Full Program
Wednesday, October 9, 2013
8.00 – 8.45: Registration
8.45 – 9.00: Opening
9.00 – 11.00: Technical Session #1 – WG1 (Chair: Jacques Palicot, SUPELEC, France)
- “On the impact of estimation errors on Interference Rejection Combining Receiver” – Fernando M. L. Tavares, Gilberto Berardinelli, Nurul H. Mahmood, Troels B. Sørensen and Preben Mogensen, Department of Electronic Systems, Aalborg University, Denmark.
- “Distributed Runtime Synchronization for 5G small cells“ - Gilberto Berardinelli, Fernando M. L. Tavares, Jakob L. Buthler, Nurul H. Mahmood, Oscar Tonelli and Andrea F. Cattoni, Department of Electronic Systems, Aalborg University, Denmark. Slides in pdf
- “Application of an Algorithm for Channel and Noise Estimation to Spectrum Sensing in a Cognitive Radio Context“ - Vincent Savaux (1)(2), Yves Louët (1), Moïse Djoko-Kouam (2) and Alexandre Skrzypczak (3), (1) IETR/Supélec, Cesson-Sévigné, France, (2) ECAM, Rennes, France, (3) Zodiac Data Systems, Bretteville l’Orgueilleuse, France. Slides in pdf
- “Adaptive Multi-Coset Sampler“ - Samba Traoré, Babar Aziz and Daniel Le Guennec, IETR/Supélec, Cesson-Sévigné, France. Speaker: Vincent Savaux. Slides in pdf
- “Implementation of a Distributed Compressed Sensing Algorithm on USRP2 Platforms“ - J. Verlant-Chenet (1), J. Bodart (1), A. Bourdoux (2), J.-M. Dricot (1), P. De Doncker (1) and F. Horlin (1), (1) OPERA Department, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, (2) Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre, Wireless Research Group. Slides in pdf
- “Impact of noise estimation on eigenvalue based spectrum sensing in cognitive radio systems“ - P. Dhakal (1), R. Garello (2), F. Penna (3) and D. Riviello (2)(4), (1) Department of Electrical & Electronics, Kathmandu University, Nepal, (2) Dipartimento di Elettronica e Telecomunicazioni, Politecnico di Torino, Italy, (3) Fraunhofer HHI, Berlin, Germany, (4) CSP – ICT Innovation, Turin, Italy. Slides in pdf
11.00 – 11.30: Coffee Break
11.30 – 13.00: Technical Session #2 – WG1
- “A Comparison of energy efficiency for UWB Modulations“ – Adil Elabboubi (1), F.Elbahhar (1), M.Heddebaut (1) and Y.Elhillali (2), (1) IFSTTAR, LEOST, Villeneuve d’Ascq, France, (2) UVHC, IEMN-DOAE, Valenciennes, France. Slides in pdf
- “On the development of a Cognitive Radio Network Simulator based on OMNeT++/MiXiM“ - Giuseppe Caso and Luca De Nardis, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. Slides in pdf
- “Sparsity-Based Primary User Detection for Cognitive Radio“ – Eva Lagunas and Montse Nájar, Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Barcelon, Spain. Slides in pdf
- “GLRT for Cooperative Spectrum Sensing: Threshold Setting in Presence of Uncalibrated Receivers“ - Andrea Mariani, Andrea Giorgetti and Marco Chiani, CIRI-ICT/DEI, University of Bologna, Cesena, Italy. Slides in pdf
- “Experimental acquisition of UWB channel impulse responses“ - Guido C. Ferrante (1), Y. Elhillali (2), M.-G. Di Benedetto (1), F. Boukour (3) and R. Atika (2), (1) Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, (2) UVHC, IEMN-DOAE, Valenciennes, France, (3) IFSTTAR-INRETS, Villeneuve d’Ascq, France. Slides in pdf
13.00 – 14.00: Lunch
14.00 – 16.00: Technical Session #3 – WG2 / SIGs
- “Correlation-based spectrum sensing in presence of mobility“ - Krzysztof Cichoń (1) and Luca De Nardis (2), (1) Poznan University of Technology, Poland, (2) Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. Slides in pdf
- “Evolving Hypernetworks based Channel Prediction for Secondary Access in Cognitive Radio Ad hoc Networks“ - Shah Nawaz Khan and Andreas Mitschele-Thiel, Integrated Communication Systems Group, Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany. Slides in pdf
- “Cooperative spectrum sensing based on noise power estimation“ - Valentin Rakovic, Daniel Denkovski, Vladimir Atanasovski and Liljana Gavrilovska, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje, Macedonia. Slides in pdf
- “Spectrum sensing experiment specification ontology“ - Carolina Fortuna (1), Milorad Tosic (2), Mikolaj Chwalisz (3), Peter de Valck (4) and Ivan Seskar (5), (1) Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia, (2) University of Nis, Serbia, (3) Technical University Berlin, Germany, (4) iMinds and University of Gent, Belgium, (5) Rutgers University, USA. Slides in pdf
- “Multiuser positioning“ - Ronald Raulefs, Siwei Zhang, Wei Wang, DLR, Institute of Communications and Navigation, Germany. Slides in pdf
- “The comparison of methods for constructing the radio frequency layer of radio environment map using participatory measurements“ - Marko Pesko (1), Tomaž Javornik (2), Mitja Štular (1) and Mihael Mohorčič (2), (1) Telekom Slovenije, Ljubljana, Slovenia, (2) Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Slides in pdf
- “Modeling Heterogeneity of SUs in a Distributed Medium Access Control for Cognitive Radio Networks“ - Miguel Luis (1)(3), Rodolfo Oliveira (1)(2), Rui Dinis (1)(3) and Luis Bernardo (1)(2), (1) Dep.o de Enga Electrotécnica, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal, (2) CTS, UNINOVA – Instituto de Desenvolvimento de Novas Tecnologias, Portugal, (3) IT – Instituto de Telecomunicações, Lisboa, Portugal. Slides in pdf
16.00 – 16.30: Coffee Break
17.00 – 18.00: MC Meeting – Opening Session
18.00: Welcome Reception
Thursday, October 10, 2013
9.00 – 10.00: Keynote Speech (Chair: Luca De Nardis, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)
- “Blind Sensing Techniques using Model Selection tools based on Kullback-Leibler distance for Cognitive Radio Systems” - Professor Aawatif Hayar, GREENTIC/ENSEM, University Hassan II Casablanca Morocco. Abstract and biographical sketch
10.00 – 11.00: Technical Session #4 – WG3 (Chair: Andrea Fabio Cattoni, Aalborg University, Denmark)
- “Implementation of a Communication Protocol between a Geo-location Database and TV White Space Devices“ - Rogério Dionísio (1)(2), Jorge Ribeiro (1) and Paulo Marques (1), (1) Instituto de Telecomunicações, (2) Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco, Portugal. Slides in pdf
- “Multi-user MIMO in small cell networks with coordinated scheduling” - Danny Finn (1), Hamed Ahmadi (1), Andrea F. Cattoni (2), Luiz A. DaSilva (1), (1) CTVR – The Telecommunications Research Centre, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, (2) Department of Electronic Systems, Aalborg University, Denmark.
- “A Traffic Based UL/DL Assignment Scheme for 5G networks” - Davide Catania, Andrea F. Cattoni, Preben E. Mogensen, Department of Electronic Systems, Aalborg University, Denmark.
11.00 – 11.30: Coffee Break
11.30 – 13.00: Technical Session #5 – WG3 + WG4 (Chair: Liljana Gavrilovska, UKIM, Macedonia)
- “Improved Bootstrapping Approach in Multichannel Cognitive Radio Ad Hoc Networks“ - Oleksandr Artemenko, Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany, Germany. Slides in pdf
- “Cooperative spectrum sensing based Distributed Power control Routing Protocol in Cognitive Radio Ad-Hoc Networks“ - Shuyu Ping (1), Giuseppe Caso (2), Luca De Nardis (2), Oliver Holland (1), (1) Institute of Telecommunications, King’s College London, UK, (2) DIET Department, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. Slides in pdf
- “Flexible spectrum licensing – the incentives for the multi band spectrum broker” - Marcin Parzy, Poznan University of Technology, Poland.
- “Real-world analysis of a network deployment in office scenario with a Software Defined Radio testbed“ - Oscar Tonelli, Ignacio Rodriguez Larrad, Gilberto Berardinelli, Jakob, L. Buthler, Fernando M.L. Tavares, Andrea F. Cattoni, Troels B. Sørensen and Preben Mogensen, Department of Electronic Systems, Aalborg University, Denmark. Slides in pdf
- “Cognitive Beamforming for Spectral Coexistence of Satellite and Terrestrial Networks“ - Shree Krishna Sharma, Symeon Chatzinotas, Bjӧrn Ottersten SnT, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg. Slides in pdf
13.00 – 14.00: Lunch
14.00 – 16.00: Technical Session #6 – WG5 + SIGs (Chair: Oliver Holland, King’s College London, UK)
- “Design a Cross-Layer Cognitive Engine using Cross-Layer Optimization with Case-Based Reasoning and Reinforcement Learning“ - Ali Haider Mahdi and Andreas Mitschele-Thiel, Integrated Communication Systems Group, Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany. Slides in pdf
- “Learning Based Auction Process for Cognitive Radio Systems“ - Abdulkarim Oloyede and David Grace, Communications Research Group, University of York, UK. Slides in pdf
- “Carrier Aggregation as a Repeated Game: Learning Algorithms for Efficient Convergence to a Nash Equilibrium“ - Hamed Ahmadi, Irene Macaluso and Luiz A. DaSilva, CTVR Telecommunications Research Center, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. Slides in pdf
- “Mobility model for indoor conference scenarios” - Ondrej Hrstka (1), Ludek Subrt (2), Pavel Pechac (2), Vojtech Micka (1), Jiri Vokrinek (1), (1) Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, (2) Dept. of Electromagnetic Field, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic. Slides in pdf
- “Joint Localization Algorithms for Network Topology Ambiguity Reduction“ - M. Angjelicinoski, D. Denkovski, V. Atanasovski, L. Gavrilovska, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje, Macedonia. Slides in pdf
- “A novel cognitive engine towards geo-location based Vertical Handoff decision“ -George Agapiou, Ioanna Papafili, Roi Arapoglou, Nancy Alonistioti, OTE S.A., Athens, Greece, Research Labs National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. Slides in pdf, Demo video
- “A study on machine learning and regression based models for performance estimation of LTE HetNets” - Biljana Bojović (1), Elena Meshkova (2), Nicola Baldo (1), Janne Riihijarvi (2), Marina Petrova (2), (1) Centre Tecnologic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Castelldefels, Spain, (2) Institute for Networked Systems, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany.
16.00: Coffee Break
18.00 – 20.30: Social Event “Watch, Wish, Wine”
20.30: Gala Dinner
Friday, October 11, 2013
9.00 – 11.30: MC Meeting – Evaluation Session
- Presentation from the Grant Holder of expenditure of Action finances through the 4 years of the Action (20 minutes)
- Presentation from the MC Chair and Vice Chair (30 minutes)
- Presentation from WG leaders (50 minutes)
- Presentation from STSM Manager (10 minutes)
- Discussion session (40 minutes)
11.30 – 12.00: Conclusions
12.00: Goodbye Reception
