Program Track Speaker Information

Friday, 25 June

8:30 a.m., Session 6C
SDR and CR Program I

“QoSMOS: Towards managed QoS and Mobility over shared spectrum”

by Michael Fitch, BT Innovation and Design; Dominique Noguet, CEA; and Wolfgang Koenig, Alcatel-Lucent

Michael Fitch (presenter) works in the Research and Technology part of BT Innovation and Design, leading a small research team specialising in physical and systems aspects of wireless communications. He has been with BT since 1989 working in various research and development roles, currently working on a number of collaborative projects on emerging wireless technologies such as LTE, small cells and Cognitive Radio.  Currently he is Project Manager for the QoSMOS FP7 Integrating Project. In addition he provides consultancy to other parts of BT on wireless and spectrum matters. Previous experience is with satellite systems and with mobile radio systems. Michael holds a first degree in maths and physics, a PhD in satellite communications and is a member of the IET.

 “Cognitive Radio Experimentation World (CREW)”

by Sofie Pollin, IMEC; and Liesbet Van der Perre, IMEC

Sofie Pollin received a degree in electrical engineering in 2002 and a Ph.D. in 2006 (with honors) from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. Since October 2002 she has been a researcher at the Wireless Research group of the Interuniversity Microelectronics Center (IMEC). In the summer of 2004 she was a visiting scholar at National Semiconductor, Santa Clara, California. In the summer of 2005 she was a visitor at UC Berkeley. In 2006, she started as a post doctoral researcher at UC Berkeley working on coexistence issues in wireless communication networks. Since 2008, she is a senior researcher at IMEC working on cognitive radio.

Liesbet Van der Perre received the M.Sc. degree and the PhD degree in Electrical Engineering specializing in wireless communications from the K.U.Leuven, Belgium in 1992 and 1997 respectively. She joined IMEC in 1997, taking responsibilities as a system architect for OFDM ASICs and project leader for a Turbo codec. Currently, she is scientific director of wireless research in IMEC, and project leader for the digital baseband SDR. She's an author and co-author of over 200 scientific publications. Also, she is a part- time Professor at the K.U.Leuven.

"COGEU project: Cognitive radio for an efficient sharing of TV white spaces in Europe"

by Dr Paulo Marques, Instituto de Telecomunicações

Dr. Marques received his Ph.D from the University of Aveiro (Portugal) in 2006. He is Senior Researcher at the Instituto de Telecomunicações (Aveiro-Portugal) and Professor in the Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco. During 2006 he was a visiting researcher at Trinity College of Dublin working on reconfigurable radio systems. He is currently the project coordinator of FP7 ICT COGEU and technical manager of FP7 ICT C2POWER ptoject. His research interests include advanced signal processing techniques for wireless communications and cognitive radio networks. His current focus is on the development of efficient sensing algorithms to exploit spectral opportunities in dynamic spectrum systems. He has published extensively in these areas and he is an active reviewer for several scientific journals. He is a member of IEEE P1900.6 standardization group.

"Mission Defined Radio"

by John T. McInnes, DSTL, United Kingdom

John McInnes has been a researcher at the Defence Science Technology Labs in the United Kingdom since 2009 within the Information Management Department. His research is in the field of wireless engineering within the Future Network Systems team, focussing on delivering cost effective solutions to the tactical environment. This work has included modelling the efficiency of airborne communication platform networks, the practical implementation of sensor communication networks within software defined radio platforms and ensuring the technical credibility of the research delivered to the Ministry of Defence. He received his degree in Computer Engineering from Glasgow Caledonian University and has research interests in waveform design, network coded waveforms, interference mitigation and cross layer protocol design.

Friday 25 June 

10:15 a.m., Session 7C

SDR and CR Programs II

“SENDORA: design of a wireless sensor network aided cognitive radio system”

by Pål Grønsund, TELENOR 

Pål Grønsund works as a research scientist in Telenor where he joined in 2007. He has been working in various international and internal research projects on topics such as cognitive radio, heterogeneous networks, WiMAX, WiFi and 3G. In 2007, he received a M.Sc. degree in Informatics from the University of Oslo and has since 2009 been working on a Ph.D. on cognitive radio and dynamic spectrum access. For EU projects on cognitive radio, Pål worked in the FP7 specific targeted research project SENDORA and is now working in the FP7 integrated project QoSMOS.

Overview and key results of the CROWN project
by Dr. Anil Shukla, Qinetiq, United Kingdom

Dr Anil Shukla leads the Cognitive Radio research being conducted in the Communications Practice in QinetiQ. He recently chaired the IET event on Cognitive Radios has been involved in the concepts of cognitive radio for over 10 years. At QinetiQ he also leads the RF spectrum and operational impacts capability which investigates and mitigates the effects of difficult RF environment on the performance of radio systems.

“SECRICOM: The Impact of CR/SDR on Multi-Agency/National Crisis Management”

by Ahmed Aldabbagh, Qinetiq, United Kingdom

ETARE:Enabling technologies for SDR compliant tactical networks Mobile Ad Hoc Wideband Waveform(s)
by Beatrice Martin, Thales