TAPAS 2006 Final Program:  (PDF, MS-WORD)

8:30-9:00  AM  

Coffee, Registration, Introductory Remarks by the Chairs

 

9:00-10:00 AM Opening Keynote

Preston Marshall, Program Manager, DARPA ATO

"Grand Challenges in Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks" 

10:00 - 11:00 AM Session I: Overview and Framework for DSA (Chair: Anant Sahai, UC, Berkeley)
  1. Chicago Spectrum Occupancy Measurements & Analysis and a Long-term Proposal (Abstract, PDF)
    Mark A. McHenry,  Peter A. Tenhula, Dan McCloskey, Dennis Roberson and Cynthia Wood
     
  2. Fundamental Design Tradeoffs in Cognitive Radio Systems (Abstract, PDF)
    Anant Sahai, Rahul Tandra, Shridhar Mubaraq Mishra, Niels Hoven
     
  3. Between Two Utopias: The Economic and Technological Foundations of the Property Rights and Commons Models for Spectrum Policy  (Abstract, PDF)
    Andrea Martens, Howard Shelanski
11:00 - 11:45AM Session II:  Secondary Sharing of TV Spectrum (Chair: Prof. Joe Evans, University of Kansas)
  1. Cognitive PHY and MAC Layers for Dynamic Spectrum Access and Sharing of TV Bands (Abstract, PDF)
    Carlos Cordeiro, Kiran Challapali, and Monisha Ghosh
     
  2. Performance of Power Detector Sensors of DTV Signals in IEEE 802.22 WRANs (Abstract, PDF)
    Stephen J Shellhammer, Sai Shankar N, Rahul Tandra and James Tomcik
     
  3. Reliable Open Spectrum Communications Through Proactive Spectrum Access (Abstract, PDF)
    Prashanth Aravinda Kumar Acharya, Sumit Singh and Haitao Zheng

 

11:45 AM -12:55 PM POSTER SESSION
  1. A Platform for Dynamic Spectrum Access Network Experimentation (PDF)
    L.E. Doyle, K. Nolan, T. K. Forde, P. Argryoudis, P. Sutton, D. Sarath, G. Baldwin and M. Ammann
     
  2. Impact of Exclusion Region and Spreading in Spectrum-sharing Ad hoc Networks (PDF)
    Rekha Menon, R. Michael Buehrer and Jeffrey H. Reed
     
  3. Spectrum Sharing for Directional Systems (PDF)
    Dragan Trajkov, Joseph B. Evans, and James Roberts
     
  4. Evaluation of Cross-Layer Interactions for Reconfigurable Radio Platforms (PDF)
    Troy Weingart, Douglas Sicker and Dirk Grunwald
     
  5. Spatio-Temporal Spectrum Management Model for Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks (PDF)
    László Kovács and Vidács Attila
     
  6. A New Pricing Model for Next Generation Spectrum Access Networks (PDF)
    Elias Aravantinos, Kevin Ryan and Milind Buddhikot
1:00 - 2:00 PM Keynote II:

Prof. Clark T. Nguyen, University of Michigan, Ex-Program Manager, DARPA MTO,

        "Advances in RF MEMS and New RF Front-end  Architectures"
 

 

2:05 - 3:30 PM

Policy panel

            "The Multidisciplinary Research Challenges for Dynamic 
             Spectrum Access Markets"

             Participants:

                           Bill Lehr (MIT, Economist & Moderator)

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

 

3:30 - 4:00 PM POSTERS and Coffee Break
4:00 - 6:00 PM Session III: Spectrum Occupancy: Measurements and Modeling (Chair: Dr. Carlos Cordeiro, Philips Research)
  1. Experimental Study of Spectrum Sensing based on Energy Detection and Network Cooperation (Abstract, PDF)
    Danijela Cabric, Artem Tkachenko and Robert W. Brodersen
     
  2. Wideband Spectrum Probe for Distributed Measurements in Cellular Band (Abstract, PDF)
    Nilay Shah, Theodoros Kamakaris, Ufuk Tureli and Milind M. Buddhikot
     
  3. Dynamic Spectrum Access in WLAN Channels: Empirical Model and Its Stochastic Analysis (Abstract, PDF)
    Stefan Geirhofer, Brian M Sadler, Lang Tong

Session IV: Modulation and Transmission for DSA (30 mins) (Chair: Carlos Cordeiro, Philips Research)

  1. Comparative Study of Frequency Agile Data Transmission Schemes for Cognitive Radio Transceivers (Abstract, PDF)
    Rakesh Rajbanshi, Joseph B Evans, Alexander M Wyglinski, Qi Chen, and Gary Minden
     
  2. Increasing Spectral Efficiency by Managing Adjacent Channel Interference (Abstract, PDF)
    Tobias Renk, Clemens Kloeck and Friedrich K. Jondral

     
     

6:00 - 6:30 PM  Wrap up discussion