| Friday 4th Jan 2008 |
| PRE-CONFERENCE TUTUORIAL |
| Registration 8 AM Onwards |
| 8:30AM- 9:45AM | Inauguration by Mr.V.Mahadevan, Country Manager, Agilent Technologies, India |
| 9:45AM- 10:00AM | TEA BREAK |
| 10:00AM- 1:00PM |
Tutorial 1A "Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) Technologies and its Future Trends” by Dr. S. Ravindra Babu, Senior Consultant,Wipro Technologies, India |
Tutorial 2A "Evolutionary Hardware" by Dr.V.Kamakoti, Assistant Professor, Indian Institute Of Technology, Chennai |
Tutorial 3A “New Directions in the Design of Secure Wireless Systems Using Chaotic Signals & Interference Mitigation Systems” by Dr.Peter Stavroulakis,TUC,Greece |
| 1:00PM- 2:00PM | LUNCH |
| 2:00PM- 5:00 PM |
Tutorial 1B "Broadband Wireless Access-Scope for Innovations from India" by Dr.K.Giridhar, Associate Professor, Indian Institute Of Technology, Chennai |
Tutorial 2B "Opportunities,Research Challenges & Trends in Networking" by Dr.S.V.Raghavan, Professor, Indian Institute Of Technology, Chennai |
Tutorial 3B “Security Issues In Vehicular Adhoc Network (VANET) – Budding Research Scope” by Dr.R.Srinivasan, General Motors ,R & D, Bangalore |
| Saturday 5th Jan 2008 |
| Registration 8 AM Onwards |
| 9:00AM- 10:00AM | Conference Inaugural Address by Dr.G.V.N. Appa Rao, CTS, India & Keynote Address by Dr.N.Sundararajan, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nan yang Technological University, Singapore |
| 10:00AM- 10:30AM | TEA BREAK |
| PLENARY TALKS |
| 10:30AM- 11:00AM |
“Signal Processing Trends in Smart Antenna” by Dr.Ajitt Kalghatgi CRL, BEL, Bangalore |
"DSP based digital controller for a high performance Gun stabilization system" by Mr. S .Sundaresh, CVRDE, India |
“Information Centric Security” by Mr.Pradeep Jain, RSA, Bangalore, India |
| Oral Presentation |
| 11:00AM- 12:00PM |
Session 1A Communication-I |
Session 1B Signal Processing-I |
Session 1C Networking-I |
| Poster Presentation |
| 12:00PM- 1:00PM |
Communication & VLSI |
Image Processing |
Networking-I |
| 1:00PM- 2:00PM | LUNCH |
| PLENARY TALKS |
| 2:00PM- 2:30PM |
“3G-Applications & Evolution” by Mr. Abhay Vaish, Ericsson, India |
“Semantic Aware Network Security” by Mr.N.Srinivasan, RSA,Bangalore, India |
“Future Trends in Mobile Communication” by Mr. Murtuza, Nokia India Pvt. Ltd., India |
| PLENARY TALKS |
| 2:30PM- 3.00PM |
“Broadband Access using Radio over Fiber Networks” by Dr.Xavier Fernando, Ryerson University, Canada |
“Current Trends in Engineering and Digital Asset Management” by Dr.V.L Narasimhan, Western Kentucky University, USA |
“Security in Wireless Networks” by Dr.Mudhakar Srivatsa, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA |
| Oral Presentation |
| 3:00PM- 4:00PM |
Session 2A Communication-II |
Session 2B Signal Processing-II |
Session 2C Networking-II |
| 4:00PM- 4:30PM | TEA BREAK |
| 4:30PM- 5:00PM | POSTER DISPLAY |
| PLENARY TALKS |
| 5:00PM- 5:30PM |
"Overview of LTE Technology" by Mr. Subramaniam Sahasranamam, Show Wood Infocom Technologies, India |
"ASIC Physical Design" by Mr. Charudattan Nagarajan, IBM Systems and Technology, India |
“High Resilient Networking Elements” by Mr.Pathangi N Janardhanan, Force10Networks, India |
| Oral Presentation |
| 5:30PM- 6:30PM |
Session 3A Communication-III |
Session 3B Signal Processing-III |
Session 3C Networking-III |
| 6:30PM- 7:30PM | CULTURALS |
| 7:30PM onwards | DINNER |
| Sunday 6th Jan 2008 |
| 9:00AM- 9:30AM | Keynote Address by Dr. Panchanathan Sethuraman, Arizona State University, USA |
| PLENARY TALKS |
| 9:30AM- 10:00 AM |
“ Fiber Optic Networking” by P.U.B. Sharma, Networking Manager, Trinity, Mumbai, India |
“Image Semantic Knowledge Extraction” by Dr.M.Rajeswari, University of Sains, Malaysia |
“Wireless Sensor Networks” by Mr.M.Palaniswamy, University of Melbourne, Australia |
| Oral Presentation |
| 10:00AM- 11:00AM |
Session 4A Communication-IV |
Session 4B Image Processing-I |
Session 4C Networking-IV |
| 11:00AM- 11:15AM | TEA BREAK |
| Poster Presentation |
| 11:15AM- 11:45PM |
Signal Processing |
Biomedical |
Networking-II |
| PLENARY TALKS |
| 11:45AM- 12:15PM |
"Recent Trends in Embedded Technologies” by Mr.V.G.Krishnamurthy, HCL, India |
“WiMax and Technology Convergence ” by Dr. G Subrahmanya Venkata Radha Krishna Rao, Cognizant Technology Solutions, India |
“Digital & IPTV Fundamentals” by Mr.A.Jawahar, Mascon Technologies, India |
| Oral Presentation |
| 12:15PM- 1:00PM |
Session 5A VLSI |
Session 5B Biomedical & Pattern Recognition |
Session 5C Image Processing-II |
| 1:00PM- 2:00PM | LUNCH |
| 2:00PM- 2:30PM | POSTER DISPLAY |
| 2:30PM- 2:45PM | TEA BREAK |
| 2:45PM- 3:45PM | Panel Discussion on "Future Trends in Communication" |
| 3:45PM- 4:45PM | Valedictory & Certificate Distribution by Dr.C.G.Ravi, Trinity, Mumbai, India |