SEVENTEENTH NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMMUNICATIONS 28-30 January 2011. Venue: National Science Seminar Complex Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore Technical cosponsors: The National Conference on Communications is India's premier annual conference organised by the Joint Telematics Group (JTG) consisting of IITs and IISc. Sponsors The conference aims to provide a forum for researchers in communications, networking and Technical Programme signal processing and features technical paper sessions, tutorials and invited talks. Diamond Committee Co-Chairs: A Chockalingam, IISc Bangalore Conference Highlights K R Ramakrishnan, IISc Bangalore Plenary Speakers: Symposia Chairs: Vijay Kumar Saraswat, Scientific Advisor to the Raksha Mantri; Neelesh B Mehta, IISc Bangalore Secretary, Defence R&D T Srinivas, IISc Bangalore Rajesh Sundaresan, IISc Bangalore Subhasis Chaudhuri, IIT Bombay Retargeting of lecture video: Extending Platinum Shalabh Bhatnagar, IISc Bangalore the outreach of distance education T V Prabhakar, IISc Bangalore K Giridhar, IIT Madras Reality constrained capacity – the Chandra R Murthy, IISc Bangalore curious case of mobile broadband access S Chandra Sekhar, IISc Bangalore systems Finance and Local Invited Speakers: Organisation: A G Ramakrishnan, IISc Bangalore Enriching quality of life through language technology Rajesh Sundaresan, IISc Bangalore S V Gopalaiah, IISc Bangalore Gerhard Fettweis, Technische Universität Challenges in next generation cellular R Srinivasamurthy, IISc Bangalore Dresden, Vodafone Chair Mobile communications, and possible ways Communications Systems forward Publications: Srikrishna Bhashyam, IIT Madras Coding schemes for bidirectional relaying Neelesh B Mehta, IISc Bangalore D. Manjunath, IIT Bombay Network flows for functions Chandra R Murthy, IISc Bangalore Ranjita Bhagwan, Microsoft Research Automating network problem diagnostics NCC Steering Committee: India through learning techniques Department of Science and Technology Vinay Ribeiro, IIT Delhi Wireless TDMA mesh networks Bhaskar Ramamurthi, IIT Madras Subhasis Chaudhuri, IIT Bombay Vikram Srinivasan, Bell Labs Research, Designing wireless networks over large Ranjan Mallik, IIT Delhi Alcatel Lucent and fragmented spectrum Prabin Bora, IIT Guwahati Ajit Rao, TI India Optimal systems architecture for high- Rajesh Sundaresan, IISc Bangalore density video Ajit Chaturvedi, IIT Kanpur S S Pathak, IIT Kharagpur Arjun Arunachalam, IIT Bombay Non-Fourier encoding for fast MRI Gold Mahadeva Prasanna, IIT Guwahati Speaker-specific source information from Conference Advisory linear prediction residual Committee: Tutorials: V K Aatre, IISc Bangalore Onkar Dabeer, TIFR Mumbai Collaborative filtering V U Reddy, IIIT Hyderabad Anurag Kumar, IISc Bangalore Jishnu A, Tejas Networks Backhaul transport network Lawrence Jenkins, IISc Bangalore Kaushik Majumdar, ISI Bangalore Electroencephalogram (EEG) K Gopakumar, IISc Bangalore Sanjib Sinha, NIMHANS Bangalore Y Narahari, IISc Bangalore Vinod Sharma, IISc Bangalore Jayashree Ratnam, IIT Kharagpur Fibre to the premises: a next-generation access network solution Silver Sibi Raj Bhaskaran Pillai, IIT Bombay Compressed sensing and applications Shalabh Bhatnagar, IISc Bangalore Reinforcement learning – an overview Register online at Panel discussion: Enhancing IEEE's role for the Indian http://www.ncc.org.in/ncc2011 Vijay K. Bhargava, Gerhard Fettweis, Engineering Community. Pamela Kumar, K. Ramakrishna, Lajos Hanzo Photo credit : Avik Ray Technical Paper Sessions: Communications Networks Signal Processing .