Broad Band Communication for Multimedia Applications

Abstract

The world is at threshold of a new era, dominated by digital technology with its inherent advantages and flexibility. In fact with the advent of digital technology, digital audio and video compression and other advanced signal processing it is now possible to transmit and receive broadband data over coaxial cable, twisted pair cable and through satellite.

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P C Jain

P C Jain born on 1 July, 1946, acquired BE and ME (Electronics) from BITS, Pilani in 1968 and 1972 respectively and MS and DSc (Applied Sciences) from University of Louvain, Belgium in 1977 and 1979 respectively. He worked in CEERI, Pilani for 30 years on speech and video compression and guided various BE and ME students for their thesis work. In 1989 he was invited to Philips, Germany to design VLSI chip for 2-Dimensional Discrete cosine transform (DCT) processor to be used in video compression. He has been to USA two times once for presenting a paper in IEEE conference on consumer electronics and later on to University of California to work on MPEG-4 and H.263 for very low bit rate video coding. He has visited Singapore and Hongkong in various exhibitions. Since 1994 he was responsible for Integrated receiver decoder (IRD) and NICAM receiver projects in CEERI. Since 1998 he is working as General Manager(R&D) in HFCL. He has developed digital satellite set-top box for DTH application which is under production. Digital cable and terrestrial set-top boxes along with CONAX Conditional Access for pay-TV is under development.

His research interest is digital TV, Interactive cable TV and HDTV. He has 70 papers in his account in National and International Journals. He is life Fellow of IETE and Broadcast Engineering Society. He has bagged 3rd IETE Prof SN Mitra memorial award and IETE K S Krishnan memorial award in 1996 and 1997 respectively. He has been nominated as Man of year-1998 by American Biographical Institute, USA for his overall contribution to the Society.

V Mitra

Vishwajit Mitra was born in 1947. He received his BSc degree from Lucknow University, in 1965, BEE degree from Roorkee University, in 1969 and MTech degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi in 1971.

He joined Indian Telecommunication Services in 1972 and worked in various capacities in the research wing of the Department of Telecommunications (TRC) and in the Telecom Commission Head Quarters. He held the posts of Director (L), Chief Engineer (TRC) and Deputy Director General (RN). He designed many of the sub-systems and guided the development of first indegenous 34 MBPS Digital Radio system in India. As a network planner, he planned the microwave network of DoT and was instrumental in starting a 2 GHz Rural Radio network in India. As a Senior ITU expert, he planned the rural telecom network of Yemen Republic.

Shri Mitra has actively represented India in many ITU Study Group meetings and committees. He is one of the authors of the ‘Handbook on Digital Radio Relay System’, published by ITU. He has also been associated as technical expert for technology selection/evaluation teams of the Department of Telecommunications.

After taking voluntary retirement in 1995, Shri Mitra worked as an independent telecom consultant. In 1998, Shri Mitra joined Himachal Futuristic Comminucation Limited as President (R&D) and is presently guiding a dynamic R&D group in HFCL.