Monday, March 6, 2017
| 8:30am-12:00pm | Battle of the ModRecs |
| 13:30am-17:30pm | The Blockchain Bandwagon - The Spectrum Perspective |
IEEE DySPAN 2017 Workshop: Battle of the ModRecs
March 6th, 2017, 8:30am-12pm (Noon)
“Battle of the ModRecs” is a live competition-like event. A single open-air transmit system based on, but not identical to, the Entrance Hurdles for the DARPA Spectrum Collaboration Challenge (https://spectrumcollaborationchallenge.com/documents/) will be set up to generate and cycle through various modulations. Each participant will set up their system to receive the signals over the air and perform their modulation recognition (“ModRec”) algorithms. The Battle of the ModRecs seeks to explore the field of modulation recognition to better understand how to approach these problems and, most importantly, to compare results.
The Battle is separated into a workshop and a live over-the-air event. The workshop will take place during the DySPAN workshop day of March 6. The Battle will take place between March 7 and 8 during the technical conference. During conference hours, the transmitter will operate on a pre-set frequency and bandwidth which will be dictated by an experimental FCC license. The competition signal generator will transmit certain types of modulated signals among a frequency-time grid with defined channel bandwidths and time slot durations. Battle participants will capture the signals and identify the modulation for as many signals as possible in the established grid.
Important dates:
- Paper submission deadline (via EDAS): January 20, 2017
- Notification of acceptance: February 8, 2017
- Camera-ready deadline: February 15, 2017
- Workshop: March 6, 2017
- Battle: March 7 – 8, 2017
Workshop organizers:
Thomas Rondeau, DARPA
Paul Tilghman, DARPA
Workshop website:
http://dyspan2017.ieee-dyspan.org/workshop/ieee-dyspan-2017-workshop-battle-modrecs
IEEE DySPAN 2017 Workshop: The Blockchain Bandwagon - The Spectrum Perspective
March 6th, 2017, 13:30am-17:30pm
Blockchain can be considered as much an ideology as it is a technology. The venture capitalist and software developer Marc Andreesen considers blockchain to be as important and revolutionary as the Internet. It is therefore reasonable to expect that aspects of this technology and the ideology have the potential to underpin concepts, frameworks, regulations, and economics in the world of dynamic spectrum access.
This workshop will focus on the role of the blockchain in the spectrum world. We see this workshop as a mixture of tutorial, workshop and brainstorm for future DySPAN conferences – hence it can in principle be consider as a dual function submission.
Important dates:
- Paper submission deadline (via EDAS): January 20, 2017
- Notification of acceptance: February 8, 2017
- Camera-ready deadline: February 15, 2017
- Workshop: March 6, 2017
Workshop organizers:
Linda Doyle, Trinity College Dublin
Martin Weiss, University of Pittsburg
Workshop website: