Scientific Calendar Event



Description
The Telecommunications/ICT for Development Laboratory (T/ICT4D) of the Abdus Salam  International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP, Trieste, Italy), in collaboration with the  International  elecommunication Union - Telecommunication Development Sector (ITU/BDT),  the Network Startup Resource Center (NSRC) and the National Institute of  Telecommunications (NIT, Poland), is organising a School on Open Spectrum and  Applications of White Spaces Technologies to be held in Trieste from 3 to 14 March  2014. 
In the last couple of years a new opportunity for spectrum use has emerged in the form of TV White Spaces (TVWS). Originally conceived as a technology that could take advantage of the guard bands or "white spaces" that were left between television channels to prevent interference, TVWS has the potential to address research challenges of remote academic institutions, as well as opening up alternatives for building community wireless networks. 

Traditional spectrum allocation methods are unlikely to be able to cope with the exponential  growth in demand for broadband access in emerging markets. There is a pressing need to examine alternative models of spectrum allocation. Dynamic spectrum sharing based on software and cognitive radio can play a significant role in tomorrow's telecommunication systems. With the final goal of connecting Research and Education Centres to the Internet with low cost means to improve Internet access, the School will examine the state of the art in Open Spectrum and TVWS technologies and emerging regulations. The school will address the latest information from TVWS pilots around the world and will include hands-on sessions. 

The following key topics will be discussed: 

• Radio Physics 
• Software Defined Radio 
• Cognitive Radio 
• Open Spectrum Acess 
• TV White Spaces Technologies 

Case studies from TV White deployments will be presented.
Go to day
  • Monday, 3 March 2014
    • 08:30 - 18:30
      • 08:30 Registration and Administrative matters: Galileo Guest House, SDU Room 2h0' ( MARCONI LABORATORY )
      • 10:30 Coffee Break 30' ( MARCONI LABORATORY - Room alternative: Galileo Bar )
      • 11:00 Opening Remarks 15' ( MARCONI LABORATORY )
        Speaker: S. M. Radicella, M. Zennaro (T/ICT4D, ICTP, Trieste)
      • 11:15 Welcome to the Marconi Laboratory 45' ( MARCONI LABORATORY )
        Speaker: E. Pietrosemoli, M. Zennaro (ICTP, Trieste)
      • 12:00 Lunch Break 2h0' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Cafeteria )
      • 14:00 Radio Physics 1h0' ( MARCONI LABORATORY )
        Speaker: R. Struzak (Nat. Inst. of Telecommunications, Wroclaw, Poland)
      • 15:00 Introduction to Telecommunications 1h0' ( MARCONI LABORATORY )
        Speaker: E. Pietrosemoli (ICTP, Trieste)
      • 16:00 Coffee Break 30' ( MARCONI LABORATORY - Room alternative: Galileo Bar )
      • 16:30 Introduction to Telecommunications contd. 2h0' ( MARCONI LABORATORY )
        Speaker: E. Pietrosemoli
  • Tuesday, 4 March 2014
    • 09:00 - 21:00
      • 09:00 Introduction to Software Defined Radio 1h0' ( MARCONI LABORATORY )
        Speaker: P. Sutton (Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland)
      • 10:00 Introduction to Software Defined Radio Hardware 1h0' ( MARCONI LABORATORY )
        Speaker: P. Sutton
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30' ( MARCONI LABORATORY - Room alternative: Galileo Bar )
      • 11:30 Antenna Fundamentals 1h0' ( MARCONI LABORATORY )
        Speaker: R. Struzak
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Cafeteria )
      • 14:00 Introduction to the Software Defined Radio Laboratory 2h0' ( MARCONI LABORATORY )
        Speaker: B. Seeber (Ettus Research LLC, Santa Clara, USA)
      • 16:00 Coffee Break 30' ( MARCONI LABORATORY - Room alternative: Galileo Bar )
      • 16:30 Software Defined Radio Lab. contd. 2h0' ( MARCONI LABORATORY )
        Speaker: B. Seeber
      • 19:00 Official Get together 2h0' ( Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria )
  • Wednesday, 5 March 2014
    • 09:00 - 18:30
      • 09:00 Introduction to Digital Communications 1h0' ( MARCONI LABORATORY )
        Speaker: P. Sutton
      • 10:00 Introduction to Dynamic Spectrum Access 1h0' ( MARCONI LABORATORY )
        Speaker: P. Sutton
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30' ( MARCONI LABORATORY - Room alternative: Galileo Bar )
      • 11:30 Radio Propagation 1h0' ( MARCONI LABORATORY )
        Speaker: E. Pietrosemoli
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Cafeteria )
      • 14:00 Software Defined Radio Lab. 2h0' ( MARCONI LABORATORY )
        Speaker: B. Seeber
      • 16:00 Coffee Break 30' ( MARCONI LABORATORY - Room alternative: Galileo Bar )
      • 16:30 Software Defined Radio Lab. contd. 2h0' ( MARCONI LABORATORY )
        Speaker: B. Seebar
  • Thursday, 6 March 2014
    • 09:00 - 18:30
      • 09:00 Broadband Wireless System Design 1h0' ( MARCONI LABORATORY )
        Speaker: I. Gomez (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
      • 10:00 Introduction to OFDM 1h0' ( MARCONI LABORATORY )
        Speaker: I. Gomez
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30' ( MARCONI LABORATORY - Room alternative: Galileo Bar )
      • 11:30 Link Planning 1h0' ( MARCONI LABORATORY )
        Speaker: E. Pietrosemoli
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Cafeteria )
      • 14:00 Link planning software 2h0' ( MARCONI LABORATORY )
        Speaker: R. Struzak, M. Zennaro
      • 16:00 Coffee Break 30' ( MARCONI LABORATORY - Room alternative: Galileo Bar )
      • 16:30 Software Defined Radio Lab. 2h0' ( MARCONI LABORATORY )
        Speaker: B. Seeber
  • Friday, 7 March 2014
    • 09:00 - 18:30
      • 09:00 Introduction to LTE 1h0' ( MARCONI LABORATORY )
        Speaker: I. Gomez
      • 10:00 Open-source Software for SDR 1h0' ( MARCONI LABORATORY )
        Speaker: I. Gomez
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30' ( MARCONI LABORATORY - Room alternative: Galileo Bar )
      • 11:30 Spectrum Management 1h0' ( MARCONI LABORATORY )
        Speaker: R. Struzak
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Cafeteria )
      • 14:00 Software Defined Radio Lab. 2h0' ( MARCONI LABORATORY )
        Speaker: B. Seeber
      • 16:00 Coffee Break 30' ( MARCONI LABORATORY - Room alternative: Galileo Bar )
      • 16:30 Software Defined Radio Lab. 2h0' ( MARCONI LABORATORY )
        Speaker: B. Seeber
  • Monday, 10 March 2014
    • 08:15 - 17:30
      • 08:15 Registration of New Participants 45' ( Adriatico Guest House - Giambiagi Lecture Hall Area (Lower Level 1) )
      • 09:00 Opening Remarks 15' ( Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: S.M. Radicella, M. Zennaro
      • 09:15 Building the Internet of Things: An overview of platforms, sensors, power, and wirelesscommunications for IoT 1h0' ( Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: J. Brewer (NSRC, USA)
      • 10:15 Coffee Break 15' ( Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria )
      • 10:30 Building the Internet of Things: An overview of platforms, sensors, power, and wirelesscommunications for IoT contd. 2h0' ( Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: J. Brewer
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30' ( Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria )
      • 14:00 The VESNA platform 2h0' ( Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: M. Smolnikar (Inst. Jozef Stefan, Ljubijana, Slovenia)
      • 16:00 Coffee Break 30' ( Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria )
      • 16:30 Cognitive Radio Security 1h0' ( Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: T. Brown (Carnigie Mellon Univ. Rwanda)
  • Tuesday, 11 March 2014
    • 09:00 - 18:30
      • 09:00 Spectrum Sharing: Theory and Practice 2h0' ( Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: R. Wu (6Harmonics Inc. Ontario, Canada)
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30' ( Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria )
      • 11:30 Introduction to Spectrum Efficiency 1h0' ( Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: T. Brown (Camigie Mellon Univ. Rwanda)
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30' ( Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria )
      • 14:00 Rural Broadband White Space & FPGAs 1h0' ( Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: M. Brew (Columbia Univ. New York, USA)
      • 15:00 A taxonomy of regulatory models of "harmful interference" 1h0' ( Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: T. X. Brown
      • 16:00 Coffee Break 30' ( Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall )
      • 16:30 Green TVWS 2h0' ( Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: S. Buettrich (NSRC, USA)
  • Wednesday, 12 March 2014
    • 09:00 - 18:30
      • 09:00 ITU White Paper on: Managing TVWS 1h0' ( Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: J. Restrepo (ITU, Geneva, Switzerland)
      • 10:00 Coffee break 30' ( Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria )
      • 10:30 What's next for White Space 1h0' ( Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: M. Calabrese (Open Technology Inst. Washington, USA)
      • 11:30 Dynamic Spectrum Access 1h0' ( Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: B. Horvitz (Open Spectrum Foundation, Prague, Czech Republic)
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30' ( Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria )
      • 14:00 ITU-BDT Activities 1h0' ( Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: M. Nxele (ITU, Geneva, Switzerland)
      • 15:00 Regulatory Issues in TVWS 1h0' ( Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall )
        Participants: Joaquin Restrepo, Mike Nxele, Bob Horvitz, Michael Calabrese, Ryszard Struzak, Steve Huter, Sidney Roberts, Robert Wu
      • 16:00 Coffee Break 30' ( Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria )
      • 16:30 Regulatory Issues in TVWS contd. 2h0' ( Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall )
  • Thursday, 13 March 2014
    • 09:00 - 21:00
      • 09:00 South Africa Deployment 1h0' ( Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: A. Hart (Tertiary Education Network of South Africa)
      • 10:00 Coffee Break 30' ( Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall )
      • 10:30 Malawi Deployment 1h0' ( Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: J. Pinifolo, C. Fonda (Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority, SDU-ICTP, Trieste)
      • 11:30 TV White Spaces: Africa's Innovation Band 1h0' ( Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: S. Roberts (Microsoft Corporation, Washington, USA)
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30' ( Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria )
      • 14:00 Presentations by Participants 2h0' ( Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall )
      • 16:00 Coffee Break 30' ( Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria )
      • 16:30 Study on Broadband Penetration 1h0' ( Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: R. Struzak
      • 17:30 Economics of TVWS 1h0' ( Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: G. Repici
      • 19:00 Official Get-together 2h0' ( Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria )
  • Friday, 14 March 2014
    • 09:00 - 12:30
      • 09:00 TVWS the way forward 1h0' ( Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: S. Song (NSRC, USA)
      • 10:00 Coffee Break 30' ( Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria )
      • 10:30 White Spaces: An Opportunity for Development 1h0' ( Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall )
        Participants: Sylvia Cadena, Sebastian Buettrich, 
      • 11:30 Closing Ceremony and Distribution of Certificates 1h0' ( Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall )