ANNA UNIVERSITY CHENNAI : : CHENNAI – 600 025
AFFILIATED INSTITUTIONS
B.E. (8 SEMESTER) COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
CURRICULUM – R 2008
SEMESTER VIII
(Applicable to the students admitted from the Academic year 2008–2009 onwards)
CODE NO. COURSE TITLE L T P C
THEORY
Elective V 3 0 0 3
Elective VI 3 0 0 3
PRACTICAL
CS2451 Project Work 0 0 12 6
TOTAL 6 0 12 12
SEMESTER VIII – Elective V
CODE NO. COURSE TITLE L T P C
GE2071 Intellectual Property Rights 3 0 0 3
CS2051 Graph Theory 3 0 0 3
IT2042 Information Security 3 0 0 3
CS2053 Soft Computing 3 0 0 3
IT2023 Digital Image Processing 3 0 0 3
CS2055 Software Quality Assurance 3 0 0 3
CS2056 Distributed Systems 3 0 0 3
CS2057 Knowledge Based Decision Support Systems 3 0 0 3
GE2021 Professional Ethics in Engineering 3 0 0 3
GE 2023 Fundamentals Of Nanoscience 3 0 0 3
SEMESTER VIII – Elective VI
CODE NO. COURSE TITLE L T P C
GE2072 Indian Constitution and Society 3 0 0 3
CS2060 High Speed Networks 3 0 0 3
CS2061 Robotics 3 0 0 3
IT2403 Software Project Management 3 0 0 3
CS2062 Quantum Computing 3 0 0 3
CS2063 Grid Computing 3 0 0 3
CS2064 Agent Based Intelligent Systems 3 0 0 3
IT2033 Bio Informatics 3 0 0 3
IT2064 Speech Signal Processing 3 0 0 3
SEMESTER VIII – Elective V
3 0 0 3
UNIT I 9
Introduction – Invention and Creativity – Intellectual Property (IP) – Importance –
Protection of IPR – Basic types of property (i). Movable Property - Immovable Property
and - Intellectual Property.
UNIT II 9
IP – Patents – Copyrights and related rights – Trade Marks and rights arising from
Trademark registration – Definitions – Industrial Designs and Integrated circuits –
Protection of Geographical Indications at national and International levels – Application
Procedures..
UNIT III 9
International convention relating to Intellectual Property – Establishment of WIPO –
Mission and Activities – History – General Agreement on Trade and Tariff (GATT) –
TRIPS Agreement.
UNIT IV 9
Indian Position Vs WTO and Strategies – Indian IPR legislations – commitments to
WTO-Patent Ordinance and the Bill – Draft of a national Intellectual Property Policy –
Present against unfair competition.
UNIT V 9
Case Studies on – Patents (Basumati rice, turmeric, Neem, etc.) – Copyright and related
rights – Trade Marks – Industrial design and Integrated circuits – Geographic indications
– Protection against unfair competition.
TOTAL: 45 PERIODS
TEXT BOOKS:
1. Subbaram N.R. “Handbook of Indian Patent Law and Practice “, S. Viswanathan
Printers and Publishers Pvt. Ltd., 1998.
REFERENCES:
1. Eli Whitney, United States Patent Number: 72X, Cotton Gin, March 14, 1794.
2. Intellectual Property Today: Volume 8, No. 5, May 2001, [www.iptoday.com].
3. Using the Internet for non-patent prior art searches, Derwent IP Matters, July 2000.
www.ipmatters.net/features/000707_gibbs.html.
CS2051 GRAPH THEORY L T P C
3 0 0 3
UNIT I NTRODUCTION 9
Graphs – Introduction – Isomorphism – Sub graphs – Walks, Paths, Circuits –
Connectedness – Components – Euler Graphs – Hamiltonian Paths and Circuits – Trees
– Properties of trees – Distance and Centers in Tree – Rooted and Binary Trees.
UNIT II TREES, CONNECTIVITY, PLANARITY 9
Spanning trees – Fundamental Circuits – Spanning Trees in a Weighted Graph – Cut
Sets – Properties of Cut Set – All Cut Sets – Fundamental Circuits and Cut Sets –
Connectivity and Separability – Network flows – 1-Isomorphism – 2-Isomorphism –
Combinational and Geometric Graphs – Planer Graphs – Different Representation of a
Planer Graph.
UNIT III MATRICES, COLOURING AND DIRECTED GRAPH 9
Incidence matrix – Submatrices – Circuit Matrix – Path Matrix – Adjacency Matrix –
Chromatic Number – Chromatic partitioning – Chromatic polynomial – Matching –
Covering – Four Color Problem – Directed Graphs – Types of Directed Graphs –
Digraphs and Binary Relations – Directed Paths and Connectedness – Euler Graphs –
Adjacency Matrix of a Digraph.
UNIT IV ALGORITHMS 9
Algorithms: Connectedness and Components – Spanning tree – Finding all Spanning
Trees of a Graph – Set of Fundamental Circuits – Cut Vertices and Separability –
Directed Circuits.
UNIT V ALGORITHMS 9
Algorithms: Shortest Path Algorithm – DFS – Planarity Testing – Isomorphism.
TOTAL: 45 PERIODS
TEXT BOOKS:
1. Narsingh Deo, “Graph Theory: With Application to Engineering and Computer
Science”, Prentice Hall of India, 2003.
REFERENCES:
1. R.J. Wilson, “Introduction to Graph Theory”, Fourth Edition, Pearson Education,
2003.
IT2042 INFORMATION SECURITY L T P C
3 0 0 3
UNIT I INTRODUCTION 9
History, What is Information Security?, Critical Characteristics of Information, NSTISSC
Security Model, Components of an Information System, Securing the Components,
Balancing Security and Access, The SDLC, The Security SDLC
UNIT II SECURITY INVESTIGATION 9
Need for Security, Business Needs, Threats, Attacks, Legal, Ethical and Professional
Issues
UNIT III SECURITY ANALYSIS 9
Risk Management: Identifying and Assessing Risk, Assessing and Controlling Risk
UNIT IV LOGICAL DESIGN 9
Blueprint for Security, Information Security Poicy, Standards and Practices, ISO
17799/BS 7799, NIST Models, VISA International Security Model, Design of Security
Architecture, Planning for Continuity
UNIT V PHYSICAL DESIGN 9
Security Technology, IDS, Scanning and Analysis Tools, Cryptography, Access Control
Devices, Physical Security, Security and Personnel
TOTAL: 45 PERIODS
TEXT BOOK:
1. Michael E Whitman and Herbert J Mattord, “Principles of Information Security”, Vikas
Publishing House, New Delhi, 2003
REFERENCES:
1. Micki Krause, Harold F. Tipton, “ Handbook of Information Security Management”,
Vol 1-3 CRC Press LLC, 2004.
2. Stuart Mc Clure, Joel Scrambray, George Kurtz, “Hacking Exposed”, Tata McGraw-
Hill, 2003
3. Matt Bishop, “ Computer Security Art and Science”, Pearson/PHI, 2002.
CS2053 SOFT COMPUTING L T P C
3 0 0 3
UNIT I FUZZY SET THEORY 10
Introduction to Neuro – Fuzzy and Soft Computing – Fuzzy Sets – Basic Definition and
Terminology – Set-theoretic Operations – Member Function Formulation and
Parameterization – Fuzzy Rules and Fuzzy Reasoning – Extension Principle and Fuzzy
Relations – Fuzzy If-Then Rules – Fuzzy Reasoning – Fuzzy Inference Systems –
Mamdani Fuzzy Models – Sugeno Fuzzy Models – Tsukamoto Fuzzy Models – Input
Space Partitioning and Fuzzy Modeling.
UNIT II OPTIMIZATION 8
Derivative-based Optimization – Descent Methods – The Method of Steepest Descent –
Classical Newton’s Method – Step Size Determination – Derivative-free Optimization –
Genetic Algorithms – Simulated Annealing – Random Search – Downhill Simplex
Search.
UNIT III ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 10
Introduction, Knowledge Representation – Reasoning, Issues and Acquisition:
Prepositional and Predicate Calculus Rule Based knowledge Representation Symbolic
Reasoning Under Uncertainity Basic knowledge Representation Issues Knowledge
acquisition – Heuristic Search: Techniques for Heuristic search Heuristic Classification -
State Space Search: Strategies Implementation of Graph Search Search based on
Recursion Patent-directed Search Production System and Learning.
UNIT IV NEURO FUZZY MODELING 9
Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference Systems – Architecture – Hybrid Learning Algorithm –
Learning Methods that Cross-fertilize ANFIS and RBFN – Coactive Neuro Fuzzy
Modeling – Framework Neuron Functions for Adaptive Networks – Neuro Fuzzy
Spectrum.
UNIT V APPLICATIONS OF COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE 8
Printed Character Recognition – Inverse Kinematics Problems – Automobile Fuel
Efficiency Prediction – Soft Computing for Color Recipe Prediction.
TOTAL: 45 PERIODS
TEXT BOOKS:
1. J.S.R.Jang, C.T.Sun and E.Mizutani, “Neuro-Fuzzy and Soft Computing”, PHI, 2004,
Pearson Education 2004.
2. N.P.Padhy, “Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Systems”, Oxford University Press,
2006.
REFERENCES:
1. Elaine Rich & Kevin Knight, Artificial Intelligence, Second Edition, Tata Mcgraw Hill
Publishing Comp., 2006, New Delhi.
2. Timothy J.Ross, “Fuzzy Logic with Engineering Applications”, McGraw-Hill, 1997.
3. Davis E.Goldberg, “Genetic Algorithms: Search, Optimization and Machine Learning”,
Addison Wesley, N.Y., 1989.
4. S. Rajasekaran and G.A.V.Pai, “Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic and Genetic
Algorithms”, PHI, 2003.
5. R.Eberhart, P.Simpson and R.Dobbins, “Computational Intelligence - PC Tools”, AP
Professional, Boston, 1996.
6. Amit Konar, “Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing Behaviour and Cognitive
model of the human brain”, CRC Press, 2008.
IT2023 DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING L T P C
3 0 0 3
UNIT I FUNDAMENTALS OF IMAGE PROCESSING 9
Introduction – Steps in Image Processing Systems – Image Acquisition – Sampling and
Quantization – Pixel Relationships – Colour Fundamentals and Models, File Formats,
Image operations – Arithmetic, Geometric and Morphological.
UNIT II IMAGE ENHANCEMENT 9
Spatial Domain Gray level Transformations Histogram Processing Spatial Filtering –
Smoothing and Sharpening. Frequency Domain : Filtering in Frequency Domain – DFT,
FFT, DCT – Smoothing and Sharpening filters – Homomorphic Filtering.
UNIT III IMAGE SEGMENTATION AND FEATURE ANALYSIS 9
Detection of Discontinuities – Edge Operators – Edge Linking and Boundary Detection –
Thresholding – Region Based Segmentation – Morphological WaterSheds – Motion
Segmentation, Feature Analysis and Extraction.
UNIT IV MULTI RESOLUTION ANALYSIS AND COMPRESSIONS 9
Multi Resolution Analysis : Image Pyramids – Multi resolution expansion – Wavelet
Transforms.
Image Compression : Fundamentals – Models – Elements of Information Theory – Error
Free Compression – Lossy Compression – Compression Standards.
UNIT V APPLICATIONS OF IMAGE PROCESSING 9
Image Classification – Image Recognition – Image Understanding – Video Motion
Analysis – Image Fusion – Steganography – Digital Compositing – Mosaics – Colour
Image Processing..
TOTAL : 45 PERIODS
TEXT BOOKS:
1. Rafael C.Gonzalez and Richard E.Woods, “Digital Image Processing” Second
Edition, Pearson Education, 2003.
REFERENCES:
1. Milan Sonka, Vaclav Hlavac and Roger Boyle, “Image Processing, Analysis and
Machine Vision”, Second Edition, Thomson Learning, 2001
2. Anil K.Jain, “Fundamentals of Digital Image Processing”, PHI, 2006.
3. Sanjit K. Mitra, & Giovanni L. Sicuranza, “Non Linear Image Processing”, Elsevier,
2007.
4. Richard O. Duda, Peter E. HOF, David G. Stork, “Pattern Classification” Wiley
Student Edition, 2006.
CS2055 SOFTWARE QUALITY ASSURANCE L T P C
3 0 0 3
UNIT I FUNDAMENTALS OF SOFTWARE QUALITY ASSURANCE 9
The Role of SQA – SQA Plan – SQA considerations – SQA people – Quality
Management – Software Configuration Management
UNIT II MANAGING SOFTWARE QUALITY 9
Managing Software Organizations – Managing Software Quality – Defect Prevention –
Software Quality Assurance Management
UNIT III SOFTWARE QUALITY ASSURANCE METRICS 9
Software Quality – Total Quality Management (TQM) – Quality Metrics – Software
Quality Metrics Analysis
UNIT IV SOFTWARE QUALITY PROGRAM 9
Software Quality Program Concepts – Establishment of a Software Quality Program –
Software Quality Assurance Planning – An Overview – Purpose & Scope.
UNIT V SOFTWARE QUALITY ASSURANCE STANDARDIZATION 9
Software Standards–ISO 9000 Quality System Standards - Capability Maturity Model
and the Role of SQA in Software Development Maturity – SEI CMM Level 5 –
Comparison of ISO 9000 Model with SEI’s CMM
TOTAL : 45 PERIODS
TEXT BOOKS:
1. Mordechai Ben-Menachem / Garry S Marliss, “Software Quality”, Vikas Publishing
House, Pvt, Ltd., New Delhi.(UNIT III to V)
2. Watts S Humphrey, “ Managing the Software Process”, Pearson Education Inc.(
UNIT I and II)
REFERENCES:
1. Gordon G Schulmeyer, “Handbook of Software Quality Assurance”, Third Edition,
Artech House Publishers 2007
2. Nina S Godbole, “Software Quality Assurance: Principles and Practice”, Alpha
Science International, Ltd, 2004
CS2056 DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS L T P C
3 0 0 3
UNIT I 9
Characterization of Distributed Systems-Introduction-Examples-Resource Sharing and
the Web-Challenges.
System Models-Architectural-Fundamental.
Interprocess Communication-Introduction-API for Internet protocols-External data
representation and marshalling--Client-server communication-Group communication-
Case study: Interprocess Communication in UNIX.
UNIT II 9
Distributed Objects and Remote Invocation-Introduction-Communication between
distributed objects-Remote procedure calls-Events and notifications-Case study: Java
RMI.
Operating System Support-Introduction-OS layer-Protection-Processes and threads-
Communication and invocation OS architecture.
UNIT III 9
Distributed File Systems-Introduction-File service architecture-Case Study:Sun Network
File System-Enhancements and further developments.
Name Services-Introduction-Name Services and the Domain Name System-Directory
Services-Case Study: Global Name Service.
UNIT IV 9
Time and Global States-Introduction-Clocks, events and process states-Synchronizing
physical clocks-Logical time and logical clocks-Global states-Distributed debugging.
Coordination and Agreement-Introduction-Distributed mutual exclusion-Elections-
Multicast communication-Consensus and related problems.
UNIT V 9
Distributed Shared Memory-Introduction-Design and implementation issues-Sequential
consistency and Ivy case study Release consistency and Munin case study-Other
consistency models.
CORBA Case Study- Introduction-CORBA RMI-CORBA services.
TOTAL: 45 PERIODS
TEXT BOOK:
1. George Coulouris, Jean Dollimore, Tim Kindberg, , "Distributed Systems: Concepts
and Design", 4th Edition, Pearson Education, 2005.
REFERENCES:
1. A.tS. Tanenbaum and M. V. Steen, "Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms",
Second Edition, Prentice Hall, 2006.
2. M.L.Liu, “Distributed Computing Principles and Applications”, Pearson Addison
Wesley, 2004.
3. Mukesh Singhal, “Advanced Concepts In Operating Systems”, McGrawHill Series in
Computer Science, 1994.
4. Nancy A. Lynch, "Distributed Algorithms", The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data
Management System, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2000.
CS2057 KNOWLEDGE BASED DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM L T P C
3 0 0 3
UNIT I 9
Decision Making and computerized support: Management support systems. Decision
making systems modeling- support.
UNIT II 9
Decision Making Systems – Modeling and Analysis – Business Intelligence – Data
Warehousing, Data Acquisition - Data Mining. Business Analysis – Visualization -
Decision Support System Development.
UNIT III 9
Collaboration, Communicate Enterprise Decision Support System & Knowledge
management – Collaboration Com Technologies Enterprise information system –
knowledge management.
UNIT IV 9
Intelligent Support Systems – AI & Expert Systems – Knowledge based Systems –
Knowledge Acquisition , Representation & Reasoning, Advanced intelligence system –
Intelligence System over internet.
UNIT V 9
Implementing MSS in the E-Business ERA – Electronic Commerce – integration,
Impacts and the future management support systems.
TOTAL: 45 PERIODS
TEXT BOOKS:
1. Decision Support Systems & Intelligent Systems – Seventh edition Efraim Turban &
Jay E. Aronson Ting-Peng Liang - Pearson/prentice Hall
2. Decision support Systems – Second Edition – George M Marakas - Pearson/prentice
Hall.
REFERENCES:
1. Decision Support Systems – V.S. Janakiraman & K. Sarukesi
2. Decision Support systems and Data warehouse Systems by Efrem G Mallach- Mc
Graw Hill
GE2021 PROFESSIONAL ETHICS IN ENGINEERING
L T P C
3 0 0 3
UNIT I ENGINEERING ETHICS 9
Senses of ‘Engineering Ethics’ – Variety of moral issues – Types of inquiry – Moral
dilemmas – Moral Autonomy – Kohlberg’s theory – Gilligan’s theory – Consensus and
Controversy – Professions and Professionalism – Professional Ideals and Virtues –
Uses of Ethical Theories.
UNIT II ENGINEERING AS SOCIAL EXPERIMENTATION 9
Engineering as Experimentation – Engineers as responsible Experimenters – Research
Ethics - Codes of Ethics – Industrial Standards - A Balanced Outlook on Law – The
Challenger Case Study
UNIT III ENGINEER’S RESPONSIBILITY FOR SAFETY 9
Safety and Risk – Assessment of Safety and Risk – Risk Benefit Analysis – Reducing
Risk – The Government Regulator’s Approach to Risk - Chernobyl Case Studies and
Bhopal
UNIT IV RESPONSIBILITIES AND RIGHTS 9
Collegiality and Loyalty – Respect for Authority – Collective Bargaining – Confidentiality
– Conflicts of Interest – Occupational Crime – Professional Rights – Employee Rights –
Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) - Discrimination
UNIT V GLOBAL ISSUES 9
Multinational Corporations – Business Ethics - Environmental Ethics – Computer Ethics -
Role in Technological Development – Weapons Development – Engineers as Managers
– Consulting Engineers – Engineers as Expert Witnesses and Advisors – Honesty –
Moral Leadership – Sample Code of Conduct
TOTAL: 45 PERIODS
TEXT BOOKS:
1. Mike Martin and Roland Schinzinger, “Ethics in Engineering”, McGraw Hill, New
York, 2005.
2. Charles E Harris, Michael S Pritchard and Michael J Rabins, “Engineering Ethics –
Concepts and Cases”, Thompson Learning, 2000.
REFERENCES:
1. Charles D Fleddermann, “Engineering Ethics”, Prentice Hall, New Mexico,
1999.
2. John R Boatright, “Ethics and the Conduct of Business”, Pearson Education, 2003
3. Edmund G Seebauer and Robert L Barry, “Fundamentals of Ethics for Scientists and
Engineers”, Oxford University Press, 2001.
4. Prof. (Col) P S Bajaj and Dr. Raj Agrawal, “Business Ethics – An Indian Perspective”,
Biztantra, New Delhi, 2004.
5. David Ermann and Michele S Shauf, “Computers, Ethics and Society”, Oxford
6. University Press, (2003)
GE 2023 FUNDAMENTALS OF NANOSCIENCE
L T P C
3 0 0 3
UNIT I INTRODUCTION 9
Nanoscale Science and Technology- Implications for Physics, Chemistry, Biology and
Engineering-Classifications of nanostructured materials- nano particles- quantum dots,
nanowires-ultra-thinfilms-multilayered materials. Length Scales involved and effect on
properties: Mechanical, Electronic, Optical, Magnetic and Thermal properties.
Introduction to properties and motivation for study (qualitative only).
UNIT II PREPARATION METHODS 10
Bottom-up Synthesis-Top-down Approach: Precipitation, Mechanical Milling, Colloidal
routes, Self-assembly, Vapour phase deposition, MOCVD, Sputtering, Evaporation,
Molecular Beam Epitaxy, Atomic Layer Epitaxy, MOMBE.
UNIT III PATTERNING AND LITHOGRAPHY FOR NANOSCALE DEVICES 7
Introduction to optical/UV electron beam and X-ray Lithography systems and processes,
Wet etching, dry (Plasma /reactive ion) etching, Etch resists-dip pen lithography
UNIT IV PREPARATION ENVIRONMENTS 9
Clean rooms: specifications and design, air and water purity, requirements for particular
processes, Vibration free environments: Services and facilities required. Working
practices, sample cleaning, Chemical purification, chemical and biological
contamination, Safety issues, flammable and toxic hazards, biohazards.
UNIT V CHARECTERISATION TECHNIQUES 10
X-ray diffraction technique, Scanning Electron Microscopy - environmental techniques,
Transmission Electron Microscopy including high-resolution imaging, Surface Analysis
techniques- AFM, SPM, STM, SNOM, ESCA, SIMS-Nanoindentation
TOTAL: 45 PERIODS
TEXT BOOKS:
1. A.S. Edelstein and R.C. Cammearata, eds., Nanomaterials: Synthesis, Properties
and Applications, (Institute of Physics Publishing, Bristol and Philadelphia, 1996)
2. N John Dinardo, Nanoscale charecterisation of surfaces & Interfaces, Second
edition, Weinheim Cambridge, Wiley-VCH, 2000
REFERENCES:
1. G Timp (Editor), Nanotechnology, AIP press/Springer, 1999
2. Akhlesh Lakhtakia (Editor) The Hand Book of Nano Technology, “Nanometer
Structure”, Theory, Modeling and Simulations. Prentice-Hall of India (P) Ltd, New
Delhi, 2007.
SEMESTER VIII – Elective VI
GE2072 INDIAN CONSTITUTION AND SOCIETY L T P C
3 0 0 3
UNIT I 9
Historical Background – Constituent Assembly of India – Philosophical foundations of
the Indian Constitution – Preamble – Fundamental Rights – Directive Principles of State
Policy – Fundamental Duties – Citizenship – Constitutional Remedies for citizens.
UNIT II 9
Union Government – Structures of the Union Government and Functions – President –
Vice President – Prime Minister – Cabinet – Parliament – Supreme Court of India –
Judicial Review.
UNIT III 9
State Government – Structure and Functions – Governor – Chief Minister – Cabinet –
State Legislature – Judicial System in States – High Courts and other Subordinate
Courts.
UNIT IV 9
Indian Federal System – Center – State Relations – President’s Rule – Constitutional
Amendments – Constitutional Functionaries - Assessment of working of the
Parliamentary System in India.
UNIT V 9
Society : Nature, Meaning and definition; Indian Social Structure; Caste, Religion,
Language in India; Constitutional Remedies for citizens – Political Parties and Pressure
Groups; Right of Women, Children and Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes and
other Weaker Sections.
TOTAL: 45 PERIODS
TEXT BOOKS:
1. Durga Das Basu, “ Introduction to the Constitution of India “, Prentice Hall of India,
New Delhi.
2. R.C.Agarwal, (1997) “Indian Political System”, S.Chand and Company, New Delhi.
3. Maciver and Page, “ Society: An Introduction Analysis “, Mac Milan India Ltd., New
Delhi.
4. K.L.Sharma, (1997) “Social Stratification in India: Issues and Themes”, Jawaharlal
Nehru University, New Delhi.
REFERENCES:
1. Sharma, Brij Kishore, “ Introduction to the Constitution of India:, Prentice Hall of
India, New Delhi.
2. U.R.Gahai, “Indian Political System “, New Academic Publishing House, Jalaendhar.
3. R.N. Sharma, “Indian Social Problems “, Media Promoters and Publishers
Pvt. Ltd.
3 0 0 3
UNIT I HIGH SPEED NETWORKS 9
Frame Relay Networks – Asynchronous transfer mode – ATM Protocol Architecture,
ATM logical Connection – ATM Cell – ATM Service Categories – AAL. High Speed
LAN’s: Fast Ethernet – Gigabit Ethernet– Fibre Channel – Wireless LAN’s, WiFi and
WiMax Networks applications, requirements – Architecture of 802.11.
UNIT II CONGESTION AND TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT 8
Queuing Analysis – Queuing Models – Single Server Queues – Effects of Congestion –
Congestion Control – Traffic Management – Congestion Control in Packet Switching
Networks – Frame Relay Congestion Control.
UNIT III TCP AND ATM CONGESTION CONTROL 12
TCP Flow control – TCP Congestion Control – Retransmission – Timer Management –
Exponential RTO backoff – KARN’s Algorithm – Window management – Performance of
TCP over ATM. Traffic and Congestion control in ATM – Requirements – Attributes –
Traffic Management Frame work, Traffic Control – ABR traffic Management – ABR rate
control, RM cell formats – ABR Capacity allocations – GFR traffic management.
UNIT IV INTEGRATED AND DIFFERENTIATED SERVICES 8
Integrated Services Architecture – Approach, Components, Services- Queuing Discipline
– FQ – PS – BRFQ – GPS – WFQ – Random Early Detection – Differentiated Services.
UNIT V PROTOCOLS FOR QOS SUPPORT 8
RSVP – Goals & Characteristics, Data Flow, RSVP operations – Protocol Mechanisms
– Multiprotocol Label Switching – Operations, Label Stacking – Protocol details – RTP
– Protocol Architecture – Data Transfer Protocol– RTCP.
TOTAL: 45 PERIODS
TEXT BOOKS:
1. William Stallings, “High speed networks and internet”, Second Edition, Pearson
Education, 2002.
REFERENCES:
1. Warland, Pravin Varaiya, “High performance communication networks”, Second
Edition , Jean Harcourt Asia Pvt. Ltd., , 2001.
2. Irvan Pepelnjk, Jim Guichard, Jeff Apcar, “MPLS and VPN architecture”, Cisco
Press, Volume 1 and 2, 2003.
3. Abhijit S. Pandya, Ercan Sea, “ATM Technology for Broad Band Telecommunication
Networks”, CRC Press, New York, 2004.
CS2061 ROBOTICS L T P C
3 0 0 3
UNIT I SCOPE OF ROBOTS AND INTELLIGENCE 9
The scope of industrial Robots - Definition of an industrial robot - Need for industrial
robots - applications. Robot Intelligence – State Space Search – Problem Reduction –
Use of Predicate – logic – means Ends Analysis – Problem Solving – Robot Learning –
Robot Task Planning – Basic Problems in Task Planning.
UNIT II ROBOT COMPONENTS 9
Fundamentals opf Robot Technology - Automation and Robotics - Robot anatomy -
Work volume - Prescision of movement - End effectors - Sensors.
UNIT III ROBOT PROGRAMMING 9
Robot Programming - Methods - interlocks textual languages. Characteristics of Robot
level languages, characteristic of task level languages.
UNIT IV ROBOT WORK CELL 9
Robot Cell Design and Control - Remote Cemter compilance - Safety in Robotics.
UNIT V FUTURE TRENDS 9
Advanced robotics, Advanced robotics in Space - Specific features of space robotics
systems - long-term technical developments, Advanced robotics in under - water
operations. Robotics Technology of the Future - Future Applications.
TOTAL: 45 PERIODS
TEXTBOOK:
1. Barry Leatham - Jones, "Elements of industrial Robotics" PITMAN Publishing,
1987.
REFERENCES:
1. Mikell P.Groover, Mitchell Weiss, Roger N.Nagel Nicholas G.Odrey, "Industrial
Robotics Technology, Programming and Applications ", McGraw Hill Book Company
1986.
2. Fu K.S. Gonzaleaz R.C. and Lee C.S.G., "Robotics Control Sensing, Visioon and
Intelligence (chapter 10) " McGraw Hill International Editions, 1987.
3. Bernard Hodges and Paul Hallam, " Industrial Robotics", British Library Cataloging in
Publication 1990.
4. Deb, S.R. Robotics Technology and flexible automation, Tata Mc GrawHill,
1994.
3 0 0 3
UNIT I INTRODUCTION TO SOFTWARE PROJECT MANAGEMENT 9
Project Definition – Contract Management – Activities Covered By Software Project
Management – Overview Of Project Planning – Stepwise Project Planning.
UNIT II PROJECT EVALUATION 9
Strategic Assessment – Technical Assessment – Cost Benefit Analysis –Cash Flow
Forecasting – Cost Benefit Evaluation Techniques – Risk Evaluation.
UNIT III ACTIVITY PLANNING 9
Objectives – Project Schedule – Sequencing and Scheduling Activities –Network
Planning Models – Forward Pass – Backward Pass – Activity Float – Shortening Project
Duration – Activity on Arrow Networks – Risk Management – Nature Of Risk – Types Of
Risk – Managing Risk – Hazard Identification – Hazard Analysis – Risk Planning And
Control.
UNIT IV MONITORING AND CONTROL 9
Creating Framework – Collecting The Data – Visualizing Progress – Cost Monitoring –
Earned Value – Priortizing Monitoring – Getting Project Back To Target – Change
Control – Managing Contracts – Introduction – Types Of Contract – Stages In Contract
Placement – Typical Terms Of A Contract – Contract Management – Acceptance.
UNIT V MANAGING PEOPLE AND ORGANIZING TEAMS 9
Introduction – Understanding Behavior – Organizational Behaviour:A Background –
Selecting The Right Person For The Job – Instruction In The Best Methods – Motivation
– The Oldman – Hackman Job Characteristics Model – Working In Groups – Becoming
A Team –Decision Making – Leadership – Organizational Structures – Stress –Health
And Safety – Case Studies.
TOTAL: 45 PERIODS
TEXT BOOK:
1. Bob Hughes, Mikecotterell, “Software Project Management”, Third Edition, Tata
McGraw Hill, 2004.
REFERENCES:
1. Ramesh, Gopalaswamy, "Managing Global Projects", Tata McGraw Hill, 2001.
2. Royce, “Software Project Management”, Pearson Education, 1999.
3. Jalote, “Software Project Manangement in Practive”, Pearson Education, 2002.
CS2062 QUANTUM COMPUTING L T P C
3 0 0 3
UNIT I FOUNDATION 9
Overview of traditional computing – Church-Turing thesis – circuit model of computation
– reversible computation – quantum physics – quantum physics and computation – Dirac
notation and Hilbert Spaces – dual vectors – operators – the spectral theorem –
functions of operators – tensor products – Schmidt decomposition theorem
UNIT II QUBITS AND QUANTUM MODEL OF COMPUTATION 9
State of a quantum system – time evolution of a closed system – composite systems –
measurement – mixed states and general quantum operations – quantum circuit model –
quantum gates – universal sets of quantum gates – unitary transformations – quantum
circuits
UNIT III QUANTUM ALGORITHMS – I 9
Superdense coding – quantum teleportation – applications of teleportation – probabilistic
versus quantum algorithms – phase kick-back – the Deutsch algorithm – the Deutsch-
Jozsa algorithm – Simon's algorithm – Quantum phase estimation and quantum Fourier
Transform – eigenvalue estimation
UNIT IV QUANTUM ALGORITHMS – II 9
Order-finding problem – eigenvalue estimation approach to order finding – Shor's
algorithm for order finding – finding discrete logarithms – hidden subgroups – Grover's
quantum search algorithm – amplitude amplification – quantum amplitude estimation –
quantum counting – searching without knowing the success probability
UNIT V QUANTUM COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY AND ERROR
CORRECTION 9
Computational complexity – black-box model – lower bounds for searching – general
black-box lower bounds – polynomial method – block sensitivity – adversary methods –
classical error correction – classical three-bit code – fault tolerance – quantum error
correction – three- and nine-qubit quantum codes – fault-tolerant quantum computation
TOTAL: 45 PERIODS
TEXT BOOK:
1. P. Kaye, R. Laflamme, and M. Mosca, “An introduction to Quantum Computing”,
Oxford University Press, 1999.
REFERENCES:
1. V. Sahni, “Quantum Computing”, Tata McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, 2007.
CS 2063 GRID COMPUTING L T P C
3 0 0 3
UNIT I CONCEPTS AND ARCHITECTURE 9
Introduction-Parallel and Distributed Computing-Cluster Computing-Grid Computing-
Anatomy and Physiology of Grid-Review of Web Services-OGSA-WSRF.
UNIT II GRID MONITORING 9
Grid Monitoring Architecture (GMA) - An Overview of Grid Monitoring Systems- GridICE
– JAMM -MDS-Network Weather Service-R-GMA-Other Monitoring Systems- Ganglia
and GridMon
UNIT III GRID SECURITY AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT 9
Grid Security-A Brief Security Primer-PKI-X509 Certificates-Grid Security-Grid
Scheduling and Resource Management-Scheduling Paradigms- Working principles of
Scheduling -A Review of Condor, SGE, PBS and LSF-Grid Scheduling with QoS.
UNIT IV DATA MANAGEMENT AND GRID PORTALS 9
Data Management-Categories and Origins of Structured Data-Data Management
Challenges-Architectural Approaches-Collective Data Management Services-Federation
Services-Grid Portals-First-Generation Grid Portals-Second-Generation Grid Portals.
UNIT V GRID MIDDLEWARE 9
List of globally available Middlewares - Case Studies-Recent version of Globus Toolkit
and gLite - Architecture, Components and Features.
TOTAL: 45 PERIODS
TEXT BOOK:
1. Maozhen Li, Mark Baker, The Grid Core Technologies, John Wiley & Sons ,2005.
REFERENCES:
1. Ian Foster & Carl Kesselman, The Grid 2 – Blueprint for a New Computing
Infrascture , Morgan Kaufman – 2004
2. Joshy Joseph & Craig Fellenstein, “Grid Computing”, Pearson Education 2004.
3. Fran Berman,Geoffrey Fox, Anthony J.G.Hey, “Grid Computing: Making the Global
Infrastructure a reality”, John Wiley and sons, 2003.
CS2064 AGENT BASED INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS L T P C
3 0 0 3
UNIT I INTRODUCTION 9
Definitions - Foundations - History - Intelligent Agents-Problem Solving-Searching -
Heuristics -Constraint Satisfaction Problems - Game playing.
UNIT II KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION AND REASONING 9
Logical Agents-First order logic-First Order Inference-Unification-Chaining- Resolution
Strategies-Knowledge Representation-Objects-Actions-Events
UNIT III PLANNING AGENTS 9
Planning Problem-State Space Search-Partial Order Planning-Graphs-Nondeterministic
Domains-Conditional Planning-Continuous Planning-MultiAgent Planning.
UNIT IV AGENTS AND UNCERTAINITY 9
Acting under uncertainty – Probability Notation-Bayes Rule and use - Bayesian
Networks-Other Approaches-Time and Uncertainty-Temporal Models- Utility Theory -
Decision Network – Complex Decisions.
UNIT V HIGHER LEVEL AGENTS 9
Knowledge in Learning-Relevance Information-Statistical Learning Methods-
Reinforcement Learning-Communication-Formal Grammar-Augmented Grammars-
Future of AI.
TOTAL: 45 PERIODS
TEXT BOOK:
1. Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig, “Artificial Intelligence - A Modern Approach”,2nd
2. Edition, Prentice Hall, 2002
REFERENCES:
1. Michael Wooldridge, “An Introduction to Multi Agent System”, John Wiley, 2002.
2. Patrick Henry Winston, Artificial Intelligence, 3rd Edition, AW, 1999.
3. Nils.J.Nilsson, Principles of Artificial Intelligence, Narosa Publishing House, 1992
IT2033 BIO INFORMATICS L T P C
3 0 0 3
UNIT I 9
Introduction to molecular biology – the genetic material – gene structure – protein
structure – chemical bonds – molecular biology tools – genomic information content
UNIT II 9
Data searches – simple alignments – gaps – scoring matrices – dynamic programming –
global and local alignments – database searches – multiple sequence alignments
Patterns for substitutions – estimating substitution numbers – evolutionary rates –
molecular clocks – evolution in organelles
UNIT III 9
Phylogenetics – history and advantages – phylogenetic trees – distance matrix methods
– maximum likelihood approaches – multiple sequence alignments – Parsimony –
ancestral sequences – strategies for faster searches – consensus trees – tree
confidence – comparison of phylogenetic methods – molecular phylogenies
UNIT IV 9
Genomics – prokaryotic genomes: prokaryotic gene structure – GC content - gene
density – eukaryotic genomes: gene structure – open reading frames – GC content –
gene expression – transposition – repeated elements – gene density
UNIT V 9
Amino acids – polypeptide composition – secondary structure – tertiary and quaternary
structure – algorithms for modeling protein folding – structure prediction – predicting
RNA secondary structures
Proteomics – protein classification – experimental techniques – inhibitors and drug
design – ligand screening – NMR structures – empirical methods and prediction
techniques – post-translational modification prediction
TOTAL: 45 PERIODS
TEXT BOOK:
1. D. E. Krane and M. L. Raymer, “Fundamental concepts of Bioinformatics”, Pearson
Education, 2003.
REFERENCES:
1. Arthur M. Lesk, “Introduction to Bioinformatics”, Second Edition, Oxford University
Press, 2005.
2. T. K. Attwood, D. J. Parry-Smith, and S. Phukan, “Introduction to Bioinformatics”,
Pearson Education, 1999.
3. Vittal R. Srinivas, “Bioinformatics – A Modern Approach”, Prentice-Hall of India Pvt.
Ltd., 2005.
IT2064 SPEECH SIGNAL PROCESSING L T P C
3 0 0 3
UNIT I MECHANICS OF SPEECH 9
Speech production: Mechanism of speech production, Acoustic phonetics - Digital
models for speech signals - Representations of speech waveform: Sampling speech
signals, basics of quantization, delta modulation, and Differential PCM - Auditory
perception: psycho acoustics.
UNIT II TIME DOMAIN METHODS FOR SPEECH PROCESSING 9
Time domain parameters of Speech signal – Methods for extracting the parameters
Energy, Average Magnitude, Zero crossing Rate – Silence Discrimination using ZCR
and energy – Short Time Auto Correlation Function – Pitch period estimation using Auto
Correlation Function.
UNIT III FREQUENCY DOMAIN METHOD FOR SPEECH PROCESSING 9
Short Time Fourier analysis: Fourier transform and linear filtering interpretations,
Sampling rates - Spectrographic displays - Pitch and formant extraction - Analysis by
Synthesis - Analysis synthesis systems: Phase vocoder, Channel Vocoder -
Homomorphic speech analysis: Cepstral analysis of Speech, Formant and Pitch
Estimation, Homomorphic Vocoders.
UNIT IV LINEAR PREDICTIVE ANALYSIS OF SPEECH 9
Basic Principles of linear predictive analysis – Auto correlation method – Covariance
method – Solution of LPC equations – Cholesky method – Durbin’s Recursive algorithm
– Application of LPC parameters – Pitch detection using LPC parameters – Formant
analysis – VELP – CELP.
UNIT V APPLICATION OF SPEECH & AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING 9
Algorithms: Dynamic time warping, K-means clustering and Vector quantization,
Gaussian mixture modeling, hidden Markov modeling - Automatic Speech Recognition:
Feature Extraction for ASR, Deterministic sequence recognition, Statistical Sequence
recognition, Language models - Speaker identification and verification – Voice response
system – Speech synthesis: basics of articulatory, source-filter, and concatenative
synthesis – VOIP
TEXT BOOKS:
1. L. R. Rabiner and R. W. Schaffer, “Digital Processing of Speech signals”, Prentice
Hall, 1978.
2. Ben Gold and Nelson Morgan, “Speech and Audio Signal Processing”, John Wiley
and Sons Inc., Singapore, 2004.
REFERENCES:
1. Quatieri, “Discrete-time Speech Signal Processing”, Prentice Hall, 2001.
2. L.R. Rabiner and B. H. Juang, “Fundamentals of speech recognition”, Prentice Hall,
1993.
