Spectrum Access System Workshop (updated)

Spectrum Access System Workshop

Wireless Telecommunications Bureau and Office of Engineering and Technology
Federal Communications Commission
Tuesday, January 14, 2014
9 am -- 3:30 pm
http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2013/db0930/DA-1...
Note date change: http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2013/db1108/DA-1...

Call for papers

A workshop to further explore the technical requirements, architecture, and operational parameters of the Spectrum Access System.

Tentative Agenda

9:00 AM Opening Remarks – FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler

9:30 AM Panel #1: Focus Area A – SAS Architecture & Responsibilities

  • Milind Buddhikot – Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, Alcatel-Lucent
  • Preston Marshall – Principal Systems Architect, Google Access Systems
  • Alex Phillips – Founder & CEO, Rural Broadband Network Services, LLC
  • Durga Malladi – VP Engineering, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
  • Justin Colwell – Director of Wireless, Cablelabs
  • Matthew Sherman – Technical Director & Engineering Fellow, BAE Systems

11:00 AM Panel #2: Focus Area D – SAS Launch, Evolution & Band Plan

  • Sanyogita Shamsunder – Director of Advanced Technology Strategy, Verizon
  • Peter Stanforth – Chief Technical Officer & Co-Founder, Spectrum Bridge, Inc.
  • David Gurney – Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, Motorola Solutions
  • Prakash Moorut – North America Spectrum Lead, Nokia Solutions & Networks
  • Amer Hassan - Senior Director, Skype, a division of Microsoft

12:30 PM Lunch Break

1:30 PM Session #3: Focus Area B – Functional Requirements, Usage & Enforcement

  • John Stine – Head of Operations Research & System Analysis, MITRE
  • Karri Kuoppamaki – Sr. Director, Technology Strategy & Policy, T-Mobile
  • Mark Gibson – Director of Business Development, Comsearch
  • John Malyer – Chief Architect, iconectiv
  • Jerry Park – Associate Professor, Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Virginia Tech
  • Johanna Dwyer – General Manager, Federated Wireless

2:45 PM Session #4: Focus Area C – Spectrum Management & Interference Detection

  • Mark McHenry – President, CTO & Founder, Shared Spectrum Company
  • Amit Jain – VP Product Management, SpiderCloud Wireless
  • Peter Ecclesine – Technology Analyst, Cisco
  • Srikathyayni Srikanteswara – Sr. Research Scientist, Intel Corporation
  • Radu Selea – Chief Technical Officer, BLiNQ
  • Apurva Mody - Chairman, WhiteSpace Alliance

4:00 PM Presentations: Measurements, Results & Observations Related to Spectrum Sharing

  • Jeffrey Reed & Charles Clancy – Wireless@Virginia Tech
  • Frank Sanders – Chief, Telecommunications Theory Division, NTIA/ITS, Dept. of Commerce

5:00 PM Adjourn