GUJARAT TECHNOLOGICAL
UNIVERSITY
(Established under Gujarat Act No. 20 of 2007)
A
Report
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)
POST GRADUATE RESEARCH CENTER FOR
MOBILE COMPUTING AND WIRELESS TECHNOLOGIES
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
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.
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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 frontend 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
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Satellite As Communication Media ,
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Satellite Orbits (LEO, MEO, GEO, Polar, Elliptical, GeoSynchronous 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.
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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.
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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
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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, appstore 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.
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GUJARAT TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY
(Established under Gujarat Act No. 20 of 2007)
POST GRADUATE RESEARCH CENTER FOR
MOBILE COMPUTING AND WIRELESS TECHNOLOGIES
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.
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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, MBackup, Smart Friend Locator, AtmLocator, MobiFair
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Workshop Photo Gallery
Assistant Professor Mr. Margam Suthar during the
Welcome Speech
Assistant Professor Mrs. Krishnaba Parmar during
an Introductory Speech
Faculty members (EC, CE & IT Engineering department) from various Engineering colleges affiliated to GTU
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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.
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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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