IEEE Secon 2010 Workshops

Fifth IEEE Workshop on Networking Technologies for Software-Defined Radio and White Space (Held in Conjunction with IEEE SECON 2010)

Motivated by the skyrocketing demand for radio spectrum, facilitated by regulatory policy movements, and enabled by advances in RF technologies, there has been significant research towards developing networking technologies for white spaces -- the allocated but unutilized and under-utilized radio spectrum. One noticeable example is the recent prototype development and FCC historical rulings on white spaces in the TV bands. This workshop aims at providing a timely venue for discussing the current activities and findings in the field of cognitive radio networks, dynamic spectrum access, interference prevention, coexistence, and regulatory issues. This workshop will focus on recent advances as well as challenging papers. 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 System Implementation

The workshop aims to serve as a discussion forum for the research community to discuss the key technical challenges in the design and implementation of dynamic spectrum access and cognitive radio technologies. Therefore, the workshop will feature a set of invited talks from leading researchers.

Paper Submission Instructions: All paper submissions will be handled electronically via the EDAS system. The paper must be formatted according to IEEE conference proceedings style in two-column format, with a maximum of six pages (including figures, tables, and references) using fonts of 10-point size or greater.

Poster/Demo Submission Instructions: Submission of a demo or a poster requires a written 3-page summary describing the demo or the research results that are to be presented. Submission should go through EDAS. The authors of the accepted posters/demos will have the option of whether to include a 3-page summary in the workshop proceeding, which will be archived by IEEE Xplore.

The workshop website is http://whitespace2010.cs.ucdavis.edu/.

Keynote Speaker: Edward Knightly

Title
Challenges in Deployment and Operation of Diverse Spectrum Access Networks

Driven by both technology and policy, new spectral bands are increasingly
"in play." In this talk, I will explore diverse spectrum access from the
perspective of the network operator by drawing on our experience as a
wireless ISP in Houston, Texas. I will describe both limits and advantages
of today's "narrowband" world and will discuss opportunities and roadblocks
in deploying and operating a new generation of diverse spectrum access
networks.

BIO
Edward Knightly is a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at
Rice University. He joined Rice in 1996 and was a visiting professor at EPFL
in Lausanne, Switzerland in 2003. He received the B.S. degree from Auburn
University in 1991 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of
California at Berkeley in 1992 and 1996 respectively. Dr. Knightly is an
IEEE Fellow, a Sloan Fellow, and a recipient of the National Science
Foundation CAREER Award. He received the best paper award from ACM MobiCom
2008.

Dr. Knightly served as an associate editor for multiple journals including
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking,
and the Computer Networks Journal, and served as guest editor for the IEEE
Journal on Selected Areas of Communications Special Issue on Multi-Hop
Wireless Mesh Networks. He served as general chair of ACM MobiHoc 2009 and
ACM MobiSys 2007 and as technical co-chair of IEEE INFOCOM 2005 and numerous
workshops. He regularly serves on the program committee for numerous
networking conferences including IEEE INFOCOM, ACM MobiCom, and ACM
SIGMETRICS.

Dr. Knightly's research interests are in the areas of mobile and wireless
networks and high-performance and denial-of-service resilient protocol
design. His experimental research includes deployment and operation of a
programmable 4,000 user urban multi-tier multi-hop wireless network in
Houston, TX, and design of a high-performance FPGA platform for clean-slate
wireless protocol design. His protocol designs include fairness mechanisms
that are now part of the IEEE 802.11s mesh and IEEE 802.17 packet ring
standards.

Important Dates:
Manuscript Submission Due: March 31, 2010, 5pm PDT
Acceptance Notification: April 31, 2010
Camera-Ready Paper Due: May 9, 2010
Workshop Date: June 21, 2010

Technical Program

9AM -10AM Keynote
Challenges in Deployment and Operation of Diverse Spectrum Access
Networks
Ed Knightly (Rice University)

10:20AM -12PM Session 1 (invited)
Design Considerations for Cognitive White Space Networks
Ray Dipankar (WINLAB)

Spectrum Challenges Ahead and the US National Broadband Plan
Jon Peha (CMU/FCC)

Current Research Directions for Dynamic Spectrum Access
Alhussein Abouzeid (RPI/NSF)

Asymptotic Performance of Overlaid Cognitive Radio Networks
Robert Cui (Texas A&M)

1PM -3:10PM Session 2 (invited)

Cognitive Radio and DSA: A Green Business Perspective
Milind Buddhikot (Bell labs)

An Emulation Based Testbed for TV White Spaces
Peter Steenkiste (CMU)

Towards A Real-time Cognitive Radio Networking Testbed
Robert Qiu (Tntech)

Wideband Transceiver Architectures for TV Whitespace Applications
Dan McCloskey (Google)

TBD
Petri Mahonen (Aachen University)

3:30-5:30 Session 3
Interference Management in the TV White Space
Ahmed Sadek, Qualcomm

Toward A Socially Optimal Wireless Spectrum Management
Zhen Li (Albion College), Qi Liao (University of Notre Dame), Aaron Stiegel
(University of Notre Dame)

Cooperation Reliability based on Reinforcement Learning for Cognitive
Radio Networks
Nemanja Vucevic (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya), Ian Akyildiz (Georgia Institute of Technology), Jordi Pérez Romero (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya)

A Framework for Cooperative In-Band Sensing in Cognitive Radio
Networks
Ramzi Saifan, Gang Yong (Iowa State University)

Multi-agent Q-Learning for Aloha-like Spectrum Access in Cognitive
Radio Systems
Husheng LI (University of Tennessee)