Ballots and Proposals to Advance and New Projects Announced at Wireless Innovation Forum Working Meeting, June 21-23

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Wireless Innovation Forum (www.WirelessInnovation.org) will finalize a Public Safety proposal and a new Security Working Group document as well as propose a new project for developing a “Hybrid SATCOM Reference Architecture for Public Safety Applications,” among many other items, at its 66th General Meeting, June 21-23, 2010, in Mainz, Germany. The meeting is comprised of working sessions advancing The Forum’s 2010 operations plan in support of the commercial, public safety, satellite communications, and international tactical radio communities.

“Hybrid SATCOM Reference Architecture for Public Safety Applications”

WInnForum groups that will be meeting in Mainz will include the following:

Public Safety Special Interest Group
International Tactical Radio Special Interest Group
Satellite Communications Special Interest Group
Regulatory Committee
Cognitive Radio Work Group
Commercial Baseband Processing Technologies Work Group
Modelling Language for Mobility Work Group
SCA Next Task Group
SCA API Work Group
SCA Implementation Guide Work Group (SCA Users Group)
SCA Test and Certification Work Group
Security Work Group
Smart Antenna Working Group
International Security Services API Task Group
Test and Measurement Work Group
Transceiver System Interface Task Group

A summary of active projects can be found here: http://www.wirelessinnovation.org/page/Current_Projects.

Reconfigurable radio topics including public safety, cognitive radio benefits, spectrum sensing, and more will be discussed at the second annual European Reconfigurable Radio Technologies Workshop and Product Exposition which will immediately follow the Working Meeting, June 23-25.

Sponsored by General Dynamics C4 Systems, Harris, Indra Systemas, and L3 Communications, this multi-day workshop brings together wireless telecommunications equipment manufacturers (TEMs) with their customers and suppliers to explore the evolution of reconfigurable radio. The workshop is chaired by Liesbet Van der Perre, Director, Green Radios Program, IMEC, and features:

Keynotes by industry leaders:

“EDA prospects on international SDR standardization,” Tero Solante, Principal SDR Officer, European Defence
“Bridging dream and reality by programmable baseband processor for software-defined radio,” Dake Liu, Director of Computer Engineering Division, Department of Electrical Engineering, Linkoping University
Pierre-Jean Muller, Huawei (talk title to be announced)
“GRA-based OSSIE SCA Cognitive Testbed,” Thomas Rittenbach, US Army CERDEC
Prof. Ulrich Ramacher, Head of System Engineering for SDR Mobile Platforms at Infineon Wireless (talk title to be announced)

14 technical sessions comprised of 56 presentations from representatives of leading organizations in the industry, divided into two tracks:

SDR Track											CR Track
Baseband Signal Processing and Technology 1											Cognitive Radio Benefits
Baseband Signal Processing and Technology 2											CR Systems
SDR Systems 1											RF Technology and Devices 1
SDR Systems 2											RF Technology and Devices 2
SCA											Spectrum Sensing
Flexible and Efficient SDRs											Cognitive Networks and Infrastructure
Open Source SDR and GNU Radio											SDR&CR in Public Safety

Plenary session featuring a presentation on partnering by COST and ETSI;

A sold out exposition highlighting the products and services of industry leaders including:

CRC Canada
Datasoft
Etherstack
Ettus Research
Green Hills Software, Inc.
Harris
IMEC
Innovative Integration
Objective Interface
Lyrtech
PrismTech
Synopsys
Tubitak
Xilinx

A complete agenda for this workshop can be found here.

Registration for the Workshop and General Meeting are now available. Please use the Registration Form.

About the Wireless Innovation Forum

Established in 1996, The Wireless Innovation Forum (SDR Forum Version 2.0) is a non-profit mutual benefit corporation dedicated to driving technology innovation in commercial, civil, and defense communications worldwide. Members bring a broad base of experience in Software Defined Radio (SDR), Cognitive Radio (CR) and Dynamic Spectrum Access (DSA) technologies in diverse markets and at all levels of the wireless value chain to address emerging wireless communications requirements. To learn more about The Wireless Innovation Forum, its meetings and membership benefits, visit www.WirelessInnovation.org.