June 5, 2008 – June 6, 2008

Cognitive Wireless Networking Summit 2008

Location: Snoqualmie, WA

Thursday, June 5

08:00 – 08:30 Breakfast
08:30 – 08:45 Welcome and Introductions
08:45 – 09:35 “Revisiting Wireless Connectivity in the Cognitive Era: A Microsoft Perspective”, Victor Bahl, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Slides | Video
09:35 – 09:45 Break
09:45 – 11:20 Session 1: Research Platforms (Video) Session Chair: Vishnu Navda (Microsoft Research)

  • Cognitive Radio Evolution from Agile Platforms to Omniscient Networks: the Road from Dreams to Prototypes, Charles Bostian (Virginia Tech) Slides
  • Four Years of “Software Radio” and Applications, Nick Laneman (Notre Dame) Slides
  • Building Cognitive Radios, Joe Evans (The University of Kansas) Slides
  • Stealing from an ongoing flow: Protocols & Prototypes, Ashutosh Sabharwal (Rice University) Slides
  • The Case of SDR, Yongguang Zhang (Microsoft Research, Asia) Slides
11:20 – 12:40 Session 2: Spectrum Efficiency (Video) Session Chair: Mingyan Liu (Microsoft Corporation/University of Michigan)

  • Efficient Signal Identification using the Spectral Correlation Function and Pattern Recognition, Dan Stancil (CMU) Slides
  • Living with Interference in Unmanaged Wireless Environments, David Wetherall (Intel Research, University of Washington) Slides
  • Learning to Share: Narrowband-Friendly Wideband Networks, Dina Katabi (MIT)
  • Adapting Channel Widths to Improve Application Performance, Ranveer Chandra (Microsoft Research) Slides
12:40 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 14:50 Session 3: Network Architectures (Video) Session Chair: Srinivasan Seshan (CMU)

  • Architecture and Protocol Design for Cognitive Radio Networks, Dipankar Raychaudhury (Rutgers, Winlab) Slides
  • A Networked Approach to Spectrum Sensing in Cognitive Radio Systems, Claudio da Silva (Virgina Tech) Slides
  • Architecture for Cognitive Networks: One Or Many, Dirk Grunwald (University of Colorado, Boulder)
  • Network Support for Wireless Connectivity in the TV Bands, Yunnan Wu (Microsoft Research) Slides
14:50 – 15:50 Session 4: Security and Applications (Video) Session Chair: Gabriel Montenegro (Microsoft Corporation)

  • DoS Threats for Cognitive Wireless Networks, Carl Gunter (UIUC) Slides
  • ADROIT: Adaptive Dynamic Radio Open-source Intelligent Team, Karen Haigh (BBN) Slides
  • Spectrum Aware Load Balancing for WLANs, Thomas Moscibroda (Microsoft Research) Slides
15:50 – 16:30 Social Event: Group photos + walk down to the falls
16:30 – 17:50 Session 5: Reasoning about Performance (Video) Session Chair: Xin Liu (UC Davis)

  • Breaking Spectrum Gridlock via Cognitive and Cooperative Radios, Andrea Goldsmith (Stanford) Slides
  • Greedy Asynchronous Distributed Interference Avoidance Algorithm (GADIA), Vahid Tarokh (Harvard) Slides
  • Reasoning about Cooperation and Competition between Cognitive Radios, David Tse (University of California, Berkeley) Slides
  • Model-driven Optimization of Multi-hop Wireless Networks, Ratul Mahajan (Microsoft Research) Slides
17:50 – 18:50 Session 6: Spectrum Policies and Management (Video) Session Chair: Jon Peha (CMU)

  • Collaborative Spectrum Management for Reliability and Scalability, Heather Zheng (University of California, Santa Barbara) Slides
  • Cognitive Techniques and Spectrum management for Ultra-Broadband Cellular Networks, Milind Buddhikot (Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs)
  • Spectrum Enforcement in a Spectrum Sharing World, Suman Banerjee (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Slides
19:30 – Dinner hosted by Rico Malvar, GM, Microsoft Research

 

Friday, June 6

08:00 – 08:30 Breakfast
08:30 – 09:30 Invited Keynote: Providing Unlimited Wireless Capacity, Bob Brodersen, Berkeley Wireless Research Center, Adaptrum, Inc. and SiBEAM, Inc. Slides | Video
09:30 – 09:40 Break
09:40 – 11:00 Panel: Can We Make Rapid Progress in the Absence of Standards? – (Can We Agree on a Universal Platform?) Moderator: Petri Mähönen (Aachen) Panelists: John Chapin (Vanu), Amer Hassan (Microsoft), Joe Evans (U Kansas), Jon Peha (CMU), Haiyun Tang (Adaptrum) Video
11:00 – 11:15 Vote with your feet
11:15 – 12:30 Demo/Poster Session

  • Communication Strategies for Cognitive Radio Networks, Ivana Maric (Stanford)
  • Enabling MAC Protocol Implementations on Software-defined Radios, Srinivasan Seshan (CMU)
  • Optimal Transmission Strategies in Cognitive Radio Networks, Xin Liu (UC Davis)
  • Cognitive Wireless Networks and CRM: Your Network Just Became a Teenager, Marina Petrova (RWTH Aachen University)
  • Providing Reliability in Dynamic Spectrum Allocation Systems, Lili Cao (UCSB)
  • Long-Term Spectrum Occupation Measurements with Novel Analysis Methods, Petri Mähönen (RWTH Aachen University)
  • Practical Interference Cancellation for Wireless Networks, Dan Halperin (Univeristy of Washington)
  • Building High-Throughput Cognitive Networks in the Unlicensed Band, Hariharan Rahul (MIT)
  • A Platform Independent Cognitive Radio System Architecture, Ying Wang, Charles Bostian, Claudio daSilva (Virgina Tech)
  • Dynamic Spectrum Access with Portable Software Radios, Brian P. Dunn, Nick Laneman (Notre Dame)
  • Stealing From an Ongoing Flow: A demo using WARP, Scott Novich (Rice), Ashutosh Sabharwal (Rice)
  • A Software-Radio UHF RFID Reader Platform, Michael Buettner (University of Washington)
  • Adapting Channel Widths in Wi-Fi Networks, Ranveer Chandra and Thomas Moscibroda (Microsoft Research)
  • A Cognitive Radio Framework for Home Networks , Zhou Wang, Alain Gefflaut and Andreas Steinmetzler (European Microsoft Innovation Center (EMIC))
12:30 – 13:15 Lunch
13:15 – 15:30 Breakout sessions

  • WG1: Policy: Bob Brodersen (leader), Nick Laneman, Dipankar Raychaudhuri, Vahid Tarokh, Joe Evans, Karen Haigh
  • WG2: Scenarios and Success Metric: John Chapin (leader), Claudio Silva, Thomas Moscibroda, Haiyun Tang, Alexandre, Marina Petrova, Ranveer Chandra, Mingyan Liu, Andreas Steinmetzler, David Tse, Petri Mähönen, Ivana Maric
  • WG3: Experiments and Testbeds: Ashutosh Sabharwal (leader), Ashu Sabharwal, David Wetherall, Srinivasan Seshan, Milind Buddhikot, Dirk Grunwald, Ratul Mahajan, Hariharan Rahul, Jitu Padhye, Dan Stancil, Suman Banerjee, Vishnu Navda, Carl Gunter, Yongguang Zhang
  • WG4: MAC Protocols: Xin Liu (leader), Charles Bostian, Amer Hassan, Jon Peha, Ying Wang, Zhou Wang, Heather Zheng, Bozidar
15:30 – 16:30 Summary of breakout sessions (Video)

  • 15:30 – 15:45: Policy WG – Slides
  • 15:45 – 16:00: Scenarios and Success Metric WG – Slides
  • 16:00 – 16:15: Experiments and Testbeds WG – Slides
  • 16:15 – 16:30: MAC Protocols WG – Slides
16:30 – 17:00