COGNITIVE RADIO FOR OPEN ACCESS
AND WHITE SPACE

Date: Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Time: 12:00 - 13:15
Room: A305

Organizer: Kyutae Lim, Georgia Institute of Technology

Panel:

Fred Martin, Motorola Inc.
Kursat Kimyacioglu, Philips USA
Stewart S. Taylor, Intel
Kihong Kim, Samsung Electro-Mechanics
Mathew Sherman, General Vice Chair of IEE Standard Association, BAE Systems

Sponsors: IMS and RFIC

Abstract:

The UHF band, which is recognized as the best spectrum for mobile communication has been used for broadcasting service over 50 years. From early 2009, Analog TV services will be completely replaced by Digital TV service in many of country including North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. In USA, the FCC is aggressively moving forward to maximize the usage of last greatest spectrum for wireless communication.

As a first step, FCC is auctioning 100 MHz band in 700MHz which is being emptied after DTV spectrum transition. Especially one chunk of spectrum is designated as “Open Access,” which means that user can access this frequency by any device and software, which has not been allowed since most of the carriers controlled the device and accessibility of the frequency band. After the spectrum auction, FCC is making another important decision of granting for secondary user to access locally unused the DTV spectrum, so called “White Space.” Together with “Open Access” and “White Space,” consumers will enjoy uncharted wireless communication services, which has improved connectivity, data throughout with fraction of cost. This panel session will explore the scenario of new wireless communication services in the future and discuss the technical challenges to enable such communication services. Panelist includes expertise of network architecture, MAC PHY layer, Policy and RF/Analog.