VoIP Technology: Applications and Challenges

Dr. Iti Saha Misra is presently holding the post of a Professor in the Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. She was the immediate past Head of the same department. After the completion of PhD in Engineering in the field of Microstrip Antennas from Jadavpur University (1997), she is actively engaged in teaching since 1997. She has 25+ years of research experience in the field of Wireless/Mobile Communication, Microwaves, Microstrip Antennas, Numerical Computational Methods, and Computer Networks. She has developed the Broadband Wireless Communication Laboratory in the Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering of Jadavpur University to carry out advanced research work in wireless communication domain. She is the coordinator of Communication Specialization in the Department of ETCE for post graduate course. She is the recipient of prestigious Career award for Young teachers by All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) in 2004, obtained IETE Gowri memorial award in 2007 in the best paper category for the topic of "4G networks: Migration to the Future", co -author of several best paper awards in the wireless communication domain. She has supervised 20 doctoral research students and 50 theses at master's level in the field of Mobile Communication and Antennas. Under her supervision, two PhD students received the Young Scientist Award from IEEE URSI International Radio Conference in the year 2014 and 2015 consecutively. Her current research interests are in the areas of Cognitive Radio Networks, VoIP and video Communication over Cognitive platform, Wireless Body Area Networks (WBAN), Low Cost and Energy Efficient IoT Solutions, Call admission control and packet scheduling for wireless and BWA Networks, Radio Resource Management for 5G networks, Channel allocation in Macro/Femto Networks, Mobility Management, Network Architecture and Protocols etc. She has authored more than 210 research papers in refereed Journals and International Conferences and has filed several patents. She is the author of widely acclaimed text book on "Wireless Communication and Networks: 3G and Beyond" published by McGraw Hill. She has supervised several projects from Govt. of India like, DST FIST, DST PURSE, UGC-UPE, AICTE etc. She has visited NTRC Laboratory at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Jan 2006 for one month under TEQIP program of Jadavpur University. She is the Senior Member of IEEE, Present ComSoc Chairperson, Kolkata Chapter, the founder Chair of Women in Engineering Affinity Group, IEEE Kolkata Section. Under her leadership, WIE Affinity Group won the WIE Year of the Award in 2007 and IEEE ComSoc Kolkata Chapter won the 2015 and 2017 Chapter Achievement Award. She has served as the Reviewer of several SCI Indexed Journals such as IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communication, IEEE Transaction of Antenna and Propagation, Journal of Wireless Networks, Springer, European Transaction on Telecommunications, Wiley, IEEE Journal APWL, International Journal of RF and Microwave Computer-Aided Engineering etc. along with several IEEE International conference papers.

Overview of VoIP Technology.- VoIP Protocol Fundamentals.- Quality of Service Management - Design Issues.- VoIP Over Wireless LANs - Prospects and Challenges.- Technique For Improving VoIP Performance Over Wireless LANs.- Optimizing VoIP in WLANs Using State-Space Search.- Optimization of Codec Parameters To Reduce Packet Loss Over WLAN.- QOS Enhancement using an adaptive jitter buffer algorithm with variable window size.- Adaptive Packetization Algorithm to support VoIP over Congested WLANS.- VoIP over Emerging Networks: Case Study with Cognitive Radio Networks.