Wireless Innovation Forum Announces SDR11-WInnComm Technical Program Committee and Call for Papers, Presentations, Tutorials and Workshops

Reconfigurable radio thought leaders from around the world to drive conference program

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Wireless Innovation Forum (www.WirelessInnovation.org) announced today the members of the Technical Program Committee for the 2011 Wireless Innovation Forum Conference on Communications Technologies and Software Defined Radio. Being held November 29 to December 2, 2011, in Washington, DC, the program chair is Dr. John Glossner, of Optimum Semiconductor Technologies. This year’s committee is comprised of the world’s leading experts in Software Defined Radio (SDR), Cognitive Radio (CR) and Dynamic Spectrum Access (DSA) technologies. Each committee member is committed to ensuring that SDR11 is the premier event for bringing next generation radio technologies to life by creating the best quality program with the highest quality presentations. This year’s committee includes:

Research and Development Track Chair: Jarmo Takala, Tampere University of Technology

Design, Manufacture and Deployment Track Chair: Sanyogita Shamsunder, Verizon Wireless

Workshops Track Chair: Vincent Kovarik, Prismtech

Regulatory Track Chair: Peter Tenhula, Shared Spectrum Company

Tutorials Track Chair: Benjamin Egg, Qualcomm

Demonstrations Track Chair: Fanny Mlinarsky, octoScope

Publications Track Chair: Mohammed Ismail, Ohio State

Committee:

Marc Adrat, Fraunhofer FKIE / KOM

Rafael Aguado, Indra Sistemas S.A.

Christopher Anderson, US Naval Academy

Kamran Arshad, University of Surrey

Huseyin Arslan, University of South Florida

Philip Balister, OpenSDR

Babak Beheshti, New York Institute of Tech

Michael Benonis, Virginia Tech

Mladen Berekovic, Tech. Univ. Braunschweig

Steve Bernier, CRC Canada

Shuvra Bhattacharyya, Univ of Maryland

Jerker Björkqvist, Åbo Akademi University

Holger Blume, Leibniz Universitaet Hannover

Daniel Boudreau, CRC Canada

Claudio Brunelli, Nokia

Nadeem Bukhari, DRS Signal Solutions

Zhongren Cao, UC San Diego

Matteo Cesana, Politecnico di Milano

SeungWon Choi, Hanyang University

Eric Christensen, GDC4S

Kuan Collns, SAIC

Jan Craninckx, IMEC

Panagiotis Demestichas, University of Piraeus

Chris Dick, Xilinx

Peter Farkas, Slovak University of Tech

Ronan Farrell, NUI Maynooth

Jose Fridman, Qualcomm

Georgi Gaydadjiev, TU-Delft

Mikael Gidlund, ABB Corporate Research

Jair Gonzalez, Telecom Paristech

Kush Gulati, Cambridge Analog Tech., Inc.

fred harris, San Diego State University

S M Hasan, Virginia Tech

Daniel Iancu, Optimum Semiconductor

Harold Ishebabi, Secodix

Randall Janka, Zeta Associates

Sanjay Jinturkar, Ikanos Communications

Friedrich Jondral, KIT

Peter Jung, Universität Duisburg Essen

Ben Juurlink, Technische Universit at Berlin

Wolfgang Koenig, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent

Mieczyslaw Kokar, Northeastern University

Fadi Kurdahi, University of California, Irvine

Rachael Li, Northeastern University

Daniele Lo Iacono, STMicroelectronics

Trang Mai, Naval Research Laboratory

Jimmie Marks, Raytheon

Rekha Menon, Harris Corporation

Joseph Mitola, Stevens Institute of Technology

Klaus Moessner, University of Surrey

Jakub Moskal, Northeastern University

Christophe Moy, SUPELEC/IETR

Markus Mueck, Infineon Technologies

Najam ul Islam Muhammad, Institute Eurecom

Raghavan Muralidharan, Tata Power SED

Timothy Newman, Virginia Tech

Eric Nicollet, Thales

Robert Normoyle, DRS Signal Solutions

Dale Parson, Kutztown University

Antti Piipponen, Nokia

Nikos Pitsianis, Duke University

Kim Rounioja, Renesas Mobile

Murugappan Senthilvelan, U of Wisc. Madison

Mihai Sima, University of Victoria

Sarvpreet Singh, Fraunhofer FKIE

Leonel Sousa, I.S.T. - Technical U. Lisbon

Paul Sutton, Trinity College Dublin

Richard Taylor, Harris Corporation

Mark Turner, Harris Corporation

Manuel Uhm, Xilinx

Subbarayan Venkatesan, Univ of Texas, Dallas

Kees Vissers, Xilinx

Stephan Wong, In TUDelft University

Attracting more than 500 registered delegates, including investors, commercial network operators, radio manufacturers, system integrators, government procurement officials, regulators, engineering service providers and consultants from over 22 different countries, SDR11-WInnComm is the only event devoted to the advancement of reconfigurable radio technologies from research through deployment. Proposals are now being accepted for five tracks:

• Research and Development (paper required)
• Design, Manufacture and Deployment (paper optional)
• Tutorials (paper optional)
• Workshops (paper optional)
• Regulation and Public Policy (paper optional)

The deadline for submissions is April 5, 2011. Extended versions of top papers in the Research and Development track will be eligible for placement in the Springer Journal of Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing. A call for demonstrations will be announced shortly.

Platinum Sponsors include General Dynamics C4 Systems, Harris Corporation, Indra Sistemas and L-3 Communications Systems. Pentek is the event Gold Sponsor.

Additional information can be found at conference.wirelessinnovation.org.

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.