This book provides insights into the 3rd International Conference on Communication, Devices and Computing (ICCDC 2021), which was held in Haldia, India, on August 16–18, 2021. It covers new ideas, applications, and the experiences of research engineers, scientists, industrialists, scholars, and students from around the globe. The proceedings highlight cutting-edge research on communication, electronic devices, and computing and address diverse areas such as 5G communication, spread spectrum systems, wireless sensor networks, and signal processing for secure communication, error control coding, printed antennas, analysis of wireless networks, antenna array systems, analog and digital signal processing for communication systems, frequency selective surfaces, radar communication, and substrate integrated waveguide and microwave passive components, which are key to state-of-the-art innovations in communication technologies.
Professor Biplab Sikdar is Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the National University of Singapore. He received the B. Tech. degree in electronics and communication engineering from North Eastern Hill University, Shillong, India, in 1996, the M.Tech. degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, in 1998, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA, in 2001. He was Assistant Professor from 2001–2007 and Associate Professor from 2007–2013 in the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute from 2001 to 2013. He is Recipient of the NSF CAREER award, the Tan Chin Tuan fellowship from NTU Singapore, the Japan Society for Promotion of Science fellowship, and the Leiv Eiriksson fellowship from the Research Council of Norway. His research interests include wireless MAC protocols, network security, and network performance evaluation. Dr. Sikdar is Member of Eta Kappa Nu and Tau Beta Pi. He served as Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Communications from 2007 to 2012 and currently serves as Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.
Professor Santi P. Maity received his B.E. degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from National Institute of Technology Durgapur and M.Tech. in Microwaves from the University of Burdwan, India, in 1993 and 1997, respectively. He received his Ph.D. degree in Engineering from the Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, India, in 2008. He received a couple of postdoctoral research positions from the institutes like Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, University of Vigo, Spain, and Supelec, France. He did postdoctoral work from January 2009 to July 2009 and February 2011 to July 2011 at the Laboratoire des Signauxet Systems (CNRS–Supelec–Universite Paris-Sud 11) in France. He is having more than 23 years (since 1997) teaching experiences at different academic institutions, and at present, he is working at Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, India, since July 2000 as Professor in the Dept. of Information Technology. His research interests include cognitive radio cooperative spectral sensing, joint spectral sensing and secondary transmission, security, energy harvesting, relay-based routing in cognitive radio network, machine learning, and deep learning in medical image processing. He has published more than 280 research papers in international journals that include IEEE Transactions, IEEE Journals, IEEE Letters, Elsevier, Springer, Wiley, etc.
Dr. Jagannath Samanta is Associate Professor in the Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering at the Haldia Institute of Technology, Haldia, West Bengal, India. He received the B.Tech. and M.Tech. degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from West Bengal University of Technology, West Bengal, India, in 2005 1nd 2008, respectively. Dr. Samanta received Gold Medal during M.Tech. degree. He received his Ph.D. (Tech) degree from the Institute of Radio Physics & Electronics in 2018. His research interests include digital VLSI design and error correcting codes. He has published more than 47 research papers in international journals that include IEEE Transactions, Springer etc. He is the reviewers of referred journal like IEEE Transactions, Springer, Elsevier, etc.
Dr. Avisankar Roy was born in Malda, WB, India, on 1984. He was felicitated with a Ph.D. in Engineering from University of Kalyani, WB, India, in the year of 2018. He has obtained his M. Tech. degree in Mobile Communication and Network Technology and B. Tech. degree in Electronics & Communication Engineering from West Bengal University of Technology (presently known as Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology), WB, India, in the year of 2009 and 2006, respectively.
He has almost 11 years of teaching experiences. He is currently working as Associate Professor at the Dept. of Electronics and Communication Engineering in Haldia Institute of Technology, Haldia, WB, India. He has contributed to numerous research articles in various journals, chapters, and conferences of repute. He was appointed as Reviewer of some SCI and SCOPUS indexed journals. His area of research interest includes microstrip antenna design and frequency selective surfaces.
