(Elective-I) ECS 473: Emerging Trends & Technologies

B.Tech. Semester –VIII (Computer Science & Engg.)

L T P Class Work :50 Marks
3 1 0 Exam. :100 Marks
Total :150 Marks
Duration of Exam : 3 Hrs.
Objective: To provide adequate knowledge of technology management, management of R&D,
intellectual property rights.

Unit 1
Introduction to Technology Management, Business Strategy for New Technologies: Adding value,
gaining competitive advantage, timing and capability development, Technology Forecasting:
Techniques of Forecasting, Technology Forecasting-Relevance, Strategic alliance and
Practicality, and Technology Transfer.

Unit 2
Management of Research, Development and Innovation: Technology Mapping, Comparison of
type of R&D Projects and development approaches- Radical platform and Incremental Projects,
Innovation process.

Unit 3
Management of Intellectual Property Rights: Strategic value of patents, trade secrets and
licensing.

Unit 4
Managing Scientists and Technologists: Identification, Recruitment, Retention, Team Work and
Result orientation. Investment in Technology, Management Roles and Skills for New Technology

Unit 5
Technology for Managerial Productivity and Effectiveness, Just-in-Time, Venture Capital &
Technology Development, Practice Tasks: Technology Forecasting and Technology Mapping,
Technology Strategy Development ,Exercise on Just-in-time Cases on Venture Capital

Reference Books:
1. Technology and Management: By Cassell Educational Ltd., London
2. Management of High Technology Research and Development: by John Humbleton
Elsevier
3. Strategic Management: by Charles W.L. Hill/Gareth R. Jones, Houghton Mifflin Co.
4. R&D Management: by S.A. Bergn, Basil Blackwell Inc.
5. Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Organisations: by Richard M. Burton & Borge Obel
Elsevier.
6. Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Organisations: by Spyros Maksidakis & Steven C
Wheelwright, John Wiley & Sons.
7. New Product Management: by C Marle Crawford, Irwin, USA.
8. Just-in-time: by David Hutchin, Gower, technical Press.
9. Management of Technology: Tarek M. Khalil, McGraw-Hill Book Co.
10. Managing Engineering and technology: Daniel L. Babcock, PHI.
 (Elective–I) ECS 474: Wireless Networks
B.Tech. Semester –VII (Computer Science & Engg.)
L T P Class Work :50
Marks
3 1 0 Exam. :100
Marks
Total :150
Marks
Duration of Exam : 3
Hrs.

Objective : To provide the knowledge of wireless networks and their design and implementation.

Unit 1: Introduction Liberalization of communications Industry, Digitalization of content, changes

in spectrum management, cellular reuse, drive towards broadband, IEEE 802.11 networks

Unit 2: Wireless Network Systems Cellular networks: The GSM circuit switched network,
GSM channel structure, Authentication and location updating, physical channels, TMN
GPRS Introduction to GPRS, contexts, PDP context, Mobility management context, MS-SGSN
physical layer, MS-SGSN protocols, GPRS operations

Unit 3: Principles of access network planning Circuit voice networks: Introduction to CVN,
coverage, capacity, planning for circuit multimedia services. Planning for packet multimedia
services Planning approaches, buffer-pipe model, characterization of applications, practical
modelling methodologies, multiuser packet transport configurations

Unit 4: Planning and design: RAN, GSM RAN, UMTS RAN, Cellular OFDM RAN, Mesh network

Unit 5 : Network operation and optimization: Enhanced telecom operations model (eTOM),
wireless network life cycle – strategy, infrastructure and product, operations, enterprise
management, GSM network performance optimization – principles and key performance
indicators, coverage optimization, GPRS RAN optimization, UMTS network performance
optimization

Books:
1. Deploying Wireless networks, Andy wilton, Tim charity, Cambridge university press
2. Fundamental of Wireless Networking, Ron Price, TMH
3. 3G Wireless Networks, Clint Smity, TMH
4. Essentials of UMTS, Christopher Cox, Cambridge University Press

(Elective-II) ECS 476: Cryptography & Network Security

B.Tech. Semester –VII (Computer Science & Engg.)
L T P Class Work :50 Marks
3 1 0 Exam. :100 Marks
Total :150 Marks
Duration of Exam : 3 Hrs.

Objective : To provide the knowledge of system security and security attacks.

Unit 1: Introduction to security attacks: services and mechanism, introduction to

cryptography.Conventional Encryption: Conventional encryption model, classical encryption
techniquessubstitutionciphers and transposition ciphers, cryptanalysis, stereography, stream and
blockciphers.Modern Block Ciphers: Block ciphers principals, Shannon’s theory of confusion
anddiffusion, fiestal structure, data encryption standard(DES), strength of DES, differential
andlinear crypt analysis of DES, block cipher modes of operations, triple DES, IDEA
encryptionand decryption, strength of IDEA, confidentiality using conventional encryption, traffic
confidentiality, key distribution, random number generation.

Unit 2: Introduction to graph, ring and field: Prime and relative prime numbers: modular
arithmetic,Fermat’s and Euler’s theorem, primality testing, Euclid’s Algorithm, Chinese
Remaindertheorem, discrete logarithms. Principals of public key crypto systems, RSA
algorithm,security of RSA, key management, Diffle-Hellman key exchange algorithm,
introductoryidea of Elliptic curve cryptography, Elganel encryption.

Unit 3: Message Authentication and Hash Function: Authentication requirements,

authenticationfunctions, message authentication code, hash functions, birthday attacks, security
of hashfunctions and MACS, MD5 message digest algorithm, Secure hash algorithm(SHA).Digital
Signatures: Digital Signatures, authentication protocols, digital signature standards (DSS), proof
of digital signature algorithm.

Unit 4: Authentication Applications: Kerberos and X.509, directory authentication service,

electronic mail security-pretty good privacy (PGP), S/MIME.

Unit 5: IP Security: Architecture, Authentication header, Encapsulating security payloads,

combining security associations, key management.
Web Security: Secure socket layer and transport layer security, secure electronic
transaction(SET).
System Security: Intruders, Viruses and related threads, firewall design principals, trusted
systems.

Books:
1. William Stallings, “Cryptography and Network Security: Principals and Practice”, Prentice
Hall, New Jersy.
2. Johannes A. Buchmann, “Introduction to Cryptography”, Springer-Verlag.
3. B. Forouzan, “Cryptography and Network Security, TMH

(Elective-II) ECS 478: Digital Image Processing

B.Tech. Semester –VII (Computer Science & Engg.)
L T P Class Work :50 Marks
3 1 0 Exam. :100 Marks
 Total :150 Marks
Duration of Exam : 3 Hrs.

Objective : To give the exposure of digital image and its processing (editing, optimization and
filtering ).

Unit 1: Introduction and Fundamentals: Motivation and Perspective, Applications, Components

of Image Processing System,Element of Visual Perception, A Simple Image Model, Sampling and
Quantization.
Image Enhancement in Spatial Domain Introduction; Basic Gray Level Functions – Piecewise-
Linear Transformation Functions:Contrast Stretching; Histogram Specification; Histogram
Equalization; Local Enhancement;Enhancement using Arithmetic/Logic Operations – Image
Subtraction, Image Averaging;Basics of Spatial Filtering; Smoothing - Mean filter, Ordered
Statistic Filter; Sharpening –The Laplacian.

Unit 2: Image Enhancement in Frequency Domain: Fourier Transform and the Frequency
Domain, Basis of Filtering in Frequency Domain,Filters – Low-pass, High-pass; Correspondence
Between Filtering in Spatial and FrequencyDomain; Smoothing Frequency Domain Filters –
Gaussian Lowpass Filters; SharpeningFrequency Domain Filters – Gaussian Highpass Filters;
Homomorphic Filtering.Image Restoration A Model of Restoration Process, Noise Models,
Restoration in the presence of Noise only-Spatial Filtering – Mean Filters: Arithmetic Mean filter,
Geometric Mean Filter, OrderStatistic Filters – Median Filter, Max and Min filters; Periodic Noise
Reduction by FrequencyDomain Filtering – Bandpass Filters; Minimum Mean-square Error
Restoration.

Unit 3: Color Image Processing Color Fundamentals, Color Models, Converting Colors to
different models, ColorTransformation, Smoothing and Sharpening, Color Segmentation.
Morphological Image Processing Introduction, Logic Operations involving Binary Images, Dilation
and Erosion, Opening andClosing, Morphological Algorithms – Boundary Extraction, Region
Filling, Extraction ofConnected Components, Convex Hull, Thinning, Thickening

Unit 4: Registration Introduction, Geometric Transformation – Plane to Plane transformation,

Mapping, StereoImaging – Algorithms to Establish Correspondence, Algorithms to Recover Depth
Segmentation Introduction, Region Extraction, Pixel-Based Approach, Multi-level Thresholding,
LocalThresholding, Region-based Approach, Edge and Line Detection: Edge Detection,
EdgeOperators, Pattern Fitting Approach, Edge Linking and Edge Following, Edge
ElementsExtraction by Thresholding, Edge Detector Performance, Line Detection, Corner
Detection.

Unit 5: Feature Extraction: Representation, Topological Attributes, Geometric Attributes

Description: Boundary-based Description, Region-based Description, Relationship.
Object Recognition: Deterministic Methods, Clustering, Statistical Classification, Syntactic
Recognition, TreeSearch, Graph Matching

Books:
1. Digital Image Processing 2nd Edition, Rafael C. Gonzalvez and Richard E. Woods. Published
by: PHI
2. B. Chanda, D.D. Majumder, “Digital Image Processing & Analysis”, PHI
3. Digital Image Processing and Computer Vision, R.J. Schalkoff. Published by: John Wiley and
Sons, NY.
4. Fundamentals of Digital Image Processing, A.K. Jain. Published by Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle
River, NJ.