Agenda

DAY 1 April 6th, 2016

08:00-09:00 - Demo set up
08:15-09:00 - Registration, Mingling and Continental breakfast
09:00-09:05 - Welcome and Overview
    Dennis Roberson - Illinois Tech
09:05-09:20 - NSF Welcome
    Thyaga Nandagopal - NSF
09:20-10:00- Keynote Speaker 1
10:00-10:15 - Break
10:15-11:15 - Key Projects Panel
    Goals. 1. Communicate the state of current spectrum measurement efforts. 2. Describe the plans for the immediate future (what is in the charted roadmap, and what are the wish list features that you cannot have at this time). 3. Identify how these measurements efforts are informing analytical spectrum usage models, and where do such measurement efforts fail?
11:15-12:30 - Equipment Panel
    Moderated by Ivan Seskar - Rutgers
    Goals. 1. Describe the current state of the art in spectrum measurement tools from sophisticated / costly instruments to widely deployable low cost equipment. 2. Describe the direction for the emerging and future tools.
12:30-2:00 - Lunch and Demo/Exhibit Session
    Lunch set up in UTP Atrium

    Demo presenters

    • Keysight Technologies - Raymond Shen
    • National Instruments - Abhay Samant and Tanim Taher
    • PCTEL - Amir Soltanian, David Urbasic, Matt Laurich, Steve Satoh
    • Rohde & Schwarz - Randy Neal
    • Test Equipment Plus - Signal Hound - Bruce Devine
    • Tektronix - Steve Stanton

02:00-02:30 – Keynote 2
02:30 - 05:30 - Focus Groups (moderators to provide outlines).

    Breakout sessions

    • A. What is the optimal future architecture for spectrum monitoring – fixed sites, aero platforms, distributed sensors, crowd sourcing, etc. and why is this optimal?
      Co-moderated by Craig Partridge – BBN and Yang Weng - NTIA
      Summary slides
    • B. What is the data management architecture in large-scale spectrum monitoring of the future, to ensure adequate support for measurement/analysis/dissemination/curation/standardization/repeatability, etc.? To what extent can the Big Data community help?
      Co-moderated by Phil Fleming - Nokia and Preston Marshall - Google
      Summary slides
    • C. How are the various roles of spectrum measurement related and different – pre-allocation, operational use (especially for spectrum sharing), post deployment assessment and enforcement?
      Co-moderated by Walter Johnston – FCC and Randy Berry - Northwestern University
      Summary slides

03:30-03:45 - [Break for Focus Groups with the opportunity to switch groups for cross fertilization]

Dinner (A night out on the town in Chicago!)

DAY 2 April 7th, 2016

08:15 Continental Breakfast
08:30 – 08:35 – Second Day Welcome and Logistics
    Dennis Roberson -- IIT
08:35 – 09:30 – Keynote Speaker 3
09:30 – 09:45 – DARPA Challenge on Spectrum Collaboration Competition (SC2)
    Paul Tilghman - DARPA
09:45 – 10:45 – Focus Group Read-outs
    Panel moderated by Dennis Roberson, co-moderators from breakout sessions DAY 1.
10:45 – 11:00 – Morning Break
11:00 – 12:15 – Focus Groups Two (Atrium conference rooms)

    Breakout sessions

    • A. Define and prioritize requirements for future measurements systems and architectures.
      Co-moderated by Mark McHenry – Shared Spectrum and Mike Cotton – ITS
      Summary slides
      Cost requirements
      Research requirements
    • B. Identify the critical research opportunities and associated deployment efforts that are needed to move our spectrum measurements capabilities forward.
      Co-moderated by Mark Gibson - Comsearch and Paul Tilghman – DARPA
      Summary slides

12:15 – 01:30 – Lunch (in the Atrium)
01:30 – 02:15 – Read-out from Focus Group 2
    Moderated by Monisha Ghosh, co-moderators from focus groups from DAY 2
02:15 – 02:30 - Wrap-up
    Thyaga Nandagopal and Dennis Roberson
02:30 – 05:00 - Optional Tours of Illinois Tech Spectrum Observatory

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