Fort Wayne Wireless Summer School 2009

June 17-18, 2009
Holiday Inn at IPFW and the Coliseum.

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, MAM * 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