Abstract: It is quite apparent that deployment of different sensors or combination of different sensors in underwater sensor network (UWSNs) helps researchers and environmentalists to gather valuable data on oceanography, marine life, water quality, and environmental changes in underwater ecosystems, contributing to a better understanding of the planet's aquatic environments. Therefore, the present invention is directed to provide a system and method for establishing energy-optimized UAV-assisted underwater wireless sensor network (FIG. 1) to collect data from sensor nodes placed underwater through deployment of a set number of gateway nodes equipped with solar harvesting module embedded on to them. The purpose of this invention is to reduce the impact of the hot-spot issue in UWSN.

Abstract: A spectrally efficient low complex Orthogonal Time Frequency Space (OTFS) modulation-based transceiver system and method is provided. The system and method are developed for uplink and downlink wireless communication for resource-constrained IoT and M2M devices. The transceiver system includes at least one transmitter configured to transmit bit stream using adaptive Orthogonal Time Frequency Space (OTFS) frame with selectively embedded pilot depending on mobility condition for improving spectral efficiency and at least one receiver configured to dispose onto IoT devices for receiving the transmitted bit stream. The receiver updates the transmitter about mobility condition of said at least one receiver through a control channel.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a wide microstrip antenna array based antenna system for millimeter wave applications. The microstrip antenna array based antenna system of the present invention includes plurality of patch antennas and each of the patch antennas includes a U-slot of unequal arms. This patch antenna with the U-slot acts as the array element. The array elements are placed in a linear array at a distance of ?/2 from each other on the antenna substrate to achieve desired scan performance. The microstrip corporate feed network with T-junction power divider is used. The antenna elements are fed by electromagnetic coupling with the feed network. The antenna array with dummy elements on both sides of the linear array together with an extra ground plane is used to achieve improved array performance with high main lobe gain and reduced side lobe.

Abstract: Mathematical equations for predicting a percent drag reduction (% DR) value for friction-reducing (FR) polymer compositions including various polymer properties and base fluid properties as the independent variables such as base fluid salinity, type of salts in the base fluid, molecular weight of the FR polymers, FR polymer concentrations, degrees of ionicity of the FR polymers, and percent sulfonation of AMPS-containing FR polymers.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a multi-hop parallel relay structure in 5G-NR at RRC level connection establishment wherein a relay network is formed between source remote UE and destination UE or gNB. In a particular hop there may be multiple parallel relay devices working simultaneously, also an individual relay device may be connected to multiple devices to the next hop through different radio links. A fixed device in a particular hop may be connected to more than one device from preceding hop through separate radio links. An algorithm for selecting relay to configure multi hop parallel relay network based on SNR and RSRP has been proposed.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to axial-centrifugal contra-rotating compressor system comprising combination of contra-rotating axial compressor stage with a back end centrifugal compressor stage, eliminating stator blades, an inter-stage connecting duct at the entry of the centrifugal compressor and an discharge 5 diffuser at the exit of centrifugal compressor rotor characterized by radial to axial turning annular passage as per the gas turbine engine requirement, favouring reduction in engine size, weight, number of parts, overall engine length and produces a higher-pressure rise and swirl-free discharge towards the combustion chamber. The first low-pressure rotor having at least one axial blading assembly 10 rotates in the direction opposite to the second high-pressure rotor blading assembly comprising of at least one axial rotor and one centrifugal rotor. The blades for axial compressor are adopted of low-aspect ratio configuration for reliable high load stall free operation.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a network system for supporting XR devices/users over an EPON comprising one or more user XR devices, an edge server and a EPON based connection between said XR devices and said edge server to offer XR services with strict latency bounds over said EPON based connection involving offloading of XR device generated data to the edge server for processing, whereby the edge server process the XR data based on predicted future XR frames of said data after reconstructing EPON dependent inter-arrival pattern of the XR frames.

Abstract: A generic point of care based portable device and method thereof as a platform technology for detecting pathogenic infection via nucleic acid based testing achieving sample-to-result integration, comprising the following interconnected stand-alone modules: a thermal unit for executing piece-wise isothermal reactions in a pre-programmable concomitant fashion without necessitating in-between operative intervention; a colorimetric detection unit seamlessly interfaced with smartphone-app based analytics for detecting the target analyte.

Abstract: A generic point of care based portable device and method thereof as a platform technology for detecting pathogenic infection via nucleic acid based testing achieving sample-to-result integration, comprising the following interconnected stand-alone modules: a thermal unit for executing piece-wise isothermal reactions in a pre-programmable concomitant fashion without necessitating in-between operative intervention; a colorimetric detection unit seamlessly interfaced with smartphone-app based analytics for detecting the target analyte.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a signal receiver and signal receiving method involving nonlinear detection method for mmWave OTFS systems in high mobility scenarios with non-ideal power amplifier, which is applicable in the fifth generation (5G) and beyond networks. The millimeter wave (mmWave) system is envisioned to be a promising candidate of 5G. However, the high frequency and large bandwidth operation in mmWaves result in nonlinear distortions from the power amplifier in the system. The nonlinearly distorted signals from non-ideal power amplifier when propagate through a wideband high mobility channel tremendously degrades the systems performance. Attributed to the non-ideal power amplifier, the nonlinear distortions induce multiplicative distortions and inter symbol interference (ISI) in the OTFS system. It further causes the posterior probability of the transmitted signal non-Gaussian and analytically intractable.

Abstract: Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) mount with a base station, also known as Flying Base Station (FBS) has garnered considerable attention for 5G and beyond communication. This invention provides a method and system for deploying a swarm of FBSs over a geographical region autonomously. The proposed 3-D deployment technique exhibit how to place a minimum number of FBSs energy efficiently over a region to offer guaranteed QoS without inter-UAV interference and UAV capacity limit violations. A Master-Slave coordination technique is revealed to maintain inter-FBS synchronization to avoid collisions during the transition. The technique for selecting intermediate hop coordinates is proclaimed under path planning.

Abstract: The present invention provides a new pilot pattern and channel estimation method involving such pilot for mmWave OTFS systems in high mobility scenarios with non-ideal power amplifier, which is applicable in the fifth generation (5G) and beyond networks. The pilot pattern for communication signal in wireless communications involving mmWave systems with non-ideal power amplifier comprises signal including a pilot signal element, information-bearing symbol and zero as guard, wherein, position of pilot and guard are arranged to combat the effect of inter symbol interference (ISI) from nonlinear impairment of the power amplifier for accurate channel estimation.

Abstract: The present invention reports a spectrally efficient low complex OFTS modulation based communication system and method for resource-constrained IoT device and M2M type communication in high-mobility environment comprising at least one transmitter configured to transmit bit stream involving adaptive OTFS frame with selectively embedded pilot depending on mobility condition for improving spectral efficiency and at least one receiver configured to dispose onto IoT devices with a low-complex iterative detector for receiving thus transmitted bit stream. The receiver is configured to update the transmitter about its mobility condition through a control channel.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a wide microstrip antenna array based antenna system for millimeter wave applications. The microstrip antenna array based antenna system of the present invention includes plurality of patch antennas and each of the patch antennas includes a U-slot of unequal arms. This patch antenna with the U-slot acts as the array element. The array elements are placed in a linear array at a distance of ?/2 from each other on the antenna substrate to achieve desired scan performance. The microstrip corporate feed network with T-junction power divider is used. The antenna elements are fed by electromagnetic coupling with the feed network. The antenna array with dummy elements on both sides of the linear array together with an extra ground plane is used to achieve improved array performance with high main lobe gain and reduced side lobe.

Abstract: A generic point of care based portable device and method thereof as a platform technology for detecting pathogenic infection via nucleic acid based testing achieving sample-to-result integration, comprising the following interconnected stand-alone modules: a thermal unit for executing piece-wise isothermal reactions in a pre-programmable concomitant fashion without necessitating in-between operative intervention; a colorimetric detection unit seamlessly interfaced with smartphone-app based analytics for detecting the target analyte.

Abstract: Provided are an acrylic rubber composition having higher tensile properties and higher heat resistance and a vulcanizate thereof. An acrylic rubber composition includes 1 to 25 parts by mass of a layered clay mineral relative to 100 parts by mass of an acrylic rubber. The acrylic rubber is a copolymer of a (meth)acrylic acid alkyl ester and a curesite monomer.

Abstract: In distributed communication networks, the signal received at the destination is characterized by unknown multiple carrier frequency offsets (MCFOs) and improper channel state information (CSI). The knowledge of offsets and channel gains are required for coherent deployment of distributed systems. Hence, joint training sequence (TS) design method is proposed for joint estimation of MCFOs and channel estimation over spatially correlated channel. Thus, the present invention provides a method of providing joint estimation for distributed communication systems with multiple antennas at the nodes over spatial correlated channels. The designed optimal training sequences are short length and spectrally efficient. The designed training sequence produces zero cross-correlation, facilitating channel estimation without matrix inversion, significantly lowers the complexity of the estimation algorithm.

Abstract: A generalized frequency division multiplexing (GFDM) transceiver system includes a low complex GFDM transmitter with multiple sub-carriers and timeslots having IFFT based modulator for modulating data corresponding to a particular timeslot and different sub-carriers to corresponding sub-carrier frequencies and thereby generating transmittable GFDM data signal, multipath frequency selective fading GFDM channel having uncorrelated channel coefficients corresponding to different paths for transmitting the modulated GFDM data signal and a low complex GFDM receiver configured to operate with said multipath frequency selective fading channel involving channel equalization followed by self-interference equalization to receive the transmitted modulated GFDM data signal and thereby de-modulate the GFDM data signal to obtain the data.

Abstract: Provided are an acrylic rubber composition having higher tensile properties and higher heat resistance and a vulcanizate thereof. An acrylic rubber composition includes 1 to 25 parts by mass of a layered clay mineral relative to 100 parts by mass of an acrylic rubber. The acrylic rubber is a copolymer of a (meth)acrylic acid alkyl ester and a curesite monomer.

Abstract: Technology is generally described for improving resistance to cache timing attacks made on block cipher encryption implementations. In some examples, the technology can include identifying one or more tunable parameters of the block cipher encryption algorithm; creating multiple encryption algorithm implementations by varying one or more of the parameter values; causing a computing system to encrypt data using the implementations; measuring average execution times at the computing system for the implementations subjecting the implementations to a cache timing attack; measuring average execution times at the computing system for the implementations subjected to a cache timing attack; computing a time difference between the average execution times for the implementations when not subjected and when subjected to a cache timing attack; selecting an implementation having a lower time difference; and using the selected implementation for a subsequent encryption operation.