Electronics and Communications Engineering Applications and Innovations

Every day, millions of people are unaware of the amazing processes that take place when using their phones, connecting to broadband internet, watching television, or even the most basic action of flipping on a light switch. Advances are being continually made in not only the transmission of this data but also in the new methods of receiving it. These advancements come from many different sources and from engineers who have engaged in research, design, development, and implementation of electronic equipment used in communications systems. This volume addresses a selection of important current advancements in the electronics and communications engineering fields, focusing on signal processing, chip design, and networking technology. The sections in the book cover:

• Microwave and antennas



• Communications systems



• Very large-scale integration



• Embedded systems



• Intelligent control and signal processing systems

Sierpinski Diamond Fractal Antenna Array Using Mitered Bend Feed Network for Multi-Band Applications. Sierpinski Diamond Fractal Antenna Array Using Quarter Wave Feed Network for Wireless Applications. Novel CPW-Fed Triangular Shaped Antenna for Wideband Applications. Multiband Four Port MIMO Antenna Using Metamaterial. E-Shape Top Loaded Octagonal Patch Antenna for Small Frequency Applications. A Survey on Miniaturization of Circularly Polarized Antennas for Future Wireless Communications. Hybrid Beam Steerable Phased Array Antenna for SatCom OTM. Superstrate Loaded Square Patch Antenna Analysis. Implementation of GFDM Transceiver. Achievable Sum Spectral Efficiency Analysis of Massive MIMO with MMSE-SIC Receiver. Neighbor Nodes Discovery Schemes in Wireless Sensor Network: A Comparative Performance Study. Hybrid Overlay/Underlay Transmission: An Efficient Mechanism to Encourage Primary Users to Cooperate with Secondary Users. OFDM Based Packet Transceiver on USRP Using Labview. An Efficient System Design for 32 Bit Sum-Product Operator in Modified Booth Form Using Fusion Technique. Design of Improved Fault Coverage Programmable Pseudo-Random Pattern Generator for Bist. Design of 4:2 Compressor Using XOR-XNOR Blocks for High Speed Arithmetic Circuits. Implementation of a New VLSI Architecture for Add-Multiply Operators Using Modified Booth Recoding Technique. Design of Baugh-Wooley Multiplier in Quantum Dot Cellular Automata Using Area Optimized Full Adder. Design and Analysis of Hybrid 4:2 Approximate Compressor for Multiplication. Cost Effective Implementation of Digital Karaoke. Developing a Simple and Economic Voice Control Mechanism for Operating Home Appliances. Multilevel Boost Converter Implementation for Photo Voltaic Applications. Proposal for Economic Implementation of Precision Farming in India. Development of SDC-SDF Architecture for Radix-2 FFT. Advanced Touch Screen System for Elderly People. Applications of Microcontroller. Design and Performance Analysis of Various Adders for Accumulation Unit of RRC Filter. A New Hybrid De-TLBO Optimization Algorithm for Controller-Design and Global Optimization. Performance Comparison of PSO Algorithms for Mobile Robot Path Planning in Complex Environments. Implementation of an Efficient and Fully Automated Mr Image Segmentation through Machine Learning. Adaptive Pillar K Means Algorithm to Detect Colon Cancer from Biopsy Samples.

T. Kishore Kumar, PhD, is Head of the Department of Electronics and Communication Education (ECE) at the National Institute of Technology (NIT) in Warangal, India. His research interests include speech signal processing, adaptive signal processing, real-time signal processing using embedded systems, and advanced digital system design. He is currently working on two R&D projects sponsored by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) and the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB). Over the course of the last five years, he has been published with 20 international journal publications and 16 national and international conference publications.

Ravi Kumar Jatoth, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Electronics and Communication Education (ECE) at the National Institute of Technology (NIT) in Warangal, India. He has over 12 years of teaching and research experience in control system design, signal processing, and bio-inspired evolutionary algorithms. He has published 15 international journal papers and 30 international conference papers. He is an Associate Editor of the International Journal of VLSI Design Tools & Technology (JoVDTT) and Associate Editor of MECS International Journal of Image, Graphics and Signal Processing (IJIGSP), Hong Kong.

V .V. Mani is an Assistant Professor at the National Institute of Technology in Warangal, India. She has over 15 years of teaching and research experience with her specific areas of interest, which include signal processing for communication and smart antenna design. She has published ten international journal papers and 20 international conference papers.