Project

Micronet – Mobile Infrastructure for Coastal Region Offshore Communications & Networks

MICRONet evaluates the technological options to provide an effective and reliable way for the fishermen to communicate amongst themselves and with the shore during emergencies and other timesusing text/email  messages and/or voice calls.

Project goals

• Development of an affordable system to provide a Mobile Infrastructure for Coastal Regions of India to enable OffshoreCommunications and to solve the technology challenges faced by the fishermen community in India today, specifically by providing extendable and adaptable communication and connectivity while they are out at sea.
   

Research Area:

 Physical

• Design and development of Coplanarantenna – gain enhancement& range measurement
• Adaptive beam forming using Smart Antenna for fishing vessels
• Real time re-orientation of Mobile Directional Antennas in a Marine Communication Network
• Analysis of Bidirectional Communication between Shore and Sea – A Simulation Framewor
   

  Data link

• Adaptive, Demand-driven and Energy-efficient 1st Level Point to Multipoint (P2MP) Backhaul Network Setup (Long-range WiFi)
• Mobility based dynamic channel re-allocation for efficiency and performance improvement in wireless networks
   

 Network

• Design and Development of OpenFlow FisherMesh Network
• Delay Tolerant Network Management for Inter/Intra Boat Communication
• Adaptive Routing Through Topology Preserving Map
   

 Applications & Services

• An Early Warning System for Collision Avoidance ofVessels at Sea
• Location based Hierarchical data Classification for information dissemination in marine sector
• Data mining techniques for data dissemination and Localization of missing fishing vessels in the deep sea
• Localization and Tracking of Multiple Mobile Boats
• Design of mobility model for fishing vessels in the Arabian Sea
   

Cross layer

• Multi-dimensional Optimization of the Backhaul Network for Offshore Communication with Boats
• Distributed Intelligence Based Self organization and Resource Planning for Offshore Communication
   

Project Collaborators (from other institutes / companies) –

• IIST Trivandrum
• IIITK Trivandrum

Meeting and Workshops Conducted

• A workshop on ‘Modeling and Simulation of Antenna Parameters Using Ansys HF Packages’ was conducted at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham on July 17^th & 18^th, 2015
• Dr Kalyan Sasidhar P S (AMRITA) delivered a seminar at IIITM-K on Wireless link characterisation over Arabian sea

Publications:

• Comparative Study of Backhaul Options for Communication at Sea
  Jennath Hassan, Anju M. Kaimal, Dhanesh Raj, Sethuraman Rao
  CNC 2015
  2015
• A Network Operations Center for a Communication Network of Fishing Vessels at Sea
  Aswini Balakrishnan, Dhanesh Raj, Kalyan Sasidhar, Sethuraman Rao
  IEEE, 5th International Conference on IT Convergence and Security, ICITCS
  2015
• Study of Coplanar Pentagonal Antenna.
  Jesmi Alphonsa Jose , Anand R ,Sreedevi K. Menon
  International Conference on Microwaves Antenna Propagation and Remote sensing – ICMARS 2014
  2015
• A Coplanar Pentagonal Antenna for wireless applications
  Jesmi Alphonsa Jose, Anand R,Sethuraman Rao and Sreedevi K. Menon
  2nd International Conference on Signal Processing and Integrated Networks, SPIN 2015, Noida(Presentation date: 19th -20th Feb,2015)
  2015
• Security Considerations in a Marine Communication Network for Fishermen
  Jennath Hassan, Anju M. Kaimal, Dhanesh Raj, Sethuraman Rao
  CNC 2015
  2015
• PerformanceMeasurement and Analysis of Long Range Wi-Fi Network for Over- the- Sea Communication
  Siddharth Unni, Dhanesh Raj, Kalyan Sasidhar, Sethuraman Rao
  WiOpt 2015
  2015
• A survey and analysis of communication models for over the sea environment
  Sumayya Balkees, Kalyan Sasidhar, Sethuraman Rao
  ICACCI 2015
  2015
• Analysis of Dual Beam Pentagonal Patch Antenna
  Anand R, Jesmi Alphonsa Jose, Anju M. Kaimal and Sreedevi K Menon
  International Conference on Computer and Communication Technologies – IC3T 2015 and publication in Springer AISC series(Presentation date: 24th -26th July,2015)
  2015
• Analysis of High Gain Dual Beam Pentagonal Patch Antenna Array
  Anand R, Jesmi Alphonsa Jose, Anju M. Kaimal and Sreedevi K Menon
  36 th Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium(PIERS)-2015, Czech Republic, European Union(Presentation date: 6th -9th July,2015)
  2015
• Planar crossover using micro strip patch antenna for beam forming networks
  Rahul R Pillai, Mirav Mehta, Naveen K A, Vishnu Rajan, Sreedevi K Menon
  International Conference on Power, Circuit and Information Technologies (ICPCIT-2015) (Presentation date: 27th -28th April,2015)
  2015
• Fully Planar Circular Microstrip Crossover
  Heera P, Rahul Lal P, Sreedevi K Menon
  International Conference on Advances in Applied Engineering and Technology (ICAAET 2015.) (Presentation date: 14th -16th May,2015)
  2015
• Topology Preserving Map Generation for Multiple Mobile Fishing Vessels
  Sruthi N, Divya P, Maneesha V. Ramesh
  ICPCIT2015, Springer
  2015
• Improved Topology Preserving Maps for Wireless Sensor Network through D-VCS
  Dhanya Gopan, Divya P, Maneesha V. Ramesh
  IC3T, 2015
  2015
• An Efficient Heuristics to Realize Near-Optimal Small-World Networks
  A. Chakraborty and B. S. Manoj
  21st National Conference on Communications 2015 (NCC 2015)
  2015