School on Applications of Open Spectrum and White Spaces Technologies - Schedule
March 3-14, 2014
8:30-10:30 Registration
(in the SDU meeting room in GGH)
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break - Galileo Bar
11:00-11:15 Opening
Sandro Maria Radicella, Marco Zennaro
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11:15–12:00 Welcome to the Marconi Laboratory
Marco Zennaro
14:00-15:00 Radio Physics
Ryszard Struzak
15:00-16:00 Introduction to Telecommunications
Ermanno Pietrosemoli
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16:00-16:30 Coffee Break - Galileo Bar
16:30-18:30 Introduction to Telecommunications contd.
Ermanno Pietrosemoli
9:00-10:00 Introduction to Software Defined Radio
Paul Sutton
10:00-11:00 Introduction to Software Defined Radio Hardware
Paul Sutton
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break - Galileo Bar
11:30–12:30 Antenna Fundamentals
Ryszard Struzak
14:00-16:00 Introduction to the Software Defined Radio Laboratory
Balint Seeber16:00-16:30 Coffee Break - Galileo Bar
16:30-18:30 Software Defined Radio Laboratory
Balint Seeber19:00-21:00 Official Get Together at Adriatico Guesthouse Cafeteria
9:00-10:00 Introduction to Digital Communications
Paul Sutton
10:00-11:00 Introduction to Dynamic Spectrum Access
Paul Sutton
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break - Galileo Bar
11:30-12:30 Antennas in Practice
Ermanno Pietrosemoli
14:00-16:00 Software Defined Radio Laboratory
Balint Seeber16:00-16:30 Coffee Break - Galileo Bar
16:30-18:30 Software Defined Radio Laboratory
Balint Seeber9:00-10:00 Broadband Wireless System Design
Ismael Gomez
10:00-11:00 Introduction to OFDM
Ismael Gomez
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break - Galileo Bar
11:30-12:30 Link Planning
Ermanno Pietrosemoli
14:00-16:00 Link Planning Software
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16:00-16:30 Coffee Break
16:30-18:30 Software Defined Radio Laboratory
Balint Seeber9:00-10:00 Introduction to LTE
Ismael Gomez
10:00-11:00 Open-source Software for SDR
Ismael Gomez
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break - Galileo Bar
11:30-12:30 Spectrum Management
Ryszard Struzak
14:00-16:00 Software Defined Radio Laboratory
Balint Seeber16:00-16:30 Coffee Break - Galileo Bar
16:30-18:30 Software Defined Radio Laboratory
Balint Seeber8:15-9:00 Registration of New Participants
(in the Giambiagi Lecture Hall Area, Adriatico Guest House)
9:00-9:15 Opening Remarks
Sandro Maria Radicella, Marco Zennaro
9:15-10:15 Building the Internet of Things: and Overview of platforms, sensors, power and wireless communication for IoT
Jon Brewer
10:15-10:30 Coffee Break - Adriatico Guesthouse Cafateria
10:30-12:30 Building the Internet of Things: and Overview of platforms, sensors, power and wireless communication for IoT contd.
Jon Brewer
14:00-16:00 The VESNA platoform
Miha Smolnikar
16:00-16:30 Coffee Break - Adriatico Guesthouse Cafateria
16:30-17:30 Cognitive Radio Security
Tim X Brown
9:00-11:00 Spectrum Sharing: Theory and Practice
Robert Wu
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break - Adriatico Guesthouse Cafateria
11:30-12:30 Introduction to Spectrum Efficiency
Tim X Brown
14:00-15:00 Rural Broadband, White Space & FPGAs
Malcolm Brew15:00-16:00 A taxonomy of regulatory models of "harmful interference"
Tim X Brown16:00-16:30 Coffee Break - Adriatico Guesthouse Cafateria
16:30-18:30 Green TVWS
Sebastian Buettrich9:00-10:00 ITU White Paper on Managing TVWS
Joaquin Restrepo
10:00-10:15 Group Photo - Adriatico Guesthouse Terrace
10:15-10:30 Coffee Break - Adriatico Guesthouse Cafateria
10:30-11:30 What's next for White Space
Michael Calabrese
11:30-12:30 Dynamic Spectrum Access
Bob Horvitz
14:00-15:00 ITU-BDT Activities
Mike Nxele15:00-16:00 Round Table Discussion on Regulatory Issues in TVWS - Chairman Steve Song
Participants: Joaquin Restrepo, Mike Nxele, Bob Horvitz, Michael Calabrese, Ryszard Struzak, Lloyd Momba, Robert Wu
16:00-16:30 Coffee Break - Adriatico Guesthouse Cafateria
16:30-18:30 Round Table Discussion on Regulatory Issues in TVWS - Chairman Steve Song
9:00-10:00 Arno Hart
South Africa Deployment
10:00-10:30 Coffee Break - Adriatico Guesthouse Cafateria
10:30-11:30 Jonathan Pinifolo and Carlo Fonda
Malawi Deployment
11:30-12:30 Sidney Roberts
TV White Spaces: Africa's Innovation Band
14:00-16:00 Case Studies
Wireless Sensor Networks for Flood and Landslide Monitoring and Early Warning System (WSN FLEWS), Mercado Reginald Juan M, GTek Research, Valenzuela, Philippines
Management of a Smart Base Station Power System for Green LTE Cellular Network in Malaysia, Rosdiadee Nordin, Universiti Kebangsaan, Malaysia
Adaptive usage of main resources in MIMO in Cognitive Radio Networks, Kvirkvelia Shalva, Georgian Technical University
Secondary network performance and primary user protection using adaptive transmit power, Charles Kabiri, Blekinge Institute of Technology (BTH), Sweden
intERLab's activities on rural community wireless mesh networks in Thailand, Apinun Tunpan, intERLab, Thailand
Plan Ceibal and TVWS Pilot in Uruguay, Andrés Gómez Caram, Plan Ceibal, Uruguay
Wireless: interactions with agriculture and environment in developing and emerging regions, Simone Sala, MIT, USA
16:00-16:30 Coffee Break - Adriatico Guesthouse Cafateria
16:30-17:30 Study of Broadband Penetration
Ryszard Struzak17:30-18:30 Economics of TVWS
Giovanni Repici19:00-21:00 Official Get Together at Adriatico Guesthouse Cafeteria
9:00-10:00 TVWS the Way Forward
Steve Song
10:00-10:30 Coffee Break - Adriatico Guesthouse Cafateria
10:30-11:30 Round Table Discussion on White Spaces, and Opportunity for Development - Chairman Ermanno Pietrosemoli
Participants: Sylvia Cadena, Sebastian Buettrich
11:30-12:30 Closing Ceremony and Distribution of Certificates