Webinar Series

The Wireless Innovation Forum is excited to announce that the Board of Directors has approved offering a series of webinars to our members as a member benefit. The webinars will be educational presenting tutorial material on specific technologies or other areas of broad member interest. Participation in these webinars will always be free for members, but some may be available to non-members for a fee.

Next Webinar:

Top Down Design of Wireless Systems

This webinar shows wireless system engineers how to apply a top-down design methodology to wireless receiver design using Simulink 

We begin the webinar by presenting an 802.15 testbench modeled in Simulink. Then, an initial model is used to tune the SNR to meet our performance specification. Subsequent models add complexity step-wise until we realize a complete system-level receiver design. The final design accounts for traditional RF receiver impairments: noise, even and odd IMD, DC-offset; and also includes coexistence with high power interference and a system level sigma-delta ADC design.

Recorded webinars can be found here. Previous webinars include:

• Introduction to Spectrum Policy for Technologists
• The Software Communications Architecture
• The ADCs of SDR: Parameters, Design Considerations and Implementations
• Cognitive Networking in the ISM Band
• Design of Portable Waveform Applications using SCA
• Generic Development Tools for Many-Core and Heterogeneous Processors

Tutorials, Articles, Case Studies, White Papers

• Now Radios Can Understand Each Other: Modeling Language for Mobility, by Shujun Li, Mieczyslaw M. Kokar, Jakub Moskal, Lee Pucker, March, 2011
• Standardizing smart antenna API for SDR Networks, by Seungheon Hyun, June Kim, Seungwon Choi, Lee Pucker, and Bruce Fette, RF Design, September 2007
• SDR Market Studies Overview, contributed by Dr. James E. Gunn
• SDR For Public Safety, contributed by Fred Franz
• SDR Security, contributed by Bernie Eydt
• SDR Architecture, contributed by Lee Pucker
• Keys to Continued SDR Progress, contributed by the Wireless Innovation Forum Technical Committee
• Cognitive Radio Article
• Standardizing Transceiver APIs for Software Defined and Cognitive Radio, by Eric Nicollet and Lee Pucker
• SDR: Softly Does It, article from Total Telecom

Wireless Innovation Forum Approved Reference Implementations

• FM3TR Reference Waveform – Developed by Mercury Computer Systems under contract to the Wireless Innovation Forum, this reference implementation provides an open source implementation of an SCA enabled test waveform Link opens Mercury website
• Public Safety Radio System Cost Model zip file – Developed by the Public Safety Special Interest Group, this tool estimates total lifecycle costs associated with any public safety radio system and provides a methodology for determining cost impact to that system for incorporating new SDR technologies.
• SCARI2 files - developed by the CRC under contract to the Wireless Innovation Forum, this reference implementation provides an open source reference implementation of the SCA. Link opens CRC website
• Cognitive Radio Ontology - developed by the Modeling Language for Mobility work group, this ontology, provided in OWL, can be viewed in any text editor and is described in detail in the Forum document WINNF-10-S-0007-V1_0_0-Cognitive_Radio_Ontology.pdf

Other Relevant Reference Implementations

• GLOMO APIs zip file - Software protocols for advanced wireless networks developed under the DARPA GloMo (Global Mobile Information Systems) program, and supplied to the Wireless Innovation Forum for distribution.
• Tubitak Reference Waveform zip file - This waveform demonstrates basic operations that a WF can have, and demonstrates how to apply modulation and streaming of data through configurable parameters. This waveform works with the SCARI-Open Core Framework and includes Zeligsoft models.

Thank you to our platinum sponsors:

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Request for Proposal for Webinar Presentations 

Submit your proposal today for the Wireless Innovation Forum's new Webinar Series! The next round of Webinars is planned to begin in April 2012. Webinars are nominally 1 hour, with questions, but related presentations may be grouped in a single webinar at the discretion of the Forum. Proposals can be made on any topic, but preference will be given to presentations on technologies addressing the Forum's "Top 10 Most Wanted Wireless Innovations" 

• Innovation #1: Techniques for Efficient Software Porting Between Heterogeneous Platforms 
• Innovation #2: Generic Development Tools for Heterogeneous Processors 
• Innovation #3: Certification Process for Third Party Waveform Software 
• Innovation #4: Low Cost Wide Spectral Range RF Front-End (Multi-octave Contiguous) (Tx,Rx) 
• Innovation #5: Techniques to Minimize Power Amplifier Spectral Regrowth in Non-contiguous Spectral Environment 
• Innovation #6: High Performance Power Efficient GPP 
• Innovation #7 Increase Communications Time on Battery Charge by an Order of Magnitude 
• Innovation #8: Means of Coverage Extension – Maintaining Communications in Emergencies and After Disasters 
• Innovation #9 Interference Mitigation Techniques 
• Innovation #10: Flexible Regulatory Framework for Temporary, Cooperative and Opportunistic Access 

The following topics of general interest to the Forum's members will also be considered: 

1. SDR Technologies and Implementations (Processor Architectures, FPGAs RF and Antennas, Waveform Porting, Low Power design, etc.) 
2. CR Technologies and Implementations (Spectrum Sensing, White Space Devices and Architectures, etc.) 
3. SCA Next 
4. Intro to the SCA and APIs 
5. Markets and Applications for SDR and CR 
6. Hot Research  
7. Topics and Trends 
8. IP and Government Contracts, including SBIRS Open Source and GNU Radio 
9. Spectrum Policy for Techies 
10. Modelling 

Please submit your request here . Thank you for your input and participation!