2017 Agenda

Wednesday, 
17 May

 07:30

Conference Welcome and Keynotes
(Merikoski Hall)

Keynote: Heikki Rantanen, Finnish MoD, "Radio Technical Evolution in the Finnish SDR Prrogram" 

Keynote: Michael Street, NATO, "NATO Update on Ground Tactical Interoperability"

10:00

Networking, Refreshments and Innovation Showcase

10:30

Perspective on Tactical Communications
(Merikoski Hall)

Martin Dunkel, BAAINBw, "NATO CWIX 2017"

 Christoph Barz, Fraunhofer FKIE

 TBA, DGA, "Roadmap Perspective from DGA"

 Col. Grzegorz Szmit, Polish MoD, "Poland perspective"

 Fulvio Arreghini, OCCAR, "OCCAR - ESSOR Program"

12:30

Lunch and Innovation Showcase

14:00

SDR Standards and the SCA 1
(Merikoski Hall)

Howen Fernando, JTNC, "JTNC Standards" 

 Eric Nicollet, Thales, "WInnForum SDR Standards"

 Juan Pablo Zamora Zapata, NordiaSoft, "Performance Study Comparing SCA version 4.1 and SCAv2.2.2"

15:30

16:00

System and Architecture 1
(Merikoski Hall)

Nina Figueira, Brazilian Army Technological Center, "Software Defined Radio applied to Mission Oriented Sensors Array – A proposal to advanced  Embedded Systems architecture"

 Dr. Predrag Spasojevic, US Army Research Labs, "Effect of coarse frequency synchrony on spread spectrum codes having a zero correlation zone"

 Ran Cheng, National University of Defense Technology, China, "Can SCA 4.1 Replace STRS in Space Applications"

 Yu Zhao, National University of Defense Technology, China, "Investigation of High-Efficient Transfer Mechanisms for SCA 4.1"

17:30

Reception (Linna Hall)

Thursday, 
18 May

 07:30

Registration

08:30

Conference Welcome and Keynotes
(Merikoski Hall)

Heikki Kokkinen, FairSpectrum, "Europe moves towards Dynamic Spectrum Access"

Lee Pucker, Wireless Innovation Forum, "WInnForum CBRS Standards

10:00

Networking, Refreshments and Innovation Showcase

10:30

Spectrum Sharing 1
(Merikoski Hall)

Topi Tuukkanen, Finnish MoD, "Finland MOD Dynamic Spectrum"

Seppo Yrjölä, Nokia, "Update from ETSI TC RRS"

12:30

Lunch and Innovation Showcase

14:00

Spectrum Sharing 2
(Merikoski Hall)

Seppo Yrjola, Nokia, "Analysis of blockchain use cases in the CBRS spectrum sharing concept"

 Zhuoran Cai, China Shandong Institute of Aerospace Electronics Technology, "A New Spectrum Sensing Method Based on PSO-SVM"

Raul Torrego, IK4-IKERLAN, "Deterministic and cognitive wireless communication system with jamming-resistant capabilities for tactical or industrial communications"

15:30

16:00

System and Architecture 2
(Merikoski Hall)

Hassan El-Sallabi, Signal and Information Technology Corps, Qatar Armed Forces, "Reconfigurable Antenna based System for Spectrum Monitoring and Radio Direction Finding"

Andre Puschmann, Software Radio Systems, "Implementing NB-IoT in software radio - experiences using the srsLTE software radio tools"

Antonis G. Gotsis, Feron Technologies P.C., "Experimenting with Flexible D2D Communications in Current and Future LTE networks: A D2D Radio Technology Primer & Software Modem Implementation"

17:30

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