Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering organized a five days online FDP on the topic “5G NETWORKS & BEYOND” from 22/08/2023 to 26/08/2023, 11.00 am to 12.30 pm using google meet platform. Dr.V.J.Arulkarthick, Director IQAC & HoD/ ECE, JCT College of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore addressed the gathering.

Day-1:

The first technical session was on the topic Introduction to 5G Technology and the guest speaker was Dr.Gunasekaran, Professor, Department of ECE, University of Technology and Applied Sciences, Muscat. He discussed on Channel capacity theorem using MIMO. He focused mainly on multimode channel capacity and discussed about how to reduce the spacing in conventional Antenna.

Day-2:

Dr.S.Ravi Chand, Professor & Head, Department of ECE, Nalla Narasimha Reddy Education Society's Group of Institutions, Hyderabad discussed on the topic 5 G Core. He also discussed the challenges and sustainability issues beyond 5G. The lecture was very beneficial and provided an insight on the various challenges associated which technology has to overcome.

Day-3:

Dr.Vijayalakshmi Chinthamaneni, Associate Professor, Department of ECE, St Peter’s Engineering College, Hyderabad has explained the topic on 5G Network and Security. She explained about the Advantages and Disadvantages of 5G, Business Model Evaluation and also Specific 5G use cases in Industry.

Day-4:

Dr.V.J.Arulkarthick Director IQAC & HoD/ ECE, JCT College of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore has given his insights on the topic 5G and Future Trends in mm Wave Antenna. He discussed about the new developments in 5G,Network based sensing, Network slicing ,5G bands that are supported in India, five major challenges in mm wave Antenna in phones and also mentioned about the application and usage of mm waves.

Day-5:

Dr.Simranjit Singh,Associate Professor,Department of ECE,Punjab Engineering College,Chandigarh, has given his talk on the topic Optical Network in 5G and Research Challenges. He discussed about Quantum communication, Optical Antennas with the participants. He signified the importance of how to discover the solutions for field related issues in today’s industries and also discussed about the new development trends in optical networks.

The Online sessions were organized successfully by Department FDP Co-Ordinator Mr.K.Babu, Assistant Professor along with Department Faculties and an online feedback form link & certificates were given to the participants of various institutions who attended the programme. Finally, Vote of thanks was given by Mrs.Thahseen Thahir,Assistant Professor, ECE Department.