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Knowledge Digest for IT Community ` 50/-

ISSN 0970-647X

Volume No. 41 | Issue No. 1 | April 2017

Big Data

Analytics

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Cover Story Role of Hadoop in Big Data Analytics 14 TECHNICAL TRENDS Data Lake: A Next Generation Data Storage System in Big Data Analytics 19 research front Sentiment and Emotion Analysis of Tweets Regarding Demonetisation 21

SECURITY CORNER Enhanced Protection for Big Data using Intrusion Kill Chain and Data Science 24 Article MiDeSH: Missile Decision Support System 28

CSI CALENDAR 2016-17

Gautam Mahaptra, Vice President, CSI, Email: [email protected] Date

Event Details & Contact Information

MARCH 24-25, 2017

First International Conference on “Computational Intelligence, Communications, and Business Analytics (CICBA 2017)” at Calcutta Business School, Kolkata, India. Contact: [email protected]; (M) 94754 13463 / (O) 033 24205209 International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Communications, and Business Analytics (CICBA - 2017) at Calcutta Business School, Kolkata, India. Contact (M) 9475413463 / (O) 03324205209, Email id : [email protected]; www.cicba-2017.in

APRIL 15-16, 2017

1st International Conference on Smart Systems, Innovations & Computing (SSIC-2017) at Manipal University Jaipur, Jaipur, Rajasthan. http://www.ssic2017.com Contact : Mr. Ankit Mundra, Mob.: 9667604115, [email protected]

MAY 08-10, 2017

ICSE 2017 - International Conference on Soft Computing in Engineering, Organized by : JECRC, Jaipur, www.icsc2017.com Contact : Prof. K. S. Raghuwanshi, [email protected], Mobile : 9166016670

25-27, 2017

Indian Engineering Educators and Administrators Conference (IEEAC-2017) Organized by Terna Engineering College

JUNE 05-30, 2017

Workshop on LAMP (Linux, Apache, My SQL, Perl/Python)​, Jaypee University of Engineering and Technology, Raghogarh, Guna - MP, www.juet.ac.in​ Dr. Shishir Kumar ([email protected]) 9479772915

JULY 20-22, 2017

IEEE International Conference on Networks & Advances in Computational Technologies (NetACT 2017), organized by CSI Trivandrum chapter http://netact17.in/ Contact : [email protected] IEEE International Conference on Networks & Advances in Computational Technologies (NetACT 2017) organized by CSI Trivandrum chapter http://netact17.in/ Contact : [email protected]

OCTOBER 28-29, 2017

International conference on Data Engineering and Applications-2017 (IDEA-17) at Bhopal (M.P.), http://www.ideaconference.in  Contact : [email protected]

DECEMBER 21-23, 2017

Fourth International Conference on Image Information Processing (ICIIP-2017), at Jaypee University of Information Technology (JUIT), Solan, India, (http://www.juit.ac.in/iciip_2017/) Contact : Dr. P. K. Gupta ([email protected]) (O) +91-1792-239341 Prof. Vipin Tyagi ([email protected])

Kind Attention: Prospective Contributors of CSI Communications Please note that Cover Theme for May 2017 issue is Nano Computing. Articles may be submitted in the categories such as: Cover Story, Research Front, Technical Trends, Security Corner and Article. Please send your contributions by 20th April, 2017. The articles should be authored in as original text. Plagiarism is strictly prohibited. Please note that CSI Communications is a magazine for members at large and not a research journal for publishing full-fledged research papers. Therefore, we expect articles written at the level of general audience of varied member categories. Equations and mathematical expressions within articles are not recommended and, if absolutely necessary, should be minimum. Include a brief biography of four to six lines, indicating CSI Membership no., for each author with high resolution author photograph. Please send your article in MS-Word format to to Associate Editor, Prof. Prashant R. Nair in the email ids [email protected] with cc to [email protected] (Issued on the behalf of Editorial Board CSI Communications) Prof. A. K. Nayak Chief Editor

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CSI Communications Volume No. 41 • Issue No. 1 • APRIL 2017

Chief Editor

Prof. A. K. NAYAK

Editor

DR. DURGESH MISHRA

Associate Editor

PROF. Prashant Nair

Published by

Mr. Sanjay Mohapatra

For Computer Society of India

Contents Cover Story Role of Hadoop in Big Data Analytics Deepali Bajaj, Urmil Bharti, Rupali Ahuja & Anita Goel

Technical Trends Data Lake: A Next Generation Data Storage System in Big Data Analytics Remya Sasidharan Panicker

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Sentiment and Emotion Analysis of Tweets Regarding Demonetisation Pushkal Agarwal, Nirmal Kumar S., Lokesh Todwal & Sakthi Balan M.

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Security Corner Abdul Khadar A., Dr. Shrishail Math & H. Srinivas Murthy

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Articles MiDeSH: Missile Decision Support System C.R. Suthikshn Kumar

Please note: CSI Communications is published by Computer Society of India, a non-profit organization. Views and opinions expressed in the CSI Communications are those of individual authors, contributors and advertisers and they may differ from policies and official statements of CSI. These should not be construed as legal or professional advice. The CSI, the publisher, the editors and the contributors are not responsible for any decisions taken by readers on the basis of these views and opinions. Although every care is being taken to ensure genuineness of the writings in this publication, CSI Communications does not attest to the originality of the respective authors’ content. © 2012 CSI. All rights reserved. Instructors are permitted to photocopy isolated articles for non-commercial classroom use without fee. For any other copying, reprint or republication, permission must be obtained in writing from the Society. Copying for other than personal use or internal reference, or of articles or columns not owned by the Society without explicit permission of the Society or the copyright owner is strictly prohibited.

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Enhanced Protection for Big Data using Intrusion Kill Chain and Data Science Design, Print and Dispatch by

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PLUS CSI Executive Committee

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Report to the Members of Computer Society of India on CSI Transactions on ICT – The Premier Journal of CSI

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Life Time Achievement Award

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Foundation Day Seminar-2017

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Report on CSI Student Conventions

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National Seminar on Innovation in Digital Learning

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Brain Teaser

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CSI Reports

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Student Branches News

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Editorial Dear Fellow CSI Members, “Without big data analytics, companies are blind and deaf, wandering out onto the web like deer on a freeway.” – Geoffrey Moore “Data is the new science. Big Data holds the answers.” – Pat Gelsinger

The theme for the Computer Society of India (CSI) Communications (The Knowledge Digest for IT Community) April, 2017 issue is Big Data Analytics, a game-changing technology that translates data to information and information to insights In this issue, Cover Story article is “ Role of Hadoop in Big Data Analytics “ by Deepali Bajaj, Urmil Bharti, Rupali Ahuja and Anita Goel. The authors have provided an overview on big data analytics, its applications, types and features as also highlighted the application of Hadoop for analytics. The Research front is titled, “ Sentiment and Emotion Analysis of Tweets Regarding Demonetization” by Pushkal Agarwal, Lokesh Todwal, Nirmal Kumar S. and Sakthi Balan M. Here, in the wave of the demonetization surgical strike by the Honorable Prime Minister of India, the authors have analyzed real-time data from online social networks like Twitter Remya Sasidharan Panicker have contributed to Technical Trends through the article, “Data Lake: A Next Generation Data Storage System in Big Data Analytics”, which focuses on a cutting-edge storage system for the big data wave. The Security Corner has Abdul Khadar, Shrishail Math and H Srinivas Murthy giving us new insights on Enhanced Protection for Big Data using Intrusion Kill Chain and Data Science. Another article by C.R. Suthikshn Kumar, “MiDeSH: Missile Decision Support System” showcases an initiative towards national security The newly elected CSI National Executive Committee (Execom) and inspirational citations of CSI lifetime achievement awardees are published in this issue. This issue also contains Crossword, CSI activity reports from chapters, student branches and Calendar of events. Major CSI event reports of International Summit on Trends & Innovations on Net gen ICT, regional and state student conventions also find place. We are thankful to entire ExecCom for their continuous support in bringing this issue successfully. We wish to express our sincere gratitude to all authors and reviewers for their contributions and support to this issue. The next issue of CSI Communications will be on the theme “Nano Computing”. We invite the contributions from all CSI members and researchers on this theme. We also look forward to receive constructive feedback and suggestions from our esteemed members and readers at [email protected].

With kind regards, Editorial Team, CSI Communications

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President’s Message

01 April, 2017

Dear Members, Warm Greetings!! I am humbled, honoured and privileged to assume the role of President of premier professional society ‘Computer Society of India’ after serving as Vice President during 2016-2017. I express my sincere thanks and appreciation to the members who supported me throughout my journey as a member of CSI ExecCom for about two decades prior to becoming Vice President. It will be my honor and privilege to serve CSI as President and I assure all our members that I will put my time and effort to bring in more transparency in the working of the society and make our members proud. To start with, I would like to thank everyone who participated in this year’s election and took their time to vote for the candidates of their choice. I would like to welcome new ExecCom members who have been elected and I am sure they will be an asset and contribute to better governance and growth of CSI. I would like to thank our outgoing President, Dr. Anirban Basu for his dedication for the growth of CSI in all aspects and bring in transparency in management. The electoral reforms carried out under his guidance is an important milestone in the history of CSI. Dr. Basu always advises on involving our members in our activities and serving their professional interests. Dr. Anirban Basu will be an active ExecCom member as IPP and help me to transition into the position of President. I look forward to his guidance in the days to come. An important activity of CSI is to organize conferences for disseminating new knowledge and providing a platform for networking and exchanging of ideas. In addition to the conferences, CSI has strength in technical publications. In the last few years, we as a team relentlessly strived for the growth and sustainability of the society time after time. We are able to see a substantial growth in Student, Institutional and Individual membership. We hope the same will continue. My vision as a President is sustainable growth of the society. Sustainability is achieved by increasing the membership of different categories at various levels. Growth comes parallel with sustainability and depends on the kind of work, connectivity and approach. In the coming days, we are trying to focus on the regions with less Academic membership/chapters to strengthen the society. Already those regions have been identified and discussions are going at various levels regarding the approach to be followed. We are also trying to increase the corporate membership, along with Institutional and Student membership which in turn will make the society to become strong. Step by step procedure will be followed to improve various publications of CSI. One of my goals for this year is to try to address the needs of our young student members. As Walt Disney had said “Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children”. I repeatedly stress on involving student members and increase student centric activities, which are the key areas through which student membership can be strengthened along with the visibility of the society. In the coming days we are planning for large number of Faculty Development Programs in various chapters. As we are Registered Education Provider of PMI, we are in the process of offering PMP training through chapters across the regions. By working together, we can make CSI better and requesting you to share your valuable comments and suggestions at email id ([email protected] ) on how we can improve, and what can be done to serve CSI and you better. Sincerely

Sanjay Mohapatra President, CSI Sanjay Mohapatra, Bhubaneswar, [email protected] 5 C S I C o m m u n ic a t i o n s | A P R I L 2 0 1 7

CSI Executive Committee EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE President (2017-18) Mr. Sanjay Mohapatra Plot No. 5, CM 839/11, Sector 9 CDA, Market Nagar, Cuttack - 753 014, Odisha. (M) 91-9861010656 (E) [email protected]

Vice President Cum President Elect (2017-18)

Hon. Secretary (2016-18)

Mr. Gautam Mahapatra

Indian Institute of Business Management, Budh Marg, Patna - 800 001 (T) 0612-2538809, (M) 09431018581, 09386598581 (E) [email protected]

Vailla No: 8, Maithri Enclave, Near Tulsi Gardens, Yapral Kapra, Hyderabad-500 062. (M) 9490995206, (E) [email protected]/ [email protected]

Prof. A. K. Nayak

Hon. Treasurer (2017-19)

Immd Past President (2017-18)

Mr. Manas Ranjan Pattnaik

Dr. Anirban Basu

Region-I (2017-19)

Region-II (2016-18)

Mr. Arvind Sharma

Mr. Devaprasanna Sinha

Region-III (2017-19)

Region-IV (2016-18)

Dr. Vipin Tyagi

Mr. Hari Shankar Mishra

Plot No. N-24, 25 Chandaka Industrial Estate, Patia, KIIT, Bhubaneswar (M) 07873099999 (E) [email protected]

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Dept of CSE Jaypee University of Engg. and Tech. Raghogarh, Guna - MP 473226 (T) 07544 - 267310-14 ext.134 (M) 09826268087 (E) [email protected]

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Region-V (2017-19)

Region-VI (2016-18)

Mr. Vishwas Bondade

Dr. Shirish S. Sane

No. 774, 2nd Stage, Indiranagar, Bangalore 560038 (M) 09844058799 (E) [email protected]

Dattaprasad, Plot No. 19, Kulkarni Colony, Sadhu Waswani Road, Nashik 422 002 (T) 0253-2313607(R) (M) 09890014942 (E) [email protected]

Region-VII (2017-19)

Dr. M. Sundaresan

Professor and Head, Department of Information Technology, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore - 641046, Tamil Nadu. (M) 09443042340 (E) [email protected] DIVISION CHAIRPERSONS Division-I (2017-19)

Division-II (2016-18)

Mr. Apoorva Agha

Prof. P. Kalyanaraman

Division-III (2017-19)

Division-IV (2016-18)

Mr. Raju L. kanchibhotla

Dr. Durgesh Kumar Mishra

8, Katra Road, Allahabad, UP - 211002 (M) 09415316183/08004905012 (E) [email protected] [email protected]

Aashirvad, 42/260/1/2, Shramik nagar, Moulali Hyderabad-500046, India (M) 09000555202 / 94 40 32914192 (E) [email protected]

Plot No. 139, Vaibhav Nagar, Phase I, Opp VIT Gate 3, Vellore – 632014. (M) 7708785555 (E) [email protected]

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Division-V (2017-19)

Dr. P. Kumar

Professor and Head Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Rajalakshmi Engineering College, Chennai – 602 105. (M) 098405 73702 (E) [email protected] NOMINATIONS COMMITTEE (2017-2018)

Prof. K. Subramanian

B 28,Tarang Apmts, Plot 19, IP Extn, Patparganj, Delhi - 110092 (M) 09818065948 (E) [email protected]

Dr. Brojo Kishore Mishra

Associate Professor, Department of IT, C. V. Raman College Engineering, Bhubaneshwar - 752054. India (M) 09437875808 (E) [email protected] [email protected]

Mr. Subimal Kundu

Flat No. 1A, Block - 7, Space Town Housing Complex, P.O. Airport, Kolkata – 700052 (M) 8100592673; (M)98301-92673 (E) [email protected] [email protected] 7 C S I C o m m u n ic a t i o n s | A P R I L 2 0 1 7

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Report to the Members of Computer Society of India on CSI Transactions on ICT – The Premier Journal of CSI

Prof. S. V. Raghavan

Chief Editor and Director, CSI Publications Ltd.



Shri S. Mahalingam

Chairman, CSI Publications Ltd.

The Beginning: We deem it a great privilege to bring to you this report on the genesis and progress of the premier journal from our prestigious Computer Society of India. The journal is appropriately called the CSI Transactions on ICT and is expected to grow over time in to dedicated transactions covering topics such as Systems and Architecture, Software Design and Performance, Cyber and Information Security, Education Health and Agriculture, Economics, Practice and Management, and Computing and Computational Science. The inaugural issue of CSI Transaction on ICT was brought out in March 2013. We would like to share with the members of the Computer Society of India, the genesis of this series of transactions planned by the Computer Society of India. India has made great strides in the areas of export of services and the IT professionals from India are highly regarded globally. We now see a number of start-ups in the Information Technology field. Use of Information and Communication Technology has advanced considerably in India in the last decade among Business Organisations, Government and Individuals. Indian ICT companies as well as global leaders have set up research organizations in India. The Government is keen on ushering in a Digital India. In this environment, it is essential that a high quality research journal focusing on research efforts in India is brought out. CSI Publications is dedicating to creating the necessary structure to bring out this kind of journal. This is a critical need at this time of great transformation in the ICT scene in India. The Ambience: Information and Communication Technology (or ICT in short), is pervasive and ubiquitous. It is touching the life of every one of us in several ways. Civil society governance is dominated by the presence of ICT in education, health and agriculture. In order to increase the quality of life of common man and to provide inclusive growth one recognizes that all round progress based on ICT is absolutely essential in Science and Technology in such a manner that the Research and Development efforts result in useable, simple and affordable devices or services. During such a whole-hearted and dedicated pursuit, generation of knowledge and deeper understanding of issues, are the natural outcome. Obviously, the knowledge so generated should be institutionalized on an ongoing basis for sharing among peers and to leave cultural legacies for posterity. Homegrown publications of high quality are the only answer. To synergize

the Indian presence in the ICT space, Computer Society of India has been working on the concept of high-quality publications with globally comparable academic content and quality, for the last several years. The deliberations in the society, in the publications committee, and the CSI Executive Committee have resulted in the definition of a series called, CSI Transactions on ICT. As envisaged, the series has SIX topics that are considered relevant to cover the ICT space from concept to realization, primarily focused on what is happening in India. In fact, the creative ability, design capability, development potential, innovation in deployment across the Civil, Military, and Intelligence space, and optimal resource mobilization in the form of people, ideas, and funds have carved out a huge market for ICT in India in recent times. Phenomenal knowledge and experience gets created during such a transformation process. CSI Transaction series will strive to institutionalize this knowledge being created in India, with accuracy, authenticity, and agility. For ICT in India, the emergence of National Knowledge Network (NKN) as the integrator of Science, Technology, and Higher Education is an important factor. All scientific laboratories and institutions of Higher Learning (including IITs, IIMs, and Universities) are in one massive multigigabit network by the end of 2011. Indian contributions to science, technology, and higher education have been seamlessly integrated to receive global acclaim. Efforts akin to NKN are afoot to extend such linkages and integration to schools, polytechnics, colleges, literacy missions, and skills development organizations. India is on the threshold of making history, as the country perceives NKN as a game changer. The Structure: Besides, it is widely believed (and strongly so) that India is rediscovering herself - especially in the ICT space. Accordingly, the following are identified as potential transactions to seize the enormous opportunity that beckons Computer Society of India and to respond in a professional manner to seize the opportunity. ƒƒ CSI Transactions on ICT: Systems and Architecture ICT:

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As the Founder Chief Editor of the CSI Transaction series, I would like to recognize the Editors-in-Chief and all members of the Editorial Board for their exemplary work and contribution to the journal. For the initial three years, we had a strong team of 45 Editors associated with the Editorial Board, who are strong academic and technical leaders in their own right and who participate in the mammoth effort towards knowledge institutionalization. World-renowned publishing house Springer is our publisher to ensure that CSI Transactions on ICT has Global circulation. CSI Transactions is published quarterly – March, June, September, and December – starting from March 2013. Both Online and Printed version are part of Springer CS package distribution globally. The Editorial Board has planned SIX sections as a single book until we pick up speed and participation. This publication comes from CSI Publication, a Section 8 Company promoted and fully owned by Computer Society of India. Shri. S. Mahalingam is the Chairman of the Board. CSI Publication is a non-profit organization. It will manage its own finances. So far, a few companies have financially supported the activities. Due to this, for the first three years, the access to issues- that is issues of 2013, 2014 and 2015- were freely accessible in the Springerlink Website. Access to issues of 2016 and beyond will be restricted to Subscribers. There are four categories of subscribers- Academic Institutions, Companies (both ICT and User Organisations), Professionals and Students. Subscription to the Publication by the members of the Computer Society of India has been kept at a highly subsidized rate. This is an on line publication and Print copies, if requested, will be charged extra. The Rationale: CSI Transactions on ICT was launched at a time when the world is gripped with the larger problem of securing the Cyber Space. Extensive discussions in various policy forums and professional conferences in last few years seem to point out that securing Cyber Space is not only a non-trivial task, but also an extremely challenging one. There is general acknowledgement of the fact that developing ones own hardware and software ecosystem along with a robust and dependable supply chain management is important to creating a secure Cyber Space. We hope that our Transactions carry scholarly articles focusing on different aspects of robust Cyber Space, which is fast morphing in to a Critical Infrastructure of a nation. The six part organization was based on the premise that ICT based systems are increasingly becoming part of all critical infrastructure. In fact, citizens of this planet consider the entire cyber space as a critical infrastructure, as everyone’s life is dependent on it in one way or the other. We are living in an information society and the “quality” of information sought by users is on the rise. Obviously, research

and development will have to reflect the aspirations of the contemporary information society. The researchers have to constantly strive to generate new knowledge, progressively convert them in to affordable technologies, and engineer them in to products or services that are natural to all of us in daily life. This, I believe, is an ongoing process and ever-expanding one. This will also be changing in tune with our increased and deeper understanding of basic science. There is a continuum in advances made in physics to the sophistication that is getting entrenched in end-use of ICT based systems. Rapid advances in Physics are enabling new device technologies to gain ground; phrases such as “integrated photonics and semi-conductors” for chip design is becoming pervasive in design to integrate sensor functions, optical switching functions, and optical transmission functions with computing. The impact of such development is tremendous. We will soon witness dramatic changes in systems for communication that perform at Terabit speeds, systems to measure and monitor for healthcare diagnosis and personalized therapy, systems that predict land-slides in hilly terrain, and so on. Each one of these systems will face challenges such as limiting power consumption, limiting cost and maximizing distance covered during transmission, while maintaining highest possible security. Moreover, miniaturization is moving towards Nano levels. Quantum Information Systems are waiting on the wings. We need to worry about the architecture of these systems at all levels keeping functions, reliability, availability, performance, and cost in mind. All these developments mean that we will have very powerful compute chips that contain 1000 cores or more as CPU power. Harnessing such power will be a Grand Challenge for Computer Science community. Perhaps, the entire gamut of software development of the past may have to be reinvented to optimally to use the opportunity presented by the modern developments in devices. Besides, data generated from the field - be it an experiment using Physics, Chemistry, or Biology, sensors collecting parameters about galaxies or observations from human genomes – is reaching scales of the order of Petabyte. Sheer movement of these data in and out of processors, coupled with a few meaningful calculations as a part of a model is a herculean task. On the top of it all, providing programming convenience is an insurmountable task. Revisit to paradigms of programming to exploit modern architecture is a tremendous effort in itself. Software design for functional completeness and faults is taken for granted. Performance guarantee, Reusability, Reliability, dependability, and Security are the main challenges for the software designers today. In the backdrop of such “change”, focus on Architecture and Systems make fantastic sense. When coupled with Software Design and Performance, it reflects the enormity of the problem. When the whole effort is viewed in the context of Cyber Security, it turns out to be “manna from heaven” for designers, engineers, and technologists. They can now conquer the computing ecosystem holistically and effectively with the help of “domain experts” and theoreticians. We see the demonstration of such “coming together” off and on in various works reported on big science and big data. Lot

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more needs to be done. Use of ICT in education is increasingly getting personalized demanding an array of “atomic” learning modules that can intelligently, automatically and seamlessly regroup themselves based on the user requirement. Of course, presence of metadata will enable the process. Health research and health care add to this list; health research poses the big data challenge and healthcare delivery poses the immersive interaction challenge. Agriculture raises issues related to sensors deployment and models that are used in operations as well as prediction. All these technology triggered opportunities and application driven challenges have to be Economically realized and optimally managed when deployed in practice as technology environments in an enterprise. During such a process demands are placed on Computational Sciences. CSI Transaction on ICT covers it all. It is time that we start focusing on each section as a special dedicated issue. The Editorial Board: CSI Transactions editorial board transacts business through electronic deliberations. Of course, the board meets as and when convenient on the occasion called Editorial Board Conference (EBC). One such was held in 2015, after bringing out the transactions for 2 consecutive years. The deliberations led to major experiments in “defining the source of research papers”. On the whole, the Transactions is gaining strength and is set to scale greater heights in the coming months. Board felt that Invited columns, invited papers, and Keynote speeches could be a valuable addition. Some of the areas that the Board suggested for Special Issues are Human Computer Interaction, Cyber Security including Forensic Data Science, Internet of Things (IoT), Cloud++, Big Data Science, Virtualization (Cloud) and OS are also topics of relevance. More specifically, the Board felt that Big Data; Data Science; Visualization, including Cognitive Computing, Machine Learning, AI, Deep Learning, Computing and Algorithms, Computer Architecture and VLSI Design, Autonomic Computing, Self Repair, Self - healing, Large Scale System Design, Computer Networks, Future Languages, Cyber Security, IoT, Bio-Informatics, Cyber Physical Systems, Cloud computing, soft computing, wired and wireless systems, smart cities, etc. were identified as areas of interest. The Editorial Board, after considerable deliberations, decided to make three experiments to popularize CSI Transactions on ICT and to increase the number of channels that can act as potential source of contents for each issue. The first one was to bring out special issues based on conferences held in India. The second one was to align with an advanced program of Government of India and bring out special issues based on the research outcome reported in those programs. The third one was to have special issues dedicated to a subject matter of current interest. The rationale for this decision to experiment was to institutionalize the wonderful work done in India that normally goes unnoticed. Besides, as CSI Transactions on ICT is from a professional society, the Editorial Board felt that such an approach by a journal would foster industry academia collaboration significantly. Going forward, such a decision of an Editorial Board of CSIT, opens a new experiment in high quality articles sourcing and publishing to be in resonance and dynamic equilibrium

with the ambient academic atmosphere. Of course, the three pronged approach will align and conform to the original six broad classifications identified; of course with expanded scope to be in tune with times. Translating Board’s Vision: Operationalizing the three ideas and actually conducting those experiments became a challenge! India, as the readers are aware has quite a few educational institutions that carry out high end and high quality research, ranging from basic to applied sciences, engineering, and technology. Computer Science and ICT being an all-encompassing discipline, selecting conferences and maintaining focus in each issue and across issues were seen as an operational challenge. We decided to look at representative conferences in 2016 and selected one each from south, north and east. We also insisted that the organizers of these conferences present to us the best, as evaluated by them. We identified three conferences; ICAARS from south, REDSET from north and ICAC from east. While ICAARS had modest number of papers, ICAC had an impressive number, and REDSET had the maximum. We scheduled ICAARS as the March 2016 issue, along with one paper selected from general pool of submissions. We scheduled REDSET across three issues June, September, and December of 2016, as REDSET had an impressive number of papers to be carried. We decided to make it a combined issue to keep the REDSET papers together. Along the same lines, we scheduled ICAC as March 2017 issue. The second part of the experiment was to align with a Government program, which is directly related to our journal CSI Transactions on ICT. Sir Visveswaraya PhD program, in which the Government of India gives out over 1000 PhD Fellowships, turned out to be an ideal fit. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEIT) was also keen to collaborate. Since the program has a self-designed three stage filter for selecting publishable material, it naturally crated a win-win situation for the program as well as the journal. The first batch of papers is scheduled as June 2017 issue. Having explained to the reader the rationale and modus operandi of selecting papers for our journal based on a threepronged approach suggested by the Editorial Board, I would like to write a few paragraphs about the work reported in the current issue; viz., March 2016 issue of CSI Transactions of ICT focusing on the Special Issue - ICAARS. ICAARS stands for International Conference on Advanced Automation, Robotics, and Sensors, held in PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, India in 2016. Robotics and Automation is the key technology of the future, with application potential across a wide spectrum - from strategic areas such as aerospace, defense and atomic energy to services such as hospitality and healthcare.  It holds the potential to transform the future of manufacturing. The development of robots into intelligent machines touches upon issues such as self-understanding  of humans, socio–economic, legal and ethical issues.  Robotics is an area where several sciences meet. Many developments in sensors, vision systems, virtual systems, adaptive control systems, precision machining & material handling  have

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contributed to the  advancements  in the field of Robotics & Industrial Automation. The papers selected for publication in this issue reflect the spirit of Robotics, Automation, and Sensors. REDSET conference is unique in the sense that it represents a type of event in India, which encourages reviews, summaries, developments, and usage experiences in addition to applied research. The conference has also attracted a larger cross of the academic community apart from the traditionally known institutions. In terms of domain of knowledge covered, such conferences span a wide spectrum covering education, health, agriculture, finance, cyber security, and management with emphasis on use ICT in those domains. ICAC - International Conference on Advanced Computing was organized by Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad University of Technology (formerly it was West Bengal University of Technology) in October 2016. ICAC is an example of Government sponsored multi-institutional program and collaborative work among institutions, besides being an international conference of repute. All the papers exhibit depth and insight in the problems tackled. The Linkage with GoI Program: The June 2017 issue is a special one honoring India’s greatest ever engineer/architect/planner Dr. Mokshakundam Visvesvaraya, in whose name the Government of India has launched a Doctoral Programme to identify the Best Talent across the country in areas such as Electronics System Design and Manufacturing (ESDM), Information Technology (IT), and Information Technology Enabled Services (ITES). The salient features of the scheme are reproduced here from the web site of Medial Lab Asia, who manage is Visvesvaraya PhD Scheme and implement it on behalf of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India: 1. Give thrust to R&D, Create innovative ecosystem and Enhance India’s competitiveness in the knowledge intensive sectors such as Electronics Systems Design and Manufacturing (ESDM), Information Technology (IT), and Information Technology Enabled Services (ITES). 2. To help in the fulfillment of the commitments made in National Policy on Electronics (NPE) 2012 and National Policy on Information Technology (NPIT) 2012. 3. Support to 1500 PhD students in each of ESDM and IT/ ITES sectors (Total: 3000 PhDs). 4. Out of the above, 500 PhDs in each of ESDM and IT/ITES sectors would be from full-time PhD candidates. The other 1000 PhDs in each of ESDM and IT/ITES sectors would be from part-time PhD candidates. 5. The scheme will also support 200 Young Faculty Research Fellowships in the area of ESDM and IT/ITES with the objective to attract and retain young faculty members. This is expected to help in the recognition and encouragement of young Faculty members involved in research and technology development in these areas. 6. Infrastructural grant to Academic Institutions for creation and/or up gradation of laboratories. Grant up to Rs. 5 lakh for every Full-Time PhD Candidate supported under the

scheme may be provided to an Academic Institution. 7. One of the key goals of the Visvesvaraya PhD Scheme is to encourage working professionals and non-PhD faculty members to pursue PhD in the ESDM & IT/ITES sectors, as part-time candidates. It is envisioned that having parttime PhD students is likely to encourage the IndustryAcademia interaction, help in the alignment of the R&D efforts between industry and academia, and bring value to the country. An apex committee at national level, called Academic Committee for ‘The Visvesvaraya PhD Scheme’ of MeitY, manages the program academically for quality assurance. I have the privilege of chairing the Academic Committee. I have distinguished members from premier institutions, viz., Professor Navkant Bhat from Indian Institute of Science, Professor Sanjiva Prasad from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, and Professor Abhay Karandikar from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. I retired as Professor of Computer Science from Indian Institute of Technology Madras. As the Visvesvaraya PhD program is seen as a unique honor for a student to be selected, the academic committee concentrates on quality of work carried out by the scholars, on an ongoing basis. One of the efforts is to bring together the scholars every quarter, for a knowledge-sharing workshop. The workshop is designed as a three level filter to get the best from a batch of students. A batch consists of students admitted in a certain academic year. For example, the current issue carries the work reported by the first batch of Visvesvaraya PhD Fellowship awardees 2014-2015. The three levels of the quality filter are: Selection of about 10% from the abstracts presented by a specific batch, reviewing the presentation material, listening to the presentation by the scholars selected, and interacting with the scholars along with their research guides, and reviewing the full paper (based on the abstract and the presentation) for publication in an academic journal of India - the CSI Transactions on ICT published by well known Springer and the journal is owned by the prestigious Computer Society of India. Springer has the journal as a part of their Computer Science package, thereby ensuring worldwide circulation and exposure to the selected work of our prestigious Visvesvaraya PhD Fellowship scholars. Dedicating an issue for a specific program as a Special Issue is unique gesture by CSI Publications and a unique experiment by CSI Publications in supporting Indian academics for fast track publication of their work in a reviewed journal of repute with worldwide circulation. The idea is to ensure that our Visvesvaraya PhD Fellowship holders, who come up with high quality work, are recognized and rewarded on an ongoing basis. This was also part of the deliberations of the Academic Committee for ‘The Visvesvaraya PhD Scheme’ of MeitY, to carry out a bold experiment in synergy across a Government Program, independent Journal of Computer Society of India, fast track recognition of Visvesvaraya scholars, and industry participation for value identification and enhancement from such pursuits. Above all, it is our way of saluting the young scholars using the paradigms, “Make in India” and “Made in India” for local relevance and global quality, in line with the

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Digital India pursuits of our Government. In the current issue of the CSI Transactions on ICT dated June 2017 (being released in Second Workshop of the Visveraya PhD Scheme in IISc., Bangalore), we have 11 papers from the First Visvesvaraya PhD Program Workshop held during October 2016 in Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. Shri Sanjeev Mittal, Joint Secretary to Government of India in MeitY, Dr. M. R. Anand, MD and CEO of Media Lab Asia and Senior Economic Advisor in MeitY, Government of India, and Prof. B. G. Fernandes, Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering in IIT Bombay shared their views and vision about the program. The four National Academic Committee members formed the review panel. I would like to take this opportunity once again to record my appreciation to the excellent work done by each one of them for our effort towards quality assurance for the Visvesvaraya PhD program. For the benefit of the readers, I would like to present a quick preview of the work presented and their importance in today’s digital world. Needless to add, that each paper has a significant contribution and is of global quality. 1.  Research in 3D integration has attracted researchers from industry as well as academia due to its benefits over 2D architecture due to better performance, lower power consumption, small form factor and co-existence of heterogeneous technology. However, due to higher power density and reduced heat dissipation properties, thermal challenges cause significant concerns, in the otherwise promising 3D integration technology. Lokesh Siddu and Preeti Ranjan Panda of Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, investigate system-level thermal aware data/task mapping policies for 3D memory architectures. 2.  On-chip Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) application of ring resonators on Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI) platform, poses design challenges such as Large Free Spectral Range (FSR) and narrow line width requirements. In fact, the metrics demand opposing structural requirements from a ring resonator - larger FSR demands for a smaller resonator length whereas smaller line width requires a large resonator length device. Awinash Pandey and Shankar Kumar Selvaraja of Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, suggest the use of an embedded type ring resonator configuration - a structure made of a racetrack type ring resonator with another ring embedded inside it, because such structures are capable of showing coupled resonator induced transparency (CRIT) which can result in a very narrow line-width. The authors present an (initial) experimental demonstration of CRIT in an internally loaded micro ring resonator fabricated on SOI material platform. They optimized the structures using 3D-FDTD analysis and coupling-matrix method. 3. Remote sensing through atmosphere requires high power laser sources around 1.6  μm band in Laser Imaging Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) applications and free space optical communication applications. Improving the pumping efficiency and reliability of the laser without increasing nonlinearity that too in a cost effective manner

is a significant challenge. S. Arun and V. R. Supradeepa of Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, argue that because of high atmospheric transparency in this band, one has to build a high power laser that generates >25 W of output power at 1570 nm. They do so using sixth-order cascaded Raman amplification of a low power, Erbium–Ytterbium seed. The authors discuss the challenges in building a high power Ytterbium doped fiber laser operating at 1117 nm generating >100 W CW output power for use as the primary laser source for Raman laser experiments. In the process, the authors demonstrate a novel, drive scheme for standard laser diode modules (without wavelength locking) that they use for pumping rare-earth doped lasers and amplifiers. 4. Organic semiconductor based photo detectors would be very attractive, innovative and well suited for light detection applications. The reason for organic semiconductor in photonic devices is lower cost, light weight, mechanical flexibility, chemical modification, tunability of absorption range with co-evaporation and co-mixing of molecules and ease of integration. Debarati Nath, Puja Dey, Debajit Deb, Jayantha Kumar Rakshit, and Jithendra Nath Roy of National Institute of Technology Agartala, in their work discuss the fabrication and characterization of organic semiconductor based photo detector with a choice of organic semiconductor as donor and acceptor. Besides, they discuss optimization by employing diversified organic semiconductors for fast response time, high photosensitivity, high quantum efficiency, low dark current, large dynamic range and long lifetime. The authors discuss the design of an equivalent circuit model for organic photo detector (OPD) structure and present results obtained through simulation using MATLAB Simulink, in which Rubrene and BPPC are used as active layer of OPD. Using their OPD proposal, the authors argue that 500 MHz of Operating frequency that is much higher than the speed of the red light illumined Bi-layer OPDs reported till today, is feasible. 5.  Non-contact measurements – non-ionizing and noninvasive – of human body have been attracting the attention of medical science researchers. Remote measurement of ‘heartbeat’ has several strategic applications besides medical diagnosis. Harikesh Dala, Ananjan Basu, and Mahesh P Abegoankar of Center for Applied Research in Electronics, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, discuss a method for non-contact measurement of respiration and heartbeat using microwave Doppler radar phase modulation in X-band (8-12 GHz), as the reflected signal from the body depends on the radar cross section (RCS) of body. 6. In automatic speech recognition systems, the information in the speech signal is traditionally retrieved in the form of feature vectors representing sub-word units and thereby converting the features into human readable text form. However, these systems perform poorly due to degradations of speech under varying environmental conditions. To improve the performance, the main issues

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to be considered are: (a) Determination of speech regions in the speech data collected in degraded environments, and (b) Recognition of speech sounds from the degraded speech in the detected speech regions. Although there exist wide variety of techniques, which address these issues, most of them are applicable for clean speech synthetically degraded by stationary noise conditions, due to the need for large amount of training data for statistical modeling. Vishala Pannala of International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, focuses on methods of processing the signals so as to determine the desired speech regions in degraded conditions. For this, the author explores signal-processing methods to extract speech-specific characteristics independent of the characteristics of degradations. 7.  The next generation networks (NGN) have higher network density to increase the capacity of the overall network and consequent energy consumption. Yogitha Ramamoorthy and Abhinav Kumar of Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, argue that Base Station Switching (BSS) combined with appropriate coverage extension techniques, such as coordinated multi-point (CoMP) transmission is the way forward in achieving higher energy efficiency while maintaining the QoS. The authors discuss the performance evaluation of CoMP with BSS, utilizing suitable resource allocation techniques. 8.  Ramesh K Gupta and Bijoy K Das of Indian Institute of Technology Madras, propose and demonstrate a method for the fabrication of a Silicon on Insulator (SOI) platform with custom-design device layer thickness (1  μm, operating at λ  ~  1550  nm. The input/output waveguides can be pigtailed with standard single-mode fiber with lensed tip ensuring modal overlap of >70% (coupling loss