Product Type: Market Research Report
Published by: SMI Publishing, Ltd
Published: June 2002
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- 8.30 Registration and Coffee
- 9.00 Chairman's Opening Remarks
- Mr Allan Margulies, Chief Operating Officer, The SDR Forum.
- 9.20 THE NEED TO EVOLVE WITH TECHNOLOGY
- Assessing the requirements of the US Joint Tactical Radio System
- Status of the tri-service procurement process: is the criticism justified?
- The need to procure a radio that is capable of developing with time
- Involvement of industry in the definition of the communications architecture
- The reasons behind its accelerated acquisition
- Colonel Steven MacLaird, JTRS Program Director, US Army.
- 9.50 SOFTWARE RADIO IN THE UK
- Software radio’s place in military equipment capability
- The need to maximise future military capability
- Opportunities offered by software radio
- Potential for software radio in future equipment programmes
- Lieutenant Colonel Mike Griffiths, S01 Global Infrastructure Infrastucture, MoD.
- 10.30 SOFTWARE RADIO IN FRANCE
- A military view
- Requirement
- Programme of work
- MMR programme
- Future of software radios in France
- Dr Michael Pascaud, Manager, DGA/DSA/SPOTI.
- 11.10 Morning Coffee
- 11.30 SOFTWARE DEFINED RADIO RESEARCH
- A Roke Manor Research perspective
- Introduction
- Forming the basis for the fourth generation of mobile communications
- Developing a reconfigurable radio architecture
- Alternative radio systems
- Possibilities and limitations
- Future potential
- Mr John Spicer, Wireless Technical Strategy, Roke Manor Research Ltd.
- 12.10 THE JOINT TACTICAL RADIO SYSTEM (JTRS)
- Boeing’s proven capability in large-scale systems integration
- The need to build a software-defined radio communications system
- The “Cluster 1” systems integration and procurement contract
- Design and integration of the JTRS architecture and legacy waveforms
- Development of a new wideband network waveform
- The qualification of two hardware production sources for up to 10,000 vehicular and airborne systems through low-rate initial production
- Mr Alejandro Lopez, Director Network Comm Systems, Battle Mgmt/Command,
- 12.50 Lunch
- 1.50 AN OVERVIEW
- Antennas for JTRS radios
- The antenna problems related to wideband radios and new antenna solutions
- Antennas: understanding the problems related to wideband radios
- The existing state of the art
- JTRS antennas
- Obtaining the link characteristics of existing systems with wideband JTRS radios
- 2.30 SOFTWARE RADIO - A KEY ELEMENT FOR INTEROPERABILITY IN EUROPE
- Requirements, constraints and perspectives
- Development of new capabilities
- Technical considerations
- Achieving interoperability
- Current European developments
- Main challenges to address
- Mr Christian Serra, Chief Engineer, Thales.
- 3.10 SOFTWARE DEFINED RADIO PROJECTS
- Reconfigurable Omni-Band Radio (ROBR) project
- Software radio implementation of a satellite ground terminal
- SCA Reference Implementation (SCARI) project
- Open architecture java implementation
- Future possibilities
- Mr Robin Addison, , Communications Research Centre.
- 3.50 Afternoon Tea
- 4.10 SOFTWARE RADIO BASE STATIONS FOR 3G UMTS
- ADC and DSP challenges for fixed and distributed network architectures
- UMTS evolution and developments
- Software radios for fixed base stations
- ADC and DSP limitations and challenges
- Software radio based distributed base station architectures
- Applications
- Future developments
- Dr Takis Mathiopoulos, Professor, University of British Colombia.
- 4.50 HANDHELD SDR
- Issues
- Adaptation of the operating environment
- Examples of handheld SDRs
- Dr John Bertrand, Director, System Engineering, ITT.
- 5.30 Chairman's Closing Remarks and Close of Day One
- 5.40 DRINKS RECEPTION Sponsored by: Chelton Antennas
- Day 2
- 8.30 Re-registration and Coffee
- 9.00 Chairman's Opening Remarks
- Dr Stephan Weiss, Communications Research Group, University Of Southampton.
- 9.10 TACTICAL COMMUNICATIONS
- Transforming army tactical communications
- Legacy communications - where we've been
- Tactical communications - backbone for the tactical Internet
- JTRS Cluster 1 - the future is now
- Enabling the objective force
- Where do we go from here?
- Colonel John Grobmeier, Project Manager, PEO C3 Tactical, US Army.
- 9.40 THE UK’S PROGRAMMABLE DIGITAL RADIO (PDR) PROJECT
- Reducing testing and implementation work needed to write software for PDRs
- Developing new automated design techniques for the programming of PDRs
- Project contributors and respective areas of research
- A Waveform Description Language (WDL)
- System demonstrations
- USA’s tactical radio
- NATO’s SATURN waveform
- The effectiveness of the automated design process
- Mr Mark Harrington, Programme Director, Software Radio, QinetiQ.
- 10.20 SOFTWARE DEFINED RADIO SOLUTIONS
- New technology and JTRS push the envelope
- What are the key technology drivers?
- JTRS provides the framework
- Battery powered platform SDR solutions
- HF subsystem for the UK’s Bowman Tactical Radio Programme
- Mr Mark Turner, Director, JTRS Engineering, Harris.
- 11.00 Morning Coffee
- 11.20 THE JOINT TACTICAL RADIO SYSTEM & SOFTWARE COMMUNCIATIONS ARCHITECTURE DEVELOPMENT
- Raytheon’s proven capability in military tactical radios in operation today
- The “Cluster 1” systems integration and procurement contract and the Futara team
- Design and integration of JTRS architecture, legacy waveforms and development of a new wideband network waveform
- Maintaining, evolving and improving software architecture
- Providing information services and promoting SCA as an open industry standard
- Mr Douglas Grice, Director, Army Programs Business Development, Raytheon.
- 12.00 APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES (APIs) FOR THE SCA
- Allowing third-parties to write software for the JTRS radios
- An introduction
- The benefits of open architecture
- Opportunities to develop software
- Possible improvements
- Mr Byron Tarver, Business Development Manager, General Dynamics.
- 12.40 Lunch
- 2.00 EUROPE’S FIRST OPERATIONAL SOFTWARE RADIO
- Supplying the Fully Integrated Communications System (FICS) for the Royal Navy's future T45 destroyers
- An introduction
- Using existing technology to reduce risk and expenditure
- An open systems design to enable cost-effective upgrade throughout the ships' in-service life
- Timing and cost
- Technical advantages and disadvantages
- Future possibilities
- Dr Peter Harrop, Director of Engineering, Thales.
- 2.40 SOFTWARE RADIOS
- Software portability for software radios
- Cost drivers in radio systems
- Cost and competitive advantages of designing for software portability
- Technical barriers to portability
- Portability solutions in Vanu software radio
- Dr John Chapin, Chief Technology Officer, Vanu.
- 3.20 Afternoon Tea
- 3.40 SINCGARS SIP AND ESIP WAVEFORMS
- Developing new software versions
- System description
- Advanced System Improvement Program (ASIP)
- Operational requirements
- Object oriented design
- Completion and future possibilities
- Mr Bill Place, Vice President, Academy.
- 4.20 LINK 16 CAPABILITY FOR JTRS SCA
- Phase 2B of the JTRS program to develop, test and validate
- Providing a Link-16 prototype/demonstration test bed
- Critical system interfaces and processing requirements for the Link-16 wideband waveform
- Operating in a JTRS multi-waveform implementation
- A "stressing" waveform for the JTRS SCA
- Technical risks associated with implementation
- Mr Ed Calhoun, Marketing Manager, JTRS, Rockwell.
- 5.00 Chairman's Closing Remarks and Close of Conference
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