WECON 2016

Post Conference Report

5th Edition of International IEEE Conference on Wireless Networks & Embedded Systems

Organized by – Chitkara University

Dates – Oct 14-15, 2016 | Venue – Chitkara University, Punjab

Report By - Sagar Juneja, Convener, WECON 2016

WECON 2016

An Introduction

WECON 2016 was the 5th edition of international conference on Wireless Networks &

Embedded Systems organized by Chitkara University. WECON was born is 2008 and it one of

the most prominent technical conferences organized in North India. WECON 2016 was the

first edition to garner IEEE technical sponsorship in addition to support from Deakin

University, Australia and Texas Instruments India as Principal Patrons. WECON 2016 was also

financially aided by ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization) and DRDO (Defense

Research & Development Organization). EFY Magazine was a media partner and other

industry collaborators were MathWorks India, Secure Meters Pvt. Ltd., Aricent India.

Distinguished Dignitaries of WECON 2016

WECON 2016 was attended by over 300 delegates from 13 countries that included

researchers and academicians from Indian Engineering Institutions, Research Organizations,

Foreign Universities, and Professionals from industry. We received over 300 papers in five

track areas of which 99 papers were selected in the first phase, followed by the selection of

60 papers after two rounds of reviews and rigorous plagiarism check. A team of 56

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reviewers reviewed 300 papers in two phases. In addition to paper presentations WECON

2016 featured two pre-conference Texas Instruments workshops, keynote talks and panel

discussion session.

300 Delegates from 12 countries attended WECON 2016 inaugural ceremony on Oct 15

The WECON 2016 in Chronological Order

Pre-conference Texas Instruments Workshops – One of the principal patrons of

WECON 2016, Texas Instruments India conducted two parallel sessions of faculty

workshops on latest embedded & analog technology. These workshops were

attended by about 40 faculty members from 13 different engineering institutions. The

topics of the workshops were 1) Power Management Design & Application using

PMLK kit from Texas Instruments and 2) Building IOT Applications using TI CC3200

wireless microcontroller from Texas Instruments. The workshops were conducted

during Oct 14-15, 2016.

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Participants at IoT Workshop

40 faculty from 13 different institutions

attended the two workshops

Inaugural Ceremony – The inaugural ceremony of WECON 2016 was held on Oct 15

during 9:30-11:30AM and was attended by around 300 delegates from India & Abroad.

Dr. Madhu Chitkara - Vice Chancellor, Chitkara University grazed the occasion

accompanying the chief guest of the ceremony Dr. Traver Day – Pro Vice Chancellor,

Faculty of Science Engineering & Built Environment. Other distinguished dignitaries

present were – Dr. Giriraj Nyati – COO, Secure Meters ,Mr. S Vijay Anand – Director

Technology, Aricent India, Mr. Vaibhav Ostwal – Project )Manager, Texas Instruments

India University Program, Dr. Archana Mantri – Pro Vice, Chancellor, CURIN, Chitkara

University and Wg. Cdr. R.S. Gill – Vice President University Affairs, Chitkara

University.

Dr. Trevor Day delivering the keynote

Mr. Vijay S. Anand delivering the keynote

Inaugural session featured three keynote talks by Dr. Traver Day (on the topic

Industry/University Partnerships - a Deakin University Perspective and Strategy), Mr. S.

Vijay Anand (Road Ahead on the Connected Vehicle with Internet of Things), and Dr.

Giriraj Nyati who talked about India’s Potential to become technology super power

owing to the availability of huge skilled man power. CD Proceedings of WECON 2016

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was launched in the inaugural ceremony (shortlisted papers of WECON 2016 will also

feature in IEEE Xplore). The ceremony was concluded with the announcement of four

upcoming conference and symposia by Chitkara University till 2018 – Electronic

Design Symposium (EDS2017), National Symposium on Computing, Analytics &

Networks (CAN2017), ACM Conference on Computer Vision 2017 (proposal submitted

to ACM) and 6th edition of WECON in 2018.

Dr. Giriraj Nyati delivering the keynote

Unveiling of CD Proceedings

Technical Sessions – Paper Presentations were conducted in two slots – Morning

11:45 – 1:00PM and 3:00 – 4:30PM. In both slots around 30-35 papers were presented

in five parallel tracks namely – Smart & Intelligent Electronics, Energy Efficient and

Alternate Energy Based Electronic Systems, Real Time Embedded Systems, Wireless

Communication and Wireless Networks. In the morning slot a special session was

conducted where papers featuring only Texas Instruments Technologies were

presented. The session was chaired by expert from Texas Instruments. In Annexure A

you will find the list of papers presented in WECON 2016. Below are a few pictures

from Technical Sessions

Track 1 – Smart & Intelligent Electronics

Dr. Jagdish Raheja from CEERI Pilani is

presenting in Texas Instruments special track

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Katrin Hartmann from Glasgow Caledonian

University, UK presenting in Track 4

Rida Khan from Istanbul Technical University

presenting through Skype in Track 4

Pravesh Kafle from Butwal Power Company, Nepal won Best Presenter’s Award in Track 2

Jagdeep Singh from GNDEC Ludhiana won

Best Presenter’s Award in Track 3

Panel Discussion – A one hour panel discussion was held on a topic –

‘Commercialization of Research and Innovation: How globalization can help?’

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Audience in Panel Discussion

Panel Discussion was attended by around 100 people. The team of panelist was a

good mix of industry and academia representation from both India & Abroad. This

lead to a good discussion where each representative presented the present scenario,

opportunities and challenges they face in their respective regions and domains

pertaining to the topic. Our esteemed panelist were – Dr. Giriraj Nyati – COO Secure

Meters, Dr. Traver Day – Pro VC Faculty of Science & Engineering, Deakin University

Australia, Mr. S Vijay Anand – Director Technology, Aricent India, Prof. Dhananjay V

Gadre – NSIT New Delhi, Mr. Puneet Kumar – Senior AE, MathWorks India, Prof.

James McCartney – BCIT, Canada and Prof. Katrin Hartmann – GCU, UK.

Our Esteemed Panelists

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WECON 2016 Outcomes

WECON 2016 was attended by academicians & researchers from all over India. It

provided good opportunity to explore the possibility of inter institutional research

collaborations.

WECON 2016 was attended by researchers from around the globe; it provided a

great opportunity to learn each other culture and understand research challenges

and opportunities across borders.

WECON 2016 attendees were a good mix of industry and academia. Tremendous

platform to explore industry academia collaboration.

WECON 2016 had a great team of 54 reviewers, provided a great platform for

budding researchers in getting reviews for their research work.

Each of the 5 WECON 2016 tracks were chaired by 3 session chairs who were

experts in their areas. It was a great opportunity for the researchers to get reviews

and feedback about the work they were doing.

WECON 2016 featured 2 pre-conference hands-on workshops on cutting edge

Texas Instruments Technologies and was attended by 40 faculty of 13 different

institutions and the trainers were the experts from Industry. It provided excellent

opportunity for knowledge sharing.

WECON provided a great opportunity for networking.

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ANNEXURE A

Session wise list of papers presented in WECON 2016

Session 1.1 - Track 1 - Smart & Intelligent Electronics

Session Chair - Somsirsa Chatterjee -Advenio Intelis, Chandigarh|Ben Horan-Deakin University, Australia| Gurjinder Singh-Chitkara University , Punjab

Paper Title Authors

BAN E-CHATSEP: An Enhanced Energy-Efficient Protocol For Body Area Networks

Gurinderjeet Natt, Rajanpreet Bhatti - Chandigarh University

Autonomous Navigation And 2D Mapping Using SONAR Avirup Basu, Sourav Sarkar, Sudip Kumar Ghosh - Siliguri Institute Of Technology, West Bengal

Optimizing Transmission Cycle For Energy Efficiency Of Body Worn Gateway Node

Jaspal Singh - CDAC Mohali, R K Sharma, A K Gupta - NIT Kurukshetra

Design And Comparative Analysis Of Low Power 64 Bit SRAM And Its Peripherals Using Power Reduction Techniques

Gaurav Vashisht - Cadence Design Systems, Hitesh Pahuja, Balwinder Singh - CDAC Mohali, Sudhakar Panday - Desh Bhagat University Mandi Gobindgarh

A Comparison For Capturing Arm Kinematics Using Solutions Of Wahba’s Problem And Ordinary Data Fusion Mechanisms

M. Sajeewani Karunarathne, Pubudu N. Pathirana - Deakin University Australia

Session 1.2 - Track 2 – Alternate Energy Based Electronic System

Session Chair - Balwinder Singh -C-DAC Mohali|Rupali Patil -Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Technology, Mumbai|Rajvir Singh-

Chitkara University , Punjab Paper Title Authors

Modeling Of Local Rural Grid Connection Of Cluster Based Micro-Hydro Plants

Pravesh Kafle - Butwal Power Company, Madhav Poudel, Kalyan Malla - Oshin Power Service Pvt. Ltd. (Nepal)

Design And Analysis Of Linear Feedback Shift Register (LFSR) Using Gate Diffusion Input Technique.

Balwinder Singh, Radhika Sharma - CDAC Mohali

Monitoring And Controlling Of Continue Furnace Line Using PLC And SCADA

Amandeep Kaur, Dipti Bansal - Punjabi University Patiala

Digital Signal Preservation Approaches Of Archived Biomedical Paper Records- A Review

Rupali Patil - Rajiv Gandhi Institute Of Technology,Mumbai & Ramesh Karandikar - K. J. Somaiya College Of Engineering,Mumbai

FPGA Based PV Inverter Using Sinusoidal Pulse Width Modulation Algorithm For PV System

Sunita Oli, Jatinder Singh, Sumit Budhiraja - UIET Punjab University Chandigarh & Deepshikha Bhat - Chitkara University Punjab

A Survey On Hardware Design Issues In RF Energy Harvesting For Wireless Sensor Networks(WSN)

Gourav Verma - Northern India Engineering, Vidushi Sharma - Gautam Buddha University Greater Noida

Design and Modeling of Hybrid MPPT MJSC Photovoltaic and Wind based Microgrid using Multilevel Inverter

Mamatha Sandhu - Chitkara University Punjab, Tilak Thakur - PEC Chandigarh

Session 1.3 - Track 3 - Real Time Embedded Systems

Session Chair - Shantala Devi Patil-REVA Institute of Technology & Management, Bangalore|Vijay Anand-Director Technology,

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Aricent India|Manoj Gulati-IIIT Delhi

Paper Title Authors

Design And Simulation Of CMOS MEMS Accelerometer Behavioral Model

Deepika Rana, Mandeep Kaur - Punjabi University Patiala

Design Considerations For Orientation Estimation System Kirti Tripathi - Banasthali University Rajasthan, Parag Narkhede - VIT University Vellore, Rahul Kottath, Vipan Kumar, Shashi Poddar - CSIR - CSIO Chandigarh

Elliptic Curve Cryptography For Real Time Embedded Systems In IOT

Parwinder Kaur Dhillon & Sheetal Kalra - Guru Nanak Dev University Regional Campus Jalandhar

Design And Implementation Of Cryptography Based Attitude And Heading Reference System With Extended Kalman Filter

Kirat Singh, Vipan Kumar, Sandeep Singhai, CSIR-CSIO Chandigarh, Dipanshu Sehjal - Indian Institute Of Information Technology

Design And Performance Analysis Of RAM _RD_Control Module Using Xilinx ISE 14.2

Harkinder Kaur, Swaranjeet Singh Sidhu, Divanshi Aggarwal, Priyanka Tandon, Chandni Thakur, Dr. Harsh Sohal - Chitkara University Punjab

Prediction Of Heart Diseases Using Associative Classification

Amit Kamra, Harbhag Singh, Jagdeep Singh - GNDEC Ludhiana

Session 1.4 - Track 4 – Wireless Communication

Session Chair - Basanti Ghanti-Shetty Institute Of Technology,Kalaburagi|Lalbahadur Dube-DRDO Dehradun|Meenakshi

Rawat-IIT Roorkee Paper Title Authors

Development Of Android Based Smart Home And Nurse Calling System For Differently Abled

Neeraj Khera, Sharad Tiwari, R. P. Singh, Tathagata Ghosh, Pradeep Kumar - Amity University, NOIDA

CPW-FED UWB Antenna With Multiple Band-Notches For Wimax ,Wlan And Downlink Of X-Band Satellite Communication Systems

Amanpreet Kaur, Garima Srivastava - Ambedkar Institute Of Advanced Communication Technologies And Research New Delhi

Hardware-In-Loop Simulation Of A White-FI System Utilizing The TV White Spaces In India

Bharath Keshavamurthy, Asif Ahmad, Abhay Narasimha, Mahesh N, Suma MN - BMS College Of Engineering Bangalore

Impact Of Oversampling Digital Filter At The Relay On The Performance Of Physical Layer Network Coded Transmission

Basanti Ghanti - Shetty Institute Of Technology Kalaburagi, Siddarama R Patil - Poojya Doddappa Appa College of Engineering, Kalaburagi

How Useful Are Ble Beacons For Mobile Guides? Katrin Hartmann, Andrew Quinn - Glasgow Caledonian University UK

Session 1.5 - Track 5 - Wireless Networks

Session Chair - Dr. M N Suma -BMS College of Engineering Bangalore|Puneet Kumar-Mathworks India |TL Singal-Chitkara

University , Punjab Paper Title Authors

TDMA-Based Mac Protocols For Wireless Sensor Networks: A Survey And Comparative Analysis

Tarunpreet Kaur, Dilip Kumar - SLIET Longowal

Analysis Of Elliptic Curve Cryptography Techniques For Secure Routing In Wireless Sensor Networks

Savita Saini, Shalini Sah - Amity University Noida

Approach Towards Increasing Efficiency Of Communication Protocol In Wireless Sensor Network Using Modified Routing Protocol

Sweta Singh, Kunal Gupta - Amity University Noida

A Novel Outlier Detection Scheme (ODS) In Wireless Sensor Networks

Shantala Devi Patil - Reva ITM Bangalore, Vijayakumar B P - MSR Institute Of Technology Bangalore

A Review On Significance Of Design Parameters Of Microstrip Patch Antennas

Navreet Kaur, Shivani Malhotra - Chitkara University Punjab

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Session 1.6 - Track 1(a) - Smart Electronics using TI

Session Chair - JAGDISH LAL RAHEJA-CEERI Pilani|Vaibhav Ostwal-Texas Instruments

Paper Title Authors

Controlling A Remotely Located Robot Using Hand Gestures In Real Time: A DSP Implementation

Jagdish Raheja, Arun Rajsekhar - CSIR-CEERI, & Ankit Chaudhary - Truman State University, USA

Smart Water Management Using IOT Sayali Wadekar, Vinayak Vakare, Ramratan Prajapati, Shivam Yadav, Vijaypal Yadav - Terna Engineering College, Navi Mumbai

Design And Analysis Of The High Speed AES Using Ancient Vedic Mathematics Novel Approach

Amit Kumar, Hitesh Pahuja, Balwinder Singh - CDAC Mohali

IOT Enabled Astronomical Photometry Shivank Gupta - Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology New Delhi

Session 2.1 - Track 1 - Smart & Intelligent Electronics

Session Chair - Jagdish Lal Raheja-CEERI Pilani|Somsirsa Chatterjee -Advenio Intelis, Chandigarh|Gurjinder Singh-Chitkara

University , Punjab Paper Title Authors

Analyzing And Scripting Indian Election Strategies Using Big Data Via Apache Hadoop Framework

Gagandeep Jagdev - Punjabi University Patiala, Amandeep Kaur - Guru Kashi University, Talwandi Sabo, Punjab

Better Approach for Denoising EEG Signals Gautam Kaushal - Punjabi University Patiala, Amanpreet Singh - Punjab Technical University (PTU), Jalandhar & V.K. Jain - SLIET Longowal

A Supervised Approach For Automated Detection Of Hemorrhages In Retinal Fundus Images

Navkiran Kaur, Sheifali Gupta, Jasmeen Kaur - Chitkara University Punjab, Mausumi Acharyya, Somsirsa Chatterjee, Nishant Kapoor - Advenio Tecnosys

Characterization Of Classifier Performance On Left And Right Limb Motor Imagery Using Support Vector Machine

Somsirsa Chatterjee - Advenio Intelis, Shubham Singla, S. N. Garsha - ASET Amity University New Delhi

Effects Of Wrist Kinematic Coupling Motion In Dart-Thrower’s Motion

Nhan Nguyen, Tarun Mahani, Trieu H. Pham, Pubudu N. Pathirana - Deakin University, Sina Babazadeh, Ferraby Ling, Richard Page-Barwon Health University Hospital Australia

Area And Power Analysis Of Adiabatic 2x1multiplexer Design On 65nm CMOS Technology

Anjali Sharma - AP Goyal Simla University, Harsh Sohal & Kulbhushan Sharma - Chitkara University Punjab

A Comparative Analysis of Different Topographic Controls over North Indian Himalayan

Sartajvir Singh - Chitkara University H.P. , Vishakha Sood - CGC Landran Chandigarh, Ravneet Kaur - BBSBEC Fategarh Punjab

Session 2.2 - Track 1 - Smart & Intelligent Electronics

Session Chair - Balwinder Singh -C-DAC Mohali|Ben Horan-Deakin University, Australia|Rajvir Singh-Chitkara University ,

Punjab Paper Title Authors

Towards Large-Scale Haptic Virtual Reality Training For Micro-Robotic Cell Injection

Syafizwan Faroque, Ben Horan, Michael Mortimer - Deakin University & Mulyoto Pangestu - Monash University Australia

Smart And Assistive Electrical Impedance Tomographic Tool For Clinical Imaging

Harsahib Singh, Vaneet Singh, Gurmeet Singh - Guru Tegh Bahadur Institute Of Technology New Delhi

Parameter Analysis Of Carbon Nanotube For High Performance Interconnects

Sulochana Vemu, Balwinder Singh - CDAC Mohali, Sunil Agrawal - UIET Punjab University Chandigarh

An Effective Algorithm For Automatic Measurement Of Vessel Calibre In Retinal Fundus Images

Jasmeen Kaur, Navkiran Kaur, Sheifali Gupta - Chitkara University Punjab, Mausumi Acharyya, Nishant Kapoor, Somsirsa Chatterjee - Advenio Tecnosys

A Novel Design Of Low Power Nonvolatile 10T1R SRM Cell Neha Gupta, Navneet Nagpal, Hitesh Pahuja - CDAC Mohali

Wireless Wearable Feedback System For Medical Application Of Partial Weight Bearing

Markus Hill, Arjit Kapoor, Dominik Krumm, Wolfgang Killian, Stephan Odenwald - Technische Universität Chemnitz Germany

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Session 2.3 - Track 3 - Real Time Embedded Systems

Session Chair - Rupali Patil -Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Technology, Mumbai|Vijay Anand-Director Technology, Aricent

India|Manoj Gulati-IIIT Delhi Paper Title Authors

MEMS Based Inertial Navigation System: An Exploratory Analysis

Amanpreet Kaur, Archana Mantri - Chikara University, Punjab, P Balsundar and Alex Noel Joseph Raj - Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, Vipan Kumar - CSIR-CSIO, Chandigarh

Load Balancing In Tasks Using Honey Bee Behavior Algorithm In Cloud Computing

Anureet Kaur, Bikrampal Kaur - Chandigarh Group Of Colleges Landran

Development Of Image Dehazing System Amruta Deshmukh, Satbir Singh - CDAC Mohali

A Real Time Velocity Measurement System For Small Flyers Using Multiple Detectors

Amarendra Goap, Deepa Srivastava, Deepak Sharma and A K Shukla - CSIR-CSIO, Chandigarh

Mitigation Of DDOS Attacks In Cloud Computing Preeti Daffu, Amanpreet Kaur - CGC Landran

Enhancing The Performance Of The Sensor Networks Via Implementing Modify Cluster Based Scheme

Gitanshu Kaushal, Vishal Kaushal- LR Institute Of Engineering And Technology Solan

Session 2.4 - Track 4 – Wireless Communication

Session Chair - Dr. M N Suma -BMS College of Engineering Bangalore|Basanti Ghanti-Shetty Institute Of

Technology,Kalaburagi|Meenakshi Rawat-IIT Roorkee Paper Title Authors

Complex Field Network Coding With OFDM In Distributed Wireless Networks

Rida Khan, Ibrahim Altunbas, Gunes Karabulut Kurt - Istanbul Technical University Turkey

Step Notched Flexible Microstrip Patch Antenna With Reduced Ground For Bluetooth, Ism And Wlan Applications

Upasana Malhotra, Avneet Kaur, Ekambir Sidhu - Punjabi University, Patiala

Performance Improvement Analysis By Dispersion And Non-Linearity Compensation For OOFDM Transmission

Harsimran Kaur - Chitkara University Punjab

Performance Enhancement Of DS-CDMA System Using Extended BPSK Modulation Scheme

Barkha Pandey, Raghu Harsh Kalia,Garima Mahendru, Monica Kaushik, Minika Arora - Amity University Noida

Analysing Behaviour of RRC filter Over Different Modulation Formats Over AWGN Channel

Jean Baptiste Artero - ESIGELEC (Ecole Supérieure d'Ingénieurs en Génie Electrique) Rouen,France, Harsimran Jit Kaur & Shivani Malhotra - Chitkara University Punjab

Session 2.5 - Track 5 - Wireless Networks

Session Chair - Shantala Devi Patil-REVA Intitute of Technology & Management, Bangalore|Lalbahadur Dube-DRDO

Dehradun|Puneet Kumar-Mathworks India Paper Title Authors

A Reactive Protocol For Multicast In Cognitive Radio Network

Diksha Goyal, Awadhesh Singh - NIT Kurukshetra

Power Efficient Routing Using Dominator Alteration In Wireless Networks

Sanya Chaba, Saumya Marwah, Awadhesh Singh - National Institute Of Technology Kurukshetra

Energy Optimization Of Hybrid Based H-Heed Protocol In Inter-Cluster Based Networks

Gitanshu Kaushal, Vishal Kaushal - LR Institute Of Engineering And Technology Solan

Modulator Design Using Six Port Microwave Network At A Carrier Frequency Of 1.9 Ghz

Lalbahadur Dube - DRDO Dehradun, Karun Rawat - IIT Roorkee, Anajan Basu, Shiban K. Koul - IIT Delhi