TAPAS2006 Workshop
August 5, 2006, Boston, MA
(co-located with WICON)

Rapid advances in high speed digital signal processing, wide band A/D, and reconfigurable smart antennas are revolutionizing radio technology. The next generation radios will support new capabilities such as wide band sensing, rapid reconfigurability and real-time spectrum allocation and access. They show promise of enabling new kinds of "Dynamic Spectrum Access" (DSA) networks that can more efficiently access variable amounts of radio spectrum. However, these networks will challenge current "command and control" techniques for allocation and licensing of spectrum and demand new innovations in spectrum policy.

Technology and Policy for Advanced Spectrum (TAPAS) is a new 1-day workshop aimed at assembling technology and policy experts to disseminate cutting edge research in this field. The workshop program will include refereed research and position papers, panel discussions and invited keynotes.

News (Updated August 3, 2006)

Advance program available in PDF, MS-WORD.
Free wireless internet access will be available at the workshop site.
Preston Marshall, Program Manager, DARPA ATO will deliver keynote tentatively titled "Grand Challenges in Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks".
Prof. Clark T. Nguyen, University of Michigan, Ex-Program manager, DARPA MTO, will deliver keynote titled "Advances in RF MEMS and New RF Front-end Architectures".
Policy Panel

2:00pm-3:30pm:
"The Multidisciplinary Research Challenges for Dynamic Spectrum Access Markets"

            This panel will provide perspectives from noted legal, economist, and engineering researchers on the
             multidisciplinary research agenda   furthering the development and commercialization of dynamic
             spectrum access markets. Participants will briefly provide their "wish list" of the open research
             questions they would like to see addressed and recommendations for proceeding. This will be
             followed by moderated discussion on the contrasting perspectives and challenges confronting
             multidisciplinary research in this area.

Participants will include:

Bill Lehr (MIT, Economist & Moderator)

                           Yochai Benkler (Yale, Law)
                           Paul Kolodzy (Kolodzy Consulting)
                           Preston Marshall (DARPA, Technologist)
                           Peter Tenhula (Shared Spectrum, Policy)
                           Dave Reed (MIT, Technologist)

Update on Reviews:

We expect to notify of the accepted papers by July 15.

Patrons

TAPAS is grateful for the financial support from following:

Sponsors

TAPAS2006 Workshop August 5, 2006, Boston, MA (co-located with WICON)

News (Updated August 3, 2006)

TAPAS2006 Workshop
August 5, 2006, Boston, MA
(co-located with WICON)