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On

One Day Workshop on

“Emerging Research Trends in Mobile

Computing & Wireless Technologies”

Organized under

POST GRADUATE RESEARCH CENTER FOR MOBILE COMPUTING

AND WIRELESS TECHNOLOGIES

18th October, 2014

At

GUJARAT TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY

CHANDKHEDA CAMPUS

Nr. Vishwakarma Government Engineering College,

Visat - Gandhinagar Highway, Chandkheda,

Ahmedabad – 382424 – Gujarat.

Phone: 079-23267500,

Fax: 079-2630 150

GUJARAT TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY

(Established under Gujarat Act No. 20 of 2007)

Gujarat Technological University (GTU), “POST GRADUATE RESEARCH CENTER

FOR MOBILE COMPUTING AND WIRELESS TECHNOLOGIES” organized One Day

Workshop on “Emerging Research Trends in Mobile Computing & Wireless Technologies” on

18th October, 2014 by Dr. Sanjeev Gupta, Shri N. D Acharya and Shri. Gargi Das.

The objective of the workshop was to give awareness about the recent substantial increase of

research & development, adoption in wireless and mobile technologies and considerable amount

of contributions to this domain from India to various avenues like research, coding, localization,

marketing, app store submissions, infrastructure, maintenance, job opportunities etc.

The primary focus of this workshop was to share knowledge about Emerging Research Trends

and Challenges in Wireless Technologies, Challenges in Satellite Communications and ignite

faculties to take up Mobile application development using Android environment. 111 (19

students & 92 faculty) members (EC, CE & IT, Engineering department) from various

Engineering colleges affiliated to GTU across the state participated in the workshop.

GUJARAT TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY (Established under Gujarat Act No. 20 of 2007)

POST GRADUATE RESEARCH CENTER FOR

MOBILE COMPUTING AND WIRELESS TECHNOLOGIES

Gujarat Technological University

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The workshop started with the inaugural function at 9:30 AM. Assistant Professor Mrs.

Krishnaba Parmar, gave an introductory speech and shared few words about Gujarat

Technological University (GTU), “POST GRADUATE RESEARCH CENTER FOR MOBILE

COMPUTING AND WIRELESS TECHNOLOGIES” and the objectives of the workshop with

participants. She thanked Dr. Akshai Aggarwal, Vice Chancellor, Gujarat Technological

University, for providing necessary support to host the workshop.

Assistant Professor Mr. Margam Suthar, Post Graduate Research Center for Mobile

Computing and Wireless Technologies at Gujarat Technological University gave the

Introduction of the invited experts and welcomed the guest speaker Dr. Sanjeev Gupta,

Shri N. D Acharya and Shri. Gargi Das with a Bouquet.

18th October, 2014

Session-1 (11.00 am - 01.00 pm)

The morning session started at 10.00 AM by Dr. Sanjeev Gupta. He began with introductions

and then discuss Emerging Research Trends and Challenges in Wireless System Design.

He talked about the progress in IC technology and said that making chips that

incorporate all the elements of a complete wireless radio system on a chip can be a real

possibility. Such an “antenna-to-network” chip would incorporate an RF front-end

besides baseband digital signal processing and network protocols. RF components and

circuits form the backbone of today’s wireless, mobile and satellite communication

networks.



Consequently, both practicing and aspiring professionals need to be able to solve even more

complex RF front-end design issues. This talk will focus on understanding every aspect of

modern wireless system design. He mentioned that from the antenna through the receiver front-

end to the baseband level, there are lots of issues and design challenges faced by the engineers.

There is a need to evaluate various design parameters such as carrier-to-noise ratio, receiver

noise figure, inter-modulation products, spurious mixer products, image frequencies, dynamic

range, etc. Blending theoretical rigor with practical examples, this presentation addresses a

variety of complex, real-world problems that the system engineers are likely to encounter in

today’s communications industry. It deals with various issues for the optimum system design by

conceptualizing a set of functional blocks, and their specifications, that will interact in a manner

that produces the required system performance.

Session-2 (2.00 pm - 3.30 pm)

The afternoon session commenced at 2.00 PM by Shri N. D

Acharya. The presentation of Shri N D Acharya was based on

Mobile Communication in Satcom Domain which included PPT

and videos.

The Power Point presentation on basic Satcom covered

Satellite As Communication Media ,

Satellite Orbits (LEO, MEO, GEO, Polar, Elliptical, Geo-

Synchronous orbits and its relevance),

Satellite Frequency Bands (L, S, X, C, KU & KA) and its

used for communication

Different Terms used in Satellite Domain & its relevance.

Challenges in Satellite Communications, which continually evolves the satellite domain

with emerging trends. Viz. Legality & License, Connectivity, Access, Routing, Localization

of mobile stations, Handover in satellite systems, BW & Application, Investments and ROI

Almost one hour of Video Presentations was given which covered various part of satellite

communications challenges and emerging trends for various Mobile & transportable

applications.

Satellite in Space, Satellite Construction, LEO Constellation Overview GPS,LEO (Low

Earth Orbit) Satellite Overview, LEO Mobile Service Iridium, LEO Iridium Mobile -

Making A Call, GEO Mobile Antenna RaySat, GEO Mobile Antenna Raysat at sea, GEO



Mobile Inmarsat IsatPhone Pro services and features, GEO Inmarsat IsatPhone Pro -

Making a call, GEO Marine Antenna TracVision Receive Only, GEO Snipe Auto deployable

antenna-Latest Tech ,GEO Auto Deployable Antenna, GEO TracPhone Satellite

Communications Systems, GEO Inmarsat BGAN Transportable terminal, GEO S

Band MobileTV in Europe using DVB-SH,GEO S Band KAL - Ditress Alert Transmitter,

GEO LEO Cospas Sarsat Overview, GEO LEO 406 MHz Emergency Locator Transmitters,

GEO LEO Terrestrial Mobile in GMDSS.

Session-3 (4.00 pm - 5.30 pm)

During this session Shri. Gargi Das explained various players of the mobile ecosystem and

where they can fit in. After that a brief on all platforms was provided with a focus on tools, app-

store and challenges of every platform.

Later on, various opportunities was explained to faculty members in the form of augmented

reality, internet of things, sensors. There are many ideas shared by the expert such as social

community enhancement, Agriculture application and Contact, message and email viewing

applications. Faculty member interacted a lot and asked lots of questions.

During the closing ceremony of the workshop, faculty members expressed gratitude towards

GTU for organizing such type of useful workshop for faculty members and also gave feedback to

organize workshops with practical session on Mobile Computing & Wireless Technologies,

hands-on session regarding how to develop android application.

Vice Chancellor, Gujarat Technological University, Dr. Akshai Aggrawal, was the driving

force behind this whole process. Due to his vision and interest, the workshop became possible

and was a great success.



BRIEF PROFILE OF RESOURCE PERSONS

DR. SANJEEV GUPTA is currently a Professor at Dhirubhai Ambani

Institute of Information and Communication Technology (DA-IICT),

Gandhinagar (Gujarat) since July 2002. He has been a visiting faculty in

last two academic years at IIT Gandhinagar. Currently, he is also Dean

(Students) at DA-IICT.

After graduation and M. Tech. From University of Delhi, he joined

TIFR (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research), Mumbai. He was

awarded Post-Graduate Scholarship by University of Delhi and

Commonwealth Scholarship by Commonwealth Scholarship

Commission, London in 1994. Consequently, he did his Ph.D. from The Queen’s University of

Belfast, UK, 1997. His topic of research was Tracking Antenna Architectures for Wireless

Communication Applications.

He has more than twenty four years of experience (including nine years of teaching

experience) in the field of High Frequency Microwave and Millimeter Wave Electronics,

Antennas, Radars and Communication and Wireless Subsystems/ Systems from VHF to

millimeter wave frequencies. He has successfully completed many research projects sponsored

by DRDO, Armament Research Board (Ministry of Defence), ISRO-Department of Space, DST

and Indian Meteorological Department.

He has authored and published / presented more fifty five publications in reputed National

and International Journals and Conferences. He has been the Organizing Committee Member of

various conferences held in India and abroad. He is also a reviewer for many reputed national/

international journals and conferences. His research interests include Antennas including Active

Integrated Antennas and Smart Antennas, Radar and Wireless Communication Sub-systems and

Systems, RF/Microwave Applications.

SHRI. N D ACHARYA is currently a General Manager at Infinium

Pvt. Ltd. He is currently working for Business Development, Product

Development, System concept building, System design and planning,

Project Management, Business development and Resource planning in

the main business of Satellite communication network at Infinium Pvt.

Ltd. He has more than thirty four years of experience in the field of

Satellite communication.

GUJARAT TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY (Established under Gujarat Act No. 20 of 2007)

POST GRADUATE RESEARCH CENTER FOR

MOBILE COMPUTING AND WIRELESS TECHNOLOGIES



Major/Key projects handled: Developer of CDMA based SATCOM modems for Min.

Defense., Satcom network turnkey contract for Ministry of Health, Uganda, Satcom System

solutions to VSNL. Satcom Subsystems development solutions to Min. Of Defense,

Development of Satcom printed antenna for defense, Tank communication project for Army

HQs, RAX exports, Doppler VOR and Conventional VOR, Distance Measuring equipment’s for

airports, Project planning for development of Commutated Aerial Direction finder for Indian

Air force, MARR/MUX/Digital radios for DoT and other users, Foreign product

representation of subsystems e.g. 3G UMTS IP core and Vocoders, Satellite Hubs and

Networks for Telemedicine, Education & Disaster Management.

Major associations: AWA Aerospace, Australia, Motorola Israel, Motorola defense USA,

Transworld USA, Sirius, Belgium, ETS, USA, Andrews USA, CPI and Xicom, USA, Vertex RSI,

Maxtech USA, LNR USA, Comstream and EFData, USA, Radyne, USA, Tadiran/Scopus,

Israel, Advantech Canada, ISRO, Min Of defense

SHRI.GARGI DAS is currently Lead Software Engineer at Emerson

Innovation Centre. Having 5 and more years of IT experience as a

Software Engineer, Development and Training in Symbian C++,

Objective C, Qt for S60 and Android Applications.

At present working with Emerson Innovation Center- as a Lead

Engineer since 3 Years. Before that was working at Infostretch Solutions since 1.5 Years where

he has executed more than 6 projects in iPhone and Symbian Platforms. Prior to that was

working at Trecin for a year, where the role was to train students to clear ASD exam and along

with that develop some good products for Symbian based S60 devices.

He has doing many Training program like, Conducted android boot camps for two days at

various Engineering College at Gujarat, Conducted One Day Seminar on iOS and Android at

various different venues at Ahmedabad, where some live demonstration of application

development was illustrated to the audience attending, Was One of the expert faculty for iOS

,for a five day short term training program at IIT Gandhinagar, there were 175 participants in

the STTP and Worked part time trainer consultant for iOS and Android Training at Motion

Frog, iWillStudy.com and VR systems Pvt Ltd.

Major/Key projects handled: TapIt, TapAndTell, FootFeed, Flick2Know, E-Capture,

TipAdvisor, SuperTwitter, Map-Location, Restaurant Locator, Drummer, Calls Info, M-

Backup, Smart Friend Locator, AtmLocator, MobiFair



Assistant Professor Mrs. Krishnaba Parmar during an Introductory Speech

Assistant Professor Mr. Margam Suthar during the

Welcome Speech

Faculty members (EC, CE & IT Engineering department) from various Engineering colleges affiliated to GTU

Workshop Photo Gallery



Faculty Members paying attention to speaker

The Workshop ended with the vote of thanks proposed by Dr. G. P. Vadodaria, Registrar I/c, GTU to all the Experts, participated Faculty Member & students and all GTU staff members.



GTU-PG RESEARCH CENTER FOR MOBILE COMPUTING AND

WIRELESS TECHNOLOGIES

CONTACT PERSON:

Mr. Margam Suthar Assistant Professor,

PG Research Centre for Mobile Computing and Wireless Technologies, Gujarat Technological University (GTU),

E-mail: [email protected], Direct: (079) 23267587, Personal: 8000685058.

Gujarat Technological University www.gtu.ac.in

Post Graduate Research Center for Mobile Computing and Wireless Technologies

(http://gtupgcenters.edu.in/)

GUJARAT TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY (Established Under Gujarat Act. No. 20 of 2007)

CHANDKHEDA CAMPUS Nr.Vishwakarma Government Engineering College, Visat -

Gandhinagar Highway, Chandkheda, Ahmedabad – 382424 – Gujarat.

Phone: 079-23267500, Fax: 079-2630 1500

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