Wednesday, 4 May
11:30 - 12:30
Plenary Session 1
Location: Berlin (plenary)
Chair: Marina Petrova, RWTH Aachen, Germany

UHF white space in Europe - a quantitative study into the potential of the 470-790 MHz band
Jaap van de Beek (Huawei Technologies, SE), Janne Riihijärvi (RWTH Aachen University, DE), Andreas Achtzehn (RWTH Aachen University, DE), Petri Mähönen (RWTH Aachen University, DE)

SenseLess: A Database-Driven White Spaces Network
Rohan Murty (Harvard University, US), Ranveer Chandra (Microsoft Research, US), Thomas Moscibroda (Microsoft Research, US), Victor Bahl (Microsoft Research, US)

Spectrum Requirements for TV Broadcast Services using Cellular Transmitters
Joerg Huschke (Ericsson, DE), Kumar Balachandran (Ericsson Inc., US), Joachim Sachs (Ericsson Research, DE), Jorgen Karlsson (Ericsson Research, SE)


Wednesday, 4 May
13:30 - 15:00
Technology Session 1: Measurements and Models
Location: Berlin 3
Chair: Dennis Roberson, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA

Bounding the Error of Path Loss Models
Caleb Phillips (University of Colorado, US), Douglas Sicker (University of Colorado, US), Dirk Grunwald (University of Colorado, US)

Long-term Measurements of Spectrum Occupancy Characteristics
Timothy Harrold (University of Bristol, UK), Rafael Cepeda (Toshiba Research Europe Ltd, UK), Mark Beach (University of Bristol, UK)

Discrete-Time Spectrum Occupancy Model based on Markov Chain and Duty Cycle Models
Miguel López-Benítez (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, ES), Ferran Casadevall (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, ES)

Long-term Spectral Occupancy Findings in Chicago
Tanim Taher (Illinois Institute of Technology, US), Roger Bacchus (Illinois Institute of Technology, US), Kenneth Zdunek (Illinois Institute of Technology, US), Dennis Roberson (Illinois Institute of Technology, US)

Reliable power control for secondary users based on distributed measurements
Gitte Vanwinckelen (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, BE), Martijn Van Otterlo (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, BE), Kurt Driessens (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, BE), Sofie Pollin (IMEC / UC Berkeley, US)


Wednesday, 4 May
13:30 - 15:00
Policy Session 1: Usage Rights and Regulatory Models
Location: Berlin 1
Chair: Ruprecht Niepold, European Commission, Belgium

Digital Switchover and Regulatory Design for Competing White Space Usage Rights
Benoit Freyens (University of Canberra, AU), Mark Loney (Australian Communications and Media Authority, AU)

The Unfinished History of Usage Rights for Spectrum
Martin Cave (London Schol of Economics, UK), William Webb (Neul, UK)

Exploiting hybrid models for spectrum access
Andrew Stirling (Larkhill Consultancy Limited, UK)

The Three Ps: Increasing concurrent operation by unambiguously defining and delegating radio rights
Pierre de Vries (University of Colorado, Boulder, US), Kaleb Sieh (University of Colorado Law School, US)


Wednesday, 4 May
15:30 - 17:00
Technology Session 2: Spectrum Sensing I
Location: Berlin 3
Chair: Timothy Newman, Virginia Tech, USA

Compressive sensing for dynamic spectrum access networks: techniques and tradeoffs
Jason Laska (Rice University, US), Bill Bradley (Lyric Semiconductor, US), Tom Rondeau (Center for Communications Research, US), Keith Nolan (Trinity College, IE), Benjamin Vigoda (Lyric Semiconductor, US)

Multi-Channel Multi-Stage Spectrum Sensing: Link Layer Performance and Energy Consumption
Wesam Gabran (University of California, Los Angeles, US), Przemyslaw Pawelczak (University of California, Los Angeles, US), Danijela Cabric (University of California Los Angeles, US)

Distributed Spectrum Sensing Utilizing Heterogeneous Wireless Devices and Measurement Equipment
Junichi Naganawa (The University of Tokyo, JP), Shunsuke Saruwatari (The University of Tokyo, JP)

Can Dynamic Spectrum Access Induce Heavy Tailed Delay?
Pu Wang (Georgia Institute of Technology, US), Ian Akyildiz (Georgia Institute of Technology, US)

Wednesday, 4 May
15:30 - 17:00
Joint Technology and Policy Session 1
Location: Berlin 1
Chair: Berna Sayrac, Orange Labs, France (TBC)

Adaptive Channel Recommendation for Dynamic Spectrum Access
Xu Chen (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK), Jianwei Huang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK), Husheng Li (University of Tennessee, US)

Pricing Mechanisms for Multi-Carrier Wireless Systems
Anil Kumar Chorppath (Technical University of Berlin, DE), Tansu Alpcan (Technical University Berlin, DE), Holger Boche (Technical University Munich, DE)

Profitability of Dynamic Spectrum Provision for Secondary Use
Murat Alanyali (Boston University, US), Ashraf Al Daoud (University of Waterloo, CA), David Starobinski (Boston University, US)

The Impact of Additional Unlicensed Spectrum on Wireless Services Competition
Thanh Nguyen (Northwestern University, US), Hang Zhou (Northwestern University, US), Randall Berry (Northwestern University, US), Michael Honig (Northwestern University, US), Rakesh Vohra (Northwestern University, US)

 

Thursday, 5 May
9:30 - 10:30
Plenary Session 2
Location: Berlin (plenary)
Chair: Milind Buddhikot, Alcatel-Lucent, USA

Robust Cooperative Sensing via State Estimation in Cognitive Radio Networks
Alexander Min (University of Michigan, US), Kyu-Han Kim (Deutsche Telekom Inc. R&D Lab USA, US), Kang G. Shin (University of Michigan, US)

Evaluating the economic impact of cognitive radio with a three-player oligopoly model
Kimmo Berg (Aalto University School of Science and Technology, FI), Mikko Uusitalo (Nokia Research Center, FI), Carl Wijting (Nokia Research Center, FI)

Spatio-Temporal Spectrum Holes and the Secondary User
Martin Weiss (University of Pittsburgh, US)


Thursday, 5 May
13:30 - 15:00
Technology Session 3: TV White Space
Location: Berlin 3
Chair: Allen B. MacKenzie, Virginia Tech, USA

Database-Assisted Multi-AP Network on TV White Spaces: Architecture, Spectrum Allocation and AP Discovery
Xiaojun Feng (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HK), Jin Zhang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, CN), Qian Zhang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HK)

Monitoring-Based Spectrum Management for Expanding Opportunities of White Space Utilization
Kazushi Muraoka (NEC Corporation, JP), Hiroto Sugahara (NEC Corporation, JP), Masayuki Ariyoshi (NEC, JP)

Field Trials Of DVB-T Sensing For TV White Spaces
Rob Davies (Philips Research Laboratories, UK), Monisha Ghosh (Philips Research North America, US)

A TV White Space Spectrum Sensing Prototype
Raamkumar Balamurthi (Qualcomm, US), Harshit Joshi (Qualcomm, US), Cong Nguyen (Qualcomm, US), Ahmed Sadek (Qualcomm Inc., US), Stephen Shellhammer (Qualcomm, US), Cong Shen (Qualcomm, US)


Thursday, 5 May
13:30 - 15:00
Policy Session 2: Business Cases: commercial considerations for deploying shared access systems
Location: Berlin 1
Chair: Martin Weiss, University of Pittsburgh, USA

Pricing of Spectrum Based On Physical Criteria
Andrew Kerans (Australian Communications and Media Authority, AU), Dat Vo (Australian Communications and Media Authority, AU), Phillip Conder (Australian Communications and Media Authority, AU), Snezana Krusevac (The Australian National University, AU)

The Value of Sensing for TV White Spaces
Vânia Gonçalves (IBBT-SMIT, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, BE), Sofie Pollin (IMEC / UC Berkeley, US)

Evaluation of Business Cases for a Cognitive Radio Network based on Wireless Sensor Network
Ole Grøndalen (Telenor, NO), Marku Lähteenoja (Telenor, NO), Pål R Grønsund (Telenor, NO)

Techno-economical Viability of Cognitive Solutions for a Factory Scenario
Lieven Tytgat (University Ghent, BE), Matthias Barrie (IBBT-SMIT, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, BE), et al.


Thursday, 5 May
16:30 - 18:00
Technology Session 4: Secondary Spectrum Access
Location: Berlin 3
Chair: Ryan Thomas, AFIT, USA

License-exempt LTE systems for secondary spectrum usage: scenarios and first assessment
Muhammad Imadur Rahman (Ericsson Research, SE), Ali Behravan (Ericsson research, SE), Havish Koorapaty (Ericsson Research, US), Joachim Sachs (Ericsson Research, DE), Kumar Balachandran (Ericsson Inc., US)

Influence of Primary Network Structure and Dynamics on Achievable Performance of Cognitive Wireless Networks
Janne Riihijärvi (RWTH Aachen University, DE), Jad Nasreddine (RWTH Aachen University, DE), Petri Mähönen (RWTH Aachen University, DE)

On the Requirements of Secondary Access to 960-1215 MHz Aeronautical Spectrum
Ki Won Sung (Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), SE), Evanny Obregon (Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), SE), Jens Zander (Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), SE)

Adaptive Sensing and Transmission Durations for Cognitive Radios
Wessam Afifi (Nile University, EG), Ahmed Sultan (Nile University, EG), Mohammed Nafie (Nile University, EG)


Thursday, 5 May
16:30 - 18:00
Policy Session 3: Policy & Engineering: Impact of technical considerations on policy frameworks
Location: Berlin 1
Chair: William Webb, Neul, UK

Improve Secure Communications in Cognitive Two-Way Relay Networks using Sequential Second Price Auction
Tianyu Wang (Peking University, CN), Lingyang Song (Peking University, CN), Zhu Han (University of Houston, US), Bingli Jiao (Peking University, CN)

Potential collapse of whitespaces and the prospect for a universal power rule
Kate Harrison (UC Berkeley, US), Anant Sahai (UC Berkeley, US)

Virtual Occupancy in Cognitive Radio
Mark Burke (Australian Communications and Media Authority, AU), Bridget Lally (Australian Communications and Media Authority, AU), Andrew Kerans (Australian Communications and Media Authority, AU)

Exclusive Sharing & Virtualization of the Cellular Network
Timothy K. Forde (Trinity College Dublin, IE), Irene Macaluso (Trinity College Dublin, IE), Linda Doyle (Trinity College Dublin, IE)
 

Friday, 6 May
13:30 - 15:00
Technology Session 5: Spectrum Sharing and Protocols
Location: Berlin 3
Chair: Luiz DaSilva, Virginia Tech, USA

TRUMP: Supporting Efficient Realization of Protocols for Cognitive Radio Networks
Xi Zhang (RWTH Aachen University, DE), Junaid Ansari (RWTH Aachen University, DE), Guangwei Yang (RWTH Aachen University, DE), Petri Mähönen (RWTH Aachen University, DE)

The Effects of a Dynamic Spectrum Access Overlay in LTE-Advanced Networks
Juan Deaton (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, US), Ryan Irwin (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, US), Luiz A. DaSilva (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, IE)

A Cross-layer Framework for Symbiotic Relaying in Cognitive Radio Networks
Taskeen Nadkar (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, IN), Vinaykumar Thumar (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, IN), Konchady Shenoy (IIT Bombay, IN), Amit Mehta (Indian Institute Of Technology, Bombay, IN), Uday Desai (IIT Hyderabad, IN), Shabbir Merchant (IIT Bombay, IN)

Coexistence of Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Systems for IEEE 802.15.4g Smart Utility Networks
Chin-Sean Sum (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, JP), Fumihide Kojima (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, JP), Hiroshi Harada (National Institute of Information & Communications Technology (NICT), JP)


Friday, 6 May
13:30 - 15:00
Joint Technology and Policy Session 2
Location: Berlin 2
Chair: Jianwei Huang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Non-identical objects auction for spectrum sharing in TV white spaces - the perspective of service providers as secondary users
Marcin Parzy (Poznan University of Technology, PL), Hanna Bogucka (Poznan University of Technology, PL)

Contract-based Cooperative Spectrum Sharing
Lingjie Duan (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK), Lin Gao (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK), Jianwei Huang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK)

Signal Quality Pricing: Decomposition for Spectrum Scheduling and System Configuration
Eric Anderson (Carnegie Mellon University, US), Caleb Phillips (University of Colorado, US), Douglas Sicker (University of Colorado, US), Dirk Grunwald (University of Colorado, US)

Transmission Probability Control Game with Limited Energy
Johannes Dams (RWTH Aachen University, DE), Thomas Kesselheim (RWTH Aachen University, DE), Berthold Vöcking (RWTH Aachen, DE)


Friday, 6 May
13:30 - 15:00
Policy Session 4: Regulatory Engineering: Technical solutions to regulatory problems
Location: Berlin 1
Chair: Joachim Sachs, Ericssson, Germany

Why the caged cognitive radio sings
Kristen Woyach (University of California, Berkeley, US), Anant Sahai (UC Berkeley, US)

Geolocation databases for white space devices in the UHF TV bands: Specification of regulatory emission limits
Hamid Reza Karimi (Ofcom, UK)

Impact of geographic complementarity in dynamic spectrum access
Junwhan Kim (Virginia Tech, US), Anil Kumar Vullikanti (Virginia Tech, US), Achla Marathe (Virginia Tech, US), Guanhong Pei (Virginia Tech, US), Sudip Saha (Virginia Tech, US), Balaaji Subbiah (Virginia Tech, US)

Lights and Sirens Broadband - How Spectrum Pooling, Cognitive Radio, and Dynamic Prioritization Management can Empower Emergency Communications , Restore Sanity and Save Billions
Nancy Jesuale (NetCity Engineering, US)


Friday, 6 May
15:30 - 17:00
Technology Session 6: PHY Issues and Experimental Studies
Location: Berlin 3
Chair: Przemyslaw Pawelczak, UC Los Angeles, USA

Blind Synchronization for NC-OFDMs - When "Channels" Are Conventions, Not Mandates
Dola Saha (University of Colorado at Boulder, US), Aveek Dutta (University of Colorado at Boulder, US), Dirk Grunwald (University of Colorado, US), Douglas Sicker (University of Colorado, US)

A Reconfigurable Wavelet Packet Filter Bank Transceiver for Spectral Analysis and Dynamic Spectrum Access
Madan Kumar Lakshmanan (Delft University of Technology, NL), Dyonisius Ariananda (Delft University of Technology, NL), Homayoun Nikookar (Delft University of Technology, NL)

A Cognitive Radio Architecture based on sub-Nyquist Sampling
Dennis Wieruch (Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich-Hertz Institut, DE), Volker Pohl (Technische Universität München, DE)

Experimental Evaluation of Cyclostationarity-Based Multiple Signal Identification Method by using Spatial Channel Emulator
Hiroki Harada (Ntt Docomo, Inc., JP), Hiromasa Fujii (NTT DoCoMo, Inc., JP), Shunji Miura (NTT DOCOMO, Inc., JP), Hidetoshi Kayama (Ntt Docomo, Inc., JP), Yoshiki Okano (NTT DOCOMO, Inc., JP), Tetsuro Imai (NTT DOCOMO, Inc., JP)


Friday, 6 May
15:30 - 17:00
Technology Session 7: Spectrum Sensing II
Location: Berlin 1
Chair: Oliver Holland, KCL, UK

A NLLS based sub-Nyquist rate Spectrum Sensing for Wideband Cognitive Radio
Moslem Rashidi (Chalmers University of Technology, SE), Kasra Haghighi (Chalmers University of Technology, SE), Ashkan Panahi (Chalmers University of Technology, SE), Mats Viberg (Chalmers University of Technology, SE)

The Theoretical Performance of ATSC Spectrum Sensing
Stephen Shellhammer (Qualcomm, US)

Performance Evaluation of Sensing Solutions
Peter Van Wesemael (IMEC, BE), Sofie Pollin (IMEC / UC Berkeley, US), Eduardo Lopez (IMEC, BE), Antoine Dejonghe (IMEC, BE)

Edge based Wideband Sensing for Cognitive Radio: Algorithm and Performance Evaluation
Yonghong Zeng (Institute for Infocomm Research, SG), Ying-Chang Liang (Institute for Infocomm Research, SG), Meng Wah Chia (Institute of Infocomm Research, SG)
 

POSTER TRACK

Posters will be available on Thursday, 5 May, during Lunch (12:30 - 13:30) and between 15:00 - 16:30 in the Lissabon room.

A novel multi-layer framework for modeling the evolution of spectrum markets and cognitive-radio devices
Georgios Fortetsanakis (University of Crete, GR), Markos Katsoulakis (University of Crete, GR), Maria Papadopouli (University of Crete, GR)

Aggregate interference with FCC and ECC white space usage rules: case study in Finland
Riku Jäntti (Helsinki University of Technology, FI), Jussi Kerttula (Aalto University, FI), Konstantinos Koufos (TKK, FI), Kalle Ruttik (Helsinki University of Technology, FI)

Experimental Spectrum Sensor Testbed for Constructing Indoor Radio Environmental Maps
Elena Meshkova (RWTH Aachen University, DE), Junaid Ansari (RWTH Aachen University, DE), Daniel Denkovski (Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, MK), et al.

Exploiting TV White Spaces in Europe: The COGEU Approach
Joseph Mwangoka (Instituto de Telecomunicações - Aveiro, PT)

Finding Green Spots and Turning the Spectrum Dial: Novel Techniques for Green Mobile Wireless Networks
Giordano Fusco (Stony Brook University, US), Milind Buddhikot (Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, US), Himanshu Gupta (SUNY, Stony Brook, US), Sivarama Venkatesan (Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, US)

IPTV Delivery using Cognitive Radio Principles
Tim Farnham (Toshiba Research Europe Ltd., UK)

Iterative Cooperative Sensing on Shared Primary Spectrum for Improving Sensing Ability
Mai Ohta (The University of Electro-Communications, JP), Takeo Fujii (The University of Electro-Communications, JP)

Model-Based Spectrum Management: Loose Coupling SPectrum Management and Spectrum Access
John Stine (The MITRE Corportation, US)

Multi-hop MAC Implementations for Affordable SDR Hardware
J Colman O'Sullivan (Trinity College Dublin, IE), Paolo Di Francesco (University of Bologna, IT), Uchenna Anyanwu (Virginia Tech, US), Luiz DaSilva (Trinity College, IE), Allen MacKenzie (Virginia Tech, US)

On Secondary Network Interference Alignment in Cognitive Radio
Haichuan Zhou (Queen's University Belfast, UK), Tharmalingam Ratnarajah (Queen's University of Belfast, UK), Ying-Chang Liang (Institute for Infocomm Research, SG)

Reinforcement learning based distributed multiagent sensing policy for cognitive radio networks
Jarmo Lunden (Teknillinen Korkeakoulu, FI), Visa Koivunen (HUT, FI), Sanjeev Kulkarni (Princeton University, US), H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, US)

Simplified DFT: A Novel Method for Wideband Spectrum Sensing
Yasin Miar (University of Ottawa, CA), Claude D'Amours (School of Information Technology and Engineering(SITE), University of Ottawa, CA), Abbas Yongacoglu (University of Ottawa, CA), Tyseer Aboulnasr (University of British Columbia, CA)

Towards Characterizing Primary Usage in Cellular Networks: A Traffic-based Study
Maria Michalopoulou (RWTH Aachen University, DE), Janne Riihijärvi (RWTH Aachen University, DE), Petri Mähönen (RWTH Aachen University, DE)
 

DEMONSTRATIONS 

Demonstrations will be available on Wednesday, 4 May, during Lunch (12:30 - 13:30) and afternoon tea break (15:00 - 15:30), and on Thursday, 5 May, between 12:30 - 13:30 and 15:00 - 16:30 in the Lissabon room.

An integrated reconfigurable engine for multi-purpose sensing up to 6 GHz
Sofie Pollin (IMEC / UC Berkeley, US), Lieven Hollevoet (IMEC, BE), Peter Van Wesemael (IMEC, BE), Mattias Desmet (IMEC, BE), et al.

Blind Identification of Commercial Wireless Standards
Jacques Palicot (SUPELEC, FR)

Cognitive Radio Developments for Emergency Communication Systems
Phillip Conder (Australian Communications and Media Authority, AU), Lance Linton (Victoria University, AU), Mike Faulkner (Victoria University, AU)

Constructing Radio Environment Maps with Heterogeneous Spectrum Sensors
Vladimir Atanasovski (Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, MK), Jaap van de Beek (Huawei Technologies, SE), Antoine Dejonghe (IMEC, BE), et al.

OpenAirInterface.org and Agile Spectrum Access
Christian Bonnet (EURECOM, FR), Riadh Ghaddab (EURECOM, FR), Aawatif Hayar (Eurecom, FR), et al.

Peak Power Reduction of Flexible OFDM Waveforms for Cognitive Radio
Baris Ozgul (Trinity College Dublin, IE), Paul Sutton (Trinity College Dublin, IE), Linda Doyle (Trinity College Dublin, IE)

Self-organizing Home Networking based on Cognitive Radio Technologies
Zhou Wang (European Microsoft Innovation Center, DE), Junaid Ansari (RWTH Aachen University, DE), Vladimir Atanasovski (Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, MK), et al.

Spectrum Mobility Demonstration Over SMSE based Overlay Cognitive Radio via Software Defined Radio
Ruolin Zhou (Wright State University, US), Xue Li (Wright State University, US), Vasu Chakravarthy (Air Force Research Laboratory, US), Zhiqiang Wu (Wright State University, US)

TRUMP: Efficient Realization of PHY/MAC Protocols for Cognitive Radio Networks
Xi Zhang (RWTH Aachen University, DE), Junaid Ansari (RWTH Aachen University, DE), Petri Mähönen (RWTH Aachen University, DE), Guangwei Yang (RWTH Aachen University, DE)