Software Radio for Rural Telecommunication: Design Issues and Augmentation of Adaptive Equalizer for Spectrum Management and Channel Equalization

Abstract

Adaptive Equalizer to equalize the unknown time varying channel for Software Defined Radio has been discussed with the help of LMS algorithm. Simulated Result obtained using MATLAB^TM.

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Mainak Mukhopadhyay

Mainak Mukhopadhyay, born in 1975 at Howrah. Passed AMIETE (Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering) in 1999. Obtained MTech in Microwave Engineering from University of Burdwan, West Bengal in April 2002. Joined Defence Research & Development Organization (DRDO) as Senior Research Fellow and spend 15 months there. Currently working as a Research (PhD) Scholar in the Dept. of Electronics & Electrical Communication Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. He has published more than 25 journal and conference papers and his field of research interests are Adaptive Array Antenna, Global Positioning System, Microwave Communication and Digital Signal Processing. He is Associate Member IETE, Associate of Institution of Engineers, India.

Moutusi Mondal

Moutusi Mondal, born in 1982 at Burdwan, West Bengal. Completed BE in Electronics & Telecommunication from Seemanta Engineering College, affiliated to North Orissa University. Presently working as Junior Project Assistant in the Dept. Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering at IIT Kharagpur.

Binay Kumar Sarkar

Binay Kumar Sarkar, obtained BTech. in 1967, MTech in 1969 and PhD in 1981 from Indian Institute of Technology at Madras, Kharagpur and Bombay respectively. He joined Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIER), Bombay, as a Scientific Officer where he worked on PIN diode and gas discharge based microwave control circuits and CW Radars for speed monitoring and projectile velocity measurement during the period 1969 to 1985. Subsequently, he was transferred to the Society for Applied Microwave Electronics Engineering and Research (SAMEER) under Ministry of Information Technology, Govt of India and he retired as director from there. At present, he is holding the post of ISRO Chair Professor of IIT Kharagpur. He has been working on Microwave Semiconductor devices and its applications, antenna and microwave instrumentations based on radar systems during the last 30 years. He has published more than 150 journal and conference papers. He is Senior Member of IEEE, USA and member, Society of EMC Engineer, India.

Ajay Chakraborty

Ajay Chakraborty, born in 1953 at Kolkata, India, he received the BTech MTech and PhD degrees from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, in 1975, 1977 and 1982 respectively. He joined the faculty of the E & ECE Department at IIT Kharagpur in 1980. He worked as a visiting Assistant Professor at Syracuse University from Aug. 1989 to May 1990. His current research interests are antenna pattern synthesis, slot arrays feed networks for phased arrays, and ESD studies. Currently, he is a Professor in the Department of Electronics & Electrical Communication Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur and also Chairman of Kalpana Chawla Space Technology Cell of IIT Kharagpur. He has published more than 150 journal and conference papers and guided 20 PhD students as research guide. He is Senior Member of IEEE, USA and member Society of EMC.