presents a training conference:
Featuring Allied Forces, DHS,
and Warfighter perspectives!
8th Annual
Software Radio
Communications
Summit TM
Washington DC
February 9 – 11, 2010 • Metro Area
The Next Generation in SDR Communications
Hear about the latest in SDR technology from
the following distinguished speakers:
Paige Atkins, SES - Director, Defense Spectrum Organization
Dr. Larry Stotts - Deputy Director, STO, DARPA
Mr. Bradley Clark - Acting Chief, Strategic Planning and
Engineering Division, Joint Interoperability Test Command (JITC)
Stuart Timerman - Director, Army Spectrum Management Office
Philippe Margot - ESSOR Program Manager, OCCAR
Featuring discussions on:
• Interoperability efforts, including international and DHS perspectives
• Next generation of SDRs: Cognitive radios and networks and their
security challenges
• SDR performance in theatre
Featuring a Workshop Day
• Maintenance and T&E on security challenges
• Waveform development and solutions for cognitive
radios and networks!
• And much more!
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Main Summit Day One Main Summit Day Two
Tuesday, February 9, 2010 Wednesday, February 10, 2010
7:15 Registration & Coffee 7:15 Registration & Coffee
8:00 Chairperson’s Welcome & Opening Remarks 8:15 Chairperson’s Welcome & Opening Remarks
Dynamic Spectrum Access (DSA) ESSOR: European Secure Software Defined Radio
European Keynote
8:15 8:30
• Future Defense Spectrum Management concepts • Providing architecture of SDR
Keynote
• DoD DSA spectrum management roadmap • Validation and verification of waveform portability and platform
• Enhancing mission capabilities and interoperability
re-configurability and setting up common security basis
Paige Atkins, SES, Director, Defense Spectrum Organization • Participating nations, studies and project status
Philippe Margot, ESSOR Program Manager, OCCAR
9:00 DARPA Perspective on RF Communications and
International Allied Focus
Spectrum Initiatives 9:15 Denmark Defense Perspective
• Current Updates from the office of STO • Update on interoperability initiatives
• Next Generation Programs • Current advancements and challenges with radio
Dr. Larry Stotts, Deputy Director, STO DARPA communications
LtCol Per Lyse Rasmussen, Assistant Defense, Military,
9:40 JITC Transportation Systems Perspective Naval, and Air Attaché/Defense Industrial Cooperation,
Interoperability Focus
• Update on standards conformance, interoperability, Net-Ready Royal Danish Embassy
testing and certification
• Lessons learned and future challenges toward interoperability initiatives
10:00 Networking Break
• Satellite Terminal Interoperability
Mr. Bradley Clark, Acting Chief, Strategic Planning 10:45 Open Radio Communications Architecture
and Engineering Division, Joint Interoperability • Future communications architectures requirements
Test Command (JITC) • Object-oriented design and software-programmable radio
design
10:20 Networking Break • Developer tools to accelerate development and increase
productivity
11:05 NASA’s SDR Architecture for Space L-3 Communications
Telecommunications Radio System
SDR Forum Panel
• SDR standards coordination 11:30 SDR Forum Vendor Panel: SDR Performance
• Current SDR developments Lee Pucker, CEO of SDR Forum, will moderate a panel of
• Space flight SDR experiment on the international space station
vendors recently returned from theatre to discuss SDR
Richard Reinhart, Senior Communications Engineer, NASA performance. This is your chance to hear in-theatre
performance feedback!
11:45 DHS CID Office for Interoperability and Compatibility
DHS Perspective
• Interoperable wireless communications and effective information
12:15 Lunch
sharing
• Development of standards, reports, guidelines, and technologies to
1:15 Dynamic Spectrum Access and Future Initiatives
enhance overall planning and coordination at all levels of government. •Current and future needs for DoD spectrum access
Jeff King, Branch Chief, OIC, Department of Homeland Security •Lessons learned and challenges faced
Howard McDonald, Team Lead for DSA, Defense Spectrum
12:25 Lunch Organization, DISA
1:30 Update from the Electronics, Sensors, and Network 2:00 SDR Testing and Evaluation
research Division • Design of microelectronic and test and measurement solutions
• Current work on Anti-jam and low-probability-of-intercept • Efficient testing and evaluation of software defined radios, and
T&E Focus
techniques, radio networks, and dynamic internetworking how they perform in the field
• Electromagnetic spectrum in support of Navy and Marine Corps needs • Development of semiconductors capable of operating in harsh
Dr. Preston “Chip” Grounds, Director, Electronics, Sensors & environments
Network Research Division, Office of Naval Research Andrew Reynolds, Field Applications Engineer, Aeroflex
Cupertino
Army Spectrum Focus
2:15 Army Spectrum Management Perspective
• Managing radio frequency spectrum management and radio 2:45 Networking Break
regulatory matters
• Developing and implementing spectrum management policy
3:30 Location Aware Wireless Networks
• Allocating frequency resources to support the Army • Future applications for Homeland Security
Stuart Timerman, Director, Army Spectrum Management Office • Current research in wireless networks for achieving location
awareness
3:00 Networking Break Dr. Moe Win, Professor, Department of Aeronautics and
Astronautics, MIT
3:45 Advanced Software Radio Networks and Design
• Networking and Communications 4:15 Customized Software Radio Communication Solutions
• Current design and analysis R&D for Niche Applications
• Advanced computing architectures • Current challenges with SCA
Dr. Robert Bonnaeu, Air Force Office of Scientific Research • Case studies of custom communications applications that were
implemented using SDR technologies
Warfighter View
4:30 Warfighter Panel: Combat Leaders’ Point of View • Future areas for possible further customization
from the Front Jeremy Price, Senior Research Engineer, Communications
Find out about SDR performance in theatre from and Embedded Systems Department Automation and Data
experienced Warfighters. Systems Division, Southwest Research Institute
5:15 Cocktail Reception 5:00 End of Main Summit
6:15 End of Day One
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NEXT-GEN SDR FOCUS DAY Next-Gen SDR Focus Day:
Cognitive Radios and Network Security
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Software defined radio technology is evolving at a rapid pace, and the demands for the next generation of
communication technology has helped push forward advancements in cognitive radios and networks. Along with
this rapidly evolving technology comes the need to enhance security capabilities. In these workshops, you will learn
the latest R&D efforts and capabilities surrounding cognitive networks and security measures.
7:30am Registration & Coffee
8:00am-10:00am R&D Efforts in Cognitive Radio and Networks
Security Problems Unique to Cognitive Radio Systems and Networks
The PHY and MAC layers of cognitive radio (CR) networks are very different How you will benefit:
from those of conventional wireless networks. The distinguishing attributes of - Learn about the latest efforts towards enhancing security systems for cognitive
CR networks raise new security implications that have not been studied until radios and networks
very recently. In this Master session we discuss those security implications with - Hear about the latest R&D efforts towards CR systems and networks
particular focus on security problems that are unique to CR systems and
networks. Dr. Jeffrey Reed, Willis G. Worcester Professor in ECE, Virginia Tech
What will be covered: Dr. Jung-Min (Jerry) Park, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical
- Variation between PHY and MAC layers and conventional wireless networks and Computer Engineering, Virginia Tech
- New security challenges
10:15am-12:15am Find out the latest on how to secure your SDR networks!
Security Verification for SDR Applications
Software based communications systems that handle valuable, sensitive, and • Learn about security evaluation and international recognition
classified data, must maintain the data’s confidentiality, integrity, and availability. • Find out about government oversight of security evaluation and validation
Security verification is essential to preserve confidence through independent
evaluation and validation of the software’s security properties. DoD requires What you will learn about:
such verification for products sold to them. This session will describe the • International standards for security evaluation
international security standards and evaluation methodology being used to • The security issues that arise when integrating software from multiple developers
verify a middleware foundation for a security critical SDR application. • Where to find expert help in meeting your security requirements
How you will benefit: Gordon Uchenick, Senior Mentor/Principal Engineer, Objective
•Discover how security problems are clearly defined Interface Systems
12:15pm-1:15pm Lunch
1:15pm-3:15pm Exploiting unique properties of wireless domains for enhanced security
Advancements in Security for Wireless Domain at the Lower Protocol Layers
Security is often addressed through cryptographic means, and typically is integrated • Defenses for Attacks of Radio Interference in Wireless Networks
into higher-layer protocols. However, such an approach is incomplete and there is • Physical Layer Techniques for Situational Awareness
much to gain by examining security at the lower layers of the protocol stack. In this
session you will learn about current research that extends the concepts of How you will benefit:
cryptography and security by exploiting properties unique and special to the • Learn about physical layer security mechanisms that leverage the unique
wireless environment. Physical layer methods for establishing provably secure decorrelative properties of the multipath channel for confidentiality and
secrets, as well as means to authenticate transmitters using physical layer signatures authentication
will be presented. Real prototype implementations have been developed, and by • Learn about how the physical and link layer can feed information to higher
combining these aspects with more traditional cryptographic security protocol layers to support situational awareness
methodologies, physical and link layer security mechanisms can enlarge the toolbox • Hear about methods for diagnosing the presence of radio interference, as well
available to protect a tactical wireless network from adversarial threats. as defense mechanisms for coping with radio interference.
What you will learn about: Wade Trappe, PhD, Associate Director, The Wireless Information
•Physical Layer Methods for Achieving Confidentiality Network Laboratory (WINLAB) and Associate Professor, the Electrical
•Physical Layer Methods for Achieving Authentication and Computer Engineering Department, Rutgers University
3:30pm-5:30pm Security Advancements with a Practical Impact
Advancements in Security for Cognitive Systems
In this session you will learn about current research that revisits the concepts of How you will benefit:
security, and examines whether there are additional notions for security in the • Learn about multi-grade authentication that reduces the delay needed to filter
wireless domain. In this regard, our current projects are leveraging strengths in forged multicast packets, and consequently mitigates the effects of DoS
radio resource management, physical layer technologies, and systems-level attacks
experimentation. By combining these aspects with more traditional • Understand the process of developing solutions that provide contextual
cryptographic security methodologies, we have been able to produce results privacy for wireless sensor networks by employing cryptography
that will have a practical impact on current and future system deployment. • Hear about methods for diagnosing the presence of radio interference, as well
as defense mechanisms for coping with radio interference.
What you will learn about:
• Staggered TESLA and DoS-Resistance in Secure Multicasting Dr. Tim Newman, Intelligence Community Post-Doctoral Fellow,
• Privacy Augmented Relaying of Information from Sensors (PARIS) Virginia Tech
• Defenses for Attacks of Radio interference in Wireless Networks (DARWIN)
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8th Annual
Software Radio
Communications
Summit TM
Washington DC
February 9 – 11, 2010 • Metro Area
The Next Generation in SDR Communications
Sponsored by: