Information, Photonics and Communication, 1st ed. 2020 Proceedings of Second National Conference, IPC 2019 Coll. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, Vol. 79

The book includes high-quality papers presented at the Second National Conference of Information, Photonics and Communication (2019), organized by the Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering, B.P. Poddar Institute of Management & Technology from 01 to 03 February 2019.

Covering multiple domains in four broad categories?photonics; devices and VLSI; communication systems and networks; signal processing and intelligent systems, it includes topics such as RF and microwave communications, wireless and mobile communication, satellite communications, signal, image and video processing, deep learning and optical networks.

Jyotsna Kumar Mandal, M.Sc.(Ph.), JU, M.Tech.(CS), CU, Ph.D.(Eng.), JU, Professor CSE, former dean of FETM, KU for two consecutive terms. He has teaching and research experience spanning 30 years and has completed four AICTE projects and one state govt. project. He is a life member of the CSI, CRSI, a member of the ACM, and fellow of IETE. He was also honorary vice chairman and chairman of the CSI. He has delivered over 100 lectures and organized more than 30 national and international conferences. He is an editorial board member and corresponding editor of the Proceedings of Science Direct, IEEE and other conferences as well as guest editor of the MST Journal. He has published more than 400 research articles and six books. Twenty-three scholars were awarded under his supervision.

Kallol Bhattacharya is a Professor at the Department of Applied Optics & Photonics, University of Calcutta. He completed his B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. from the Department of Applied Physics, Universityof Calcutta in 1985, 1988, 1996 respectively, and has worked as a lecturer at Jadavpur University and Scientist D at Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics. His research interests include optical metrology, polarization interferometry, birefringence measurements, nonlinear optics and optical coherence tomography, and he has published numerous papers in these areas. He has received a Monbusho fellowship from the Japanese government and a research award from Mitutoyo Association of Science and Technology, Japan.

Ivy Majumdar is an Associate Professor at the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, B.P. Poddar Institute of Management and Technology. She has completed her B.Sc., B.Tech. and M.Tech. in Physics from the University of Calcutta and Ph.D. from Jadavpur University in Engineering. Her research interests include signal and image processing. She has published around 10 journal and conference papers and 2 book chapters. She has also implemented a solar panel in thes