INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY JAMMU

M. Tech. program in Electrical Engineering

With Specialization in

Communications and Signal Processing

Preamble

Technological developments in the field of communications engineering have

revolutionized the way people see the world today, by crossing the limitations of

time and space. Recent advancements in communications and signal processing;

microwave, VLSI, and computing have collectively enabled people to connect to

the external world any-time, any-where. This has led to an era of enormous amount

of information exchange in the form of data, images and videos. With ever-

increasing expectations from users in the form of quality of service, the

communications industry is looking forward to experts who could think out of the

box, and suggest novel solutions to practical problems. In view of the growing

demand of expertise in the field of communications and signal processing, IIT

Jammu envisions an M. Tech. Program to provide deeper understanding of the

theoretical and application oriented practical concepts.

The program aims at helps in providing strong foundation with required analytical

concepts in the field of signal design theory, digital signal processing, and digital

communication systems. Extending beyond the basics, the program presents

advanced and practical concepts in information and coding theory, microwave

antennas, RF systems and adaptive signal processing, which are aided by relevant

laboratory experience. The program also motivates students to utilize concepts to

explore novel solutions to real life problems, which culminates, finally, in a

dissertation. Thus, the program offers a unique opportunity to prepare a scholar as

a young professional ready to contribute to socio-technical problems with

applicability of communication and signal processing techniques.

Program Objectives

The objective of the M. Tech. in Communications and Signal Processing program

is to provide strong foundation with required analytical concepts in the field of

signal design theory, digital signal processing and digital communication systems.

It will motivate students to utilize concepts to explore novel solutions to real life

problems and to prepare a scholar as a young professional ready to contribute to

socio-technical problems with applicability of communication and signal

processing techniques.

Program Outcomes

On completion of the program the graduates will

Learn modeling of communication systems, optimum detection and

estimation algorithms, adaptive signal processing techniques, advanced

architecture for signal processing, RF systems, and multimodal signal

analysis techniques.

Gain knowledge in communication systems as linear vector channels; learn

optimum detection, linear and non-linear detection algorithms, and MIMO

signal detection algorithms using various techniques.

Have knowledge in processing of various signals like image, speech,

biomedical, and optical and to apply in real time applications.

Be able to use industry standard tools for the design, analysis and

implementation of communications and signal processing systems.

Carry out cutting edge projects with a flexibility to balance between

research- and application-oriented works as per their interest.

About Indian Institute of Technology Jammu

It was a memorable day on May 01,2016 at Jammu, when a Memorandum of

Understanding (MoU) between Department of Higher Education, Government of

Jammu & Kashmir and Department of Higher Education, MHRD, Government of

India, was signed, setting the ball rolling to set up an IIT campus at village Jagti,

Tehsil Nagrota at Jammu. The site is located on the National Highway 44 and is

about 15 Km from the Airport. The State Government, J&K has provided the land,

measuring 400 acres for the establishment of the permanent campus of Indian

Institute of Technology at Jammu. The Land has been handed over to the CPWD,

Jammu Division to take up the construction of the Transit campus at Jagti as per

layout plan.

IIT Jammu admitted the first batch of 82 bright students in August 2016 at a

Temporary campus in Paloura, Jammu. The initial intake of students in the first

year 2016 was 90 students, 30 each in Computer Science and Engineering,

Electrical Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering discipline.

The transit campus at Jagti spread over 25 acres within the actual site of 400 acres

became operational from the session 2017-18 in August 2017 and it can

accommodate about 650 students. In the second year 2017, Civil Engineering

discipline also started with an initial intake of 30 students.

Current Trends In Industry And Academia

Speech and Audio Processing:

The growing demand for speech-based biometrics for identification purpose is

recognized as a primary driver for this market. The industry is witnessing a

tremendous demand for speech recognition applications owing to the increasing

incidence of fraud due to the use of text passwords. While regular letter or digit

based passwords can be easily memorized and cracked and are a security threat,

biometric passwords which replace symbols with the voice of a person are difficult

to replicate. The voice of a person serves as a password and renders authentication

and identification. Owing to the securities as mentioned above offered, the ASR

applications allow the support of authentication and enrollment of clients by

enhancing customer service. This method also reduces the use of the keyboard as

the text is no longer used as passwords. These applications thus are expected to

drive product demand as it increases efficiency, response time and accuracy of the

security systems. In an another application of speech in intelligibility improvement

under various noise environments such as train station, car noise environment,

parliament noise, cockpit/pilot noise etc have been the state of the art.

IoT

To optimize the performance of many private and work lives, huge amount of data

needs to be collected from various sources. The revolutionary future technology

IoT provides an easy way to collect such data and helps analyzing them efficiently.

However, this technology also brings new challenges and issues that need to be

addressed. New solutions like Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain or 5G promise to

overcome these challenges.

5G

Current communication standards are inadequate to cater the demand of future data

requirement. 5G promises the same by establishing connectivity anytime,

anywhere between any users on demand. 5G will provide massive data rate by

using high spectral, energy efficiency and device density. 5G will use massive

MIMO, millimeter wave (mmWave), massive machine type communication

(mMTC), ultrareliable low latency communication (URLLC) and small cell

techniques. 5G will also integrate existing LTE and WiFi networks for seamless

connectivity and coverage. 5G will demand revolutionary solutions to address

these challenges.

Massive MIMO Technology

Massive MIMO-also called Large-Scale Antenna Systems-is a promising candidate

for high data rate demand for future communication systems. It uses an

unprecedented number of antennas simultaneously serving a much smaller number

of terminals. It can bring at least ten-fold improvements in area throughput by

increasing the spectral efficiency (bit/s/Hz/cell), while using the same bandwidth

and density of base stations as in current networks. It provides uniformly great

service everywhere in the cell, however, simple in signal processing at the

transceiver.

mmWave Communication

Next generation communication technology requires high bandwidth to sustain the

demand in data rate. Millimeter waves technology is a perfect solution to this

problem. Millimeter waves communication operates at frequencies between 30 and

300 gigahertz which translates into wavelengths in the range from 1 to 10

millimeter provided large unused bandwidth. In this frequency range high

atmospheric attenuation and absorption by gases reduces the range of

transmission. By packing large number of antennas in the same physical area,

mmWave technology can produce high antenna gain to overcome this attenuation.

However, this technology is in its infancy which required much more attention to

be used in the next generation communication system.

Physical Layer Security

Traditionally security is provided in the upper layers of the communication

protocol stack through encryption and decryption methods using public or private

keys. This can be compromised if an eavesdropper has sufficient computation

power. Physical layer security can provide perfect security where security is

provided through information theoretic means by using physical channel

properties. However, many challenges are yet to be addressed.

Image and Video Analysis:

In today’s world, we are constantly sensed by different visual sensors every day.

To make the most of this rich visual data, it is critical to develop the ability to

make sense of these fleeting images, discern patterns and get a clear understanding

of their relevance. Surveillance is one of the major tools for analysing and

extracting meaningful and actionable information from humongous amount of

digital video data. It can be used for different real world applications such as traffic

management, crowd and people management, parking, building, retail and critical

infrastructure/object management, etc. Current market demands improved and new

surveillance applications which will be cost-effective and efficient.

MIMO Antenna Design

RF and Microwave devices are the important part of any communication system.

In order to communicate between two distance locations we need to send our

signals either by guided medium (via optical fibres) or by free space medium (via

microwave antennas). Depending upon the desired frequency bands, different sizes

and types of microwave antennas (transmitter and receiver) are designed. Also, in

order to process the input and output signals, different kind of microwave filters,

multiplexers and amplifiers are needed. Moreover, in the modern age technologies,

with the use of multi input and multi output (MIMO) antennas, single device is

used to transmit and receive different frequency bands. This process creates the

interference between different frequency bands. As a result, designing of such

devices become more complex, and deep understanding of wave propagation is

required to design these devices. The practical knowledge of wave propagation

will help in design a complete RF system needed to communicate from one

position to another.

Tentative Semester-wise Credit Distribution

Tentative Course List

The following is the tentative scheme of the courses to be offered in the proposed

program. The actual courses/electives offered may vary marginally depending on

the availability of the faculty member and administrative approvals.

Semester Credits

I 16

II 19

III 11

IV 14

Total Credits 60

Semester-I

Signal Theory

Advanced Digital Signal Processing

RF Systems

Digital Communications

Lab-I: RF Systems

Lab-II: Advanced Digital Signal Processing

Semester-II

Elective - I

Adaptive Signal Processing

Antenna and Wave Propagation

Detection and Estimation Theory

Elective-II

Lab-II: Digital Communication Lab

Seminar

Semester-III

Technical Writing and Communication Skills

Elective-III

Dissertation I

Semester-IV

Dissertation II

Tentative List Of Electives To Be Offered

Tentative list of Electives to be offered

Digital Image Processing

Computational Electromagnetics

Statistical Signal Processing

Communications Networks

Information Theory & Coding

Spread Spectrum & Multicarrier Techniques

Array Signal Processing

Multidimensional Signal Processing

Speech and Audio Processing

Image and Video Processing

Multirate Signal Processing

Optimization Techniques

Machine Learning

Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition

Soft Computing

VLSI Signal Processing

Biomedical Signal Processing

Advanced Antenna Theory

VLSI Testing and Testability

VLSI Technology

Microwave and Millimeter Wave Integrated circuit

Microwave Imaging

Microwave Measurements

Wireless Communications & Networks

Communications in Smart Grid

Power Line Communication

Selected Topics is Communication and Signal Processing-I-V

Selected Topics is RFDT

Satellite Communication

Optical Communication

Tools for Optimization

Expertise Available

Dr. Ajay Singh

PhD, IIT Delhi

Research: Cognitive Radios networks, Simultaneous Wireless Information and

Power Transfer (SWIPT) Systems and Physical Layer Security

Dr. Ravikant Saini

PhD, IIT Delhi

Research: Cooperative communication, Resource allocation, Physical layer security,

OFDM

Dr. Ankit Dubey

PhD, IIT Delhi

Research: Communication theory, Power line communication, Diversity combining,

Multi-hop transmission, Smart-grid communication, Visible light communication

Dr. Sudhakar Modem

Ph.D, IIT Delhi

Research: Two-way relaying, RF energy harvesting networks, Cognitive radio

networks

Dr. Karan Nathwani

PhD, IIT Kanpur

Research: Speech intelligibility, Machine Learning, Speech Enhancement, Audio

Indexing.

Dr. Badri N Subudhi

PhD, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata

Research: Video Surveillance, Pattern recognition, Remotely Sensed Image

analysis, Medical Image Analysis

Dr. Alok Kumar Saxena

PhD, IIT Kanpur

Research: Finite Difference Time Domain (Fdtd)

Dr. Kushmanda Saurav

PhD, IIT Kanpur

Research: Microwave Antennas, MIMO Antenna Systems, Characteristic Mode

Theory, Metamaterial Inspired Antennas

Dr. Anup Shukla

PhD, IIT Kanpur

Research: Power System Optimization, Micro-Grid and Smart Grid, Distribution

Network, Integration of renewable energy into existing power system network

Dr. Chinmoy Kundu

PhD, IIT Delhi

Research: Wireless Communication, Physical Layer Security, MIMO, 5G New

Radio

Eligibility Criteria, Number of Seats, and Other Aspects

The prospective candidates would be offered admission to this program with the

qualifying GATE exam as the primary screening criterion and the further technical

round of written test/interview as the principle subsequent criterion. Electronics

and Communication, Electronics and Telecommunication, Electronics and

Instrumentation, Electrical and Electronics and Electrical Engineering would be

the required subject specializations at the GATE. The intake of the course would

be 12. The fees to be paid for the course shall be as per the existing structure at IIT

Jammu.

Reservation

The Govt of India rules with respect to the candidates in the reserved category as

existing in other IITs shall be applicable. The admission authority of IIT Jammu

has reserved some seats for candidates belonging to reserved categories. Eligible

candidates will have to produce reservation certificate during interview process.

How to Apply

The candidates, who wish to pursue this M.Tech. program from the institute, will

have to apply only through online portal for IIT Jammu M.Tech. admission 2019.

Interested candidates will have to first register themselves at the online portal and

then fill the form. It is advised that candidates must check eligibility criteria of IIT

Jammu M.Tech. 2019 before they start filling the application form. The application

form (in online portal) of IIT Jammu M.Tech. 2019 will be available as per the

dates specified in this brochure. In order to get enrolled in M.Tech programmes,

candidates must have qualified GATE entrance examination and should have a

valid GATE score. The admission authority of IIT Jammu will also conduct a

written test/personal interview for those candidates who satisfy the basic

qualification criteria, as per the dates specified in this document. The GATE score,

CPI/CGPA and the performance in the personal interview will be taken into

consideration during the selection process of IIT Jammu M.Tech. 2019. The

eligibility criteria of IIT Jammu M.Tech. 2019 must be fulfilled by the candidates.

a) Eligibility Criteria: The programme is open to candidates of all categories

with Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering / Technology (in Electronics and

Communication or Electronics and Telecommunication or Electronics and

Instrumentation or Electrical and Electronics or Electrical Engineering)

with 60% or 6.5 CGPA/CPI throughout the academic career (a 5%

relaxation in the marks will be given in either Secondary (10th) or Higher

Secondary (12th) level Certificate Examination) AND having a valid

Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) score in either EC or EE or

EI discipline.

Note: Special consideration will be given to the candidates having B.Tech.

degree from an IIT with a minimum CPI/CGPA of 8.0 with a valid GATE

score.

b) Reservation Policy: The Govt. of India rules with respect to the candidates

in the reserved category as existing in other IITs shall be applicable. The

admission authority of IIT Jammu has reserved some seats for candidates

belonging to reserved categories. Eligible candidates will have to produce

reservation certificate during interview process.

c) Additional Conditions For Candidates Still To Appear In Qualifying

Examinations: Candidates still to appear in their qualifying degree

examinations may also apply, provided they appear in all their qualifying

degree examinations and complete all requirements for their degrees before

the date of registration to M. Tech. programme at IIT Jammu in July 2019. If

selected, such candidates shall be admitted provisionally, and they will have

to furnish the degree completion certificate with results of their qualifying

degree examinations latest by 31-10-2019. Further, they must fulfill the

minimum requirements of marks/CGPA/CPI, and other conditions like valid

GATE score etc., as mentioned under eligibility criteria. Failure to fulfill any

of these requirements shall automatically result in cancellation of admission.

Important Dates

Online application closes 17th May

Last date of payment of application fees 17th May

Announcement of shortlisted candidates 20th May

Sending call letters for personal interview 24th May

Selection interview 23rd

June

Announcement of final offer 24th June

Closure of the admission process 30th June

Registration of the students at IIT Jammu 21st July

Orientation program at IIT Jammu starts 22nd

July

Commencement of Classes at IIT Jammu 29th July

Program Fees

The Program Fees shall be as per IIT norms. Please refer other appropriate sections

on the IIT, Jammu website.

Financial Assistance/Educational Loan

The Financial Assistance to the students shall be as per IIT norms. Please refer to

the appropriate sections on the IIT Jammu website.