European Reconfigurable Radio Technologies Workshop

Program Details

Wednesday, June 23, 15:00 - 16:30

Baseband Signal Processing and Technology 1

Room: A1 Chair: Dominique Noguet (CEA LETI, France)

A Bank of coarse grain Common Operators for flexible multi standard SDR terminal.
Laurent Alaus (CEA LETI, France); Jacques Palicot (IETR/Supélec, France); Dominique Noguet (CEA LETI, France)

Graph theory approach for optimization of Multi-standards Software Defined Radio equipments
Sufi Gul (SUPELEC, France); Patricia Kaiser (SUPELEC, France); Yves Louet (SUPELEC-Rennes Campus, France); Christophe Moy (Supelec, France)

Implementing a Radio Virtual Machine on the MAGALI chip
Riadh Ben Abdallah (INSA Lyon, France); Tanguy Risset (CITI Laboratory - INSA Lyon, France); Antoine Fraboulet (INSA de Lyon / INRIA, France); Jérôme Martin (CEA-Leti, France)

Reconfigurable SDR Architecture for an OFDMA Real?time PHY Layer
Angel Carro Lagoa (University of A Coruña, Spain); Pedro Suarez Casal (University of A Coruña, Spain); Luis Castedo (University of A Coruña, Spain); José A. García-Naya (University of A Coruña, Spain); Antonio Morales Méndez (Indra Sistemas S.A., Spain); José María Camas Albar (Indra Sistemas S.A., Spain)

Cognitive Radio Benefits

Room: A2 Chair: James Neel (Cognitive Radio Technologies, LLC, USA)

Quantifying the Benefits of Cognitive Radio

James Neel (Cognitive Radio Technologies, LLC, USA)

The Cognitive Radio Work Group (CRWG) in the Wireless Innovation Forum (formerly SDR Forum) is finalizing a report for members of the worldwide telecommunications and spectrum community who need to understand the benefits of using cognitive radio technologies in next generation wireless systems. Unlike most surveys that focus on a specific application or technology, in this report, published literature from renowned journals, conferences, and leading textbooks in this area are reviewed to identify reported quantifiable benefits of a wide range of cognitive radio technologies, including Dynamic Spectrum Access (DSA), spectrum markets, enhanced radio resource management techniques, cognitive networking applications, and cognitive MIMO approaches. Key results from each identified source are extracted and included in the body of the report to facilitate comparisons between various approaches while an appendix provides additional context to describe how the original authors? generated the cited results for every cited paper / result. The report then reviews how the identified cognitive radio technologies can be applied to pressing problems faced by the public safety community, the military wireless community, and the commercial wireless community, e.g., how to increase capacity and coverage, enhance revenues from spectrum, enhance spectral dominance, and simplify network management. To more fully inform decision makers, the report concludes by reviewing issues that cognitive radio technologies can create and have been identified in the literature with regards to implementation challenges, regulatory issues, and security concerns.

Session Lineup:

• Overview of Project (Methods, Key Findings)
• Review of Identified Cognitive Radio Technologies with Reported Quantifiable Benefits (e.g., DSA, auctions, cognitive networking, radio resource management)
• Applicability of Quantified Benefits to Public Safety Applications (Coverage, dynamic prioritization, role-based interoperability reconfiguration, spectrum availability)
• Applicability of Quantified Benefits to Military Applications (Spectral dominance, technical planning and setup time constraints, capacity, and support for varying policy regimes)
• Applicability of Quantified Benefits to Commercial Applications (Capacity, revenue enhancement, coexistence, cost and battery life, network management, risk mitigation)
• Potential Issues introduced by Cognitive Radio Technologies(Implementation Issues, Regulatory, Security)

Wednesday, June 23, 16:45 - 18:15

Baseband Signal Processing and Technology 2

Room: A1 Chair: Venkatesh Ramakrishnan (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)

An Implementation of CCC Testbed with a GPU-based Clustering Platform
SeungWon Choi (Hanyang University, Korea); June Kim (Hanyang University, Korea)

Performance Overhead with High Level Waveform Development
Stefan Nagel (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany); Friedrich K. Jondral (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)

Energy-Efficient Filter Design Algorithm for Intelligent Software-Defined Radios
Gaurav Sureka (University of Texas at Dallas, USA); Xiaojiang Tian (University of Texas at Dallas, USA); Kamran Kiasaleh (Universsity of Texas at Dallas, USA)

Wireless Computing Resource Managers
Vuk Marojevic (Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain); Ismael Gomez (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain); Antoni Gelonch (Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain)

Cognitive Radio Systems

Room: A2 Chair: Klaus Moessner (University of Surrey, United Kingdom)

Coexistence of tactical cognitive radio networks
Vincent Le Nir (Royal Military Academy, Belgium); Bart Scheers (Royal Military Academy, Belgium)

Integration of sensors and communication devices in first-responders equipment
Rosolino Lionti (CEA, France)

The Stakes of Cooperative Techniques for Military and Public Safety Wireless Communications
Jean-Christophe Schiel (EADS DS, France); François Montaigne (EADS DS, France); Guy Philippe (EADS DS, France)

Thursday, June 24, 10:50 to 12:30

SDR Systems 1

Room: A1 Chair: Manuel Uhm (Xilinx, USA)

Overview of the SDR Forum Transceiver Facility V2
Eric Nicollet(Thales, France)

SDR4all: Software Defined Radio Made Easy
Leonardo S. Cardoso (Supelec, France)

Securing Software Reconfigurable Radio Devices
John Fitton (Harris Corp, RF Communications Division, USA)

Performance Measurement According to ITOP on Modular Software Defined Radios
Gerald Ulbricht (Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits, Germany); Christopher Laske (Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits, Germany)

 

RF Technology and Devices 1

Room: A2 Chair: Ruediger Leschhorn (Rohde & Schwarz, Germany)

Smart-RF Project -- Modelling and Simulation of the Transceiver System
Thomas Bitzer (Alcatel-Lucent Deutschland, Germany)

Smart-RF Project: Power Amplifier Design
Felix Goelden (Berlin Institute of Technology)

Smart-RF Project: Wideband digital predistortion for SDR transmitters Wilhelm Keusgen (Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute)

Smart-RF Project -- Antenna and Diplexer Solutions
Jürgen Rumold (KATHREIN-Werke KG, Germany); Roland Rathgeber (KATHREIN-Werke KG, Germany)

Smart-RF Project: -- Power efficient linear transmit amplifiers and RF-architectures Thomas Boegl (Rohde & Schwarz, Germany

Thursday, June 24, 14:30 - 16:00

SDR Systems 2

Room: A1 Chair: Manuel Uhm (Xilinx, USA)

The Sandbridge Sandblaster SB3500 SDR MPSoC Baseband Processor For 4G Handsets
John Glossner(Sandbridge Technologies, USA)

ADRES: flexible high-performance baseband processor
Tom Van der Aa (IMEC, Belgium); Antoine Dejonghe (IMEC, Belgium); Liesbet Van der Perre (IMEC, Belgium)

SDR Matures: Convergence of Technology and Economics
Manuel Uhm (Xilinx, USA)

A Complete Design Flow for MILS in a Single High Assurance FPGA
Colby Hoffman (Xilinx); Jeff Lewis (formerly of Galois, now at Signali); Brad Martin (NSA); Sally Browning (Galois)

Is one-to-one Porting of PHY-functionalities from Legacy Waveforms to SDR appropriate?
Jan Leduc (Fraunhofer FKIE / KOM, Germany); Marc Adrat (Fraunhofer FKIE / KOM, Germany); Markus Antweiler (Fraunhofer FKIE, Germany); Harald Elders-Boll (University of applied Science Cologne, Germany)

RF Technology and Devices 2

Room: A2 Chair: Ruediger Leschhorn (Rohde & Schwarz, Germany)

IQ Baseband Interface Specification for Military SDRs
Gerald Ulbricht (Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits, Germany); Gerd Kilian (Fraunhofer IIS, Germany)

Tunable Microwave Amplifier Using a Compact MEMS Impedance Matching Network
Frederic Domingue (Universite du Quebec a Trois-Rivieres, Canada); Ammar Kouki (École de technologie supérieure, Canada)

A Fully Digital GHz-Range Multimode Transmitter Front-End Based on Locked Delay Lines
Pieter A. J. Nuyts (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium); Peter Singerl (Infineon Austria, Austria); Dielacher Franz (Infineon, Germany); Patrick Reynaert (K.U.Leuven, Belgium); Wim Dehaene (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)

A 5mm2 40nm LP CMOS 0.1-6GHz SDR Transceiver
Joris Van Driessche (IMEC, Belgium)

Thursday, June 24, 16:15 - 18:00

SCA

Room: A1 Chair: Eric Nicollet(Thales, France)

Waveform Applications Porting with the SCA ? Experience and Lessons Learned
Mark Turner (Harris Corporation, USA)

Rapid Development of a Generic GUI SCA-based Component for SCA Waveform Monitoring
Jean-Philippe Delahaye (DGA-MI, France)

SCA: When Appropriate Tooling Makes the Difference
François Lévesque (Communications Research Centre, Canada); Steve Bernier (The Communications Research Centre Canada, Canada)

Spectrum Sensing

Room: A2 Chair: Liesbet Van der Perre (IMEC, Belgium)

MOUSSE: Multi-Operator UMTS Simulator for Dynamic Spectrum Allocation
Kamran Arshad (University of Surrey, United Kingdom); Klaus Moessner (University of Surrey, United Kingdom)

Cooperative spectrum sensing over fading sensing and reporting channels
Xitao Gong (RWTH Aachen University, Germany); Gerd H. Ascheid (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)

Spectrum sensing solutions for mobile devices
Liesbet Van der Perre (IMEC, Belgium); Antoine Dejonghe (IMEC, Belgium); Sofie Pollin (IMEC / UC Berkeley, USA)

Friday, June 25, 08:30 - 10:00

Flexible and Efficient SDRs

Room: A1 Chair: Gerd H. Ascheid (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)

The Cascading Effects of Efficient Implementations and Configuration Parameters on Performance Properties
Venkatesh Ramakrishnan (RWTH Aachen University, Germany); Gerd H. Ascheid (RWTH Aachen University, Germany); Marc Adrat (Fraunhofer FKIE / KOM, Germany); Markus Antweiler (Fraunhofer FKIE, Germany)

Software Defined MAC for SDRs: Interfaces and Architecture Approach
Marina Petrova (RWTH Aachen University, Germany); Petri Mähönen (RWTH Aachen University, Germany); Gerd H. Ascheid (RWTH Aachen University, Germany); Venkatesh Ramakrishnan (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)

The design and implementation of a real-time, software-based, multi-path fading channel emulator for an SDR development platform
Brian A. Dalio (Coherent Logix, Inc., USA); Ivan Aguayo (Coherent Logix, Inc., USA); Kevin Shelby (Coherent Logix, Incorporated, USA)

RF Integration: Cognitive Radio or Flexible High Dynamic Range Transceiver?
Stefan Heinen (RWTH Aachen, Germany); Gerd H. Ascheid (RWTH Aachen University, Germany); Venkatesh Ramakrishnan (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)

Cognitive Networks and Infrastructure

Room: A2 Chair: Panagiotis Demestichas (University of Piraeus, Greece)

Fast and Flexible Symmetrical Encryption Algorithm Based on Key-Updating
Amr Kishk (Faculty of Electronic Engineering, Egypt)

CRoF: Cognitive Radio over Fibre
Anwer Adel Al-Dulaimi (Brunel University, United Kingdom)

 

Friday, June 25, 10:15 - 11:45

Open Source SDR and GNU Radio

Room: A1 Chair: Jens P. Elsner (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)

Wireless Key Exchange using the GNU Radio Platform
Nico Doettling (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany); Antonio Sobreira Almeida (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany); Jörn Müller-Quade (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany); Dejan Lazic (U Karlsruhe, Germany)

Wireless Networks In-the-Loop: Emulating an RF  front-end in GNU Radio
Martin Braun (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany); Jens P. Elsner (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany); Friedrich K. Jondral (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)

GNU Radio on the OMAP3
Philip Balister (OpenSDR, USA)

IEEE 802.11p Transmission Using GNURadio
Paul Fuxjaeger (Telecommunications Research Center Vienna (FTW), Austria); Andrea Costantini (Universitá del Salento, Italy); Danilo Valerio (ftw. Telecommunication Research Center Vienna, Austria); Paolo Castiglione (FTW, Austria); Giammarco Zacheo (Politecnico di Bari, Italy); Thomas Zemen (ftw. Forschungszentrum Telekommunikation Wien, Austria); Fabio Ricciato (Universitá del Salento, Italy)

SDR and CR in Public Safety

Room: A2 Chair: Rafael Aguado (Indra Sistemas S.A., Spain)

SCA Based APCO Project-25 Waveform Implementation on the SDR-4000
Murat Ceven (Tubitak UEKAE, Turkey); Ercument H Zorlu (Tubitak-UEKAE, Turkey); Hamza Ozer (Turkish National Research Institute of Electronics and Cryptography, Turkey); Harun Karabalkan (Tubitak - Uekae, Turkey); Ibrahim Olcer (Tubitak-UEKAE, Turkey)

EULER project : Vision for interoperability in joint operations for restoring safety after crisis
Bruno Calvet (THALES Communications, France); Timo Braysy (University of Oulu, Finland)

Multiradio terminals