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Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering

Volume 656

Series Editors

Leopoldo Angrisani, Department of Electrical and Information Technologies Engineering, University of Napoli Federico II, Naples, Italy

Marco Arteaga, Departament de Control y Robótica, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Coyoacán, Mexico

Bijaya Ketan Panigrahi, Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, Delhi, India Samarjit Chakraborty, Fakultät für Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik, TU München, Munich, Germany Jiming Chen, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

Shanben Chen, Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China Tan Kay Chen, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

Rüdiger Dillmann, Humanoids and Intelligent Systems Laboratory, Karlsruhe Institute for Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany

Haibin Duan, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Beijing, China Gianluigi Ferrari, Università di Parma, Parma, Italy

Manuel Ferre, Centre for Automation and Robotics CAR (UPM-CSIC), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Sandra Hirche, Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Science, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany

Faryar Jabbari, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA

Limin Jia, State Key Laboratory of Rail Traffic Control and Safety, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China Janusz Kacprzyk, Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

Alaa Khamis, German University in Egypt El Tagamoa El Khames, New Cairo City, Egypt Torsten Kroeger, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

Qilian Liang, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, USA Ferran Martín, Departament d’Enginyeria Electrònica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain

Tan Cher Ming, College of Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore Wolfgang Minker, Institute of Information Technology, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany Pradeep Misra, Department of Electrical Engineering, Wright State University, Dayton, OH, USA Sebastian Möller, Quality and Usability Laboratory, TU Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Subhas Mukhopadhyay, School of Engineering & Advanced Technology, Massey University, Palmerston North, Manawatu-Wanganui, New Zealand

Cun-Zheng Ning, Electrical Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA Toyoaki Nishida, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Federica Pascucci, Dipartimento di Ingegneria, Università degli Studi “Roma Tre”, Rome, Italy

Yong Qin, State Key Laboratory of Rail Traffic Control and Safety, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China Gan Woon Seng, School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore

Joachim Speidel, Institute of Telecommunications, Universität Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany Germano Veiga, Campus da FEUP, INESC Porto, Porto, Portugal

Haitao Wu, Academy of Opto-electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China Junjie James Zhang, Charlotte, NC, USA

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The book series Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering (LNEE) publishes the latest developments in Electrical Engineering - quickly, informally and in high quality. While original research reported in proceedings and monographs has traditionally formed the core of LNEE, we also encourage authors to submit books devoted to supporting student education and professional training in the various fields and applications areas of electrical engineering. The series cover classical and emerging topics concerning:

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J. Jayakumari

George K. Karagiannidis

Maode Ma

Syed Akhter Hossain

Editors

Advances in Communication Systems and Networks

Select Proceedings of ComNet 2019

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Editors J. Jayakumari

Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering Mar Baselios College of Engineering and Technology

Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India

George K. Karagiannidis Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Thessaloniki, Greece

Maode Ma School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Nanyang Technological University Singapore, Singapore

Syed Akhter Hossain

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Daffodil International University Dhaka, Bangladesh

ISSN 1876-1100 ISSN 1876-1119 (electronic) Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering

ISBN 978-981-15-3991-6 ISBN 978-981-15-3992-3 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-3992-3

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Preface

The International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (ComNet-2019) was organized by the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Mar Baselios College of Engineering and Technology in association with the University of Dayton, Ohio, and with Springer as publication partner during 12th and 13th Dec 2019.

This conference aims to bring researchers, industrialists and experts from India and abroad on a single platform to interact with and discuss the latest research results, ideas, developments, and applications in all areas of advanced communi- cation systems and networking. The topics covered include latest research in next-generation wireless technologies including 5G, new hardware platforms, recent advancements in antenna design, applications of artificial intelligence, signal processing and optimization techniques. There were three tracks—communication systems, signal processing and networking technologies.

The conference was inaugurated by Dr. V. K. Dadhwal, Director, Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, Valiamala.There were invited talks by Prof. Sharul Kamal Bin Abdul Rahim, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Prof. Varun Jeoti, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS Malaysia, Prof. Ajit Kumar Panda, Dean, NIST, Odisha, Dr. T. Shanmuganantham, Associate Professor, Department of Electronics Engineering, Pondicherry Central University and Dr. Sujesh Sreedharan, Engineer‘F’, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram. All the technical sessions were chaired by the experts in thefield.

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I hope that the proceedings will be useful for all researchers working in the relevant areas.

Dr. J. Jayakumari Conference Chair, ComNet 2019 Professor, Department of ECE Mar Baselios College of Engineering and Technology Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India

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Contents

Analysis of Active Contours Without Edge-Based Segmentation Technique for Brain Tumor Classification Using SVM

and KNN Classifiers. . . 1 A. S. Remya Ajai and Sundararaman Gopalan

CB-CPW Fed SRR Loaded Miniaturized U-Slot Planar Antenna

for ECG Monitoring. . . 11 K. Sajith, T. Shanmuganantham, and D. Sindhanaiselvi

An Improved Resource Allocation Scheme for Heterogeneous

Macro–Femto Networks. . . 21 Aarathi Sankar and Jaison Jacob

A Robust Music Composer Identification System Based on Cepstral

Feature and Models . . . 35 A. Revathi, D. Vishnu Vashista, Kuppa Sai Sri Teja, and R. Nagakrishnan

Spectral Efficiency-Energy Efficiency Tradeoff Analysis for a Carrier

Aggregated 5G NR Based System . . . 45 Syama Sasikumar and J. Jayakumari

An Image Restoration Method for Outdoor and Its Application to Under Water Using Improved Transmission Map and Airlight

Estimation . . . 57 D. Eesha and Siddappaji

A Novel Approach to Ultrasound Image Thresholding Using Phase

Gradients . . . 71 Revathy Sivanandan and J. Jayakumari

Investigation of Techniques to Recognize Optimal Power Structuring

of Vedic Multiplier. . . 89 P. Anitha and P. Ramanathan

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Power Optimization in Application-Based D2D Communication . . . 99 Sereena Helen Sajeev and Rinju Mariam Rolly

View-Based and Visual-Attention-Based Background Modeling for Detecting Frequently and Infrequently Moving Objects

for Video Summarization. . . 115 D. Minola Davids and C. Seldev Christopher

Analysis of Segmentation Algorithms for Detection of Anomalies

in MR Brain Images . . . 129 A. Lenin Fred, S. N. Kumar, Parasuraman Padmanabhan, Balazs Gulyas,

and H. Ajay Kumar

HEP-2 Specimen Image Segmentation and Classification Using

GLCM and DCT Based Feature Extraction with CNN Classifier . . . . . 147 C. C. Manju and M. Victor Jose

Real-Time Traffic Signal Management System for Emergency Vehicles

Using Embedded Systems. . . 161 Cyriac Jose and K. S. Vijula Grace

Reduction of PAPR in Optical OFDM Signals Using PTS Schemes

Without Side Information . . . 173 A. Binita and P. P. Hema

Effectiveness of Wilson Amplitude for the Detection of Murmur

from the PCG Records. . . 189 P. Careena, M. Mary Synthuja Jain Preetha, and P. Arun

Analysis of Electromagnetic Field Variance in Random PCB Model

Using 2D Stochastic FDTD. . . 199 Jinu Joseph and R. Kiran

An FDTD Method for the Transient Terminal Response of a PCB

Trace Illuminated by an Electromagnetic Wave. . . 209 M. S. Saheena and R. Kiran

Synthesis of Pseudorandom Number Generator by Combining Mentor

Graphics HDL Designer and Xilinx Vivado FPGA Flow. . . 219 Geethu Remadevi Somanathan, Ramesh Bhakthavathchalu,

and M. Krishnakumar

Analysis on Extraction of Common Foreground Object

by Co-Segmentation. . . 231 K. S. Dhanya, N. Naveen, and Jacob Jaison

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A Novel Strategy for Data Transmission in Aerospace Vehicle

Using Space-Based TTC Network—Telemetry via INSAT. . . 245 Sherly Joy, K. S. Smitha, Mini Sreekumar, D. Sheba Elizabeth,

S. Sanoj Kumar Roy, and K. K. Mukundan

An Improved Image Inpainting Technique Using Fuzzy Hard

C-Means Algorithm . . . 257 R. F. Liji, P. Sreejaya, M. Sasikumar, and Kim J. Seelan

An Improved EEG Acquisition Protocol Facilitates Localized

Neural Activation. . . 267 Jerrin Thomas Panachakel, Nandagopal Netrakanti Vinayak,

Maanvi Nunna, Angarai Ganesan Ramakrishnan, and Kanishka Sharma A Centre of Gravity-Based Preprocessing Approach for Feature Selection Using Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm on High-Dimensional

Datasets . . . 283 M. G. Bindu and M. K. Sabu

Design and Analysis of Metamaterial Loaded Microstrip Slotted Patch

Antenna for Wireless Applications. . . 295 K. Sajith, T. Shanmuganantham, and D. Sindhahaiselvi

Assistive Technology for the Blind. . . 309 Aditya Nagesh, Akshara S. Vijay, Nabeel Muhammed Salim,

M. C. Vaisakh, and Jisha John

Fractal-Based Patch Antenna Design for Multi-band Applications. . . 321 K Nimitha, Sanoj Viswasom, and S. Santhosh Kumar

Analysis of Light Field Imaging and Segmentation on All-Focus

Images . . . 331 Parvathy Prathap and J. Jayakumari

Feature Extraction Methods in Person Re-identification System:

A Technical Review . . . 343 C. Jayavarthini and C. Malathy

Emotion Recognition from Speech Using Perceptual Features

and Convolutional Neural Networks . . . 355 A. Revathi, R. Nagakrishnan, D. Vishnu Vashista, Kuppa Sai Sri Teja,

and N. Sasikaladevi

Implementation of Building Stability Analyzer with Earthquake

Detection Using Simple MEMS Pressure Sensor . . . 367 D. Sindhanaiselvi and T. Shanmuganantham

A Novel Technique for Low PAPR in LFDMA Systems . . . 379 Lekshmi R. Nair and Sakuntala S. Pillai

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Apparel CPW-Fed Antenna for Medical Anatomy Zone Web

Applications. . . 393 V. Sravani, S. Ashok Kumar, and T. Shanmuganantham

A Reduced Planar Omnidirectional MIMO Antenna for Pattern

Phase Variety. . . 401 P. Manaswini, S. Ashok Kumar, and T. Shanmuganantham

Design of Slot Antenna in Medical Wearable Applications . . . 411 Tharalitha Reddy, S. Ashok Kumar, and T. Shanmuganantham

A Comparative Study on Data Cleaning Approaches in Sentiment

Analysis . . . 421 H. Mohamed Zakir and S. Vinila Jinny

Sybil Attack in VANET Operating in an Urban Environment:

An Overview . . . 433 Nitha C. Velayudhan and A. Anitha

Double-Band Coplanar Antenna for GSM and UWB Applications . . . . 443 Dhivya Raj and C. V. Anil Kumar

Matrix Adaptor for Instrument Interface Interchangeability

in ATE. . . 453 Maria George, R. Sethunadh, S. Athuladevi, and B. Valsa

Performance Analysis of Security Algorithms . . . 465 E. Soundararajan, Nikhil Kumar, V. Sivasankar, and S. Rajeswari

Quality Grading of the Fruits and Vegetables Using Image Processing

Techniques and Machine Learning: A Review. . . 477 M. K. Prem Kumar and A. Parkavi

Exploring Various Aspects of Gabor Filter in Classifying

Facial Expression. . . 487 Seetha Parameswaran, Murali Parameswaran, Shelbi Joseph,

and Daleesha M. Viswanathan

Voting-Based Ensemble of Unsupervised Outlier Detectors . . . 501 Roy Thomas and J. E. Judith

Double-Band Coplanar Antenna for ISM and UWB Applications. . . 513 Dhivya Raj and C. V. Anil Kumar

A Modified Partitioning Around Medoids Clustering-Based Cluster Head Selection Scheme for Data Offload in Mobile Cloud Sensor

Network. . . 523 S. Jeen Shene and W. R. Sam Emmanuel

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Design of Dual-Band Compact Planar of MIMO Antenna with Pattern

Diversity Characteristics . . . 537 Vineesha Alladi, S. Ashok Kumar, and T. Shanmuganantham

Energy Harvesting of Traditional Cantilever-Based MEMS

Piezoelectric Energy Harvester. . . 545 Arjunan Nallathambi and T. Shanmuganantham

Challenges and Impacts of RFID Technology in a Research

Library. . . 557 V. Sivasankar, E. Soundararajan, and S. Rajeswari

An Efficient Multiauthority Attribute-Based Encryption

Technique for Storing Personal Health Record by Compressing

the Attributes. . . 571 F. Sammy and S. Maria Celestin Vigila

BrainNET: A Deep Learning Network for Brain Tumor Detection

and Classification. . . 577 Aditya Raj, Abhishek Anil, P. L. Deepa, H. Aravind Sarma,

and R. Naveen Chandran

High-Speed Inversion Usingx4n Units . . . 591 M. Kalaiarasi, V. R. Venkatasubramani, A. Christina Grace,

and S. Rajaram

Design of CPW-Fed Slot Antenna for 5G Mobile Applications . . . 599 B. Soumya, S. Ashok Kumar, and T. Shanmuganantham

Energy-Conserving Cluster Method with Distance Criteria

for Cognitive Radio Networks . . . 607 M. S. Sumi and R. S. Ganesh

Quality Enhancement of Low Bit Rate Speech Coder

with Nonlinear Prediction . . . 625 Ancy S. Anselam, Sakuntala S. Pillai, and K. G. Sreeni

Comparative Analysis of FCFS and SJF for Multimedia Process

Scheduling . . . 639 R. Magdalene and D. Sridharan

Face Recognition Using Improved Co-HOG Features . . . 647 C. H. Hima Bindu and K. Manjunatha Chari

Non-destructive Testing for Cracks in Concrete. . . 657 Deepali Koppad and Nirmala Paramanandham

On Computer-Aided Diagnosis of Breast Cancers Using Nuclear

Atypia Scoring . . . 665 Soorya Shaji, M. Sreeraj, Jestin Joy, and Alphonsa Kuriakose

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Using Images for Real-Time Violence Detection in the Edge . . . 677 Aniruddha Pandey, T. Samarth, and S. Raghuram

Diagnosis of Epileptic Seizure a Neurological Disorder by Implementation of Discrete Wavelet Transform Using

Electroencephalography. . . 687 Sanjay Shamrao Pawar and Sangeeta Rajendra Chougule

Detection and Recognition of License Plate Using CNN and LSTM. . . . 701 Anaya Anson and Tessy Mathew

Robust Adaptable Segmentation-Based Copy Move Forgery

Detection Method. . . 723 R. Dhanya and R. KalaiSelvi

Behavior Tracking in Video Surveillance Applications:

A Detailed Study . . . 735 L. Shana and C. Seldev Christopher

Analysis of Different Substrate Material on Wearable Antenna

for ISM Band Applications . . . 753 S. Bhavani and T. Shanmuganantham

An Analytical Framework for Comparing Flat and Hierarchical

Architectures in Fog Computing Networks . . . 763 Niyas K. Haneefa, S. Pramod, and R. Manivasakan

Wideband Spectrum Sensing Using Geolocation Database

for Cognitive Radio Networks . . . 775 G. P. Aswathy, K. Gopakumar, and T. P. Imthias Ahamed

Anomaly Detection and Safe Transmission of ECG Signals

in Point-of-Care Systems . . . 787 N. S. Akhila and K. Sabeena Beevi

Multiband-Loaded Compact Antenna Design

for WiMAX/WLAN/UWB Applications . . . 797 T. K. Sreeja, J. Jayakumari, K. Chandrakala, Remya M. Nair,

and Abhilash S. Vasu

A Robust Tamil Text to Speech Synthesizer Using Support Vector

Machine (SVM) . . . 809 A. Femina Jalin and J. Jayakumari

Large Number Multiplication by Repeated Addition. . . 821 B. Sukrith and A. Sreekumar

A Comparative Performance Analysis of Different Denoising

Techniques in Sputum Smear Images . . . 827 M. Shafeen Nagoor and S. Vinila Jinny

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Design and Implementation of Compact Economic Kitchen Waste

Recycler Bin. . . 837 D. Sindhanaiselvi and T. Shanmuganantham

Image Denoising Using DnCNN: An Exploration Study. . . 847 Vineeth Murali and P. V. Sudeep

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About the Editors

Dr. J. Jayakumari is presently working as Professor, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Mar Baselios College of Engineering and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. She obtained her B.E. (ECE) from M.S.

University, Tirunelveli in 1994, M. Tech. (Applied Electronics and Instrumentation) in 1998 and Ph.D. in 2009 from Kerala University. Her major areas of research interests include wireless communication, coding techniques, signal and image processing. She has published more than 75 papers in international journals and conferences. She is a senior member of IEEE, Fellow of IETE, IE (I) and CET (I), Chartered Engineer of IE (I) and member of The Society of Digital Information and Wireless Communications (SDIWC). She is also an Academic Council member of the Council of Engineering and Technology (India).

Dr. George K. Karagiannidis received his university degree in 1987 and his Ph.D. degree in 1998, both in Electrical Engineering, from the University of Patras, Patras, Greece. From 2001 to 2004, he was researcher at the Institute for Space Applications and Remote Sensing, National Observatory of Athens, Greece. In June 2004, he joined the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, where he is currently Professor. His research interests include wireless communications, wireless power transfer and applications, optical wireless communications, communications for biomedical engineering, wireless security. He has published and presented more than 500 technical papers in scientific journals and international conferences. He is co-recipient of the Best Paper Award of the Wireless Communications Symposium (WCS) in IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC’07), Glasgow, UK, June 2007, and the Best Paper Award of the IEEE VTC 2018 (Spring), Porto, June 2018. He is a Fellow IEEE, Class 2014. From January 2012 to December 2015, he was the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Communications Letters.

Dr. Maode Ma, a Fellow of IET, received his Bachelor’s degree from the Department of Computer Science and Technology in Tsinghua University in 1982, his Master’s degree from the Department of Computer Science and Technology in

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Tianjin University in 1991, and his Ph.D. degree in the Department of Computer Science from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 1999. Presently, Dr. Ma is an Associate Professor in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He has extensive research interests including network security and wireless networking. He has led 25 research projects funded by government, industry, military and universities in various countries. He has been a conference chair, technical symposium chair, tutorial chair, publication chair, publicity chair and session chair for over 100 international conferences. He has been a member of the technical program committees for more than 200 international conferences. Dr. Ma has about 400 international academic publications including about 190 journal papers and 200 conference papers. He has edited 4 technical books and produced over 25 book chapters.

Dr. Syed Akhter Hossain is currently working as Professor and Head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Daffodil International University, Bangladesh. Dr. Hossain obtained M.Sc. in Applied Physics and Electronics from Rajshahi University and Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering with outstanding distictions. He attended Erasmus Mundus post- doctoral fellowship in the area of Informatics and Industrial Engineering with University Lumiere Lyon 2 in France. He has more than 29 years of working experience in industry, education, research and training. He is actively involved in research guidance, research projects, collaborations with institutes and industries.

He has more than 130 publications and his work is listed in DBLP, IEEE Explore and other research databases. He received the National ICT Award 2016 for his outstanding contribution in ICT education. He also received other international awards for teaching including other national awards for his scholastic works specially for the contribution of machine translator for Bangla Braille used by the visually impaired society. He is also member of several national and international professional bodies.

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