DySPAN 2008 Update

Joseph B. Evans ([email protected]) Dennis Roberson ([email protected])

Overview

• Date and venue • Program overview • Chairs and Committees • Timeline • Progress

Dates and Venue

• Dates – 14-17 October 2008

• No known conflicts for that week

• Venue – Chicago, Illinois

• Excellent facilities - Millennium Knickerbocker Hotel in downtown • Centrally located with good flight options for both US and international travelers • Highly regarded global city with numerous attractions

Program

• Technology Track • Policy Track • Keynotes • Demonstrations

General Chair Biographies

• Dennis Roberson

• Vice Provost for New Initiatives and Research Professor of CS, IIT • Co-Founder of Wireless Network and Communications Research Center (WiNCom) and PI for Spectrum Observatory at IIT • Hosted NSF Wireless PI Meeting - 2007 • Serves on eight company boards included four wireless companies • Former CTO of Motorola and of NCR

• Joseph Evans

• Distinguished Professor of EECS, University of Kansas • Founded NSF program in spectrum-aware networking • Leading NSF GENI wireless (and cognitive) networking effort • Performing foundational science for TV band spectrum debate • Has served as IEEE TAC Secretary and in multiple TC roles • Has organized and chaired IEEE workshops and symposia

Organizing Committee

General Chairs

Joseph B. Evans, University of Kansas, USA Dennis Roberson, IIT, USA

Technical Program Committee Chairs

Preston Marshall, DARPA, USA Milind Buddhikot, Alcatel - Lucent, USA

Policy Program Committee Chairs

William Lehr, MIT, USA Julius Knapp, FCC, USA Steve Sharkey, Motorola. USA

Deputy Chairs

Douglas Sicker, Univeristy of Colorado - Boulder, USA Ying-Chang Liang, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore

Tutorials Chairs

Alexander Wyglinski, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA William Horne, MITRE, USA

Demonstrations Chairs

Tom Rondeau, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Keith Nolan, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Poster Chair

Timothy X. Brown, University of Colorado Boulder, USA

Publicity Chair

Nancy Jesuale, Netcity Engineering, USA

Local Arrangements

Cynthia Hood, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA

Student Travel Grants

Xin Liu, University of California - Davis, USA

Patron Chair

Carlos Cordeiro, Intel, USA

Proceeding Chair

Rajarathnam Chandramouli ("Mouli"), Stevens Institute of Technology, USA

Keynote and Plenary Chairs

Peter Tenhula, Shared Spectrum Company, USA Linda Doyle, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Technical Program Committee

Nancy Alonistioti, University of Athens, Greece Victor Bahl, Microsoft Research, USA Lars Berlemannm, Swisscom, Switzerland Didier Bourse, Motorola, France Kiran Challapali, Philips Research, USA Rajarathnam Chandramouli, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA Mainak Chatterjee, University of Central Florida, USA Ivan Cosovic, DoCoMo Communications Labs Europe GmbH, Germany Babak Daneshrad, University of California, Los Angeles, USA Linda Doyle, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Joseph Evans, University of Kansas, USA Dirk Grunwald, University of Colorado, USA Cynthia Hood, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA William Horne, The MITRE Corporation, USA Riku Jantti, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Friedrich Jondral, Communications Engineering Lab, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Hamid Reza Karimi, Ofcom, United Kingdom Paul Kolodzy, Kolodzy Consulting, USA Geoffrey Li, Georgia Tech, USA Ying-Chang Liang, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Petri Mähonen, Aachen University, RWTH, Institute of Wireless Networks, Germany Narayan Mandyam, WINLABS, Rutgers, USA Stefan Mangold, Swisscom, Switzerland Todd Martin, STA, USA Frederick Martin, Motorola, USA Gary J. Minden, University of Kansas, USA Klaus Moessner, University of Surrey, United Kingdom Markus Muck, Infineon Technologies, Germany Saishankar Nandagopalan, Broadcom Inc., USA James Neel, Cognitive Radio Technologies, LLC, USA Keith Nolan, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Filip Perich, Shared Spectrum Company, USA Rakesh Rajbanshi, Cisco Systems Inc., USA Dipankar Raychaudhuri, Rutgers University, USA Jeffrey Reed, Virginia Tech, USA Dennis Roberson, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Tom Rondeau, CTVR, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland Joachim Saschs, Ericsson Research, Aachen, Germany Anant Sahai, UC Berkeley, USA Dragan Samardzija, Bell Laboratories, Alcatel-Lucent , USA Douglas Sicker, University of Colorado, USA Tod Sizer, Bell Laboratories, Alcatel-Lucent , USA Will Stewart, OFCOM, United Kingdom John Stine, The MITRE Corportation, USA Vahid Tarokh, Harvard University, USA Uf Tureli, West Virginia University Institute of Technology, USA Harish Viswanathan, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA Alexander Wyglinski, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA Jens Zander, Royal Inst Tech, Stockholm, Sweden Honggang Zhang, Zhejiang University, China Haitao Zheng, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

Policy Program Committee

Johannes Bauer, Michigan State, USA Coleman Bazelon, Brattle Group, USA Milind Buddikot, Alcatel-Lucent, USA Martin Cave, Warwick Business, United Kingdom Jon Crowcroft, Cambridge University, United Kingdom Pierre DeVries, Univ. of Washington, USA Linda Doyle, Trinity College, Ireland Bernie Eydt, Booz Allen Hamilton, USA Joe Gattuso, NTIA, USA Dale Hatfield, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA Nancy Jesuale, NetCity Engineering, USA Paul Kolodzy, Kolodzy Consulting, USA Christian Sandvig, University of Illinois, USA Douglas Sicker, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA Peter Tenhula, Shared Spectrum Company, USA Ed Thomas Harris, Wiltshire, USA William Webb, Ofcom, United Kingdom Martin Weiss, University of Pittsburgh, USA Simon Wilkie, USC, USA

Timeline

• Intent to submit (Register Title, Abstract, Author List): April 28, 2008 • Policy Extended Abstract/In-preparation-draft due: May 1, 2008 • Technology Full papers due: June 6, 2008 • Notification of interest to Policy Authors requesting full papers: May 23, 2008 • Full versions of selected policy papers due for second review: June 13, 2008 • Acceptance notification for Technology papers: July 28, 2008 • Final acceptance of policy papers: August 1, 2008 • Camera ready versions for all papers due to IEEE: August 21, 2008 • DySPAN 2008: 14-17 October 2008

Progress

• Over 200 abstracts submitted • Sponsors to date

• Microsoft Research • Motorola • NSF (US student travel grants) • Federal Communications Bar Association

• Keynote speakers invited • Formation of some panels underway

Progress

• Demonstrations

• Adaptrum (USA) • Centre for Telecommunications Value-Chain Research (Ireland) • Centre for Wireless Telecommunications, Virginia Tech (USA) • Delft University of Technology (the Netherlands) • Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R) (Singapore) • Motorola (USA) • OMESH Networks (Canada) • Philips Research (USA) • PrismTech (USA) • Rockwell Collins (USA) • Shared Spectrum Company (USA) • University of South Florida/Anritsu (USA) • Stevens Institute of Technology (USA) • University of Utah (USA)