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SEMESTER – VIII

Signal and Networks

Code: PEC-IT801A
Contact: 3L

Name of the Course: Signal and Networks

Course Code: PEC-IT801 Semester: VIII

Duration: 6 months Maximum Marks: 100
Teaching Scheme Examination Scheme

Theory: 3 hrs./week Mid Semester exam: 15

Tutorial: NIL Assignment and Quiz: 10 marks
Attendance: 5 marks
Practical: NIL End Semester Exam : 70 Marks
Credit Points: 3

Unit Content Hrs/Unit Marks/Unit

Objective and overview, signal and system types 3
1 and classifications, step response, impulse response
and convolution integral;
Periodic signal analysis: Fourier series and 7
2 properties;
Aperiodic signal analysis : Fourier Transform - its
properties and sinusoidal steady state analysis of
systems;

Elements of electrical network : dependent and 12

3 independent sources, active and passive
components; classical differential equations for
description of transient conditions of Network;
Solutions of linear time invariant networks with
initial conditions; Unilateral and Bilateral Laplace
Transforms and properties; Transient solutions of
networks using Laplace Transform; Network
functions: poles, zeros, transfer function, Bode
plot;
One and two port network parameters and 10
4. functions : Z, Y and ABCD parameters, driving
point and transfer impedances and admittances;
Network Theorems and Formulation of Network
equations: generalized formulation of KCL, KVL,
State Variable descriptions; Thevenin, Norton,
Maximum Power Transfer, Tellegen and
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Reciprocity Theorems;
5 Graph theory: Tree, Co-tree, fundamental cut-set, 6
fundamental loop analysis of network; Analog filter
design: Butterworth, Sallen Key, frequency
transformation and scaling;

Text book and Reference books:

1. Signals and Systems by P. Ramesh Babu & R. Ananda Natarajan, Scitech Publications
(India) .
2. Signals & Systems by A. V. Oppenheim, A. S. Willsky and S. H. Nawab, Prentice-Hall
India .
3. Networks & Systems by D Roy Choudhury.
4. Networks & Systems by Ashfaq Husian.

Cryptography and Network Security

Code: PEC-IT801B
Contact: 3L

Name of the Course: Cryptography and Network Security

Course Code: PEC-IT801B Semester: VIII

Duration: 6 months Maximum Marks: 100
Teaching Scheme Examination Scheme

Theory: 3 hrs./week Mid Semester exam: 15

Tutorial: NIL Assignment and Quiz: 10 marks
Attendance: 5 marks
Practical: NIL End Semester Exam : 70 Marks
Credit Points: 3

Unit Content Hrs/Unit Marks/Unit

Attacks on Computers & Computer Security -
1 Introduction, Need for Security, Security 5
approaches, Principles of Security, Types of attack
Cryptography: Concepts & Techniques-
2 Introduction, Plaintext & Cipher text, Substitution 7
Techniques, Transposition Techniques, Encryption
& Decryption, Symmetric & Asymmetric key
Cryptography, Key Range & Key Size
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Symmetric Key Algorithm - Introduction,

3 Algorithm types & Modes, Overview of Symmetric 8
Key Cryptography, DES(Data Encryption Standard)
algorithm, IDEA(International Data Encryption
Algorithm) algorithm, RC5(Rivest Cipher 5)
algorithm.
Asymmetric Key Algorithm, Digital Signature and
4. RSA - Introduction, Overview of Asymmetric key 5
Cryptography, RSA algorithm, Symmetric &
Asymmetric key Cryptography together, Digital
Signature, Basic concepts of Message Digest and
Hash Function (Algorithms on Message Digest and
Hash function not required).
5 Internet Security Protocols, User Authentication - 6
Basic Concepts, SSL protocol, Authentication
Basics, Password, Authentication Token, Certificate
based Authentication, Biometric Authentication.
6 Electronic Mail Security - Basics of mail security, 4
Pretty Good Privacy, S/MIME.
7 Firewall - Introduction, Types of firewall, Firewall 3
Configurations, DMZ Network

Text book and Reference books:

1. “Cryptography and Network Security”, William Stallings, 2nd Edition, Pearson Education
Asia
2. “Network Security private communication in a public world”, C. Kaufman, R. Perlman and
M. Speciner, Pearson
3. Cryptography & Network Security: Atul Kahate, TMH.
4. “Network Security Essentials: Applications and Standards” by William Stallings, Pearson.
5. “Designing Network Security”, Merike Kaeo, 2nd Edition, Pearson Books
6. “Building Internet Firewalls”, Elizabeth D. Zwicky, Simon Cooper, D. Brent Chapman, 2nd
Edition, Oreilly .
7. “Practical Unix & Internet Security”, Simson Garfinkel, Gene Spafford, Alan Schwartz, 3rd
Edition, Oreilly
8. “Cryptography and Network Security”, V.K. Jain, Khanna Publishing House, 2017.

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Natural Language Processing

Code: PEC-IT801C
Contacts: 3L

Name of the Course: Natural Language Processing

Course Code: PEC-IT801C Semester: VIII

Duration: 6 months Maximum Marks:100
Teaching Scheme Examination Scheme

Theory: 3 hrs./week Mid Semester exam: 15

Tutorial: NIL Assignment and Quiz: 10 marks
Attendance : 5 marks
Practical:NIL End Semester Exam :70 Marks
Credit Points: 3

Unit Content Hrs/Unit Marks/Unit

Regular Expressions and AutomataRecap) -
1 Introduction to NLP, Regular Expression, Finite State 11
Automata [2L]
Tokenization - Word Tokenization, Normalization,
Sentence Segmentation, Named Entity Recognition,
Multi Word Extraction, Spell Checking – Bayesian
Approach, Minimum Edit Distance [5L]
Morphology - Morphology – Inflectional and
Derivational Morphology, Finite State Morphological
Parsing, The Lexicon and Morphotactics,
Morphological Parsing with Finite State Transducers,
Orthographic Rules and Finite State Transducers,
Porter Stemmer [4L]
Language Modeling Introduction to N-grams, Chain
2 Rule, Smoothing – Add-One Smoothing, Witten-Bell 8
Discounting; Backoff, Deleted Interpolation, N-grams
for Spelling and Word Prediction, Evaluation of
language models. [4L]
Hidden Markov Models and POS Tagging Markov
Chain, Hidden Markov Models, Forward Algorithm,
Viterbi Algorithm, Part of Speech Tagging – Rule
based and Machine Learning based approaches,
Evaluation. [4L]
Text Classification Text Classification, Naïve Bayes’
3 Text Classification, Evaluation, Sentiment Analysis – 9
Opinion Mining and Emotion Analysis, Resources and
Techniques. [4L]
Context Free Grammar Context Free Grammar and
Constituency, Some common CFG phenomena for
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English, Top-Down and Bottom-up parsing,

Probabilistic Context Free Grammar, Dependency
Parsing [4L]
Computational Lexical Semantics Introduction to
4. Lexical Semantics – Homonymy, Polysemy, 9
Synonymy, Thesaurus – WordNet, Computational
Lexical Semantics – Thesaurus based and
Distributional Word Similarity [4L]
Information Retrieval Boolean Retrieval, Term-
document incidence, The Inverted Index, Query
Optimization, Phrase Queries, Ranked Retrieval –
Term Frequency – Inverse Document Frequency based
ranking, Zone Indexing, Query term proximity, Cosine
ranking, Combining different features for ranking,
Search Engine Evaluation, Relevance Feedback [5L]

Text book and Reference books:

1. Speech and Language Processing, Jurafsky and Martin, Pearson Education

2. Foundation of Statistical Natural Language Processing, Manning and Schutze, MIT Press 3.
Multilingual Natural Language Processing Applications from Theory to Practice: Bikel, Pearson.

Internet of Things
Code: PEC-IT801D
Contacts: 3L

Course Code PEC-IT801D

Course Name Internet of Things
Credits 3
Pre-Requisites Wireless Networks

Total Number of Lectures: 48

COURSE OBJECTIVE
 Able to understand the application areas of IOT
 Able to realize the revolution of Internet in Mobile Devices, Cloud & Sensor
Networks
 Able to understand building blocks of Internet of Things and characteristics

LECTURE WITH BREAKUP NO. OF

LECTURES

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Unit 1: Environmental Parameters Measurement and Monitoring: Why 7

measurement and monitoring are important, effects of adverse parameters for the
living being for IOT

Unit 2: Sensors: Working Principles: Different types; Selection of Sensors for 8

Practical Applications
Introduction of Different Types of Sensors such as Capacitive, Resistive, Surface
Acoustic Wave for Temperature, Pressure, Humidity, Toxic Gas etc
Unit 3: Important Characteristics of Sensors: Determination of the 11
Characteristics
Fractional order element: Constant Phase Impedance for sensing applications
such as humidity, water quality, milk quality
Impedance Spectroscopy: Equivalent circuit of Sensors and Modelling of
Sensors
Importance and Adoption of Smart Sensors
Unit 4: Architecture of Smart Sensors: Important components, their features 10
Fabrication of Sensor and Smart Sensor: Electrode fabrication: Screen printing,
Photolithography, Electroplating Sensing film deposition: Physical and chemical
Vapor, Anodization, Sol-gel
Unit 5: Interface Electronic Circuit for Smart Sensors and Challenges for 7
Interfacing the Smart Sensor, Usefulness of Silicon Technology in Smart Sensor
And Future scope of research in smart sensor
Unit 6: Recent trends in smart sensor for day to day life, evolving sensors and 5
their architecture.

COURSE OUTCOMES
On completion of the course the student should be able to
 Understand the vision of IoT from a global context.
 Determine the Market perspective of IoT.
 Use of Devices, Gateways and Data Management in IoT.
 Application of IoT in Industrial and Commercial Building Automation and Real World
Design Constraints.
 Building state of the art architecture in IoT.

References:
1. Yasuura, H., Kyung, C.-M., Liu, Y., Lin, Y.-L., Smart Sensors at the IoT Frontier,
Springer International Publishing
2. Kyung, C.-M., Yasuura, H., Liu, Y., Lin, Y.-L., Smart Sensors and Systems,
Springer International Publishing
3. Jeeva Jose, Internet of Things, Khanna Publishing House, 2018.
4. Internet of Things, Arsheep Bahga and Vijay Madisetti

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Remote Sensig and GIS

Code: OEC-IT801E
Contacts: 3L

Name of the Course: Remote Sensig and GIS

Course Code: PEC-IT801E Semester:VIII

Duration:6 months Maximum Marks: 100
Teaching Scheme Examination Scheme

Theory: 3 hrs./week Mid Semester exam: 15

Tutorial: NIL Assignment and Quiz : 10 marks
Attendance: 5 marks
Practical: NIL End Semester Exam: 70 Marks
Credit Points: 3

Unit Content Hrs/Unit Marks/Unit

Introduction and Overview of Geographic Information 3
1 Systems Definition of a GIS, features and functions;
why GIS is important; how GIS is applied; GIS as an
Information System; GIS and cartography;
contributing and allied disciplines; GIS data feeds;
historical development of GIS.
GIS and Maps, Map Projections and Coordinate 4
2 Systems Maps and their characteristics (selection,
abstraction, scale, etc.); automated cartography versus
GIS; map projections; coordinate systems; precision
and error.
Data Sources, Data Input , Data Quality and Database 3
3 Concepts Major data feeds to GIS and their
characteristics: maps, GPS, images, databases,
commercial data; locating and evaluating data; data
formats; data quality; metadata. Database concepts
and components; flat files; relational database
systems; data modeling; views of the database;
normalization; databases and GIS.
Spatial Analysis Questions a GIS can answer; GIS 3
4. analytical functions; vector analysis including
topological overlay; raster analysis; statistics;
integrated spatial analysis.
5. Making Maps Parts of a map; map functions in GIS; 6
map design and map elements; choosing a map type;
producing a map formats, plotters and media; online
and CD-ROM distribution; interactive maps and the
Web.
6. Implementing a GIS Planning a GIS; requirements; 4
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pilot projects; case studies; data management;

personnel and skill sets; costs and benefits; selecting a
GIS package; professional GIS packages; desktop
GIS; embedded GIS; public domain and lowcost
packages.
1. Technology & Instruments involved in GIS & Remote 8
Sensing GIS applications; GIS application areas and
user segments; creating custom GIS software
applications; user interfaces; case studies. Future data;
future hardware; future software; Object-oriented
concepts and GIS; future issues – data ownership,
privacy, education; GIS career options and how to
pursue them.
2. Remote Sensing Remote sensing of environment, 8L
E.M. Principle, Thermal infrared remote sensing,
Remote sensing of Vegetation, Remote sensing of
water, urban landscape

Text book and Reference books:

1. “Principles of geographical information systems”, P. A. Burrough and R. A. Mcdonnel,

Oxford. 2. “Remote sensing of the environment” , J. R. Jensen, Pearson References:
2. “Exploring Geographic Information Systems”, Nicholas Chrismas, John Wiley & Sons.
3. “Getting Started with Geographic Information Systems”,Keith Clarke, PHI.
4. “An Introduction to Geographical Information Systems”, Ian Heywood, Sarah Cornelius, and
Steve Carver. Addison-Wesley Longman.

Big Data Analytics

Code: OEC-IT801A
Contacts: 3L

Name of the Course: Big Data Analytics

Course Code: OEC-IT801 Semester:VIII

Duration:6 months Maximum Marks: 100
Teaching Scheme Examination Scheme

Theory: 3 hrs./week Mid Semester exam: 15

Tutorial: NIL Assignment and Quiz : 10 marks
Attendance: 5 marks
Practical: NIL End Semester Exam: 70 Marks
Credit Points: 3

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Total Number of Lectures: 48

COURSE OBJECTIVE
 Understand big data for business intelligence. Learn business case studies for big data
analytics. Understand nosql big data management. Perform map-reduce analytics using
Hadoop and related tools
NO. OF
LECTURE WITH BREAKUP
LECTUR
Unit 1: ES
What is big data, why big data, convergence of key trends, unstructured
data,
industry examples of big data, web analytics, big data and marketing, fraud and 8
big data, risk and big data, credit risk management, big data and algorithmic
trading, big data and healthcare, big data in medicine, advertising and big
data, big data technologies, introduction to Hadoop, open source
technologies, cloud and big data, mobile business intelligence, Crowd
sourcing analytics, inter and trans firewall analytics.
Unit 2:
Introduction to NoSQL, aggregate data models, aggregates, key-value
and document data models, relationships, graph databases, schemaless
databases, materialized views, distribution models, sharding, master-slave 8
replication, peer-peer replication, sharding and replication, consistency,
relaxing consistency, version stamps, map-reduce, partitioning and combining,
composing map-reduce calculations.
Unit 3:
Data format, analyzing data with Hadoop, scaling out, Hadoop streaming,
Hadoop pipes, design of Hadoop distributed file system (HDFS), HDFS 9
concepts, Java interface, data flow, Hadoop I/O, data integrity, compression,
serialization, Avro, file-based data structures
Unit 4:
MapReduce workflows, unit tests with MRUnit, test data and local tests,
anatomy of MapReduce job run, classic Map-reduce, YARN, failures in classic 10
Map-reduce and YARN, job scheduling, shuffle and sort, task execution,
MapReduce types, input formats, output formats
Unit 5: 7
Hbase, data model and implementations, Hbase clients, Hbase
examples, praxis.Cassandra, Cassandra data model, Cassandra examples,
Cassandra clients, Hadoop integration.
Unit 6:
Pig, Grunt, pig data model, Pig Latin, developing and testing Pig Latin scripts. 6
Hive, data types and file formats, HiveQL data definition, HiveQL data
manipulation, HiveQL queries.

COURSE OUTCOMES
After completion of course, students would be:

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 Describe big data and use cases from selected business domains
 Explain NoSQL big data management
 Install, configure, and run Hadoop and HDFS
 Perform map-reduce analytics using Hadoop
 Use Hadoop related tools such as HBase, Cassandra, Pig, and Hive for big data analytics

References:
1. Michael Minelli, Michelle Chambers, and AmbigaDhiraj, "Big Data, Big Analytics: Emerging
2. V.K. Jain, Big Data and Hadoop, Khanna Publishing House, New Delhi (2017).
3. V.K. Jain, Data Analysis, Khanna Publishing House, New Delhi (2019).
4. Business Intelligence and Analytic Trends for Today's Businesses", Wiley, 2013.
5. P. J. Sadalage and M. Fowler, "NoSQL Distilled: A Brief Guide to the Emerging
World of Polyglot Persistence", Addison-Wesley Professional, 2012.
6. Tom White, "Hadoop: The Definitive Guide", Third Edition, O'Reilley, 2012.
7. Eric Sammer, "Hadoop Operations", O'Reilley, 2012.
8. E. Capriolo, D. Wampler, and J. Rutherglen, "Programming Hive", O'Reilley, 2012.
9. Lars George, "HBase: The Definitive Guide", O'Reilley, 2011.
10. Eben Hewitt, "Cassandra: The Definitive Guide", O'Reilley, 2010.
11. Alan Gates, "Programming Pig", O'Reilley, 2011.

Cyber Law and Ethics

Code: OEC-IT801B
Contacts: 3L

Name of the Course: Cyber Law and Ethics

Course Code: OEC-IT801B Semester:VIII

Duration:6 months Maximum Marks: 100
Teaching Scheme Examination Scheme

Theory: 3 hrs./week Mid Semester exam: 15

Tutorial: NIL Assignment and Quiz : 10 marks
Attendance: 5 marks
Practical: NIL End Semester Exam: 70 Marks
Credit Points: 3

Unit Content Hrs/Unit Marks/Unit

Introduction of Cybercrime: What is cybercrime?,
1 Forgery, Hacking, Software Piracy, Computer 8
Network intrusion[4L].
Category of Cybercrime: how criminals plan attacks,
passive attack, Active attacks, cyberstalking. [4L]
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Cybercrime Mobile & Wireless devices: Security

2 challenges posted by mobile devices, cryptographic 8
security for mobile devices, Attacks on
mobile/cellphones, Theft, Virus, Hacking. Bluetooth;
Different viruses on laptop [8L]
Tools and Methods used in Cyber crime: Proxy
3 servers, panword checking, Random checking, Trojan 8
Horses and Backdoors; DOS & DDOS attacks; SQL
injection: buffer over flow. [8L]
Phishing & Identity Theft: Phising methods, ID
4. Theft; Online identity method. [4L] 8
Cybercrime & Cybersecurity: Legal aspects, indian
laws, IT act, Public key certificate. [4L]

Text book and Reference books:

1. Cyber security by Nina Gobole & Sunit Belapune; Pub: Wiley India.
2. Information Security & Cyber laws, Gupta & Gupta, Khanna Publishing House

Mobile Computing
Code: OEC-IT801C
Contacts: 3L

Name of the Course: Mobile Computing

Course Code: OEC-IT801C Semester: VIII

Duration: 6 months Maximum Marks: 100
Teaching Scheme Examination Scheme

Theory:3 hrs./week Mid Semester exam: 15

Tutorial: 3L Assignment and Quiz: 10 marks
Attendance: 5 marks
Practical: NIL End Semester Exam: 70 Marks
Credit Points: 3

Unit Content Hrs/Unit Marks/Unit

Introduction to Personal Communications Services 5
1 (PCS): PCS Architecture, Mobility management,
Networks signalling. Global System for Mobile
Communication (GSM) system overview: GSM
Architecture, Mobility management, Network
signalling.
General Packet Radio Services (GPRS): GPRS 5
2 Architecture, GPRS Network Nodes. Mobile Data
Communication: WLANs (Wireless LANs) IEEE
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802.11 standard, Mobile IP.

Wireless Application Protocol (WAP): The Mobile 7
3 Internet standard, WAP Gateway and Protocols,
wireless mark up Languages (WML). Wireless Local
Loop(WLL): Introduction to WLL Architecture,
wireless Local Loop Technologies.
Third Generation (3G) Mobile Services: Introduction to 7
4. International Mobile Telecommunications 2000 (IMT
2000) vision, Wideband Code Division Multiple Access
(W-CDMA), and CDMA 2000, Quality of services in
3G
5 Global Mobile Satellite Systems; case studies of the 7
IRIDIUM and GLOBALSTAR systems. Wireless
Enterprise Networks: Introduction to Virtual Networks,
Blue tooth technology, Blue tooth Protocols.
Server-side programming in Java, Pervasive web 8
6 application architecture, Device independent example
application

Text book and Reference books:

1. "Pervasive Computing", Burkhardt, Pearson

2. "Mobile Communication", J. Schiller, Pearson
3. "Wireless and Mobile Networks Architectures", Yi-Bing Lin & Imrich Chlamtac, John Wiley
& Sons, 2001
4. "Mobile and Personal Communication systems and services", Raj Pandya, Prentice Hall of
India, 2001.
5. "Guide to Designing and Implementing wireless LANs", Mark Ciampa, Thomson learning,
Vikas Publishing House, 2001.
6. "Wireless Web Development", Ray Rischpater, Springer Publishing,
7. "The Wireless Application Protocol", Sandeep Singhal, Pearson .
8. "Third Generation Mobile Telecommunication systems", by P.Stavronlakis, Springer
Publishers.
9. Brijesh Gupta “Mobile Computing”, Khanna Publishing House, New Delhi

Bio Informatics
Code: OEC-IT801D
Contacts: 3L

Name of the Course: Bio Informatics

Course Code: OEC-IT801D Semester: VIII

Duration: 6 months Maximum Marks: 100
Teaching Scheme Examination Scheme
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Theory:3 hrs./week Mid Semester exam: 15

Tutorial: NIL Assignment and Quiz: 10 marks
Attendance: 5 marks
Practical: NIL End Semester Exam: 70 Marks
Credit Points: 3

Unit Content Hrs/Unit Marks/Unit

INTRODUCTION TO MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
1 Concepts of Cell, tissue, types of cell, components of 5
cell, organelle. Functions of different organelles.
Concepts of DNA: Basic Structure of DNA; Double
Helix structure; Watson and crick model. Exons and
Introns and Gene Concept. Concepts of RNA : Basic
structure, Difference between RNA and DNA. Types
of RNA. Concept of Protein: Basic components and
structure. Introduction to Central Dogma: Transcription
and Tranlation Introduction to Metabolic Pathways.
Sequence Databases Introduction to Bioinformatics.
2 Recent challenges in Bioinformatics. Protein Sequence 2
Databases, DNA sequence databases. sequence
database search programs like BLAST and FASTA.
NCBI different modules: GenBank; OMIM, Taxonomy
browser, PubMed;
DNA SEQUENCE ANALYSIS
3 DNA Mapping and Assembly : Size of Human DNA 14
,Copying DNA: Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR),
Hybridization and Microarrays, Cutting DNA into
Fragments, Sequencing Short DNA Molecules,
Mapping Long DNA Molecules. DeBruijn Graph.
Sequence Alignment: Introduction, local and global
alignment, pair wise and multiple alignment, Dynamic
Programming Concept. Alignment algorithms:
Needleman and Wunsch algorithm, Smith-Waterman.
Introduction Probabilistic models used in
4. Computational Biology 8
Probabilistic Models; Hidden Markov Model :
Concepts, Architecture, Transition matrix, estimation
matrix. Application of HMM in Bioinformatics :
Genefinding, profile searches, multiple sequence
alignment and regulatory site identification. Bayesian
networks Model :Architecture, Principle ,Application
in Bioinformatics.
5. Biological Data Classification and Clustering 6
Assigning protein function and predicting splice sites:
Decision Tree

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Robotics
Code: OEC-IT801E
Contacts: 3L

Name of the Course: Robotics

Course Code: OEC-IT801E Semester: VIII

Duration: 6 months Maximum Marks: 100
Teaching Scheme Examination Scheme

Theory:3 hrs./week Mid Semester exam: 15

Tutorial: NIL Assignment and Quiz: 10 marks
Attendance: 5 marks
Practical: NIL End Semester Exam: 70 Marks
Credit Points: 3

Unit Content Hrs/Unit Marks/Unit

Introduction :Introduction -- brief history, types,
1 classification and usage, Science and Technology of 1
robots, Some useful websites, textbooks and research
journals.
Elements of robots – links, joints, actuators, and
2 sensors 5
Position and orientation of a rigid body, Homogeneous
transformations, Representation of joints, link
representation using D-H parameters, Examples of D-H
parameters and link transforms, different kinds of
actuators – stepper, DC servo and brushless motors,
model of a DC servo motor, Types of transmissions,
Purpose of sensors, internal and external sensors,
common sensors – encoders, tachometers, strain gauge
based force-torque sensors, proximity and distance
measuring sensors, and vision.
Kinematics of serial robots Introduction, Direct and
3 inverse kinematics problems, Examples of kinematics 4
of common serial manipulators, workspace of a serial
robot, Inverse kinematics of constrained and redundant
robots, Tractrix based approach for fixed and free
robots and multi-body systems, simulations and
experiments, Solution procedures using theory of
elimination, Inverse kinematics solution for the general
6R serial manipulator.
Kinematics of parallel robots Degrees-of-freedom of
4. parallel mechanisms and manipulators, Active and 5
passive joints, Constraint and loop-closure equations,
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Direct kinematics problem, Mobility of parallel

manipulators, Closed-from and numerical solution,
Inverse kinematics of parallel manipulators and
mechanisms, Direct kinematics of Gough-Stewart
platform.
5. Velocity and static analysis of robot manipulators 5
Linear and angular velocity of links, Velocity
propagation, Manipulator Jacobians for serial and
parallel manipulators, Velocity ellipse and ellipsoids,
Singularity analysis for serial and parallel
manipulators, Loss and gain of degree of freedom,
Statics of serial and parallel manipulators, Statics and
force transformation matrix of a Gough-Stewart
platform, Singularity analysis and statics.
6 Dynamics of serial and parallel manipulators 4
Mass and inertia of links, Lagrangian formulation for
equations of motion for serial and
parallel manipulators, Generation of symbolic
equations of motion using a computer,
Simulation (direct and inverse) of dynamic equations
of motion, Examples of a planar 2R and
four-bar mechanism, Recursive dynamics,
Commercially available multi-body simulation
software (ADAMS) and Computer algebra software
Maple.
7 Motion planning and control Joint and Cartesian 6
space trajectory planning and generation, Classical
control concepts using the example of control of a
single link, Independent joint PID control, Control of a
multi-link manipulator, Non-linear model based control
schemes, Simulation and experimental case studies on
serial and parallel manipulators, Control of constrained
manipulators, Cartesian control, Force control and
hybrid position/force control, Advanced topics in non-
linear control of manipulators. 8 Module 8: Modeling
and
8 Modeling and control of flexible robots Models of 4
flexible links and joints, Kinematic modeling of multi-
link flexible robots, Dynamics and control of flexible
link manipulators, Numerical simulations results,
Experiments with a planar two-link flexible
manipulator.
9 Modeling and analysis of wheeled mobile robots 3
3Introduction and some well known wheeled mobile
robots (WMR), two and three-wheeled WMR on flat
surfaces, Slip and its modeling, WMR on uneven
terrain, Design of slip-free motion on uneven terrain,

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Kinematics, dynamics and static stability of a three-

wheeled WMR’s on uneven terrain, Simulations using
Matlab and ADAMS.
10 Selected advanced topics in robotics Introduction to 3
chaos, Non-linear dynamics and chaos in robot
equations, Simulations of planar 2 DOF manipulators,
Analytical criterion for unforced motion. Gough-
Stewart platform and its singularities, use of near
singularity for fine motion for sensing, design of
Gough-Stewart platform based sensors. Over-
constrained mechanisms and deployable structures,
Algorithm to obtain redundant links and joints,
Kinematics and statics of deployable structures with
pantographs or scissor-like elements (SLE’s).

Text book and Reference books:

1. Robotics Process Automation, Khanna Publishing House
2. Saha, S.K., “Introduction to Robotics, 2nd Edition, McGraw-Hill Higher Education, New
Delhi, 2014
3. Ghosal, A., “Robotics”, Oxford, New Delhi, 2006.

E-Commerce & ERP:

Code: OEC-IT802A
Contacts: 3L

1. Overview, Definitions, Advantages & Disadvantages of E – Commerce, Threats of E –

Commerce, Managerial Prospective, Rules & Regulations For Controlling E – Commerce, Cyber
Laws. [ 3 L ]
2. Technologies : Relationship Between E – Commerce & Networking, Different Types of
Networking Commerce, Internet, Intranet & Extranet, EDI Systems Wireless Application
Protocol : Definition, Hand Held Devices, Mobility & Commerce, Mobile Computing, Wireless
Web, Web Security, Infrastructure Requirement For E – Commerce . [ 5 L ]
3. Business Models of e – commerce : Model Based On Transaction Type, Model Based On
Transaction Party - B2B, B2C, C2B, C2C, E – Governance. [2 L ]
4. E – strategy : Overview, Strategic Methods for developing E – commerce. [2 L ]
5. Four C’s : ( Convergence, Collaborative Computing, Content Management & Call Center ).
Convergence : Technological Advances in Convergence – Types, Convergence and its
implications, Convergence & Electronic Commerce. Collaborative Computing : Collaborative
product development, contract as per CAD, Simultaneous Collaboration, Security. Content
Management : Definition of content, Authoring Tools & Content Management, Content –
partnership, repositories, convergence, providers, Web Traffic & Traffic Management ; Content
Marketing. Call Center : Definition, Need, Tasks Handled, Mode of Operation, Equipment ,
Strength & Weaknesses of Call Center, Customer Premises Equipment (CPE). [ 6 L ]
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7. Supply Chain Management : E – logistics, Supply Chain Portal, Supply Chain Planning Tools
(SCP Tools), Supply Chain Execution (SCE), SCE - Framework, Internet’s effect on Supply
Chain Power. [ 3 L ]
8. E – Payment Mechanism : Payment through card system, E – Cheque, E – Cash, E – Payment
Threats & Protections. [ 1 L ]
9. E – Marketing :. Home –shopping, E-Marketing, Tele-marketing [ 1 L ]
10. Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) : Meaning, Benefits, Concepts, Application, EDI Model,
Protocols (UN EDI FACT / GTDI, ANSI X – 12), Data Encryption (DES / RSA). [2 L ]
11. Risk of E – Commerce : Overview, Security for E – Commerce, Security Standards,
Firewall, Cryptography, Key Management, Password Systems, Digital certificates, Digital
signatures. [4 L ]
12. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) : Features, capabilities and Overview of Commercial
Software, re-engineering work processes for IT applications, Business Process Redesign,
Knowledge engineering and data warehouse . Business Modules: Finance, Manufacturing
(Production), Human Resources, Plant Maintenance, Materials Management,
QualityManagement, Sales&Distribution ERPPackage, ERP Market: ERP Market Place, SAP
AG, PeopleSoft, BAAN, JD Edwards, Oracle Corporation ERP-Present and Future: Enterprise
Application Integration (EAI), ERP and E-Commerce, ERP and Internet, Future Directions in
ERP [10]

Reference :

1. E-Commerce,M.M. Oka, EPH

2. Kalakotia, Whinston : Frontiers of Electronic Commerce , Pearson Education.
3. Bhaskar Bharat : Electronic Commerce - Technologies & Applications.TMH
4. Loshin Pete, Murphy P.A. : Electronic Commerce , Jaico Publishing Housing.
5. Murthy : E – Commerce , Himalaya Publishing.
6. E – Commerce : Strategy Technologies & Applications, Tata McGraw Hill.
7. Global E-Commerce, J. Christopher & T.H.K. Clerk, University Press
8. Beginning E-Commerce, Reynolds, SPD
9. Krishnamurthy, E-Commerce Mgmt, Vikas

Micro-electronics and VLSI Design

Code: OEC-IT802B
Contact: 3L
Credits: 3
Allotted Hrs: 39L

Introduction to CMOS circuits: MOS Transistors, MOS transistor switches, CMOS Logic, The
inverter, Combinational Logic, NAND gate, NOT Gate, Compound Gates, Multiplexers,
Memory-Latches and Registers. [6L]
Processing Technology: Silicon Semiconductor Technology- An Overview, wafer processing,
oxidation, epitaxy deposition, Ion-implantation and diffusion, The Silicon Gate Process- Basic
CMOS Technology, basic n-well CMOS process, p-well CMOS process, Twin tub process,
Silicon on insulator, CMOS process enhancement-Interconnect, circuit elements, 3-D CMOS.
Layout Design Rule: Layer Representations, CMOS n-well Rules, Design Rule of background
scribe line, Layer Assignment, SOI Rule [10L] .

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Power Dissipation: Static dissipation, Dynamic dissipation, short-circuit dissipation, total power
dissipation. Programmable Logic, Programmable Logic structure, Programmable interconnect,
and Reprogramable Gate Array: Xilinx Programmable Gate Array, Design Methods:
Behavioural Synthesis, RTL synthesis [8L]

Placement: placement: Mincut based placement – Iterative improvement placement simulated

annealing. Routing: Segmented channel routing – maze routing – routability and routing
resources – net delays. [5L]

Verification and Testing: Verification Versus Testing, Verification: logic simulation design
validation – timing verification – Testing concepts: failures – mechanisms and faults – fault
coverage – ATPG methods – types of tests – FPGAs – programmability failures – design for
testability. [5L]

Overview of VHDL [5L]

Text Book:

1.“Digital Integrated Circuit”, J.M.Rabaey, Chandrasan, Nicolic, Pearson

2. “CMOS Digital Integrated Circuit”, S.M.Kang & Y.Leblebici, TMH
3.”Modern VLSI Design” Wayne Wolf, Pearson
4.“Algorithm for VLSI Design & Automation”, N.Sherwani, Kluwer
5.”VHDL”, Bhaskar, PHI

References:

1. “ Digital Integrated Circuits” Demassa & Ciccone, Willey Pub.

2. “Modern VLSI Design: system on silicon” Wayne Wolf; Addison Wesley Longman Publisher
3. “Basic VLSI Design” Douglas A. Pucknell & Kamran Eshranghian; PHI
4. “CMOS Circuit Design, Layout & Simulation”, R.J.Baker, H.W.Lee, D.E. Boyee, PHI

Economic Policies in India

Code: OEC-IT802C
Contacts: 3L

Economic Development and its Determinants

Approaches to economic development and its measurement – sustainable development; Role of
State, market and other
institutions; Indicators of development – PQLI, Human Development Index (HDI), gender
development indices.
Planning in India
Objectives and strategy of planning; Failures and achievements of Plans; Developing grass-root
organizations for
development – Panchayats, NGOs and pressure groups.
Demographic Features, Poverty and Inequality

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Broad demographic features of Indian population; rural-urban migration; Urbanization and civic
amenities; Poverty and
Inequality.
Resource Base and Infrastructure
Energy; social infrastructure – education and health; Environment; Regional imbalance; Issues
and policies in financing
infrastructure development.
The Agricultural Sector
Institutional Structure – land reforms in India; Technological change in agriculture – pricing of
agricultural inputs and output;
industry; Agricultural finance policy; Agricultural Marketing and Warehousing; Issues Terms of
trade between agriculture
and in food security – policies for sustainable agriculture.
Section – II
Industrial policy; Public Sector enterprises and their performance; Problem of sick units in India;
Privatization and
disinvestment debate; Growth and pattern of industrialization; Small-scale sector; Productivity in
industrial sector; Exit
policy – issues in labour market reforms; approaches for employment generation.
Public Finances
Fiscal federalism – Centre-State financial relations; Finances of central government; Finances of
state governments; Parallel
economy; Problems relating to fiscal policy; Fiscal sector reforms in India.
Money, Banking and Prices
Analysis of price behaviour in India; Financial sector reforms; Interest rate policy; Review of
monetary policy of RBI; Money
and capital markets; Working of SEBI in India.
External Sector
Structure and direction of foreign trade; Balance of payments; Issues in export-import policy and
FEMA; Exchange rate
policy; Foreign capital and MNCs in India; The progress of trade reforms in India.
Economic Reforms
Rationale of internal and external reforms; Globalization of Indian economy; WTO and its
impact on the different sectors of
the economy; Need for and issues in good governance; Issues in competition and safety nets in
Indian economy.

BASIC READING LIST

1. Ahluwalia, I. J. and I. M. D Little (Eds.) (1999), India's Economic Reforms and Development
(Essays in honour of Manmohan
Singh), Oxford University Press, New Delhi.
2. Bardhan, P. K. (9th Edition) (1999), The Political Economy of Development in India, Oxford
University Press, New Delhi.
3. Bawa, R. s. and P. S. Raikhy (Ed.) (1997), Structural Changes in Indian Economy, Guru
Nanak Dev University Press,
Amritsar.

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4. Brahmananda, P. R. and V. R. Panchmukhi (Eds.) (2001), Development Experience in the

Indian Economy: Inter-State
Perspectives, Book well, Delhi.
5. Chakravarty, S. (1987), Development Planning : The Indian Experience, Oxford University
Press, New Delhi.
6. Dantwala, M. L. (1996), Dilemmas of Growth : The Indian Experience, Sage Publications,
New Delhi.
7. Datt, R. (Ed.) (2001), Second Generation Economic Reforms in India, Deep & Deep
Publications, New Delhi.
8. Government of India, Economic Survey (Annual), Ministry of Finance, New Delhi.
9. Jain, a. K. (1986), Economic Planning in India, Ashish Publishing House, New Delhi.
10. Jalan, B. (1992), The Indian Economy – Problems and Prospects, Viking, New Delhi.

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