Semester-VI

Course Code: BCS601

Course Name: Introduction to Embedded System
Credits: 3:2:0

Unit Course Contents

No.
01 Introduction to Embedded Systems: Introduction, Embedded system Vs general
operating system, History of Embedded system, Classification of Embedded system,
Major Application Areas of Embedded System, Purpose of Embedded System,

02 Typical Embedded System: Core of the embedded system, memory, sensors and
actuators, communication interface, embedded firmware, other system components,
PCB with passive components.

03 Characteristics and Quality Attributes of Embedded System: Characteristics of an

Embedded System, Quality Attribute of Embedded System
Embedded System Firmware Design and Development: Embedded Firmware Design
Approaches, Embedded Firmware Development Language, Programming in
Embedded C

04 Real Time Operating System based Embedded System: Operating system basics,
Types of Operating System, Tasks, Process and Threads, Multiprocessing and
multitasking, Task, scheduling, Process, Task communication, Task Synchronization,
Device Drivers, How to Choose an RTOS.

05 Embedded System Design: Vx Works, MicroC/OS-II

Embedded System Development Environment: The integrated development
Environment, Disassembler/Decompiler, Simulators, Emulators and Debugging,
Target Hardware Debugging, Boundary Scan

Text Books:

1. Introduction to Embedded Systems, Shibu K V, Mc Graw Hill

2. Embedded System: Architecture, Programming and Design by Rajkamal, Tata McGraw Hill
3. Computer as Components: Principles of Embedded Computing System Design, Wayne Wolf,
Morgan Kaufmann Publication

Course Code: BCS602

Course Name: Wireless Communication
Credits: 3:2:0

Unit Course Contents

No.
01 Introduction to Wireless Communication System: Evolution of mobile
communications, Mobile Radio System around the world, Types of Wireless
communication System, Comparison of Common wireless system, Trend in
Cellular radio and personal communication. Second generation Cellular Networks,
Third Generation (3G) Wireless Networks , Wireless Local Loop(WLL),Wireless
Local Area network(WLAN),Bluetooth and Personal Area Networks.

02 The Cellular Concept- System Design Fundamentals: Cellular system, Hexagonal

geometry cell and concept of frequency reuse, Channel Assignment Strategies
Distance to frequency reuse ratio, Channel & co-channel interference reduction
factor, S/I ratio consideration and calculation for Minimum Co channel and
adjacent interference, Handoff Strategies, Umbrella Cell Concept, Trunking and
Grade of Service, Improving Coverage & Capacity in Cellular System-cell
splitting, Cell sectorization, Repeaters, Micro cell zone concept, Channel antenna
system design considerations.

03 Mobile Radio Propagation Model, Small Scale Fading and diversity: Large scale
path loss:-Free Space Propagation loss equation, Path loss of NLOS and LOS
systems, Reflection, Ray ground reflection model, Diffraction, Scattering, Link
budget design, Max. Distance Coverage formula, Empirical formula for path loss,
Indoor and outdoor propagation models, Small scale multipath propagation,
Impulse model for multipath channel, Delay spread, Feher’s delay spread, upper
bound Small scale, Multipath Measurement parameters of multipath channels,
Types of small scale Fading, Rayleigh and rician distribution, Statistical for
models multipath fading channels and diversity techniques in brief.

04 Multiple Access Techniques: Introduction, Comparisons of multiple Access

Strategies TDMA,CDMA, FDMA, OFDM , CSMA Protocols.

05 Wireless Systems: GSM system architecture, Radio interface, Protocols, Localization

and calling, Handover, Authentication and security in GSM, GSM speech coding,
Concept of spread spectrum, Architecture of IS-95 CDMA system,Air interface,
CDMA forward channels, CDMA reverse channels, Soft handoff, CDMA
features, Power control in CDMA, Performance of CDMA System, RAKE
Receiver, CDMA2000 cellular technology, GPRS system architecture.

06 Recent Trends: Introduction to Wi-Fi, WiMAX, ZigBee Networks, Software

Defined Radio, UWB Radio, Wireless Adhoc Network and Mobile Portability,
Security issues and challenges in a Wireless network

Books:
1. Wireless Communications and Networks: 3G and Beyond by Iti Saha Misra
2. Wireless Communication, Theodore S. Rappaport, Pr entice hall
3. Wireless Communications and Networking,Vijay Garg, Elsevier
4. Wireless digital communication, Kamilo Feher, PHI
5. Mobile Communications Engineering, William C. Y. Lee, Mc Graw Hill Publications
6. Mobile and personal Communication system and services by Rajpandya, IEEE press
PHI).
7. Wireless Communications-T.L.Singh-TMH
8. Adhoc Mobile Wireless network, C.K.Toh Pearson.

Course Code: BCS603

Course Name: Distributed System and Security
Credits: 3:2:0

Unit Course Contents

No.
01 Introduction: Distributed System and Distributed System Security
Security Engineering: Secure Development Life Cycle, A Typical Engineering
Process, Important Security Engineering Guidelines and Resources, Common
Security issues and Technology.
02 Host Level Threats and Vulnerabilities: Background, Malware, Eavesdropping,
Job Faults, Resource Starvation, Overflow, Privilege Escalation, Injection
Attacks.
03 Infrastructure Level Threats and Vulnerabilities: Network level threats and
vulnerabilities, Grid computing threats and vulnerabilities, Storage threats and
vulnerabilities.
Application Level Threats and Vulnerabilities: Introduction, Application Layer
vulnerabilities.
04 Service Level Threats and Vulnerabilities: SOA and role of standards, Service
level security requirements, Service Level Threats and Vulnerabilities, Service
level attacks, services threat profile.
05 Host Level Solution: Sandboxing, Virtualization, Resource Management, Proof
carrying code, memory firewall and anti-malware.
Infrastructure Level Solution: Network Solution, Grid level solution, Storage
level solution,
06 Application Level Solution: Introduction, Application level solution.
Service Level Solution: Introduction, Services security policies, SOA security
standard stack, Standards in depth, Deployment architectures for SOA security,
Managing service level threats.
07 Case studies

Books:

1. Distributed Systems Security: Issues, Processes and Solutions by Abhijit Belapurkar,

Anirban Chakrabarti, Harigopal Ponnapalli, Niranjan Varadarajan, Srinivas
Padmanabhuni, Srikanth Sundarrajan, Willy publication

Semester-VII
Course Code: BCS701
Course Name: Machine Learning
Credits: 3:2:0

Unit Course Contents

No.
01 Introduction: Well Posed Learning Problems, Motivation to Machine Learning,
Applications of Machine Learning, Designing a Learning System, Perspective
and Issues in Machine Learning, Concept Learning

02 Regression Techniques: Simple and Multiple Linear Regression – Gradient

Descent and Normal Equations Method, Non-Linear Regression, Linear
Regression with Regularization, Regression Trees, Support Vector Regression,
Evaluation Measures for Regression Analysis

03 Supervised and Unsupervised Learning: Introduction, Naïve Bayes

Classification: Fitting Multivariate Bernoulli Distribution, Gaussian Distribution
and Multinomial Distribution, K-Nearest Neighbours, Decision Trees, Support
Vector Machines: Hard Margin and Soft Margin, Kernels and Kernel Trick,
Evaluation Measures for Classification, Ensemble Models, k-means and
Hierarchical Agglomerative Clustering, Evaluation Measures for Clustering

04 Artificial Neural Networks: Biological Neurons and Biological Neural

Networks, Perceptron Learning, Activation Functions, Multilayer Perceptrons,
Back-propagation Neural Networks, Learning with Momentum, Winner-take-all
Learning, Competitive Neural Networks, Self-organizing Maps, Introduction to
Recurrent Neural Networks
05 Applications of Machine Learning: Applications of Machine Learning in Natural
Language Processing, Image & Video Processing and Analysis, Computer
Vision, Financial Data Processing and Social Network Analysis

Books:

1. Tom Mitchell, Machine Learning, TMH

2. C. Bishop, Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning, Springer
3. R. O. Duda, P. E. Hart and D. G. Stork, Pattern Classification and Scene Analysis, Wiley
4. Kishan Mehrotra, Chilukuri Mohan and Sanjay Ranka, Elements of Artificial Neural Networks,
Penram International
5. Rajjan Shinghal, Pattern Recognition, Techniques and Applications, OXFORD
6. Athem Ealpaydin, Introduction to Machine Learning, PHI
7. Andries P. Engelbrecht, Computational Intelligence - An Introduction, Wiley Publication
8. Prince , Computer Vision: Models, Learning, and Inference, Cambridge University Press,
Theodoridis and Koutroumbas
9. Theodoridis, Pikrakis, Koutroumbas, and Cavouras, “Pattern Recognition”, 4th ed., Academic
Press.

Course Code: BCS702

Course Name: IOT and Application
Credits: 3:2:0
Unit Course Contents
No.
01 IOT & Web Technology The Internet of Things Today, Time for Convergence,
Towards the IOT Universe, Internet of Things Vision, IOT Strategic Research
and Innovation Directions, IOT Applications, Future Internet Technologies,
Infrastructure, Networks and Communication, Processes, Data Management,
Security, Privacy & Trust, Device Level Energy Issues, IOT Related
Standardization, Recommendations on Research Topics.

02 M2M to IOT – A Basic Perspective– Introduction, Some Definitions, M2M

Value Chains, IOT Value Chains, An emerging industrial structure for IOT,
The international driven global value chain and global information monopolies.
M2M to IOT -An Architectural Overview– Building an architecture, Main design
principles and needed capabilities, An IOT architecture outline, standards
considerations.

03 IOT Architecture -State of the Art – Introduction, State of the art, Architecture
Reference Model- Introduction, Reference Model and architecture, IOT reference
Model, IOT Reference Architecture- Introduction, Functional View, Information
View, Deployment and Operational View, Other Relevant architectural views.

04 IOT Applications for Value Creations Introduction, IOT applications for

industry: Future Factory Concepts, Brownfield IOT, Smart Objects, Smart
Applications, Four Aspects in your Business to Master IOT, Value Creation from
Big Data and Serialization, IOT for Retailing Industry, IOT For Oil and Gas
Industry, Opinions on IOT Application and Value for Industry, Home
Management, eHealth.

05 Internet of Things Privacy, Security and Governance Introduction, Overview of

Governance, Privacy and Security Issues, Contribution from FP7 Projects,
Security, Privacy and Trust in IOT -Data-Platforms for Smart Cities, First Steps
Towards a Secure Platform, Smartie Approach. Data Aggregation for the IOT in
Smart Cities, Security

Books:

1. Vijay Madisetti and Arshdeep Bahga, “Internet of Things (A Hands-on-Approach)”, 1stEdition,

VPT, 2014
2. Francis daCosta, “Rethinking the Internet of Things: A Scalable Approach to Connecting
Everything”, 1stEdition, Apress Publications, 2013
3. Cuno Pfister, Getting Started with the Internet of Things, O‟Reilly Media, 2011, ISBN: 978-1-
4493-9357-1
Course Code: BCS703
Course Name: Selected topics from CS
Credits: 3:2:0
Any four/five recent topics will be taught in the subject “Selected topics from CS” proposed
by course coordinator and members of BOS and approved by Academic council.