Proceedings of Sixth International Conference on Computer and Communication Technologies : IC3T 2024, Volume 1

This book is a compilation of high-quality scientific papers presented at the 6th International Conference on Computer & Communication Technologies (IC3T 2024). The book covers cutting-edge technologies and applications of soft computing, artificial intelligence, and communication. In addition, a variety of further topics are discussed, which include data mining, machine intelligence, fuzzy computing, sensor networks, signal and image processing, human–computer interaction, and web intelligence.

Dr. K. Reddy Madhavi received Ph.D. from JNTU, Anantapur, M.Tech. from JNTU Hyderabad, and B.Tech. from SVUniversity, Tirupati, and currently working as a professor, School of Computing, Mohan Babu University, Tirupati. She has filed and published 21 national and international patents and few of them granted too. To her profile, she has more than 70 papers in International journals/conferences indexed in SCI/Scopus/Web of Science/Google Scholar and 5 edited/authored books. She has undergone a course on design thinking in collaboration with IUCEE EPICS Purdue University, USA. She is also an innovation ambassador associated with IIC, MHRD, Govt. of India. She is the convener of Springer International Conferences, ICDIC 2021, ICIHCNN-2022, and other conferences NCKITS-2022, NCKITS-2023, and ICATAS 2023.

Dr. Nagaraj Ramrao, an eminent academician, researcher, and an able administrator, is the Vice Chancellor of Mohan Babu University, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh. Prof. Nagaraj Ramrao holds a Ph.D. from Visvesvaraya Technological University. During his career spanning more than 30 years, he served as the vice chancellor of Kalasalingam Academy of Research and Education, Srivilliputtur, Tamilnadu, director of Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, (DA-IICT), Gandhinagar, Gujarat, mentor director of Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT)-Vadodara, Gujarat, director and principal of the Oxford College of Engineering, Bangalore, where he also served as a professor and head of the ECE Department. Earlier, he was a professor and director of the R.V. Center for Cognitive Technologies, a R&D Center, ECE Department, R.V. College of Engineering, Bangalore, and an assistant engineer at Karnataka Power Corporation Ltd and also at MSRIT, Bangalore. 

Dr. T. Kishore Kumar earned his Ph.D. in signal processing in 2004 .He headed the Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering at NIT Warangal from 2015 to 2017. He was also the head of the Institute Computer Center, NIT Warangal, from 2018 to 2020. He was a visiting professor at ESIGELEC University in France in 2009, a visiting professor at TALLINN University, Estonia, for a semester for an MS in Computer Science, and a visiting professor at the Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, in 2019 under the Secondment of Indian Faculty by MHRD, Govt. of India. He worked as a technical officer in the Cabinet Secretariat, Prime Minister's Office, Government of India. He is a member of the Central Council Board (CCB) and a member of the Andhra Pradesh State Council for Higher Education (APSCHE). 

Dr. K Srujan Raju is currently working as the dean of Student Welfare and Heading Department of Computer Science & Engineering and Information Technology at CMR Technical Campus. He obtained his Doctorate in Computer Science in the area of Network Security. He has more than 20 years of experience in academics and research. His research interest areas include computer networks, information security, data mining, cognitive radio networks and image processing, and other programming languages. Dr. Raju was invited as a session chair, keynote speaker, technical program committee member, track manager, and a reviewer for many national and international conferences also appointed as subject Expert by CEPTAM DRDO–Delhi & CDAC. 

Dr. Mathini Sellathurai is currently the dean of Science and Engineering and the head of the Signal Processing for Intelligent Systems and Communications Research Group, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK, and leading research in signal processing for radar and wireless communications networks. Prof. Sellathurai has five years of industrial research experience. She held positions with Bell-Laboratories, New Jersey, USA, and with the Canadian (Government) Communications Research Centre, Ottawa Canada. She was an associate editorship for the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (2005–2018) and IEEE Signal Processing for Communications Technical Committee member (2013–2018). She was an organizer for the IEEE International Workshop on Cognitive Wireless Systems, IIT Delhi, India, 2009, 2010, and 2013, and the general chair of the 2016 IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), Edinburgh, UK.