Vol. 11 No. 05 August 2014

Vol. 11 No. 05 August 2014 Message from Chairman Dr. N. R. ALAMELU Esteemed Members, Greetings, The R10 International conference on Humanitarian Technology was successfully conducted during 6 th August to 9 th August 2014 at Hotel Hilton, Chennai. The conference was conducted in a truly international manner with very good participation and presentation of high quality articles and papers. It was well received and appreciated by all the delegates. The Madras Section is planning to conduct a meet of student branch counselors and office bearers of the student branches on 20 th September 2014 at Chennai. This is to have a collective discussion to enhance the professional activities for the benefit of all the IEEE members. This will also be helpful to achieve stability and sustainability in the membership especially the members of the student category. We look forward for varied events organized by the student branches with participation from as many members as possible ALL THE VERY BEST Your Affectionate Office Bearer IEEE MAS LINK Vol. 11 No. 5 August 2014 Page 1

Message from the Editor Dr. S.ARUMUGAM arumugamdote@yahoo.co.in +919965099900 I am happy to write editorial for the August issue. I join with chaiman in welcoming all Student Branch Counselors for the meet organized on 20.09.2014. Our student membership is very good and we have to do our best for serving the student members. We will publish the proceedings of the meeting in the next issue. I request the Chairman of various socities to provide the information to be published in the IEEE MAS LINK. I invite articles form the members for publication. I require feed back from members for making this news letter more readable. Dr.S.ARUMUGAM IEEE MAS LINK Vol. 11 No. 5 August 2014 Page 2

SRI RAMAKRISHNA ENGINEERING COLLEGE IEEE Member Drive Program 2014 The IEEE Student Branch College organized the program for the second year students from 07.07.2014 to 14.07.2014. Prof. S.P.Rajkumar,HOD-EEE welcomed the gathering and Dr.N.R.Alamelu, Principal, SREC and Chairman; IEEE Madras Section delivered the presidential address. She explained about IEEE and its benefits. Prof.K.Balamurugan, P(Sr.G)/EEE explained the procedure for becoming a IEEE member. Around 120 students participated on each day. Fun events were also conducted among students portraying team work and co-ordination.office Bearers in IEEE shared their personal experiences to students. Mr. C.S.Ajai Kumar, SB Chairperson proposed the vote of thanks. Reported by: K. Balamurugan, AP/EEE. Blended Learning Program in VLSI The IEEE Student Branch & Department of Electronic and Communication Engineering organized a seminar on Blended Learning Program in VLSI on 17th July 2014. The seminar was inaugurated by Mr.Damodara M.S, Product Manager, CoreEL Technologies India Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore. Dr.M.Jagadeeswari, HOD-VLSI delivered the presidential address and Dr.N.Sathish kumar, HOD-ECE, welcomed the gathering. 60 participants (including Research Scholars, PG Students and R&D organizations) attended the seminar. The objective of the program is to allow the participants to explore the Blended Learning Program in VLSI Design. He also shared information about advance VLSI programming used in semiconductor industry. Reported by: K. Balamurugan, AP/EEE, IEEE Student Branch Counselor. IEEE MAS LINK Vol. 11 No. 5 August 2014 Page 3

JEPPIAR INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY. WorkShop on Placement Training and Career Development IEEE SB organized a three days workshop on Placement Training and Career Development from 30th July to 1st of August 14. The training included various activities such as cracking the interview, resume preparation, group discussions and mock interview. 234 participants from 13 Engineering colleges attended. All the participants felt that the workshop was very useful and effective. At the end of the workshop, SB counsellor Ms.C.K.Swapna,AP/ECE delivered the vote of thanks. Report by: Mr.A.Madhusudhanan, Asst.Prof/ECE IEEE MAS LINK Vol. 11 No. 5 August 2014 Page 4

TECHNICAL QUIZ IEEE SB conducted a Technical Quiz on 11.07.2014.145 students attended the prelims, from which five teams were selected. The team comprising of Rukmani.R(III Year ECE), Uma.S(III Year ECE), Romera Joan.S(III Year ECE) and Brinda Manuel(III Year EEE) won the first place. SB Counsellor Mr.A.Madhusudhanan,AP/ECE felicitated the winners. Report by: Ms.C.K.Swapna, Asst.Prof/ECE. SAVEETHA UNIVERSITY Workshop on Image Processing A One day workshop on Image Processing was organized by the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, School of Engineering on July 23,2014. The workshop was supported by IEEE Communications Society Madras Chapter. Mr P Subramanian, Associate Professor, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Aarupadai Veedu Institute of Technology, Vinayaka Missions University, conducted the workshop. HE gave a brief introduction to image processing and MATLAB. Image Smoothening, Image Sharpening, Image Restoration, Image compression and color image processing were discussed. Demonstration of the above image processing concepts using MATLAB was conducted. VINAYAKA MISSION UNIVERSITY IEEE Communications Society Madras Section & IEEE Computer Society Madras Section in association with ECE Department, Aarupadai Veedu Institute of Technology organised a one day Workshop on SCILAB, an open source alternative for MATLAB, on June 18, 2014. MATLAB is high level technical computing software that has been widely in use among engineering community. It took vital place in many engineering course syllabus, particularly in Electrical and Electronics branches. There are many institutions they can t afford the huge licensing fee and started looking for alternate open source software equivalent to MATLAB. SCILAB is an open source equivalent to MATLAB. SCILAB was developed by INRIA (France) for system control and signal processing applications. It is also a vector-based program. SCILAB package also includes SCICOS which is an open source alternative to SIMULINK. The workshop was conducted by Mr Mahesh Anand, of SCS India Private Ltd, Chennai. Mr P Subramanian, Associate Professor, ECE Department, Aarupadai Veedu Institute of Technology, Vinayaka Missions University and Secretary, IEEE COMSOC Madras Chapter welcomed the gathering and introduced the workshop coordinator. The workshop was attended by 50 students from various Engineering Colleges. IEEE MAS LINK Vol. 11 No. 5 August 2014 Page 5

AVIT, Vinayaka Missions University Faculty Development Program on Image Processing The Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Aarupadai Veedu Institute of Technology, Vinayaka Missions University, Paiyanoor organized a faculty development program on Image Processing during June 16-18,2014. The program was supported by IEEE Communications Society Madras Chapter. The program had lectures by Dr.M.Manikandan, Madras Institute of Technology, Chennai., Dr.R.Malmathanraj, National Institute of Technology, Trichy, Dr. D. Nedumaran,University of Madras, Chennai and Dr. G. Bhaskaran, University of Madras, Chennai. Earlier Mr D Vijendra Babu, Head, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering welcomed the gathering. Mr P Subramanian, Associate Professor, ECE Department and Secretary, IEEE COMSOC Madras Chapter briefed on the FDP, the Speakers and the topics. SRI RAMAKRISHNA ENGINEERING COLLEGE STAR INNOVATOR COIMBATORE 2014 SOLAR AND ROBOTICS The IEEE Student Branch, Lambda Edulabs, Chennai and IEEE India SAC jointly organized the two day Workshop on 01.08.2014 and 02.08.2014. Solar and Robotics were the two workshops conducted. HOD-EEE gave welcome address. Dr.N.R.Alamelu, Principal, SREC and Chairman, IEEE Madras Section delivered the presidential address. Mr. Balaji Lakshmanan, Founder & CEO, I Make Robots and Mr. S Naveed, Trainer, Lambda Edulabs, Chennai were the resorurce persons. The main objective of the workshop is to make the students to get introduced with the solar and robotics, its concepts and principles. The speaker of the Robotics workshop explained the concepts and the operation of robotics and gave a brief introduction about the industrial perception over Standards, Power and Ratings. Vote of Thanks by Mr.K.Balamurugan, IEEE Student Branch Counselor. Reported by: K. Balamurugan, AP/EEE. IEEE MAS LINK Vol. 11 No. 5 August 2014 Page 6

KNOWLEDGE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY IEEE Benefits and Awareness Meet IEEE Student Branch conducted the event for all II year Under Graduate Students on 8 th July for ECE Students and 14 th & 15 th for EEE, Civil, CSE and Mechanical department Students. Mr. G. BharathVignesh, IEEE Chairman, explained the Benefits of IEEE. S.Jayavidhyasri and R.Gayathri, IEEE Executive addec more information about IEEE and encouraged the students to join IEEE. Guest Lecture on Embedded System Design& It s Applications On 11 th July 2014, Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering and IEEE student branch organized the guest lecture. Mr.C.Balakumar Director/Engineering Software, VVDN Technologies PVT Ltd, Chennai addressed the students. Cake Walk through Technology On 21 st July 2014, Students of 3 rd year (IEEE student members) have conducted a project expo for the 2 nd year students in order to inculcate the practical knowledge among the second year students. They were separated into batches and given a project data sheet. They motivated the students to effectively participate in gaining practical knowledge. Reported by: M.Bharanidharan, IEEE Graduate member JEPPIAAR ENGINEERING COLLEGE TALK ON CLOUD COMPUTING IEEE Student Branch organized the technical seminar on 15th of July, 2014. Mr. Sankar Nagarajan was the speaker and delivered the talk on Cloud Computing. About 65 students participated. The speaker emphasized the importance and benefits of Cloud Computing and its application in the real world entity. The latest technologies under Cloud Computing were discussed IEEE MAS LINK Vol. 11 No. 5 August 2014 Page 7

Reported by: M.Keerthana M.KUMARASAMY COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING IEEE INAGURAL FUNCTION The function was conducted on 08.08.2014. Welcome address was given by Mr.S.VinothKumar, IEEE student Chairman. Keynote address was given by Dr. K.Sundararaju, IEEE branch counselor. Prof.V.Kavitha, IEEE branch mentor introduced the office bearers. IEEE-women in Engineering office bearers were introduced by Dr.S.Thilagamani, IEEE branch advisor. Chief guest Dr.R.Karthigaivel, Prof/EEE, PSNA College of Engineering and Technology, Dindigul addressed the gathering. The session about POWER ELECTRONICS FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY SYSTEMS was conducted by Dr.R.Karthigaivel, Vote of thanks was given by Ms.Indhu priya, Chair women of IEEE Women in Engineering. IEEE MAS LINK Vol. 11 No. 5 August 2014 Page 8

NATIONAL ENGINEERING COLLEGE DIGITAL ELECTRONIC TEST IEEE COMPUTER SOCIETY STUDENT BRANCH CHAPTER organized the event on 23-07-2014. 46 budding engineers from ECE, EEE, EIE, CSE, IT of our college attended the event. event aims to improve the student s foundation skills and knowledge. Among 46 students 4 were bagged the prizes. The winners of the event were: SI.NO. Name of the Student Year& Branch Prize 1. R.Rangarajan III Yr EIE I Prize 2. Mazhar Ghulam III Yr EIE II Prize 3. A.P.Nisha II Yr ECE B III Prize 4. G. Chandrakala III Yr CSE A SRI MUTHUKUMARAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Paper presentation Contest 14 IEEE Communications society organized the contest on 7th August 2014. Mrs.D.Shanthi chelliah, HOD initiated the contest. Dr.R.M.Suresh, Principal addressed the gathering. The papers were judged by Mr.Muthu sundar, Assistant Professor of CSE Department and Mrs.Sowmiya, Assistant Professor of ECE Department. The winners were: I Sreeda.S and Vanitha.A of CSE Final Year II- Jayashree.A Of ECE Final Year III- Mugilan.G.N.S and Naveen kumar.j of ECE third Year IEEE MAS LINK Vol. 11 No. 5 August 2014 Page 9

Reported by: Padma priya SRI SAIRAM ENGINEERING COLLEGE First IEEE SB meet-19 th February, 2014.:AWARENESS PROGRAM The session was headed by the Student Branch Counselor Ms. S.Brindha, AP-department of ECE. Topics were covered as specified above, based on the IEEE All India Student Congress held at Amrita University, Coimbatore last year (Oct 3 rd -5 th ). The following topics were covered: Introduction and start up to IEEE by Asif Jalaludeen.S (ECE-A III year). Directions to use the IEEE portal and digital library by Satish kumar.s (ECE-C III year). IEEE STANDARDS and SPECTRUM by Anoop Monish.CH (ECE-C III year). Student member benefits and SB awards by Hemanth Kumar.K.R (ECE-B III year). Student networking and SB visions for the year 2014 by Monesh.M (ECE-C III year). More on IEEE, networking and volunteering aspects by Ganesh.S (ECE-A III year). The II years and III years of ECE, CSE and EEE were attended the program. A small quiz was held to keep the members interested and IEEE goodies were given to the one s that got the answers right. By the end of the meeting student coordinators for the departments of CSC and EEE were elected. Reported by:satish Kumar.S and Monesh.M. IEEE MAS LINK Vol. 11 No. 5 August 2014 Page 10

2013 IEEE Member-Get a-member Section Award (22 nd Feb 2014) Ms.S Brindha s exceptional recruiting efforts in the IEEE Member-Get-a-Member (MGM) program during 2013 have earned the Madras Section an additional award of $1000. She was the first place recruiter in the Asia and Pacific Region. The Section awards were created as a way to further encourage participation in the MGM program, and to help underwrite the Sections local programs and activities. Reported by : S.Srinath, and S.Ganesh IEEE MAS LINK Vol. 11 No. 5 August 2014 Page 11

SEMINAR ON WIRELESS BROADBAND NETWORKS (26 th June 2014) The Program was inaugurated by Dr C.V.JayaKumar, Principal,Sri Sairam Engineering College Prof,A.R.Rajini,HOD/ECE welcomed the gathering. Mr.V.Sakthivel - Sub Divisional Engineer of Rajiv Gandhi Telecom Training Center was the Chief Guest. A presentation was given by him on Recent advancement in Broadband Technologies and Wireless sensor Networks. He talked about the current scenario in the world regarding Broadband with statistical data. He explained about the WiMax and Wi-Fi technologies and the challenges faced by the wireless communications. He also highlighted the key features of Long Term Evolution (4G) and MIMO technologies. Vote of Thanks was proposed by IEEE Student Branch volunteer S.Venkatesh. Reported by: S.Venkatesh SEMINAR ON KAIZEN ROBOTICS PROGRAM (15 th July 2014) Mr.Nivas Ravichandran, an active IEEE volunteer coordination committee member for IEEE Region 10, was the chief guest. He gave a detailed idea about the usage and role of ROBOTS in our day-to-day life. Students were also shown various videos about the working and role of robots in automobile, food processing and many other industries. He also shared his vast knowledge in the field of robotics and many newly invented robots for lot many purposes. The seminar was really interactive, interesting and kindled the interest of the students on Robotics. Nivas also motivated the students to utilize the IEEE membership for their self development in the technological field. Reported by: Ms.Jasmine Jenny Bala,Ms Lakshmi Balaji IEEE MAS LINK Vol. 11 No. 5 August 2014 Page 12

i VISION : An Outreach Program i VISION was an outreach programme towards society conducted by the IEEE STUDENT BRANCH.. The objective was to offer advice and to enlighten the senior students of RCM HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOL about the options available after their graduation from schooling. A set of 55 IEEE student members of our college volunteered to take part in this two day outreach programme. The five major activities are: Seminar on the possible aspects of higher education Computer classes covering topics on basics of MS office, programming and proper use of the INTERNET. A mini project expo to motivate students interest towards engineering fields. Sessions on computer assembly. Demonstrations on safe house wiring. 213 students from RCM Higher Secondary School participated in this two day program. All five activities were held simultaneously to cater the strength of the school students. At the end of the two day program a valedictory function was held to honor the Head Mistress of the school and one of the supporting staff for their assistance. All 213 students were provided with dictionaries (Tamil to English) to help them in their vocabulary. Reported by: S.Sathish Kumar, R.Sedu Deepak Kumar, and R.Kiran Raj SEMINAR ON VEDIC MULTIPLICATION (26 th July 2014) The seminar was delivered by Prof. Augusta Sophy Beulet P, School of Electronics Engineering, VIT University, Chennai. The chief guest was honoured by Prof S.Brindha,Student Branch Counselor. The seminar provided a general idea about the arithmetic operations on pattern logic with real time examples also discussed how these kind of algorithms are implemented in hardware. She stated that these kind of pattern logic operations are far more efficient to implement than the conventional method. She also proposed that there are sixteen sutras in Vedic multiplication.and the importance of implementation of such algorithms in complex calculations. Report by: S.Asif Jalaludeen IEEE MAS LINK Vol. 11 No. 5 August 2014 Page 13

Dr. N. G. P INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Report on Breast Feeding - A way for life The IEEE Women in Engineering Affinity Group and Women Development Cell organized the program on 04.08.2014 for the women folk in the college. Dr. S.V. Sudha, Head of the Department, Computer Science & Engineering, welcomed the gathering, followed by Dr. L. Usha, Director, Commerce Studies, Dr. N.G.P. Arts and Science College who felicitated the gathering. Mrs. S. Sheela, Assistant Professor, Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Dr. N.G.P. Arts and Science College introduced the chief guest Dr. Mariammal pappu, Professor, Department of Paediatric Nursing, KMCH College of Nursing, Coimbatore. She enlightened the young mothers and the to-be-mothers, with the benefits and importance of breast-feeding. She described how a mother has to take care of different things while feeding her baby, like food, hygiene, clothing etc. She also threw light on identifying a weak baby, differences between a healthy baby and a weak baby. Dr. Thavamani D. Palaniswami, the Secretary, presided over the program. Dr. K. Porkumaran, the Principal, felicitated the gathering. Dr. V. Kumar Chinnaiyan, Head of the Department, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, joined the program. Dr. Mrs. P. Abirami, Assistant Professor, Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Dr. N.G.P. Arts and Science College proposed the vote of thanks. Report by:dr. K. Porkumaran and Dr. V. Kumar Chinnaiyan IEEE MAS LINK Vol. 11 No. 5 August 2014 Page 14

THIAGARAJAR COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING IEEE INAGURAL 2014-15 The Chief Guest of program was A.Jawahar, Entrepreneur, Creative Technologies for low power manufacture, a proud alumnus of TCE. He gave a talk about Internet of Things. The IEEE chairman Rishi.S of Final Year ECE department introduced the office bearers for the IEEE student chapter 2014-2015.:Dhiyanesh.R (Final year EEE),Ramkishan.GND (Final year ECE), Aarthy.M.S (Final year EEE), Prashanth.MU (Final year EEE), Debayanbhattacharya (III Year ECE), Revathi (III Year ECE). List of activities proposed are Presentica the paper presentation contest, electro-wiz a technical whiz-buzz, Debug me, a debugging contest and You are Recruited. About 19 events were planned to make the students corporate-ready and technically strong. DRAW IT!! ( 22.07.2014) Draw and Guess is a team event in which each team will have five members. The event was executed in two rounds. In the first round the participants were made to understand the rules and moves and to think of strategies to implement.in the second round, each team were given a subject, which is to be represented as a constrained drawing so as to make their team to find it.the doodle revolution says, To doodle is to engage in an intellectual, creative and physical act that recruits many neurological networks simultaneously. This makes it a strong force for change and a portal for imagining and inventing preferred realities.the event was successful enough to engage the participants for an hour with full focus and perform under pressure to find the best possible solution. 30 members participated in the game IEEE MAS LINK Vol. 11 No. 5 August 2014 Page 15

IEEE Madras Section organizes R10 funded Technical Seminar on Embedded Systems and VLSI Design The Students Activities Committee and Education Activities Committee of IEEE Madras Section organized the Seminar on 18.07.2014. This technical seminar is funded by IEEE Region 10 and sponsored by IEEE Madras Section and IEEE MAS Young Professional Program (Formerly GOLD). Totally 61 participants have attended the program, which includes 39 IEEE members and 22 non IEEE members. The event coordinators were Dr.N.Kumarappan, Secretary and Prof.S.Elangovan, Chair, SAC, IEEE Madras Section. Prof.S.Elangovan delivered welcome address to the participants. Dr.N. Kumarappan, delivered the Inaugural address. In his address, he mentioned about the activities conducted by the education activities committee and opportunities available for the young engineers. Dr.V.Kamakoti, Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras handled the first session on Designing and Implementation of Real time Embedded Systems. He explained a case study about designing and implementing of real time embedded system designed by his team at Southern Railways. The second session was handled by Dr.J. Raja Paul Perinbam, Former Professor, Department of Electronics and communication, Anna University, Chennai on VLSI Design and its features. He discussed about the advancements of VLSI design and the future opportunities in VLSI area. Prof.M.Venkateshkumar, Secretary, IEEE Young professionals, Madras Section, delivered the vote of thanks. The certificates were issued to the participants by Dr.A.Darwin Jose Raju, Chair, IEEE Young Professional Programme, Madras Section. Reported by: Dr.N. Kumarappan, Secretary, IEEE Madras Section Workshop on Neural Network, Fuzzy Logic and its Applications The IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Madras Chapter in association with IEEE Student Branch, Dr.M.G.R Educational and Research Institute, Chennai organized the workshop on 1 st and 2 nd August 2014. The program was attended by 86 participants from various Colleges and Universities all over Tamilnadu. The co-ordinators of the program were Dr.N.Kumarappan, Professor of Electrical Engineering, Annamalai University and Chair, IEEE CIS Madras Chapter, Chennai, Mrs E.Sheeba Percis, IEEE-MGR Student Branch Councilor, Department of EEE, Dr.M.G.R Educational and Research Institute, Chennai and Mrs.A.Nalini, Department of EEE, Dr.M.G.R Educational and Research Institute, Chennai. Dr.V.Cyril Raj, Additional Dean, E and T, Dr.M.G.R Educational and Research Institute, Chennai has presided over the function. Dr.N.Kumarappan, delivered the inaugural address. Mrs E.Sheeba Percis, IEEE-MGR Student Branch Councilor, Department of EEE, Dr.M.G.R Educational and Research Institute, Chennai has delivered the welcome address. The Resource Persons for the program were Dr.N.Kumarappan, Mr.M.Venkateshkumar, Assistant Professor, Department of EEE, Saveetha University, Chennai and Mr.R.Arulraj, Research Scholar, Department of Electrical Engineering, Annamalai University, Annamalai Nagar. The topics covered included Introduction to Artificial Neural Networks, Artificial Neural Network, Fuzzy Logic, Hybrid Techniques, Simulation of Fuzzy Logic Controller and Hands-on training sessions for all the above topics. Reported by: IEEE MAS LINK Vol. 11 No. 5 August 2014 Page 16

Dr.N.Kumarappan,Chair,IEEECISMadrasChapter JAYARAM COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY The IEEE Student Branch organized a One day seminar about IEEE awareness program and soft skill development on 23 nd Aug, 2014. Dr.N.Kannan, Principal preside over the function. Dr. S. A. Sahaya Arul Mary Dean of Academics addressed the gathering. The welcome address delivered by Student President Mr. J. P. Anish Jobin final year EEE. The chief guest was Mr. S. Arun Kumar System Engineer-TATA Consultancy Services. Office bearers were introduced by Prof. M. Bhoopati. The chief guest has presented the over view of IEEE usage. He had shared his experiences when he was an IEEE student chairperson in his college. He had given a brief introduction about IEEE and jobs related to IEEE. He had instructed us to make use of IEEE in a fruitful manner. Then he had given brief seminar about soft skill development by relating simple examples, he had presented the interview based soft skills.ogy. Over 100 UG and 25 PG students, 30 faculty members where participated. The valedictory function was ended by presenting vote thanks by the Training & Placement officer Prof. Preamanandh. IEEE MAS LINK Vol. 11 No. 5 August 2014 Page 17

KONGU ENGINEERING COLLEGE PROJECT EXPO 14 IEEE/WIE student branch conducted the function on 23 rd and 24 th of August 2014. 10 projects from various fields automation, computer technology and renewable energy such were exhibited. Best two projects were selected. Reported by: S.Bathusha. IEEE MAS LINK Newsletter of the IEEE Madras Section Vol. 11 No. 05 :: August 2014 Editorial Team Dr.S.ARUMUGAM Mr. H.R.MOHAN, Prof. T.MICHAEL N KUMR IEEE Madras Section, Room No. 3, ISTE Professional Center, Gandhi Mandapam Rd., Chennai 600 025. Tel: +91 44 24423939, Mobile: 9382328776, Email: ieeemas@gmail.com Website: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/r10/madras/ IEEE MAS LINK Vol. 11 No. 5 August 2014 Page 18