IC0902 Bologna meeting and workshop programme

 


IC0902 3rd MC Meeting and Workshop

Programme


ZANHOTEL EUROPA Via Cesare Boldrini, 11, 40121 Bologna (Italy)


Tuesday, November 23

 

COST2100 and IC0902 Joint Workshop

Room: Roma


9.00 - 9.10:  "Welcome" by Roberto Verdone, COST2100 Chair

9.10 - 9.30:  "IC0902 and COST2100" by Maria-Gabriella Di Benedetto, IC0902 Chair and Roberto Verdone, COST2100 Chair

9.30 - 10.00:  "COST IC0905 (TERRA): Overview and Current Status" by Oliver Holland and Maria Matinmikko, COST-TERRA

10.00 - 10.30:  "Wireless Innovation Forum Cognitive Radio Activities and Opportunities for Collaboration" by James Neel, Wireless Innovation Forum

10.30 - 11.00:  "CORAGE: Cognitive Radio for OFDMA-based systems in emergency scenarios" by Celia Del Castillo & Jose Fernandez, Alcatel Lucent, Spain, and Xavier Gelabert, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain


11.00 – 11.30: Coffee break


11.30 - 12.00:  "Cooperative Communications for Collaborative Spectrum Sensing" by Ragnar Thobaben, KTH, Sweden

12.00 - 12.30:  "Cognitive Radio: Technical Challenges and Spectrum Sensing Issues" by Andrea Giorgetti, University of Bologna, Italy

12.30 - 13.00:  "Competition and Cooperation in Cognitive Radio Networks" by Hanna Bogucka, Poznan University of Technology, Poland


13.00 – 14.00: Lunch

 

IC0902 Management Committee Meeting – Session 1

Room: Madrid

14.00 – 15.30: IC0902 Management Committee meeting

15.30 – 16.00: Coffee break

 

IC0902 WG2 Session 1 – Tuesday, November 23, h. 16.00 - 17.30

Session Chair: Jocelyn Fiorina, Supélec, France

Room
: Madrid

16.00 - 16.15:  "Time-domain Cognitive Sensor Networking: Analysis and experiments", Stefano Bosanelli, University of Parma, Italy, Gianluigi Ferrari, University of Pisa, Italy, Alessandro Colazzo, Department of Information Engineering, University of Parma, Italy, Jean-Michel Dricot, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium - Speaker: Gianluigi Ferrari

16.15 - 16.30:  "A Parallel Cooperative Spectrum Sensing in Cognitive Radio Networks" Yan Zhang, Simula Research Laboratory & University of Oslo, Norway - Speaker: Yan Zhang Slides

16.30 - 16.45:  "Controlling the Short-Range Propagation Environment Using Active Frequency Selective Surface" Ludek Subrt, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic, David Grace, University of York, UK, Pavel Pechac, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic - Speaker: Ludek Subrt Slides

16.45 - 17.00:  "Cooperative Game-Theoretic Solutions to Spectrum Sharing in Cognitive Radios" Jayaprakash Rajasekharan, Jan Eriksson, Visa Koivunen, Aalto University, Finland - Speaker: Jayaprakash Rajasekharan Slides

17.00 - 17.15:  "BEP Walls for Cooperative Spectrum Sensing" Sachin Chaudhari, Jarmo Lunden, Visa Koivunen, Aalto University, Finland - Speaker: Sachin Chaudhari

17.15 - 17.30:  "Worst Case Analysis of Single-stage Sensing in WRANs" João Paulo Miranda, M. D. Pérez Guirao, Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany, Andrea Lambertucci, Sapienza, University of Rome, Italy, Luiz A. DaSilva, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland – Speaker: João Paulo Miranda Slides


17.45:  Social event: Visit to the Marconi Museum

19.15:  Gala dinner at Palazzo de’ Rossi


Wednesday, November 24



IC0902 WG2 Session 2 / WG4 Session 1 – Wednesday 24 November, h. 9.00 - 11.15

Session Chair: Jocelyn Fiorina, Supélec, France and Panagiotis Demestichas, University of Piraeus, Greece

Room: Madrid

9.00 - 9.15:  "CREW: Building a Cognitive Radio Federation" Luiz A. DaSilva, Linda Doyle, Danny Finn, Justin Tallon, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, Ingrid Moerman, Stefan Bouckaert, IBBT, Ghent University, Belgium - Speaker: Luiz A. DaSilva Slides

9.15 - 9.30:  "Benefits of Software Defined Radio platforms for cognitive radio testbeds - A case study" Sylvain Azarian, Leonardo Cardoso, Luca Rose and Merouane Debbah, Supélec, France - Speaker: Sylvain Azarian

9.30 - 9.45:  "Which Control Channel for Cooperative Sensing in Cognitive Radio Networks?" Marco Petracca, Remo Pomposini, Franco Mazzenga and Francesco Vatalaro, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy - Speaker: Marco Petracca

9.45 - 10.00:  "Architecture and Approach for Obtaining Spectrum Availability Information" Marja Matinmikko, Tapio Rauma, Miia Mustonen, Javier Del Ser, VTT Technical Research Centre, Finland - Speaker: Marja Matinmikko Slides

10.00 - 10.15:  "Distributed selection of sensing nodes in Cognitive Radio Networks" Oktay Ureten, Kareem E. Baddour, Tricia J. Willink, Communications Research Centre Canada, Canada - Speaker: Kareem E. Baddour Slides

10.15 - 10.30:  "Bootstrapping the Spectrum in Ultra Wide-Band Cognitive Radio Networks" Loredana Arienzo, European Commission Joint Research Center - Security Technology Assessment, EC - Speaker: Loredana Arienzo

10.30 - 10.45:  "Spectral Masks and OFDM Waveform Adaptation for Intersystem Coexistence and Cooperation" Barış Özgül, Paul Sutton, Irene Macaluso, Linda Doyle and Luiz DaSilva, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland - Speaker: Luiz DaSilva Slides

10.45 - 11.00:  "Cyclostationary Signatures – A PHY Layer Watermarking Technique for Intersystem Coexistence and Cooperation" Paul D. Sutton, Baris Ozgul, Irene Macaluso, Keith E. Nolan, Luiz A. DaSilva and Linda Doyle, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland - Speaker: Luiz DaSilva Slides

11.00 - 11.15:  "Wireless networks identification based on packet patterns analysis" Sergio Benco, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, CSP “ICT Innovation”, Italy, Stefano Boldrini, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, Andrea Ghittino, CSP “ICT Innovation”, Italy, Stefano Annese, CSP “ICT Innovation”, Italy, Maria-Gabriella Di Benedetto, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy - Speaker: Sergio Benco Slides


11.15 - 11.30:  Coffee break


IC0902 WG1 Session 1 - Wednesday 24 November, h. 11.30 - 13.00

Session Chair
: Carlos F. Bader, CTTC, Spain

Room
: Madrid

11.30 - 11.45:  "Spectrum Sensing in ISM Bands based on Low-Complexity Sensor Node Platform" Miha Smolnikar, Gregor Berke, Marko Mihelin, Gorazd Kandus and Mihael Mohorcic, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia - Speaker: Miha Smolnikar Slides
11.45 - 12.00:  "Game-Based Inter-Cell Dynamic Spectrum Allocation for Cognitive cells" Gustavo Wagner Oliveira da Costa, Aalborg University, Denmark, Andrea F. Cattoni, Aalborg University, Denmark, Preben E. Mogensen, Aalborg University, Denmark, Nokia Siemens Networks, Denmark - Speaker: Gustavo Wagner Oliveira da Costa

12.00 - 12.15:  "Outage Performance in Cognitive Radio Systems with Opportunistic Interference Cancelation" Rocco Di Taranto, Petar Popovski, Aalborg University, Denmark - Speaker: Petar Popovski Slides

12.15 - 12.30:  "On the possible usage as LTE-Advance as a building block for PHY/MAC in Cognitive Radio platforms" Andrea F. Cattoni, Aalborg University, Denmark, Karl-Josef Friederichs, Nokia Siemens Networks, Germany - Speaker: Andrea F. Cattoni

12.30 - 12.45:  "S-Modular Games applied to Distributed Power Allocation in Cognitive Radio Systems" Luca Simone Ronga, CNIT, Italy, Enrico Del Re, University of Florence, Italy - Speaker: Luca Simone Ronga Slides

12.45 - 13.00:  "Resource Allocation in OFDMA cognitive radio systems based on Ant Colony Optimization" Riccardo Andreotti, Filippo Giannetti, Vincenzo Lottici, Ivan Stupia, University of Pisa, Italy, Luc Vanderdorpe, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium - Speaker: Riccardo Andreotti Slides


13.00 - 14.00:  Lunch


IC0902 SIG1 / SIG2 / SIG3 / WG5 - Wednesday 24 November, h. 14.00 - 15.30

Session Chairs: Oliver Holland, King’s College London, UK and Marina Petrova, RWTH-Aachen, Germany

Room: Madrid

14.00 - 14.15:  "Knowledge Representation Languages" Carolina Fortuna, Mihael Mohorcic, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia - Speaker: Mihael Mohorcic Slides

14.15 - 14.30:  "Facilitating Advanced Radio Resource Management using a Common Information Model" Klaus Nolte, Bell Labs Germany, Germany, Mahesh Sooriyabandara, Toshiba Research Europe Limited, UK, Makis Stamatelatos, University of Athens, Greece, Tim Farnham, Toshiba Research Europe Limited, UK, Costas Polychronopoulos, University of Athens, Greece, Oliver Holland, Alireza Attar King's College London, UK, Carolina Fortuna, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia - Speaker: Fengming Cao Toshiba Research Europe Limited, UK

14.30 - 14.45:  "Machine Learning-based energy efficient cooperative multiband spectrum sensing policy" Jan Oksanen, Visa Koivunen, Jarmo Lundén, Aalto University, Finland - Speaker: Jan Oksanen Slides

14.45 - 15.00:  "Analysis of mobility models for wireless cognitive networks" Luca De Nardis, Sapienza, University of Rome, Italy - Speaker: Luca De Nardis Slides

15.00 - 15.15:  "A Cognitive Engine with Learning Capabilities and its implementation based on Multilayer Feedforward Neural Networks" Nicola Baldo, CTTC, Spain - Speaker: Nicola Baldo

15.15 - 15.30:  "The AIR-AWARE Vision" Stefano Boldrini, Maria-Gabriella Di Benedetto, Sapienza, University of Rome, Italy - Speaker: Stefano Boldrini Slides

15.30 - 15.50:  Coffee break


IC0902 Keynote - Wednesday 24 November, h. 15.50 - 16.30

Room: Madrid

15.50 - 16.30:  "Introduction to Graphical Model" Silvia Chiappa, University of Cambridge, UK

COST2100 and IC0902 Joint Workshop – Panel

Room: Londra

16.30 - 17.30:  Panel on "Cognitive Radio: from current knowledge to future services"

Moderator: Narcis Cardona, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain

Panelists: Hanna Bogucka, Poznan University of Technology - James Neel, Wireless Innovation Forum - Eduardo Hurtado, Alcatel




Thursday, November 25



IC0902 WG3/WG4 - Thursday 25 November, h. 9.00 - 11.15

Session Chairs: Radoslaw Piesiewicz, Wroclaw Research Center EIT+, Poland and Panagiotis Demestichas, University of Piraeus, Greece

Room: Madrid

9.00 - 9.15:  "New coopetition methodology for resource allocation in OFDMA" Marcin Parzy, Hanna Bogucka, Poznan University of Technology, Poland - Speaker: Marcin Parzy

9.15 - 9.30:  "Towards a Cognitive TCP/IP Protocol Architecture" Christian Facchini, Fabrizio Granelli, University of Trento, Italy, N. L. S. da Fonseca, State University of Campinas, Brazil - Speaker: Christian Facchini

9.30 - 9.45:  "Novel clustering framework for energy efficient short-range cooperative networking" Jacek Kibiłda, Radosław Piesiewicz, Wroclaw Research Center EIT+, Poland - Speaker: Jacek Kibiłda

9.45 - 10.00:  "COGTop: a tool for analyzing performance of different routing paths established on cognitive ad-hoc networks" Pierpaolo Salvo, Francesca Cuomo, Anna Abbagnale, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Speaker: Pierpaolo Salvo

10.00 - 10.15:  "Cognitive Radio Networks: Operators Perspective" Enrico Buracchini, Telecom Italia, Italy - Speaker: Enrico Buracchini

10.15 - 10.30:  "OneFIT Project: Envisaged scenarios and challenge" Kostas Tsagkaris, Andreas Georgakopoulos, University of Piraeus, Greece - Speaker: Kostas Tsagkaris

10.30 - 10.45:  "Hierarchical Cognitive-Enabled Radio Networks – A short term scientific mission 2010" Konstantinos Katzis, European University Cyprus, Cyprus, David Grace, Tao Jiang, University of York, UK - Speaker: Konstantinos Katzis

10.45 - 11.00:  "Cooperative Communication Scenarios" Arie Reichman, Ruppin Academic Center, Israel - Speaker: Arie Reichman Slides

11.00 - 11.15:  "Self-Organizing Coalitions for Conflict Evaluation and Resolution" Gustavo Wagner Oliveira da Costa, Luis Guilherme Garcia Uzeda, Andrea F. Cattoni, Aalborg University, Denmark, Klaus Pedersen, Nokia Siemens Networks, Preben E. Mogensen, Aalborg University, Denmark and Nokia Siemens Networks - Speaker: Gustavo Wagner Oliveira da Costa


11.15 - 11.30:  Coffee break



IC0902 SIG4 / WG1 Session 2 - Thursday 25 November, h. 11.30 - 13.00

Session Chair: Ronald Raulefs, DLR, Germany and Carlos F. Bader, CTTC, Spain

Room: Madrid

11.30 - 11.45:  "User Location Info For Enabling Dynamic Spectrum Reallocation in a Relay" George Agapiou, OTE SA, Greece – Speaker: George Agapiou Slides

11.45 - 12.00:  "Cooperative positioning in cognitive networks: Some ideas how CR benefits from positioning and vice versa" Ronald Raulefs, DLR, Germany – Speaker: Ronald Raulefs Slides

12.00 - 12.15:  "FBMC Capability with Low Complexity Power Loading Scheme in Cognitive Radio Environment" M. Shaat and Carlos F. Bader, CTTC, Spain - Speaker: Carlos F. Bader Slides


12.15 - 12.30:  "Multi-armed bandit based decision making for cognitive radio" Wassim Jouini, Christophe Moy, Amor Nafkha, Jacques Palicot, Supélec, France - Speaker: Amor Nafkha Slides

12.30 - 12.45:  "Power Loading for Cognitive Femtocell" Fengming Cao, Zhong Fan, Toshiba Research Europe Limited, UK – Speaker: Fengming Cao Slides

12.45 - 13.00:  "Energy Detection with Estimated Noise Power: Design and Existence of the SNR wall" Andrea Mariani, Andrea Giorgetti, Marco Chiani, University of Bologna, Italy - Speaker: Andrea Mariani Slides


13.00 – 14.00: Lunch

IC0902 Management Committee Meeting – Session 2

Room: Madrid
14.00 – 15.30: IC0902 Management Committee meeting




 
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