IEEE COMMUNICATION

SOCIETY (COMSOC), KOLKATA CHAPTER

Introduction:

The ComSoc chapter of IEEE Kolkata section is 11 years old, formed in 13 Oct 2003 and actively engaged with various activities like DLT, Technical Lectures and Workshop etc. The Geo code of this chapter is –CH10300. Through the different technical activities of this chapter- engineering students, researchers, academicians, industry employers are benefited immensely and got the opportunity to closely interact with each other. Completed Activities of the ComSoc Kolkata Chapter so far in 2014 are highlighted below:

A. Distinguished Lecturer Tour : DLT 2014

1. DLT Speaker: Prof. Pradeep Kumar Ray, Director WHO Collaborating Centre on eHealth, Asia Pacific Ubiquitous Healthcare Research Centre (APuHC), University of New South Wales, Australia; www.apuhc.unsw.edu.au

It was a nice experience to host the IEEE Distinguished Lecturer Program on the topic “Towards an Intelligent and ubiquitous Healthcare Infrastructure: Challenges and Trends”, from IEEE Kolkata ComSoc Chapter on 15 th of Mar 2014 at the K.P. Basu Memorial Hall of Jadavpur University. Time of the DLT: 11.30 am to 1-30 pm.

Prof. Iti Saha Misra, CoMSoC Chairperson of Kolkata Section, welcome Prof. Pradeep Ray to the venue at 11.00 am. There were 104 pre-registered participants for the program consisting of undergraduate engineering students from the Departments of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering and Applied Electronics and Instrumentation from Jadavpur University itself along with other neighbouring Institutes (Heritage Institute of Technology, Narula Institute of Technology, Meghnad Saha Institute of Technology etc.). Apart from that large section of the audience was current research scholars and faculties from various institutes. There were 10 IEEE members and 25 student members.

Audience of the DLT at the K.P. Basu Memorial Hall on 15 th March 2014

Interactive session with Prof. Pradeep K Ray

2. The second DLT program is scheduled to be held on 22nd Dec 2014, in the Department of ETCE, Jadavpur University at Room No. T-3-7. Speaker: Prof. Gourab Sen Gupta, School of Engineering and Advanced Technology

(SEAT), Massey University, New Zealand

Topic: Sensors, Automation and Robotics

Theme of presentation: The importance of sensing and measurement in the

world of robotics, and the future research and development of sensors in this

area – MEMS, biological sensors etc.

There was a mesmerizing presentation on the said topic over a period of two hours. All the participants were engrossed with the wonderful lecture delivered by Prof. G. Sen Gupta. Participants : 55, (IEEE members :15)

Prof. Iti Saha Misra, ComSoc Chairperson introducing the Speaker

Audience of the Lecture

B. Technical Lecture Meetings :

1. Speaker: TOSICUL WARA (Scientist-SF)

Project Manager, IRNSS Checkout System, ISRO Satellite Centre, Bangalore

Lecture Title: An Indian satellite for Navigation Application

Date and Venue: 13 May 2014 at 2.00 pm at the Department of ETCE, Jadavpur University

Participants: 40 UG and PG Engineering Students, 5 Research Scholars, 4 Faculties, IEEE Members:10

Most of communication and microwave specialization students have participated the lecture meeting. It was very much beneficial for the students to get the real picture of satellite communication in Indian Scenarios.

Tosikur Wara of ISRO delivering his lecture and student participant in the program

2. Speaker: Dr. Subir Das Director & Senior Scientist in Mobile Networking Research Department at Applied Communication Sciences (formerly Telcordia Technologies Inc., Applied Research) NJ, USA

Lecture Title: Dynamic Spectrum Access: Opportunities and Challenges Date and Venue: 09 July 2014 at at 4.00 pm at the OPNET LAB, Annex Building of

ETCE Dept., first floor, Jadavpur University Participants: 10 PG Engineering Students, 5 Research Scholars, 3 Faculties, IEEE Members :7

Dr. Subir Das delivering his lecture

C. IEEE Technical Lecture Series:

An IEEE Special Lecture series has been held on 29th Aug 2014, Friday at 3.45 pm at the ETCE

Dept., second floor, Room. No- T-3-7 organized by IEEE ComSoC Chapter and CAS Chapter.

There were total 3 series of lectures on the selected topics.

Speaker: Dr. Arijit Mukherjee, TCS Innovation Lab, Kolkata Lecture Topic: Grid, Cloud, Fog and Beyond, Time: 3.00-4.15 pm The future Internet, or the Internet of Things and the Internet of Everything, whatever we have

now seems inadequate. So the concept of Fog computing comes which brings the concept of

using mobile devices, home gateways, set top boxes as computing devices. In this talk, the

concepts of Big Data, the history of the Grid and Cloud and the rise of Fog computing as a new

paradigm along with some research cases that are actively pursued at TCS Innovation Labs

Kolkata are delivered nicely by Dr. Mukherjee.

Dr. Arijit Mukherjee delivering his lecture

Speaker: Arijit Ukil, TCS Innovation Lab, Kolkata

Topic: Security and Privacy in IoT Time: 4.15 -5.00 pm IoT (Internet of Things) systems like smart energy management expose sensor data that sense

human activity, containing private information. Such fine-grained sensor data also makes

different important 3rd party applications like smart grid control, dynamic pricing, elderly

monitoring possible. The fear of privacy breach (“spying inside home”) impedes practical

deployment of such applications and its acceptability. Unlike data and network security research,

data privacy research is at its nascent stage. Research activities on smart meter data privacy is

gaining pace, even governmental agencies are engaged to issue guidelines regarding protection

of consumer privacy. In this talk, particular focus on the description of IoT data privacy problem,

its impact and current solution on privacy preservation of smart energy management systems

have been covered.

Participants: 50, UG and PG students, Research scholars

D. 3-Day Workshop on Introduction to Android Operating System for

Touch Screen Smart Phones

Under the auspices of TEQIP Phase II, Jadavpur University

Venue: Committee Room, ETCE Dept., Date: 11-13 June, 2014

There was a wonderful program for the 3-day workshop on the topic of “Introduction to Android

Operating Systems for Touch Screen Smart Phones” for the undergraduate students of Electronics and

Telecommunication Engineering in the midst of summer vacation, under the auspices of TEQIP Phase –II

of Jadavpur University.

Being the coordinator of the workshop and the Chairperson of the IEEE ComSoc Chapter, Prof. Iti Saha

Misra has delivered the welcome address for the program highlighting the need of such type of

program. Dean, FET and also the TEQIP-Coordiantor, Prof. Shivaji Bandhyppadhyay has inaugurated the

programme. He delivered a speech for the students highlighting the importance of such program and

the various beneficial activities of TEQIP-II. Prof. S.K. Sanyal of ETCE Department, and also the Chairman

of IEEE CAS Chapter delivered a wonderful lecture to the students on how the technology is changing

and inspiring the students to adapt in this ever changing environment of technology. He also introduced

the speaker Mr. Dipanjan Biswas from SkyBits who is an Alumnus of Jadavpur University. The speaker

was overwhelmed with happiness by the hospitality he received from his Alma mater.

Programs detail:

Day 1

There were many topics covered during the workshop and the presenter did an outstanding job of

sharing his expertise with the students. Below is the day-wise list of topics which were covered.

• Installation Software (Eclipse IDE, adk) for the participants was provided in pen drives with

software loaded on it.

• Lecture 1 - A Concise Historical Background to the Emergence of Android (0.5 hr.)

• Lecture 2 - Android Platform Overview (1 hr.)

• Lecture 3 - Android Development Environment Overview (1 hr.)

• Lab 1 - Android Development Environment Setup and First Application Creation (1.5 hrs.)

Day 2

• Lecture 4 - Anatomy of an Android Application (1 hr.)

• Lecture 5 - The “Activity” class (1 hr.) • Lab 2 - Visualize platform call-backs for all Activity state changes and device configuration

changes by enhancing application developed in Lab 1 with suitable log traces (2 hrs.)

Day 3

• Lecture 6 - The “Intent” class and “Permissions” (1.5 hrs.) • Lab 3 - Develop an application that starts multiple Activities via both standard and custom

Intents. Application should also encapsulate need for various Permissions like network and storage access (2.5 hrs.)

ComSoc Chair Prof. Iti Saha Misra speaking about the program objective for the participants.

Prof. Shivaji Bandhyopadhyay, Dean, FET, Prof. S.K. Sanyal, Chairman IEEE CAS and Prof. Iti Saha Misra,

HoD ETCE and Workshop Co-ordiantor at the Inaugural Session

E. Convolution-2014: Algomaniac event was sponsored by CoMSoC Chapter

One of the major event under Convolution-2014, organized by the students of Electrical Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata during 14-15 Feb 2014. ALGOMANIAC were sponsored by IEEE COMSOC, Kolkata Chapter.

1. Winners: Debarghya Saha and Sanjay Kar from CSE, JU 2. First Runners Up: Suman Ghosh and Biresh Kr. Joardar from ETCE, JU 3. Second Runners Up: Nitesh Nahata and Prastut Jaiswal from CSE and IT, JU 4. Third Runners Up: Sayak Dey and S Shreya Mukherjee of EE, JU

Winners accepting the certificate and prize from ComSoc Execom Member Prof. Madhubanti Maitro, EE Department

F. Executive committee meeting: 1. Annual General Meeting held on 16 Jan 2014, at Calcutta Club, at 6.30 pm. 2. 07 February 2014, Venue: OPNET LAB, Annex Building, ETCE , First floor,

Time 6.30 pm 3. 15 the March 2014, Venue: Guest House, Jadavpur University, Time 3.00 pm 4. 07 Aug, ETCE Dept, HoD’s Room, Time 6.30 pm 5. 19 Nov 2014, ETCE, HoD’s Room, at 6.30 pm

Chairperson: Prof. Iti Saha Misra

Secretary: Mr. Ayan Paul

Chapter Website: http://ewh.ieee.org/r10/calcutta/comsoc/