mode Division Multiplexed Multimode Fiber Links: Rohan Prasad (Indian Intitute of Technology Bombay, India); Kumar Appaiah (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India)
10:11 Demonstration of Polarization Diversity Based SH-QPSK System with PSK Modulated Carrier: Rashmi Kamran (IIT Mumbai, India); Shalabh Gupta (IIT Bombay, India)

TU04: Compressive Sensing and Applications

9:15 Sinusoid Signal Estimation Using Generalized Block Orthogonal Matching Pursuit Algorithm: Manoj A (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India); Arun Pachai Kannu (IIT Madras, India)
9:33 Binary Compressive Sensing and Super-Resolution with Unknown Threshold: Subhadip Mukherjee , Anjany Kumar Sekuboyina and Chandra Sekhar Seelamantula (Indian Institute of Science, India)
9:52 A Singular Value Relaxation Technique for Learning Sparsifying Transforms: Subhadip Mukherjee and Chandra Sekhar Seelamantula (Indian Institute of Science, India)
10:11 A Low Complexity Orthogonal Least Squares Algorithm for Sparse Signal Recovery: Samrat Mukhopadhyay (Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India); Siddhartha Satpathi (University of Illinois, USA); Mrityunjoy Chakraborty (Indian Institute of Technology., Kharagpur, India)

Tuesday, July 17, 12:15 - 13:15

TU05: Cognitive Radio

12:15 On Outage Secrecy Minimization Using Jammer Selection in Energy Harvesting Cognitive Radio: Avik Banerjee and Santi Prasad Maity (Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, India); Ritesh Das (Indian Institute Of Engineering Science and Technology, India)
12:35 Optimal Power Allocation for Multicasting in Multiple Antenna Cognitive Radio Networks: Sangeeta Bhattacharjee (Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, India); Tamaghna Acharya (Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology Shibpur, India); Uma Bhattacharya (Bengal Engineering & Science University, Shibpur, India)
12:55 Preventing Collusion Attacks in Cooperative Spectrum Sensing: Shivanshu Shrivastava (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India)

TU06: Applications of Audio and Speech Processing

12:15 Processing Linear Prediction Residual Signal to Counter Replay Attacks: Jagabandhu Mishra , Madhusudan Singh and Debadatta Pati (National Institute of Technology Nagaland, India)
12:35 Detecting Developmental Dysphasia in Children Using Speech Data: Ramarao D , Chaman Singh and Syed Shahnawazuddin (National Institute of Technology Patna, India); Nagaraj Adiga (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India); Gayadhar Pradhan (NIT patna, India)
12:55 Hypernasality Detection Using Zero Time Windowing: Akhilesh Dubey (Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India); S. R. Mahadeva Prasanna (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India); Samarendra Dandapat (IITG, India)

TU07: RF Systems for Communication - 1

12:15 Novel Approach for Enhanced Reduction of SAR in a Mobile Phone Antenna Using High Impedance FSS: Adeline Mellita and Chandu DS (Indian Institute of Information Technology Design and Manufacturing, India); Sholampettai Subramanian Karthikeyan (IIITDM, Kancheepuram, India)
12:35 A Novel Circular Quarter-Mode SIW Cavity-Backed Diversity Antenna with Dual-Circular Polarization: Chandu DS (Indian Institute of Information Technology Design and Manufacturing, India); Tharani D (IIITDM Kancheepuram, India); Sholampettai Subramanian Karthikeyan (IIITDM, Kancheepuram, India)
12:55 Design of Substrate Integrated Coaxial Line (SICL) Fed Planar Quasi-Yagi Antenna for Millimeter Wave Application: Naman Baghel and Soumava Mukherjee (Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, India)

TU08: Energy Harvesting Communication Systems

12:15 Performance of a Cooperative Network with Direct Link and an Energy-Buffer Aided Relay: Dileep Bapatla (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India); Shankar Prakriya (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India)
12:35 On Outage Analysis in Cooperative Cognitive Radio Network with RF Energy Harvesting: Sutanu Ghosh (Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology & JIS GROUP, India); Tamaghna Acharya (Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology Shibpur, India); Santi Prasad Maity (Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, India)
12:55 Optimal Harvest-or-Transmit Strategy for Energy Harvesting Underlay Cognitive Radio Network: Kalpant Pathak (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India); Adrish Banerjee (Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India)

Tuesday, July 17, 14:15 - 15:30

TU09: RF Systems for Communication - 2

14:15 Cross-Polarization Reduction of a Cylindrical Dielectric Resonator Antenna with Parasitic Strip Loading: Praveen Kumar AV and Anuj Ojha (BITS Pilani Rajasthan, India)
14:33 Slot Antenna Miniaturization with Equal Electrical Path Length Using Different Shape of Loops: Sk. Moinul Haque (Aliah University, India); Khan Masood Parvez (Aliah University, India)
14:52 Copper Coin Loaded Miniaturized Slot Antenna: Khan Masood Parvez (Aliah University, India); Sk. Moinul Haque (Aliah University, India); Enamul Khan (Aliah University, India)
15:11 Design of Wideband Coaxial-to-Substrate Integrated Coaxial Line (SICL) Planar Transition: Satya Krishna Idury and Soumava Mukherjee (Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, India)

TU10: Audio and Speech Processing - 1

14:15 Instantaneous Fundamental Frequency Estimation of Speech Signals Using tunable-Q Wavelet Transform: Anurag Nishad and Ram Bilas Pachori (Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India)
14:33 Enhanced Directional Sensitivity Using Acoustic Dish Reflector: Sawant Vilas (IISc Bangalore, India); Anirban Bhowmick (IISc Bangalore,India); Thippur V. Sreenivas (Indian Institute of Science, India)
14:52 Excitation Source Feature for Discriminating Shouted and Normal Speech: Shikha Baghel (Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India); S. R. Mahadeva Prasanna (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India); Prithwijit Guha (IIT Guwahati, India)
15:11 Frequency Contour Modeling to Synthesize Natural Flute Renditions for Carnatic Music: Pranav Prasad , Anand Ashtamoorthy and Shashank Dhar (National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal, India); Deepu Vijayasenan (NITK, India)

TU11: Image and Video Signal Processing

14:15 Fast Non-local Means Denoising for MR Image Sequences: Hemalata Bhujle (SDM College of Engineering & Technology, Dharwad, India); Basavaraj Vadavadagi (SDM College of Engineering & Technology, Dharwad, India)
14:33 Diagnostic Information Based Super-Resolution of Retinal Optical Coherence Tomography Images: Vineeta Das (Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India); Samarendra Dandapat (IITG, India); Prabin Kumar Bora (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India)
14:52 Object-based Compression of 3D Animation Geometry: Sanjib Das and Prabin Kumar Bora (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India)
15:11 Learning Representations with Strong Supervision for Image Search: Konda Reddy Mopuri (Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India); Vishal Athreya Baskaran (PayPal Inc & Birla Institute of Technology and Science Hyderabad, India); Venkatesh Babu Radhakrishnan (Indian Institute of Science, India)

TU12: Signal Processing Algorithms and Architecture

14:15 Time-Frequency Analysis of Gravitational Waves: Pushpendra Singh (Bennett University, Greater Noida & Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India); Amit Singhal (JIIT, India); Shiv Dutt Joshi (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India)
14:33 A Novel Recursive Filter Realization of Discrete Time Filters: Ganesan Thiagarajan , Joydeep Bhattacharya , Srinivasan Bhuramoorthy and Ashwini Kamate (MMRFIC Technology Pvt. Ltd, India)
14:52 A Novel Weight Window Design Approach: Sachin Bharadwaj (IISc, India); Sriram Murali (Texas Instruments India, India)
15:11 A Novel Scaling Criterion for Optimal Trade-off Between Time and Frequency Resolution in S-transform: Neha Singh (Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India); Pyari Mohan Pradhan (Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee, India)

Tuesday, July 17, 16:00 - 17:45

SP.TU13: Full Duplex and LPWAN

16:00 QoS-Constrained Energy-Efficient AF Two-Way Full-Duplex Relaying with Massive Antennas: Ekant Sharma (Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India); Rohit Budhiraja (IIT Kanpur, India)
16:26 Full Duplex Wireless: A solution for next generation or not yet?: Dinesh Bharadia (University of California San Diego )
16:52 Recent Developments in IOT: A system perspective: Ganesan Thiagarajan (MMRFIC Technology Private Limited, Bangalore )
17:18 Compressed Sensing Based Uncoordinated and Unsourced Multiple Access: Jean-Francois Chamberland-Tremblay (Texas A&M University)

SP.TU14: Caching in cellular networks

16:00 Content Caching and Delivery with Partial Adaptive Matching: Nikhil Karamchandani (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India)
16:26 Approximate optimality of separation in cache-aided wireless interference networks.: Suhas Diggavi (University of California, Los Angeles )
16:52 Coded Caching Schemes with Reduced Subpacketization from Linear Block Codes: Aditya Ramamoorthy (Iowa State University )
17:18 Caching in Cellular Networks: A Learning Theoretic Perspective: Bharath N. Bettagere (IIT Dharwad)

SP.TU15: Computational Imaging

16:00 Structured low-rank algorithms: a novel framework for super-resolution recovery of curves and images: Mathews Jacob (University of Iowa)
16:26 Solving Inverse Computational Imaging Problems using Deep Pixel-level Priors: Kaushik Mitra (IIT Madras)
16:52 SPToF: Signal processing for Time-of-Flight cameras: Adithya Pediredla (Rice University)
17:18 Sparsity Assisted Optical Phase Imaging: Kedar Khare (IIT Delhi)

SP.TU16: Estimation and information theory

16:00 Proving strong converse is difficult?: Shun Watanabe (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology)
16:26 Secret Sharing for Secure and Private Distributed Coded Computation.: Salim El Rouayheb (Rutgers University )
16:52 Gaussian Process bandits with adaptive discretization.: Tara Javidi (University of California San Diego)
17:18 Estimation of discrete distributions under local differential privacy: Alexander Barg (University of Maryland)

Wednesday, July 18

Wednesday, July 18, 09:00 - 10:15

WE01: Wireless, Vehicular and Smart Grid Networks

9:00 Age-of-Information Aware Scheduling: Prakirt Raj Jhunjhunwala (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India); Sharayu Moharir (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India)
9:18 Platform Competition for Throughput in Two-sided Freelance Markets: Mansi Sood , Ankur A. Kulkarni and Sharayu Moharir (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India)
9:37 Routing and Scheduling Transient Flows for QoS in Multi-hop Wireless Networks: Vinay Siram (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India); Karthikeshwar Varma Dasaraju and Prakash Barman (Indian Institute of Science, India); Surekha Yellisetty (Mediatek Bangalore Pvt Ltd, India); Padma Desiraju and Saurabh Mandal (CAIR & DRDO, India); Suvina M Vijayan (CAIR, DRDO, India); Prakash Chand (DRDO, India); Utpal Mukherji and Vinod Sharma (Indian Institute of Science, India)
9:56 Menu-Based Pricing for Profitable Electric Vehicle Charging with Vehicle-to-Grid Service: Arnob Ghosh (Purdue University & University of Pennsylvania, USA); Vaneet Aggarwal (Purdue University, USA)

WE02: Speech Recognition

9:00 Enhancing Pitch Robustness of Speech Recognition System Through Spectral Smoothing: Bandarupalli Tarun Sai , Ishwar Chandra Yadav and Syed Shahnawazuddin (National Institute of Technology Patna, India); Gayadhar Pradhan (NIT patna, India)
9:18 Some Experiments on Context Mismatched Speech Recognition: Abhishek Dey (GUIST Gauhati University, India); Syed Shahnawazuddin (National Institute of Technology Patna, India); Rohit Sinha (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India)
9:37 Detection of Vowel Offset Points Using Non-Local Similarity Between Speech Samples: Avinash Kumar (NIT patna, India); Syed Shahnawazuddin (National Institute of Technology Patna, India); Gayadhar Pradhan (NIT patna, India)
9:56 Improving Children's Speech Recognition Through Time Scale Modification Based Speaking Rate Adaptation: Hemant Kathania (NIT SIkkim, India); Syed Shahnawazuddin (National Institute of Technology Patna, India); Waquar Ahmad (National Institute of Technology Sikkim, India); Nagaraj Adiga (University of Crete, India); Sanjay Jana (NIT SIKKIM, India); Arun Samaddar (Director, India)

WE03: OFDM and Multicarrier Techniques

9:00 Non-orthogonal Transmultiplexers for FBMC with Controlled ISI: Arjun R and Ashish Sukhwani (IIT Bombay, India); Kumar Appaiah (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India); Vikram M. Gadre (IIT Bombay, India)
9:18 Iterative Channel and Symbol Estimation for OFDM and for SIMO Diversity: Yash Vasavada (Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, India); Jeffrey Reed (Virginia Tech, USA); A. A. (Louis) Beex (DSPRL - Wireless@VT & Virginia Tech, USA)
9:37 Time-domain Complexity Analysis of Impulse Noise Sources for xDSL/PLC Systems: Neelima Singh (IIT Delhi, New Delhi, India); Brejesh Lall (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India)
9:56 Multiplexing Reference Signals and Data in a DFT-s-OFDM Symbol: Chandrashekhar Thejaswi Pataguppe Suryanarayan Bhat (Samsung R&D Institute India, Bangalore, India); SaiDhiraj Amuru (Samsung, India); Jinesh P Nair (Nokia Networks, India); Atanu Guchhait (Samsung R&D Institute India - Bangalore, India)

WE04: VLSI for Communication and Signal Processing

9:00 Floorplan Based Performance Evaluation of 3D Variants of Mesh and BFT Networks-on-Chip: Bheemappa Halavar (National Institute of Technology Karnataka Mangalore, India); Basavaraj Talawar (National Institute of Technology Karnataka, India)
9:20 Low Complexity Algorithm for Multi-path Video Streaming: Anis Elgabli , Vaneet Aggarwal and Ke Liu (Purdue University, USA)
9:40 Affine Boolean Classification with FPGA Implementation on Secret Image Sharing: Tapasi Bhattacharjee (WBUT, India); Hirak Maity (College of Engineering and Management, Kolaghat, India); Santi Prasad Maity (Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, India)

Wednesday, July 18, 12:00 - 13:00

WE05: NB-IoT

12:00 Reference Signals Based Time and Frequency Tracking in NB-IoT: Sriharsha Magani and Kiran Kuchi (IIT Hyderabad, India)
12:20 Digital Predistortion for Narrowband IoT Applications: Yuva Kumar (Keio University, Japan); Seetharam Kashyap and Sreenath Ramanath (Lekha Wireless Solutions, India)
12:40 Low Complexity ML Synchronization for 3GPP NB-IoT: Sripada Kadambar (Samsung R&D Institute India - Bangalore, India); Ashok Kumar Reddy Chavva (Samsung Electronics, India)

WE06: Spoken Language Processing

12:00 A Novel Approach for Effective Recognition of the Code-Switched Data on Monolingual Language Model: Ganji Sreeram (IIT Guwahati, India)
12:20 An SVD Based Approach for Spoken Language Identification: Manish Jain and Malarvizhi Sundaresan Saranya (Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India); Hema A Murthy (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India)
12:40 Enhancement of Bone Conducted Speech Signal by Wavelet Transform: Premjeet Singh (Birla Institute of Technology Mesra, India); Manoj Mukul (Birla Institute of Technology Mesra Ranchi India); Rajkishore Prasad (BN College Patna india)

WE07: Forensics and Security

12:00 DeepPalm- A Unified Framework for Personal Human Authentication: Gaurav Jaswal (NIT Hamirpur India, India); Aditya Nigam (IIT Mandi, India); Amit Kaul and Ravinder Nath (NIT Hamirpur, India)
12:20 Tensor Total Variation Regularized Moving Object Detection for Surveillance Videos: Anju Jose Tom (NIT Calicut, India); Sudhish N George (National Institute of Technology, Calicut, India)
12:40 Replay Attack Detection in Speaker Verification Using Non-Voiced Segments and Decision Level Feature Switching: Malarvizhi Sundaresan Saranya (Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India); Hema A Murthy (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India); Padmanabhan Rajan (IIT Mandi, India)

WE08: Physical Layer Security

12:00 Two Receiver Relay Broadcast Channel with Mutual Secrecy: Krishnamoorthy Iyer (IIT Bombay, India)
12:20 Practical Physical-Layer Group Secret-Key Generation in Three-User Wireless Networks: J Harshan and Manish Rao (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India)
12:40 Jammer Assisted SEE Maximization in Decode-and-Forward Relay Network: Kirti Kant Sharma (IIT Delhi, India); Ranjan Bose (Indian Institute of Technology, India)

Wednesday, July 18, 14:00 - 15:15

WE09: Massive MIMO

14:00 Uplink Training for Massive MIMO Systems Under Channel Aging: Ribhu Chopra (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India)
14:18 Single-User mmWave Massive MIMO: SVD-based ADC Bit Allocation and Combiner Design: Fnu I. Zakir Ahmed (University of California Santa Cruz, USA); Hamid Sadjadpour (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA); Shahram Yousefi (Queen's University, Canada)
14:37 Kalman Filter Based Tracking for Channel Aging in Massive MIMO Systems: Vikas Arya (Indian Institute of Technology BOMBAY, India); Kumar Appaiah (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India)
14:56 Hybrid Block Diagonalization for Massive MIMO Two-Way Half-Duplex AF Hybrid Relay: Arpita Chauhan (Indian Institute of Technology, India); Ekant Sharma (Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India); Rohit Budhiraja (IIT Kanpur, India)

WE10: Audio and Speech Processing - 2

14:00 Broad Phoneme Class Specific Deep Neural Network Based Speech Enhancement: Pavan Karjol and Prasanta Kumar Ghosh (Indian Institute of Science, India)
14:18 Radial Filter Design Using Kaiser Window Polynomials for Speech Source Separation: Vishnuvardhan Varanasi and Ayushya Agarwal (IIT Kanpur, India); Rajesh M Hegde (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India)
14:37 Feature Extraction from Temporal Phase for Speaker Recognition: Ami Gandhi (Infinium Solutionz Pvt. Ltd, India); Hemant A. Patil (Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, India)
14:56 Model Order Estimation Using Ratio of Cumulative Sums of Eigenvalues: Palakkal Vishnu (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India); C S Ramalingam (IITM, India)

WE11: Machine Learning/AI for Signal Processing

14:00 Recursive Network with Explicit Neighbor Connection for Image Captioning: Mohammedsayeemuddin Shaikh and Manjunath V. Joshi (DA-IICT, India)
14:18 Estimating Confidence for Deep Neural Networks Through Density Modeling: Akshayvarun Subramanya , Suraj Srinivas and Venkatesh Babu Radhakrishnan (Indian Institute of Science, India)
14:37 Decentralized Asynchronous Stochastic Gradient Descent: Convergence Rate Analysis: Amrit Singh Bedi and Hrusikesha Pradhan (IIT Kanpur, India); Ketan Rajawat (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India)
14:56 Dynamic Network Latency Prediction with Adaptive Matrix Completion: Ruchi Tripathi (IIT Kanpur, India); Ketan Rajawat (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India)

WE12: Bio Signal Processing

14:00 Compressed Sensing Recovery Using Modified Newton Gradient Pursuit Algorithm and Its Application to ECG with Denoising: Anupama Arun (Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, India); Sheeba Rani J (IIST Trivandrum, India); Thomas James Thomas (Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, India)
14:18 Suppression of Artifacts from Seismocardiogram Signal Using Two-Stage Kalman Filtering Model: Tilendra Choudhary (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India); L N Sharma and Manas Kamal Bhuyan (IIT Guwahati, India)
14:37 Detection of Heart Sound Using Logistic Function Amplitude Moderator and Teager-Kaiser Energy Operator: Alex Paul Kamson and L N Sharma (IIT Guwahati, India); Samarendra Dandapat (IITG, India)
14:56 Discriminative Periodic Component Analysis for SSVEP Based BCI: Kiran Kumar Guruswamy Ravindran (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India); RamasubbaReddy Machireddy (IITM, India)

Wednesday, July 18, 15:45 - 17:30

SP.WE13: Speech Processing

15:45 Automatically derived acoustic sub-word units: Some paradigms: V. Ramasubramanian (IIIT Bangalore)
16:11 Is there more to the spectrogram than meets the eye?: Chandra Sekhar Seelamantula (IISc Bangalore)
16:37 Variant and invariant characteristics in speech articulation: Prasanta Kumar Ghosh (IISc Bangalore)
17:03 Unsupervised Representation Learning for Speech Signals.: Sriram Ganapathy (IISc Bangalore)

SP.WE14: Full Duplex Communications

15:45 Self-interference Modeling and Digital Cancellation Along with Full-Duplex Wireless System Analysis: Dani Korpi , Taneli Riihonen , Lauri Anttila and Mikko Valkama (Tampere University of Technology, Finland)
16:11 Self-Interference Cancellation via Beamforming in an Integrated Full Duplex Circulator-Receiver Phased Array: Mahmood Baraani Dastjerdi , Tingjun Chen , Negar Reiskarimian , Gil Zussman and Harish Krishnaswamy (Columbia University, USA)
16:37 Performance of LTE and 5G-NR cellular networks with full-duplex nodes: Radhakrishna Ganti (IIT Madras)
17:03 Full-Duplex Communication with Imperfect Self-Interference Cancellation: Andreas Burg (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)

SP.WE15: Security and privacy

15:45 Backdoored Neural Networks (BadNets): Siddharth Garg (NYU)
16:11 Software-defined security for next generation networks: Vyas Sekar (Carnegie Mellon University)
16:37 Signal Processing Problems in Cyber Physical System Security.: Sandeep K. Shukla (IIT Kanpur )
17:03 Data Privacy for a $\rho$-Recoverable Function: Prakash Narayan (University of Maryland)

SP.WE16: Quantum information technology

15:45 Quantum Communications: Concepts and Prospects: Apoorva Patel (IISc Bangalore)
16:11 Efficient measurement of high-dimensional quantum states: Anand Kumar Jha (IIT Kanpur)
16:37 Quantum Communication Using Coherent Rejection Sampling: Rahul Jain (National University of Singapore)
17:03 The theory and practice of quantum key distribution (QKD): Anil Prabhakar (IIT Madras)

Thursday, July 19

Thursday, July 19, 09:00 - 10:15

TH01: Information Theory

9:00 Degraded Relay Channel with Non-causal State Information at the Source and Relay: Viswanathan Ramachandran (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India); Sibi Raj B Pillai (IIT Bombay, India); Vinod M Prabhakaran (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India)
9:20 New Finite Blocklength Converses for Asymmetric Multiple Access Channels via Linear Programming: Sharu Jose and Ankur A. Kulkarni (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India)
9:40 A Lower Bound on Channel Capacity of a Nonlinear Fiber Optic Channel with Memory: Konchady Gautam Shenoy (Indian Institute of Science (IISC), India); Vinod Sharma (Indian Institute of Science, India)

TH02: Topics in Signal Processing

9:00 Analysis of Downsampling of DCT-Graphs: Nileshkumar Vaishnav (Dhirubhai Ambani Institute Of Infromation And Technology, Gandhinagar, India); Aditya Tatu (DA-IICT, Gandhinagar, India)
9:18 Improved Noncoherent Receiver for Joint Range and Symbol Estimation: Sanjeev Sharma (Indian Institute of Technology, Indore, India); Abhijeet Bishnu (Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India); Anubha Gupta (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi, India); Vimal Bhatia (Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India)
9:37 Interference Localization On-Board the Satellite Using Drift Induced Virtual Array: Aakash Arora (SnT, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg); Sina Maleki (Ericsson, Luxembourg); Bhavani Shankar Mysore R (Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust & University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg); Joel Grotz (SES, Luxembourg); Björn Ottersten (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
9:56 Blind Equalization for Classification of Digital Modulations: Gaurav Jyoti Phukan (IIT Guwahati & Bharat Electronics Ltd, India); Prabin Kumar Bora (Indian Instituite of Technology, India)

TH03: Machine Learning/AI and Applications

9:00 Distributed Learning Algorithm for Interference Avoidance in Coexisting WBANs: Emy George (National Institute Of Technology, Calicut, India); Lillykutty Jacob (National Institute of Technology Calicut, India)
9:18 Inference Algorithms for the Multiplicative Mixture Mallows Model: Ranjitha Prasad (Tata Consultancy Services, India); Vincent Y. F. Tan (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
9:37 On a Class of Restless Multi-armed Bandits with Deterministic Policies: Prakirt Raj Jhunjhunwala (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India); Sharayu Moharir (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India); D. Manjunath (IIT Bombay, India); Aditya Gopalan (Indian Institute of Science, India)
9:56 Automatic Classification of Indian Languages into Tonal and Non-tonal Categories Using Cascade Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)-Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) Recurrent Neural Networks: Chuya China Bhanja and Dipjyoti Bisharad (National Institute of Technology Silchar, India); Rabul Laskar (NIT SILCHAR, India)

TH04: Cooperative and Visible Light Communications

9:00 Partial CSI Based Relay Selection for TWR-FSO over Unified Exponentiated Weibull Links: Deepti Agarwal (IGDTUW, India)
9:18 Estimate-and-Forward Relaying in Molecular Communication Using Brownian Motion with Drift: Satish Kumar Tiwari and Prabhat Kumar Upadhyay (Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India)
9:37 Spectral- And Energy-Efficiency for Massive MIMO Two-Way Full-Duplex Hybrid Processing AF Relay: Ekant Sharma (Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India); Rohit Budhiraja (IIT Kanpur, India); Ashish Kant Shukla (Indian Institute of Technology, India)
9:56 On the Spatial Performance of Users in Indoor VLC Networks with Multiple Reflections: Abhishek K Gupta (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India); Adrish Banerjee (Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India)

Thursday, July 19, 11:45 - 13:30

Welcome to SPCOM 2018!

SPCOM

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PROGRAM AT A GLANCE

A note on venues

Monday, July 16: TUTORIALS

Tuesday, July 17

Wednesday, July 18

Thursday, July 19

SESSION DETAILS

Tuesday, July 17

Tuesday, July 17, 09:15 - 10:30

TU01: Coding for Data Communications and Storage

TU02: Audio and Speech Recognition and Classification

TU03: Optical Communications and Networks

TU04: Compressive Sensing and Applications

Tuesday, July 17, 12:15 - 13:15

TU05: Cognitive Radio

TU06: Applications of Audio and Speech Processing

TU07: RF Systems for Communication - 1

TU08: Energy Harvesting Communication Systems

Tuesday, July 17, 14:15 - 15:30

TU09: RF Systems for Communication - 2

TU10: Audio and Speech Processing - 1

TU11: Image and Video Signal Processing

TU12: Signal Processing Algorithms and Architecture

Tuesday, July 17, 16:00 - 17:45

SP.TU13: Full Duplex and LPWAN

SP.TU14: Caching in cellular networks

SP.TU15: Computational Imaging

SP.TU16: Estimation and information theory

Wednesday, July 18

Wednesday, July 18, 09:00 - 10:15

WE01: Wireless, Vehicular and Smart Grid Networks

WE02: Speech Recognition

WE03: OFDM and Multicarrier Techniques

WE04: VLSI for Communication and Signal Processing

Wednesday, July 18, 12:00 - 13:00

WE05: NB-IoT

WE06: Spoken Language Processing

WE07: Forensics and Security

WE08: Physical Layer Security

Wednesday, July 18, 14:00 - 15:15

WE09: Massive MIMO

WE10: Audio and Speech Processing - 2

WE11: Machine Learning/AI for Signal Processing

WE12: Bio Signal Processing

Wednesday, July 18, 15:45 - 17:30

SP.WE13: Speech Processing

SP.WE14: Full Duplex Communications

SP.WE15: Security and privacy

SP.WE16: Quantum information technology

Thursday, July 19

Thursday, July 19, 09:00 - 10:15

TH01: Information Theory

TH02: Topics in Signal Processing

TH03: Machine Learning/AI and Applications

TH04: Cooperative and Visible Light Communications

Thursday, July 19, 11:45 - 13:30

SP.TH05: 5G and next generation networking

SP.TH06: Mm-wave and THz systems

SP.TH07: Deep learning