Program
Day 1 — Wednesday, June 17, 2009
7:30–10:30 a.m.
Registration/Check–in
8–8:05 a.m.
Opening remarks, Dr. T. Cooklev, Technical Program Chair
8:05-8:15 a.m.
Welcoming address, Dr. Michael Wartell, Chancellor, IPFW
8:15–9:15 a.m.
“JPEO Joint Tactical Radio System,” Capt. Jeff Hoyle, JPEO
- Status, JTRS networking waveforms
- Business opportunities
9:15–10 a.m.
“Software-defined Radios: Are they that hard?” Dr. Larry Williams, ITT, San Diego, CA
- SDR can be simple or hard
- The requirements impact the design
10–10:30 a.m.
Coffee break and equipment demo from Rohde Schwarz
10:30–11:15 a.m.
“Academia’s Role in Educating Students to be SDR Engineers,” Dr. Sven Bilen, Penn State Univ.
- Required: technical depth in one area and working knowledge of other areas
- System engineering mindset
11:15 a.m.–Noon
“Vertically Integrated Projects, Testbeds, and Applications of Sensor Networks and SDR in Transportation Systems and Large Event Management,” Dr. Jim Krogmeier, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN
- The perspective from the Center for Wireless Systems and Applications at Purdue
Noon–1:15 p.m.
Lunch
1:15–2 p.m.
“A Transmitter for the Thales ADS-B Ground Station Universal Access Transceiver — Supporting the FAA/ITT Surveillance Broadcasting Services System Program,” Dr. Jerry Johnson, Thales ATM, Inc.
- The FAA’s Automatic Dependent Surveillance —Broadcast (ADS-B) Air Traffic Modernization Program
2–2:45 p.m.
“ADS-B RF Coverage Analysis,” Erton Boci, ITT Corp., Herndon, VA
- How to achieve system performance, safety, and interference requirements while providing RF coverage in the entire airspace of the Unites States.
2:45–3:15 p.m.
Coffee break and equipment demo from Rohde Schwarz
3:15–4 p.m.
“The SCA in a Nutshell,” J. Marks, G. Bickle, Raytheon, Fort Wayne, IN
- Features, characteristics, and components of the SCA
4–4:45 p.m.
“The Network Layer of JTRS,” Tony Michel, BBN, Boston, MA
- Networking architectures
- Internet routing
- Mobile Internet
4:45–5:30 p.m.
“Next-Generation FPGA Middleware — Minimizing Latency in Multi-Processing SCA-Compliant Platforms,” Steve Jennis, PrismTech, Dallas, TX
- What is a hardware implementation of middleware?
- First- and second-generation implementations
6–8 p.m.
Banquet
- Kevin Piekarski Jazz Trio
- Presentation: “The RF Alliance,” Matt Harvey, Deputy Director, The RF Alliance
Day 2 — June 18, 2009
8–8:45 a.m.
“The IEEE P1900 Standards for Cognitive Networks,” Lynn Grande, General Dynamics, Boston, MA
- IEEE SCC41 standards projects for dynamic spectrum access and cognitive radio
- Policies and cognitive radios
8:45–9:30 a.m.
“Defense Spectrum Management Transformation — Dynamic Spectrum Access,” Mary Lin, Defense Spectrum Organization, Washington, D.C.
- DoD spectrum challenges
- DoD dynamic spectrum access roadmap
9:30–10 a.m.
Coffee break
10-10:45 a.m.
“Cognitive Radio Networks,” Dr. Bruce Fette, Dr. Paul Kolodzy, DARPA, Strategic Technology Office, Alexandria, VA
- Future wireless networks
- DARPA programs
10:45–11:30 a.m.
“Whitespace, Femtocell, Network Fragility Drive Need for Metalanguage,” Dr. Mark Cummings, enVia, Atherton, CA
- How did the Metalanguage start?
- Why is it necessary?
- Where to from here?
11:30 a.m.–12:15 p.m.
“Compatible, Cooperative, and Cognitive Communications Using Software Radio,” Dr. J. Nicholas Laneman, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN
12:15–1:30 p.m.
Lunch break
1:30–2:15 p.m.
“Adaptive Wireless Networks for Mobile Broadband Communications,” Dr. David Love, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN
- Channel adaptation
- Novel MIMO algorithms
2:15–3 p.m.
“Wireless Security on Embedded Devices,” Aaron Ault, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN
3–3:30 p.m.
Coffee break
3:30–4:15 p.m.
“Affordable SDR Components for JTRS,” Elizabeth Suet Tse, Lisa Rulli, CERDEC, US Army
4:15–5 p.m.
“A COTS Solution for Mobile Command and Control,” Steven Webb, General Dynamics, Fort Wayne, IN
- A mobile Command and Control solution
- Provides also role-based subscriptions on commercial or military mobile devices
5–5:45 p.m.
“Specifying RF Phase Noise Requirements for High Performance Waveforms,” J. Rose, Dr. J. Isaacs, Fort Wayne, IN
- Phase noise characteristics
- Effect of phase noise on system performance
- Analytic and measurement techniques
- Organizing Committee: Chair: T. Cooklev
- Publicity and registration: David Liu
- Local arrangements: Chao Chen