Wireless, Spectrum & Innovation

PROGRAM (tentative) All times are EDT

• 10.45am - 10.55am: Welcome, opening remarks by NSF

• 10.55am - 11.00am: Goal setting, timeline, workshop overview

• 11.00am - 12.00pm: Brief keynotes

Keynote 1. "NTIA/ITS R&D Applied to Spectrum Management"

Michael Cotton, Division Chief, Telecommunications Theory Division, National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA)

Michael's Speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWCAFUbrXnw

Keynote 2. "Five Myths That Impede Progress in Wireless"

Thomas Marzetta, Distinguished Industry Professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering's Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and Associate Director of NYU Wireless

• 12.00pm - 12.30pm: --------Networking/meal break--------

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• 12.30pm - 1.15pm: Discussion Panel I. Emerging data-centric methods in wireless spectrum sensing, sharing and access

Moderator: Kathyayani Srikanteswara, Intel

• • • • • Jerry Park, Virginia Tech

        • Sastry Kompella, Naval Research Laboratory

        • Sumit Roy, University of Washington

        • John Davies, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

        • Mariya Zhelava, University at Albany, SUNY

        • Ben Hilburn, Microsoft

• 1.15pm - 2pm: Small group panel reflections and Q&A

Question 1. What are the fundamental open problems in data-centric methods for spectrum sensing/sharing/access. Why are they important?

Question 2. Challenges and solutions for obtaining, maintaining, storing, disseminating meaningful and relevant datasets

Question 3. Perspectives on what the community should prioritize and why:

• In the next 5-10 years

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• 2.00pm-2.15pm: --------Networking break--------

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• 2.15pm-3.00pm: Discussion Panel II. Novel spectrum uses

Moderator: Murat Torlak, National Science Foundation

• • • • • Josep Jornet, Northeastern University

        • Can Vuran, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

        • Suman Banerjee, University of Wisconsin Madison

        • Edward Knightly, Rice University

        • Fatemeh Afghah, Northern Arizona University

• 3.00pm-3.45pm: Small group panel reflections and Q&A

Question 1. What are the fundamental open problems in a) sub 8GHz bands and b) mmWave and THz bands? Why are they important?

Question 2. Challenges and solutions for spectrum use in emerging applications like robotics, autonomous vehicles etc.

Question 3. Perspectives on what the community should prioritize and why:

• In the next 5-10 years

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• 3.45pm-4pm: --------Networking break--------

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• 4pm-4.45pm: Discussion Panel III. Ultra-performance links

Moderator: Dola Saha, University at Albany, SUNY

• • • • • Jennifer Chen, Rutgers University

        • Kyle Jamieson, Princeton University

        • Saptarshi Debroy, The City University of New York (CUNY)

        • Hongwei Zhang, Iowa State University

        • Xia Zhou, Dartmouth College

        • Bhaskar Krishnamachari, University of Southern California

• 4.45pm-5.30pm: Small group panel reflections and Q&A

Question 1. What are the fundamental approaches that will result in ultra low latency, ultra high throughput and ultra reliable communication links?

Question 2. Can non-RF sources of sensing and information drive spectrum access and sharing? How?

Question 3. Perspectives on what the community should prioritize and why:

• In the next 5-10 years

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• 5.30pm [Workshop adjourned]

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• 10.45am-11.30am: Discussion Panel IV. Resources for reliable, repeatable, verifiable wireless research

Moderator: Abhimanyu Gosain, Northeastern University

• • • • • Rudra Dutta, North Carolina State University

        • Tommaso Melodia, Northeastern University

        • Thomas Henderson, University of Washington

        • Dirk Grunwald, University of Colorado Boulder

        • Oguz Sunay, Open Networking Foundation

• 11.30am-12.15pm: Small group panel reflections and Q&A

Question 1. How at-scale experimentation, emulation and simulation practices enable the future wireless spectrum research? What novel scenarios can be investigated through them, which are otherwise impossible today? What are the shortcomings of these platforms that need to be addressed to ensure their continued use over the next decade? (Meta-question: what is “repeatability” and “reproducibility” to you, as a researcher?)

Question 2. How can the community be incentivized to both leverage and contribute to open source software for spectrum related research?

Question 3. Perspectives on what the community should prioritize and why:

• In the next 5-10 years

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• 12.15pm-12.45pm: --------Networking/meal break--------

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• 12.45pm-1.30pm: Discussion Panel V. Government and industry perspectives panel

Moderator: Thyaga Nandagopal, National Science Foundation

• • • • • Monisha Ghosh, Federal Communications Commission

        • Nada Golmie, National Institute of Standards and Technology

        • Charles Dietlein, Army Research Laboratory

        • John Kaewell, Interdigital

        • Paul Tilghman, Microsoft

• 1.30pm-2.15pm: Small group panel reflections and Q&A

Question 1. How can researchers increase awareness and access resources available with federal agencies and companies, such as spectrum datasets, wireless testbeds, emerging policies, spectrum licenses, gray-box hardware, software. What incentives can be created for such sharing?



Question 2. How do we go beyond bilateral interactions and enable enhanced three-ways interaction between academia, industry and federal agencies to accelerate the advancement in wireless spectrum research. Many joint workshops have been conducted before, and few select joint funding programs that combine federal and industry support exist today. What is missing? 




Question 3. Perspectives on what the community should prioritize and why:


• In the next 5-10 years

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• 2.15pm-2.30pm: --------Networking break--------

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• 2.30pm-3.15pm: Discussion Panel VI. Spectrum policy and economics

Moderator: Apurva N. Mody, Founder, AiRANACULUS; NSC ExCom Member; Chairman WhiteSpace Alliance

• • • • • Jon Peha, Carnegie Mellon University

        • Randall Berry, Northwestern University

        • Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou, University of New Mexico

        • Joe Kochan, US Ignite

        • Michael Marcus, Marcus Spectrum Solutions

        • Henning Schulzrinne, Columbia University

• 3.15pm-4.00pm: Small group panel reflections and Q&A

Question 1. What may be feasible economic models of spectrum sharing/leasing in sub-8GHz and mmWave/THz bands? How can crowdsourcing of spectrum measurements be incentivized?

Question 2. How do we ensure spectrum access technology and policy intersect at opportune moments. How does one drive the other? As an important subset of this discussion, how do we design the next generation of spectrum access methods and protocols to protect passive users of spectrum?

Question 3. Perspectives on what the community should prioritize and why:

• In the next 5-10 years

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• 4.00pm: Concluding statements by NSF [Workshop adjourned]