Project List for the Wireless Innovation Forum
74th General Meeting
to be held
8 to 11 January, 2013 in Washington, DC
The following defines the projects that will be worked by the Wireless Innovation Forum’s members through the 74th General Meeting in Washington, DC. Projects are organized by committee, with each committee containing multiple work groups, task groups and special interest groups. Committees are managed by the Forum’s elected officers, which include the Chair and Vice Chair of the Forum, the Technical Director, the chairs of the User Requirements and Regulatory Committees, the Secretary, and the Treasurer.
If you are interested in joining any of the groups below and participating in their teleconferences, click on the group name you are interested in below and you will be taken to the group's page in our groups portal. A list of the Go To Meeting schedule for the next two weeks (updated daily) is here.
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User Requirements Committee The User Requirements Committee acts as the primary interface for requirements with the wireless end-users and the representatives of wireless end-users in their segment, including, as appropriate, network operators, government acquisition authorities and research sponsors. Through Special Interest Groups (SIGs), the Committee works with these key stakeholders to validate concepts and requirements against technology readiness and standardization and to document domain specific requirements, use cases and business models that will drive the activities of the Regulatory and Technical committees. The User Requirements Committee also supports member organizations in identifying new opportunities for next generation products and services in each defined market domain.
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Education Special Interest Group Chair: Carl Dietrich (Virginia Tech) The Education Special Interest Group will work on its "Software Defined Radio Design Challenge". This project is being developed for undergraduate and graduate level students who seek and opportunity to compete and demonstrate project work in SDR. The project will allow competition among a wide range of institutions and teams performing SDR related projects projects on either specified/constrained (with predefined metrics) or self-selected/open-ended topics and encourages undergraduate participation by allowing teams that consist entirely of undergraduate students to compete separately from teams that include graduate students. |
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Public Safety Special Interest Group (PS-SIG) Chair: Fred Frantz (L3 Communications) The PS-SIG will continue to promote and analyze the results from the "Cognitive Radio Technology Survey for Public Safety Applications". This survey is being developed for the public safety community leadership, researchers, product developers, regulatory, and standards developers who are planning the evolution of communication capabilities and/or can benefit from awareness of future technology developments. The survey is based on the technology requirements identified in the Cognitive Use Case documents published by the Public Safety SIG and the Quantification Document under development by the Cognitive Radio WG to identify both current and projected maturity and also availability of technology to fulfill those requirements to:
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International Tactical Radio Special Interest Group (ITR-SIG) Chair: David Renaudeau (Thales Communications) The ITR-SIG will continue work on a report entitled "Business Models for New Entrants in SDR Tactical Radio Market". This report is being developed for contractors, suppliers, module providers and value chain stakeholders in the tactical radio communications worldwide ecosystem who need to understand the various possible business models in the context of SDR introduction in tactical communications programmes. The report will identify various possible business models to enable successful new generation of tactical radio programmes and provides some examples of running programmes. |
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Hybrid SATCOM Reference Architecture Task Group of the SATCOM Special Interest Group Project Lead: Daniel Devasirvatham (SAIC) The SATCOM-SIG, together with the Public Safety SIG, continue developing a "Hybrid SATCOM Reference Architecture for Public Safety Applications". This document will define concepts and propose a reference architecture to enable phased and concurrent operation of satellite, airborne and terrestrial, narrowband and broadband systems for public safety emergency, and non-emergency communications. The document will study the technologies, integration of the elements, concepts of operation, and their deployment using National Incident Management/Incident Command System (NIMS/ICS) principles. The document will examine possible current solutions and also identify the gaps in standards and technology which could be addressed in the reference architecture using SDR and Cognitive Radio (CR) principles. This reference architecture will be based on the Forum’s Information Processing Architecture (IPA) development and will serve as a basis for hardware, software, and applications development of hybrid communication platforms that provide convergence of Line-of-Sight (LOS) and Beyond-Line-of-Sight (BLOS) networks.
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The Regulatory Committee works with the regulatory and public policy community to establish a global regulatory framework promoting the adoption of emerging technologies for advanced wireless systems. The work of the Regulatory Committee is facilitated by a Regulatory Advisory Committee made up of regulatory and public policy officials and experts from around the world working on relevant issues.
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The Regulatory Committee will continue to monitor a variety of new and ongoing regulatory proceedings and will issue alerts as events unfold. These proceedings include, but are not limited to, the following (with links to docket filings and other documents):
The Regulatory Committee is supporting a variety of Forum projects and events including the following:
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Technical Committee on Cognitive Radio and Dynamic Spectrum Access (TC-CR/DSA) Committee on Advanced Wireless Networking and Infrastructure: provides a venue for the exchange of information on emerging technologies important in wireless networking and produces reports, specifications and recommendations supporting the development and deployment of advanced wireless systems. Chair: James Neel (Cognitive Radio Technologies) |
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Cognitive Radio Work Group (CRWG) Chair: James Neel (Cognitive Radio Technologies) The CRWG will continue work on two existing projects:
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Modeling Language for Mobility Work Group (MLM-WG) The MLM-WG will continue work on their specification entitled "Modeling Languages for Mobility". This specification is being developed for developers of next generation communication systems who want to develop flexible and efficient communication protocols between advanced radio systems to support next generation features of vertical and horizontal mobility, spectrum awareness and dynamic spectrum adaption, waveform optimization capabilities, feature exchanges, and advanced applications. The Report will include use cases, corresponding signalling plan, requirements and technical analysis of the information exchanges that enable these next generation features.It is intended to lead to specifications/standards for languages and data exchange structures to support these capabilities, with the ontology and the MLM language developed in this project providing opportunities for development of interoperable radios by independent vendors by providing a common language for knowledge and information exchange between multiple radios. This project is also being coordinated with the IEEE P1900.5 project with several of the MLM members participating in that P1900.5 working group and providing contributions to that effort. |
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Technical Committee on Software Defined Radio (TC - SDR) Committee on Next Generation Radio Technologies: provides a venue for the exchange of information on emerging radio technologies and produces reports, specifications and recommendations supporting the use of next generation technologies in radio devices. Chair: Vince Kovarik (PrismTech) |
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Commercial Baseband Processing Technologies Work Group This group will continue work on a new project focused on defining an "Open Source Framework for Commercial Baseband Software". This framework is being created for all commercial companies and research institutions who develop or have to deal with 3G+ baseband software, such as handset and infrastructure manufacturers, baseband chipset companies, baseband IP providers and 3G+ test and verification manufacturers who desire to reduce the development or acquisition costs of their baseband modem design. The project is anticipated to produce work products in 3 areas:
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NEW Communications Systems Modeling Work Group (CSM WG) The CSM WG will begin a new project to develop an Integrated Communications Systems Model (ICS). This model is being created for developers of SDR communications systems across multiple market and government segments who require the development of integrated systems models that encompass both hardware and software architectures within a single integrated design paradigm. The project will produce a reference architecture and design model describing SDR-based communications systems which, unlike predominantly software-focused design and implementations, will provide an integrated systems model for communications systems that can be used as a foundation for software-based communications systems across a variety of domains, hardware types and applications. This model will be developed using a SysML/UML tool to represent and capture the architecture aspects of the communications system model. |
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Security Work Group (SecWG) The Security Work Group will continue work on the specification entitled "Security Requirements and Profiles Case Studies". This document will build on the report entitled Securing Software Reconfigurable Communications Devices to provide guidance to designers, developers and manufacturers of SDR devices on the appropriate set of security requirements germane to their class of SDR products. The report will provide a comprehensive set of security requirements that cover all aspects of SDR and software reconfigurable radio devices (SDRD) security for the underlying SDRD platform and its software operating environment. A requirements profile identifying a subset of the security requirements applicable to Public Safety SDRDs will also be developed, with additional profiles for other classes of SDRDs developed in future projects. |
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The International Security Services API Task Group (ISS-API) of the Security Work Group This group will begin evaluating next steps in the evolution of the "International Security Services API" which was approved for release during the 69th General Meeting. This specification was being developed for nations, international organizations and companies who need software interoperability and portability between international and independently developed software radios. The international radio security services API will specify how to interface and operate with a common set of radio security services improving interoperability and portability of software through the use of a common open software architecture. |
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Transceiver System Interface Task Group (TSI-TG) Chair: Eric Nicollet (Thales Communications). The TSI-TG will begin work a new project on "Fast Prototyping With WInnF Tranceiver Facility Implementation for Fast Prototyping". This project is being undertaken for providers of SDR software applications (waveforms, sensing modules, ...) running in SDR products who seek a cost-efficient method for fast-prototyping the SDR software application. The project will enable fast-prototyping of SDR software applications thanks to (i) open source upgrade of COTS fast-prototyping transceiver solutions to WInnF Transceiver Facility and (ii) preliminary design activities for fast-prototyping of waveform applications using the upgraded platform. What this means is that unlike the existing situation where the a SDR software application fast-prototyped and validated under PC-based environment are then requiring a significant further rework when being ported and integrated into the target commercial SDR platform,this project will enable SDR software applications to be ready for faster porting into WInnF Transceiver Facility compliant radio equipments, thanks to the abstraction of the Transceiver implementation architecture offered by WInnF Transceiver Facility. |
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Coordinating Committee on International SCA Standards The Coordinating Committee on International SCA Standards supports the harmonization of SCA based standards at the international level for the mutual benefits of all stakeholders to include:
Management and oversight of this committee is provided by a Steering Group working in collaboration with an Advisory Council.
Co-chair: Eric Nicollet (Thales Communications) COMMITTEE LINKS |
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Co-chair: Eric Nicollet (Thales Communications) Voting Members: The Steering Group will continue to work with the Advisory Council to collaborate under the "Model for Coordination of International SCA Standards". This model was developed for stakeholders (manufacturers, vendors, governments) of the international SCA-based ecosystem who seek increased harmonization among SCA-based international standards. The model provides a baseline for Coordination of International SCA Standards around the WInnF CC SCA and Advisory Council and that organizes the first meetings that comply with the defined model. Under this model, the group will develop a proposal for completing the "Preparatory Work for Elaboration of Coordinated International SCA Standards Roadmaps" |
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SCA Next Work Group The SCA Next Work Group will continue development of new project concepts and advance work on the their project for a CORBA Zero-Copy Enhancement. This project is being developed for SDR and Embedded Domains developers who need to move data efficiently with increased throughput and reduced latency while addressing Size, Weight and Power (SWAP) and battery technical challenges. The project will produce OMG CORBA Zero Copy Request For Comment (RFC) specification, which captures the CORBA Zero Copy Enhancements that provides a standard set of CORBA specification(s) and CORBA IDL to language mappings (e.g., C, CPP, etc.) for ORB vendors to support CORBA zero copy, which provides application portability and backwards capability to current CORBA language mappings. |
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Chair: Steve Bernier (CRC) This group will continue work on a project entitled "State of the Art of Waveform Application Portability". This project is for Waveform developers, radio platform manufacturers and radio system integrators who need to reduce the cost, effort and time needed to perform the porting of waveforms among different processing architectures (i.e: DSP, FPGA, GPP). The "State of the art review of waveform application portability (2012)” will be a report that will identify the latest developments and trends in the field of waveform portability in SCA based standards and will provide a common understanding of the main challenges involved in application portability using SCA based architectures. Unlike other existing documents which are based on a specific architecture support and offer a limited view of the portability problem without taking into account the overall needs of the waveform development (i.e. architecture-centric approach), this report will provide a consolidated view of the waveform portability problem in SCA based architectures and will set the common ground needed to provide an updated set of recommendations for developing waveforms independently of the underlying architectural framework, resulting in an easily portable source code.
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SCA API Work Group The SCA API Work Group will continue to explore new proposals for development and work begin work on the following two projects:
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The SCA Test and Certification Work Group This group will continue work on a new document entitled "SCA Test Lab". This project is being undertaken for those interested in understanding the finer details of establishing an SCA Test Lab, including understanding it’s business market posture, it’s unique and finicky customers, and the test processes that are contained in a Test Lab specializing in testing SCA based SDRs in order to evaluate whether they should establish their own SCA test lab or contract their test requirements to a third party. The project will deliver a report that provides through thorough analysis detailed information for establishing an SCA Test Lab by:
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The Roadmap Committee defines and publishes the Forum’s “Top 10 Most Wanted Wireless Innovations” list Chair: John Glossner (Optimum Semiconductor Technologies) |
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The Roadmap Committee will explore changes in the "Top 10 Most Wanted Wireless Innovations" list as follows:
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Additional information on ongoing projects can be found in the Forum's FY2013 Operations Plan
Information on policies and procedures followed by these groups in developing reports, recommendations and specifications can be found here
A complete listing of the work products developed by these groups can be found in the Forum's Document Library