International Research Workshop on Intelligent Spectrum Usage for Personal Comms

Date & Time : 23-24 April 2007 - 12 noon - 1pm, evening networking dinner

Venue : Kensington Close Hotel, London 

Address: Kensington Close Hotel, Wrights Lane, London

Objectives

This research workshop goes beyond a normal academic or industry conference. With attendance limited to around 50, principally from member companies of Mobile VCE and invited external speakers, the event is designed to bring together internationally-leading research pioneers in this emerging field of intelligent spectrum usage with their counterparts in Mobile VCE’s industrial member companies, to share latest thinking and to help shape future directions. The size limitation is designed to facilitate effective interaction and debate.

Developments and views from Europe, Asia and America will be presented alongside Mobile VCE’s own internal programme. Scoping includes principles and possibilities, practicalities and challenges of implementation, and the contribution of cognitive radio within the bigger commercial picture. The conference structure, including panel sessions and an evening dinner, are designed to stimulate informal interchange amongst the participants.

Programme   

 
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  DAY ONE: Cognitive Radio in Intelligent Spectrum Usage
  
  12.00 Lunch is available
  1.00pm Welcome and Introductions
Dr. Walter Tuttlebee, Executive Director of Mobile VCE
  1.15 Cognitive Radio - Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow (part 1)
Dr, Joseph Mitola III, Mitre
  Cognitive Radio – Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow (part 2)
True cognitive radio is a very broad concept, yet today, particularly in the USA, it has become synonymous simply with intelligent spectrum usage. What can cognitive radio deliver in this realm ? How might it evolve from this limited introduction to fulfil its true, wider, potential ?
Dr Joseph Mitola III, Mitre
  2.00pm Self Configuring Networks – A Role for Cognitive Radio?
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A major expense for the wireless network operator, after spectrum and sites, is network set up and configuration, to deliver optimum performance. And of course, over time performance changes, capacity requirements increase and new services are added. Self-configuration promises cost savings – but how can this be done ?
Dr Louis Gwyn Samuel, CTO Office, Alcatel-Lucent SA
  2.30pm WINNER Perspectives on Intelligent Spectrum Sharing
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The Wireless World Initiative New Radio (WINNER) project is a major European research effort to develop a flexible and scalable radio access system, addressing the challenging requirements for future systems e.g. in terms of spectrum demand and methods for optimum spectrum usage. The presentation will identify the advantages of the WINNER Spectrum concept to share the spectrum with non-WINNER and WINNER systems. It will focus on identifying the radio resource management spectrum functional entities and describe the overall implicit degree of decentralization of the spectrum sharing and assignment schemes.
Jean-Philippe Kermoal, Nokia
  3.00pm Networking Break
  3.30pm Advances in Flexible Radio Technology to Support Cognitive Radio
Realisation of the potential benefits of intelligent spectrum usage places significant challenges upon the radio frequency technology, if fast, dynamic, flexible reconfiguration is to be achieved at the low cost points demanded by mass market consumer wireless products.
Hiroshi Harada, National Institute of Information & Communications Technology, Japan
  4pm Participant Debate: “Cognitive Radio: Moving from Theory to Reality ?”
Can we map an evolutionary route for CR from theoretical possibilities to products ?
Can spectrum gains really be realised ? When ? Who will benefit ?
From context-dependent spectrum to context-dependent services ?
Chairman: Trevor Gill Vodafone
  Break (for networking, hotel check-in & settling in)
  
  7pm DAY ONE, EVENING: Networking Dinner
…to include a few words about NGM, Industry Needs and where Delivery Efficiency fits within this & what other aspects are being explored within the Mobile VCE programme
Welcome from Prof Rahim Tafazolli, Academic Coordinator, Delivery Efficiency Programme
  DAY TWO: Implementation – Realities & Challenges
  
  8.45am Welcome: Setting the Scene, Day Two
Dr Tim Moulsley, Philips, Industrial Steering Group Chairman, Delivery Efficiency Programme
  9am Intelligent Spectrum Usage – Potential & Possibility
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The cognitive cycle – what is needed to secure the spectrum gains that are promised, challenges and research approaches to make such gains feasible.
Prof Mark Beach, University of Bristol
  9.40am Spectrum Sensing for Cognitive Radios
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Effective intelligent spectrum usage requires timely and accurate knowledge of spectrum occupancy. Spectrum sensing is a key part of the cognitive cycle to enable appropriate realtime decisions.
Prof Anant Sahai, University of California, Berkeley, USA
  10.20am Networking Break
  10.40am Application of Cognitive Radio in the TV Bands
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Allocation of spectrum does not equate to usage of spectrum. For years spectrum has been used inefficiently as regulators have allocated spectrum to a single service that could be intelligently re-used for multiple services. Cognitive radio technology promises to allow this for the first time practically in the US TV spectrum.
Dr Narciso Tan, Head of Wireless Communications & Networking Group,
  11.30am Participant Debate: “Identifying the Key Implementation Challenges & Routes to Solutions”
What are the key challenges and their relative importance and timings ?
Do alternative perspectives exist that might circumvent some of these challenges ?
When might solutions begin to impact the products and the marketplace ?
Chairman: Dr Richard Ormson, NEC
  12.45pm Closing Remarks
Dr Walter Tuttlebee, Executive Director Mobile VCE

 

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