Third IEEE Workshop on Networking Technologies for

Software Defined Radio (SDR) Networks

(Held in Conjunction with IEEE SECON 2008)

June 16, 2008, San Francisco, California, USA

Call for Papers ( pdf ) ( doc ) Registration Hotel Information

Motivated by the need for efficient spectrum utilization, facilitated by regulatory policy movements, and enabled by advances in RF technologies, there has been significant research towards developing new software defined radios (SDRs) and cognitive radios (CR) technologies. The workshop builds upon the success of the First and Second IEEE Workshops on Networking Technologies for Software Defined Radio (SDR) Networks. The purpose of this workshop is to facilitate the exchange of cutting-edge research in cognitive radio and software defined radio technologies. The focus of this workshop is to explore the networking and communication protocols needed to facilitate the interconnection of CR/SDR platforms. Since CR/SDR research is taking place across multiple communities, ranging from academic to government to industry, from physical layer to networking to hardware researchers, we intend for this workshop to serve as a forum for collaboration that will accelerate the deployment and eventual success of CR/SDR platforms. This workshop invites original manuscripts on the analytical modeling, protocol/algorithm design, and/or experimental studies. Areas of interest include but are not limited to:

· Spectrum Sensing and Spectrum Management

· Cognitive Radio Test-Beds and Hardware Prototypes

· DSA/Cognitive Radio Standardization Activities (e.g. IEEE P1900, IEEE 802.22)

· Accreditation, Trust, & Security Mechanisms for DSA Networks

· Cross-Layer Protocol Design

· Cooperation and Game-Theoretical Protocols for Cognitive Radios

· Practical Experience and Systems Implementations

Workshop Chairs:

Xin Liu, University of California, Davis

Milind M. Buddhikot, Bell Laboratories

Technical Program Committee:

Name	Affiliation
Carlos Cordeiro	Intel, USA
Samir Das	SUNY at Stony Brook, USA
Linda Doyle	Trinity College, Ireland
Joe Evans	University of Kansas, USA
Dirk Grunwald	University of Colorado at Boulder, USA
Zhu Han	Boise State University, USA
Paul Kolodzy	Kolodzy Consulting, USA
Allen B. MacKenzie	Virginia Tech., USA
Petri Mahonen	Aachen University (RWTH), Germany
Stefan Mangold	Swisscom, Switzerland
Preston Marshall	DARPA, USA
Gary J. Minden	University of Kansas, USA
Klaus Moessner	University of Surrey, UK
Sai Nandagopalan	Broadcom, USA
James O.Daniell Neel	Cognitive Radio Technologies, USA
Jung-Min Park	Virginia Tech., USA
Anant Sahai	UC Berkeley, USA
Doug Sicker	University of Colorado at Boulder, USA
Vahid Torokh	Harvard University, USA
Wade Trappe	WINLAB, Rutgers University, USA
Uf Turelli	Stevens Institute of Technology, USA
Sriram Vishwanath	University of Texas at Austin, USA
Patrick White	Stevens Institute of Technology, USA
Alex Wyglinski	Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), USA
Wenyuan Xu	University of South Carolina, USA
Qing Zhao	University of California, Davis, USA
Haitao Zheng	University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

Technical Program:

9:00-9:05 Welcome

9:05-10:00 Keynote 1: New Directions in Cognitive Radio and Spectrum Sharing

Anant Sahai (UC Berkeley)

10:00-10:30 Coffee Break

10:30-12:00 Session 1. Spectrum Occupancy Detection

Spectrum Sensing for Wireless Microphone Signals,

Hou-Shin Chen, Rutgers, the state university of New Jersey, Wen Gao, Thomson Inc., David Daut, Rutgers.

Evaluation of Spectrum Occupancy using Approximate and Multiscale Entropy Metrics,

Matthias Wellens, Janne Riihijärvi, Petri Mähönen, Aachen University

Overview of Blind Sensing Techniques Considered in IEEE 802.22 WRANs,

Sai Shankar N., Broadcom Corp.

12:00-1:00 Lunch Break

1:00-2:00 Keynote 2: Wireless Networking in the TV Bands (ppt)

Ranveer Chandra (Microsoft Research)

2:00-3:00 Session 2. Policy and Implementation

The 700MHz Spectrum auction,

Douglas Sicker, Christian Doerr, University of Colorado at Boulder

Design and Implementation of Cognitive Wireless Network based on IEEE P1900.4

Kentaro Ishizu, NICT, Homare Murakami, NICT, Goh Miyamoto, NICT, Ha Nguyen Tran, NICT, Stanislav Filin, NICT,

Mikio Hasegawa, Tokyo University of Science, Yoshitoshi Murata, Iwate Prefectural University, Hiroshi Harada, NICT, Shuzo Kato, NICT

3:00-3:30 Coffee Break

3:30- 5:30 Session 3. Spectrum Allocation Optimization

A Restless Bandit Formulation of Opportunistic Access: Indexablity and Index Policy,

Keqin Liu, Qing Zhao, UC Davis

Traffic-Driven Dynamic Spectrum Auctions,

Xia Zhou, Shravan Mettu, Heather Zheng, UCSB

Distributed Optimization of Cognitive Radios Employed in Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks,

Si Chen, Alexander M. Wyglinski, WPI

Energy Efficient Adaptive Modulation in Cognitive Radio Ad Hoc Networks

Song Gao, Lijun Qian, Prairie View A&M University

Submission Instructions:

All submissions must be in .pdf format. Papers must not exceed 8 single-spaced, two-column pages using at least 11 point size fonts on 8.5 x 11 inch pages. Papers should be submitted through EDAS. Login EDAS, click on "submit paper", click on "SECON 2008", and register paper to SDR workshop.

The workshop website is http://sdr08.cs.ucdavis.edu.

Important Dates:

Manuscript Submission Due: March 30, 2008, 5pm PDT (extended)

Acceptance Notification: April 25, 2008

Camera-Ready Paper Due: May 9, 2008

Workshop Date: June 16, 2008