Product Type: Market Research Report
Published by: SMI Publishing, Ltd
Published: June 2007
Product Code: R215-505Description With the growing need for operational interoperability, International Software Radio 2007 will address current and future military requirements in providing software-based wireless systems and devices for effective communications within and between units and forces.
In this spirit, it will examine national Radio Defined Software programmes and international efforts towards multi-national interoperability.
It will investigate cognitive and multi-modal capability alongside emerging architectures and technologies.
Innovative and informative, the conference will provide a platform for discussions combining insights from both the military and research institutions covering not only the central themes of software radio but also specific knowledge of current research and development.
Gain an in-depth understanding of the latest developments of cutting-edge technology from key figures and peek into the future of Software-based communications at International Software Radio 2007.
Why Attend International Software Radio 2007?
- Discover present and pioneering national programmes
- Learn about the latest technical developments
- Think about current and future radio communication needs
- Network with military and industry key personnel
- Discuss cost effective solutions, security and Interoperability with your partners
- Source new companies in the market
Current Confirmed Speakers Include:
- Major General Pietro Finocchio, Director, General Directorate for Telecommunications, IT and Advanced, Technologies, Ministry of Defence, Italy
- Major Ismael Fernández de la Carrera, Head of Technology Watch, MINISDEF / DGAM / SDG TECEN, Spanish Ministry of Defence
- Major Jari Seppälä, Finnish Defence Forces Technical Research Centre, Finnish Defence Forces
- Badri Younes, Executive Service, Director, Spectrum Management, OSD-NII, Office of the Secretary of Defence
- Julien Fauquet, Long Term Project Manager, DGA/SPOTT, French Ministry of Defence
- Jean Luc Combrisson, Head, Telecommunication Policy, DGA/SPOTT, French Ministry of Defence
- Patrick Chatard-Moulin, CIS Project Officer, Capabilities Directorate, European Defence Agency
- Rick Barfoot, Chief, Communications Branch, ID Navigation & Networks Branch, NATO HQ C3, Belgium
- Steve Bernier, Project Leader, Software Defined Radio, Communications Research Centre, Canada
- Ali Hosseinzadeh, Senior Process Engineer, Ministry of Defence, The Netherlands
- Darek Maksimiuk, Team leader, SDR software development, NATO C3 Agency, The Netherlands.
- Pr Maria-Gabriella Di Benedetto, University of Rome La Sapienza, School of Engineering, INFOCOM Deptartment, Italy
- Pr Ian Whitworth, Head, Communications and Information Systems, Engineering Group, Cranfield University, United Kingdom
- Dr Matti Raustia, Director of Security and Defence, Centre for Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Finland
- Dr Patrick White, Director, Wireless Network Security, Stevens Institute of Technology
- Dr Jorge Pereira, Principal Scientific Officer, DG INFSO G5, European Commission
- Dr Klaus Moessner, Mobile Communications Research Department, CCSR, University of Surrey, United-Kingdom
- Alan Carr, Member, Wireless Technology Practice, PA Consulting
Table of Contents - Day One
- 8.30 Registration & Coffee
- 9.00 Chairman's Opening Remarks
- Phil White , Lead, Military Radio Systems, PA Consulting Group.
- 9.10 Keynote Address: DEPARTMENT OF DEFENCE TRANSFORMATIONAL SPECTRUM MANAGEMENT
- DoD present and future environment
- DoD growing spectrum requirements
- Spectrum challenges
- Technology solutions and role of cognitive radios
- Key DoD spectrum initiatives
- Badri Younes, Director, Executive Service, Spectrum Management, OSD-NII , Office of the Secretary of Defence, USA.
- 9.50 FINNISH SOFTWARE DEFINED RADIO PROGRAMME
- Tactical Radio Communication and Positional System
- Military operational and tactical requirements and expectations
- Ad-Hoc networks in support of mobility
- Software Defined Radio platform: technological challenges
- Benefits of using adaptive antennas
- Adaptive wideband networking waveform for TRCS
- Research and development co-operation within finish programmes
- Finnish Software Defined Radio demonstrator
- Roadmap for future applications
- Dr. Matti Raustia, Director, Security and Defence, Centre for Wireless Communications, University Of Oulu, Finland.
- Jari Seppala, Research Coordinator, Electronics and Information Technology Division, Finnish Defence Forces Technical Research Center, Finland.
- 10.30 Morning Coffee
- 10.50 SPANISH SOFTWARE DEFINED RADIO PROGRAMMES
- Current Spanish SDR activities and research programmes
- Spanish MoD R&T organisation: the technology watch unit
- International and national organisations frameworks for R&T activities
- Former concerns on SDR
- Main specifications and requirements for SDR
- Technical developments on SDR: TERSO
- Military applications & future needs
- Major Ismael Fernandez De La Carrera, Head of Technology Watch, Ministry of Defence, Spain.
- 11.30 DEVELOPING HIGHLY SECURE RADIOS USING CORBA ACROSS DEVICES
- How to use COTS products to develop high-assurance radios
- High-assurance architecture for SDRs
- CORBA across GPPs, DSPs and FPGAs
- The integration of location transparency and location awareness
- Making legacy architectures secure
- Joseph M Jacob, Senior Vice President, Objective Interface Systems (OIS).
- 12.10 Networking Lunch
- 2.00 DEVELOPMENTS IN THE DUTCH SOFTWARE RADIO PROGRAMME
- Looking ahead
- Current research programmes
- Technical developments
- Military applications and future needs
- Dr. Ali Hoosseinzadah , Senior Process Engineer , Ministry of Defence, The Netherlands.
- 2.40 EUROPEAN APPROACH TO INTEROPERABLE SDR
- Developing a European defence R&T strategy
- New Preparatory Action for Security Research (PASR)
- Improving wireless interoperability for security (WINTSEC)
- Joint Software Defined Radio project technology for secure communications
- Joint civil/military and collective European approach to interoperable SDR
- Longer-term military specifications and the medium-term ESSOR ad-hoc project
- Future operations: collective survivability, individual protection, data analysis, secure wireless communication and mission planning and training
- Patrick Chatard-Moulin, CIS Project Officer, Capabilities Directorate, European Defence Agency.
- 3.20 Afternoon Tea
- 3.40 MULTI-NATIONAL INTEROPERABILITY
- NATO-C3 agency SDR requirements
- Modern warfare requirements for interoperable communications
- Strategic and Tactical interoperability
- Technology issues and present developments
- Interoperability for secure radios, Secure Communications
- Developing an SDR waveform library
- Rick Barfoot, Chief, Communications, ID Navigation and Networks Branch, NATO HQ C3 Staff, Belgium.
- 4.20 EXTENDING SCA INTO SDR ARCHITECTURE
- Device-oriented implementations
- MDA Tool Capabilities, RFI
- Event Driven Architecture (EDA) and its relationship with SOA & BPM, RFI
- Future directions for SCA implementation
- Steve Bernier, Project Leader, Software Defined Radio, Communications Research Centre, Canada.
- 5.00 Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day One
- 5.15 NETWORKING DRINK RECEPTION Sponsored by OBJECTIVE INTERFACE
- Day Two
- 8.30 Registration & Coffee
- 9.00 Chairman's Opening Remarks
- Phil White , Lead, Military Radio Systems, PA Consulting Group.
- 9.10 Special Address: ITALIAN SOFTWARE DEFINED RADIO
- Meeting operational and budgetary requirements
- Christina demonstrator SDR prototype
- Importance of Core Framework (CF) architecture in portability between SCA-compliant platforms
- Advantages of software antenna: near-vertical incidence skywave; skywave and ground wave signal propagation
- Italian participation in the MIDS JTRS program, updating the MIDS Low Volume Terminal (LVT)
- Incremental programme development and MoD procurement strategies
- Brigadier General Tangorra, General Directorate for Telecommunications, IT and Advanced Technologies, Ministry of Defence, Italy.
- 9.50 TETRA AND NEW NATO WIRELESS ARCHITECTURE
- A changing environment for NATO
- Developing secure communications
- Military/Civilian co-operation trials (CIMIC)
- SCA and compliant waveform.
- TETRA in the military CIS architecture
- Secure Communication Interoperability Protocol (SCIP)
- Darek Maksimiuk, Team Leader, SDR Software Development, NATO C3 Agency, The Netherlands.
- 10.30 Morning Coffee
- 10.50 OPTIMIZING DEVELOPMENT AND DELIVERY OF SCA COMPLIANT SDR
- Applications using Domain-Specific Model-Driven Development
- Generating production quality code for SDR applications including SCA-compliant infrastructure from models
- Providing domain-specific modeling for the SDR development life-cycle from requirements analysis through design, implementation, test and deployment
- How a standards-based operating environment addresses the development of real-time, mission-critical, and secure SDRs
- Dominick Paniscotti, VP & General Manager, SDR Products, PrismTech.
- 11.30 THINKING ABOUT RECONFIGURABLE ARCHITECTURES
- Achieving reconfigurable architecture
- SCA standards needs
- Mobile and secure communications
- Applications and future developments
- Dr Klaus Moessner, Mobile Communications Research, CCSR, University of Surrey, UK.
- 12.10 Networking Lunch
- 2.00 OMG SOFTWARE RADIO STANDARDS OVERVIEW
- Standardising interfaces and design tools for SDR components
- Middleware specifications for software radio - CORBA and CORBA/e
- General-purpose modelling languages used in SDR - UML & SysML
- UML profile for Software Radio
- UML profile for DODAF & MODAF
- Model-Driven Architecture
- Andrew Watson, Vice President and Technical Director, Object Management Group, USA.
- 2.40 SDR-BASED RECONFIGURABLE GATEWAYS
- Solutions for disaster, emergency and crisis management
- Deployable base stations and gateways
- Military applications and peace keeping
- Security considerations
- Service provision
- Dr Jorge Pereira, Principal Scientific Officer, DG INFSO H4, European Commission.
- 3.20 Afternoon Tea
- 3.40 THINKING ULTRA-WIDEBAND
- Principles and projects for Ultra Wide Band (UWB)
- Principles of UWB radio transmission and modulation
- Overview of project PULSERS phase II: low spectral energy radio systems
- Overview of project UCAN: ultra wide band concepts for Ad-Hoc networks
- UWB ranging and positioning in radio communication systems
- Prof Maria-Gabriella Di Benedetto, INFOCOM department, School of Engineering, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy.
- 4.20 ACHIEVING SECURE WIRELESS SOFTWARE RADIO
- Security issues and implementation
- Secure data communication networks
- Programmes and technologies
- Hardware and software requirements
- Dr Patrick White, Director, Wireless Network Security, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA.
- 5.00 Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Conference
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