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Conference Documentation: International Software Radio

Published by: SMI Publishing, Ltd

Published: Jun. 8, 2004


Table of Contents


Day 1

8.30 Registration & Coffee




9.00 Chairman's Opening Remarks

Allan Margulies, Chief Operating Officer, The SDR Forum.




9.10 JTRS CLUSTER 2

Tactical radios for Special Forces


Specific requirements for Cluster 2

The advantages of interoperable communications for special forces’ operations

Cluster 2 schedule

Providing handheld portable SDR

Hugh Stallworth, Programme Manager, JTRS Cluster 2, USSOCOM.




9.40 U.S. AIR FORCE SOFTWARE RADIO TECHNOLOGY

Development and the future


Brief history SPEAKeasy and FM3TR

Current R&D activities SoRDS and JTRS-related activities

Adaptive communications enablers & transformational capabilities

Wayne Bonser, Division Chief (Acting) Global Grid Division, Air Force Research Laboratory.




10.20 JTRS CLUSTER 5

Delivery of handheld manpack capability


System development

Supporting small, dismounted and embedded applications

Providing a robust, modular communications capability that will enhance connectivity for the dismounted warrior and unmanned platforms

Developing solutions for new concepts and emerging capabilities

Providing joint interoperable communications across all services

Implementation challenges

Lieutenant Colonel Scott Miller, Product Manager Cluster 5 PM Warfighter Information Network - Tactical, US Army.




11.00 Morning Coffee




11.20 AN UPDATE ON PROJECT BOWMAN

UK Radio communications and the BOWMAN radio system


Scope of Project BOWMAN

BOWMAN’s incremental delivery programme

Progress on trials and conversion

Links with US JTRS programme

Future use of SDR in the UK

Colonel Philip Davies, Command Support Development Centre, Ministry of Defence, UK.




12.00 FRANCE

Developing software radio


French requirements for an interoperable radio system

Research into software radio

Sharing research with partners

Future progress in research

Integrating software radio into the French Armed Forces

Laurent Foissey, Program Manager in Advanced Study, DGA/DSA/SPOTI, Ministry of Defence, France.




12.40 Networking Lunch




1.40 FINLAND

Developing software radio


Finnish requirements for an interoperable radio system

Research into software radio

Integrating software radio into the Finnish Armed Forces

Sharing research with partners

Future progress in research

Lieutenant Commander Topi Tuukkanen, Head, Department of Naval Warfare, Finnish Naval Academy .




2.20 PANEL DISCUSSION

The future development of interoperable communication systems


Lieutenant Colonel Chris Richards, S01 Global Information Infrastructure, Ministry of Defence, UK.


Wayne Bonser, Division Chief (Acting) Global Grid Division, Air Force Research Laboratory.


Lieutenant Commander Topi Tuukkanen, Head, Department of Naval Warfare, Finnish Naval Academy .




3.00 JTRS FOR REAL MILITARY RADIO APPLICATIONS

Harris SDR Solutions - Scalable, Reusable and Secure


JTRS overview - the mission and vision

JTRS applications - migration from the past to the present and future

Software Defined Radio technology - standards and CBD make the reuse difference

Scalability - building on the lowest common denominators.

Programmable security - Sierra II based JTRS solutions

Mark Turner, Director JTRS Engineering, Harris Corporation.




3.40 Afternoon Tea




4.00 SCA STARTS TO GO MAINSTREAM AS COTS IMPLEMENTATIONS APPEAR

The JTRS JPO has had a long-held goal of fostering commercial adoption of the SCA specification


To facilitate waveform portability and inter-operability across hardware platforms

To provide a choice of COTS software infrastructure for radio vendors

To generate commercial "critical-mass" for SCA products

To allow Military SDR to benefit in turn from commercial SDR market uptake

PrismTech will discuss how SCA implementations are maturing:

Building on previous JTRS development experience

Incorporating requirements from the commercial SDR sector

Keith Steele, CEO, PrismTech.




4.40 THE USE OF SOFTWARE RADIO IN HOMELAND SECURITY

Public safety and Homeland Security interoperability issues


John Chapin, Chief Technology Officer, VANU INC.




5.20 Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day One - Followed by Networking Drinks Reception sponsored by Chelton Antennas


Day 2

8.30 Re-registration & Coffee




9.00 Chairman's Opening Remarks




9.10 EUROPEAN SOFTWARE RADIO RESEARCH

Key research programmes being undertaken in Europe


European initiatives in software radio

Key developments in European software radio research

Moving the technology forward with international co-operation

Future research into the application of software radio

Dr. Jorge M. Pereira, Scientific Officer, European Commission, DG Information Society.




9.40 INTERNATIONAL CO-OPERATION IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOFTWARE RADIO

Sharing technologies in order to enhance the development of Software Radio


The role of the SDR forum

Working with international partners to promote software radio

International research into the development of SDR technology

Future partnerships

Technological advancements

Allan Margulies, Chief Operating Officer, The SDR Forum.




10.20 JAPANESE SOFTWARE RADIO DEVELOPMENTS

Current Software radio research


Japanese research programmes

Development of software radio specifications

Research into broadband antennas and self organising mobile networks

Development and testing of waveforms

Interoperability testing

Joint research with international partners

Dr Hiroshi Harada, Leader, Wireless Access Group, Communication Research Laboratory.




11.00 Morning Coffee




11.20 CO-SITING AND PLATFORM INTEGRATION IMPLICATIONS OF SOFTWARE CONTROLLED RADIOS

implications of software controlled radios


Software radios offer benefits of flexibility that are not yet matched by the RF infrastructure of the platforms and facilities that they are integrated with

The radios are expected to be reconfigured many times during a long working life by software changes. This may imply re-configuration of the RF infrastructure and the platform itself

The design of the RF infrastructure needs to be every bit as flexible as the software radios themselves

Flexibility in RF distribution is required and the concept of an ‘RF Distribution Highway’ based on ‘RF over Fibre’ techniques will be described

Very wide band antenna design will be described as a way of matching the capabilities of software radios

A new approach to Interference Cancellation will be described as a way of overcoming antenna congestion and the mutual interference that results from changes in the software radio characteristics

Bob Horner, Business Development Manager, Chelton (Electrostatics).




12.00 SOFTWARE RADIO RESEARCH

Developing interoperable software radios


Current research and development

Developing open architectures

Developing waveform portability

Providing interoperable communications

A software radio implementation of SATURN

Future trends in waveform description languages

Nick Frall, Programme Director, Software Radio QinetiQ.


Mark Harrington, Interoperability Technical Leader, Software Radio, QinetiQ.




12.40 Networking Lunch




2.00 E2R IP IN EUROPE

An overview


Didier Bourse, Project Manager, Motorola Labs.




2.40 COGNITIVE RADIO DEVELOPMENT

Enhancing spectral awareness


Adapting spectral use in response to operating environment

Using software radio as a basis for the development of cognitive radio

Transition from Software Defined to Policy Defined Radios

Future frequency-agile technologies

Developing frequency aware technology, the XG programme

Benefits of frequency aware technology for military and civilian applications

Preston Marshall, Programme Manager, DARPA, ATO.




3.20 Afternoon Tea




3.40 COGNITIVE RADIO ARCHITECTURES

SCA an architecture for SDR Cognitive Radios?


Software Defined or Cognitive Radio?

Architecture of Cognitive Radio

Why Software Defined Cognitive Radio make sense

SCA overview

Applicability of SCA to SDCR

Steve Bernier, SDR Project Leader, Communications Research Centre, Canada.




4.20 COMMUNICATIONS REGULATION

Regulatory issues arising from the development of software radio


Software radio’s impact on communications

The need to regulate software radio

Particular considerations for the regulation of software radio

New developments, the challenge of cognitive radio

Future developments in the regulation of SDR

Professor Trevor Clarkson, Technology R&D, Ofcom.




5.00 Chairman's Closing Remarks and Close of Conference

Abstract

SMi’s 4th Annual conference on International Software Radio will examine the latest developments in this exciting and ever expanding field. It will combine insights from military, commercial contractors and research institutions. The entire event will allow the delegate to gain not only and overview of the main themes of software radio, but also specific knowledge of current research, development and production undertaken by leaders in their field.

REFLECTING upon international perspectives and specific case studies on software radio programmes
IDENTIFYING key technological advances, capability developments and the future for software radio
UNDERSTANDING the future of interoperable communications
EVALUATING the development of cognitive radio as the next step in communications technology

A unique opportunity to learn from leading government and industry experts including:
  • Colonel Steven MacLaird, JTRS Program Director, Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) Joint Program Office*
  • Hugh Stallworth, Programme Manager, JTRS Cluster 2, USSOCOM
  • Wayne Bonser, Division Chief (Acting) Global Grid Division, Air Force Research Laboratory
  • Colonel Philip Davies, Command Support Development Centre, Ministry of Defence, UK
  • Lieutenant Colonel Scott Miller, Product Manager Cluster 5 PM Warfighter Information Network - Tactical, US Army
  • Lieutenant Commander Topi Tuukkanen, Head, Department of Naval Warfare, Finnish Naval Academy
  • Laurent Foissey, Program Manager in Advanced Study, DGA/DSA/SPOTI, Ministry of Defence, France
  • Allan Margulies, Chief Operating Officer, SDR Forum
  • Professor Trevor Clarkson, Technology R&D, Ofcom
  • Dr Hiroshi Harada, Leader, Wireless Access Group, Communication Research Laboratory
  • Dr Paul Kolodzy, Director, Communications Group, Wireless Network Security Centre, Stevens Institute of Technology
  • Preston Marshall, Programme Manager, DARPA, ATO
  • Steve Bernier, SDR Project Leader, Communications Research Centre, Canada
  • Didier Bourse, Project Manager, Motorola Labs


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