10th New England Workshop on Software Defined Radio
12 August 2020, 9:00 AM (US Eastern) – 5:00 PM (US Eastern)
Virtual Event
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The 2020 New England Workshop on Software-Defined Radio (NEWSDR’20) is the tenth installment of an annual workshop series organized by the Boston SDR User Group (SDR-Boston). Given the continued global health emergency of the COVID-19 pandemic, this year’s event will be safely hosted online using a variety of Internet technologies such as Zoom, YouTube Live, and Slack. Although this will be a virtual event, the NEWSDR 2020 organizers are committed to achieving the primary goal of this workshop by providing a forum that enables individuals working on SDR-related projects within the New England area to get together, collaborate, and introduce SDR concepts to those interested in furthering their knowledge of SDR capabilities and available resources. NEWSDR 2020 welcomes both experienced SDR enthusiasts as well as individuals who are interested in getting started with SDR.
When: 12 August 2020, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
All times shown in Eastern Daylight Time (EDT), the time in Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Where: Online (Login details sent to workshop registrants immediately prior to event)
Agenda:
| 9:00 AM – 9:15 AM | Welcome Address |
| 9:15 AM – 10:15 AM | Sponsor Session 1: Analog Devices, MathWorks, National Instruments/Ettus Research, MediaTek |
| 10:15 AM – 10:30 AM | Q&A |
| 10:30 AM – 11:15 AM | Keynote Talk: Dr. Tom Rondeau (DARPA) |
| 11:15 AM – 11:45 AM | Sponsor Session 2: Lynk, Verizon |
| 11:45 AM – 12:00 PM | Q&A |
| 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM | Lunch & Sponsor Virtual Tables |
| 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM | Community Spotlight Talks |
| 2:00 PM – 2:30 PM | Community Spotlight Virtual Poster Session |
| 2:30 PM – 3:00 PM | Fireside Chat 1: “Spectral Coexistence: What is its future in the US?” |
| 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM | Fireside Chat 2: “A Software-Defined Wireless Communications Network Research Infrastructure for the Internet of Things (IoT)” |
| 3:30 PM – 4:00 PM | Fireside Chat 3: “Open-Source Software in Software-Defined Radio” |
| 4:00 PM – 4:15 PM | Closing Comments, Adjournment |
| 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM | Sponsor Tutorial Sessions (Reserved) |
Final Program and Video Recording:
You can download the final program of NEWSDR 2020 by clicking here.
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Tom Rondeau, DARPA
Tom Rondeau is a DARPA program manager with a focus on adaptive and reconfigurable radios, improving the development cycle for new signal-processing techniques, and exploring new approaches and applications with the electromagnetic spectrum. Prior to joining DARPA, Tom was the maintainer and lead developer of the GNU Radio project, a visiting researcher with the University of Pennsylvania, and an Adjunct with the IDA Center for Communications Research in Princeton, NJ.
Fireside Chats
Chat 1 “Spectral Coexistence: What is its future in the US?”
Philip Erickson, MIT Haystack Observatory
Tim Fisher-Jeffes, Mediatek
Dola Saha, University of Albany
The 6 GHz band recently made unlicensed by US regulatory agencies in April 2020 has resulted in several challenges across different spectrum stakeholders, potentially increasing the level of tension among these different communities. For this fireside chat, we have brought together several of these stake holders to discuss this and other changes to the regulation of the electromagnetic spectrum.
Moderator: Alex Wyglinski, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Chat 2 “A Software-Defined Wireless Communications Network Research Infrastructure for the Internet of Things (IoT)”
Song Han, University of Connecticut
Brian Kelley, University of Texas at San Antonio
Matthew Knight, Agitator
Industry 4.0 is entirely dependent on reliable connectivity within the manufacturing ecosystem, including technologies such as Internet-of-Things and 5G. This fireside chat will bring together the latest perspectives and discuss advances in this emerging area, and show how software-defined radio prototyping and design can help push the current state-of-the-art to explore new ways of performing complex tasks in this new industrial revolution.
Moderator: Yousof Naderi, Northeastern University
Chat 3 “Open-Source Software in Software-Defined Radio”
Pau Closas, Northeastern University
Fraida Fund, NYU Tandon School of Engineering
Juha Vierinen, University of Tromso
The software-defined radio community has embraced many of the tenets of the open-source software movement. This has helped create many of the standard tools in the community and also has helped lower the barrier to entry. The speakers in this session have all contributed to this community through their open-source projects. They can offer their insight and perspectives on the future of open-source software in the SDR community.
Moderator: John Swoboda, MIT Haystack Observatory
Workshop Registration
NEWSDR 2020 is free to attend. However, it is necessary to register for this event in advance in order to obtain the necessary login information for the different virtual sessions. Click here to register. Deadline to register for NEWSDR 2020 is 9 August 2020.
Community Spotlight Talks & Posters: Abstract Submission
Interested in giving a 2-3 minute spotlight talk and a virtual poster about your SDR-related activities at NEWSDR 2020? If so, please consider submitting an abstract. To submit, make sure to choose “Yes” for the question “Would you be interested in presenting a Poster and Spotlight Talk?” during the workshop registration process. Deadline for abstract submission is 1 August 2020. Acceptance notifications will be sent out by COB 5 August 2020.
Many thanks to our generous sponsors:
Questions or comments? Please feel free to contact us at gr-newsdr-info@wpi.edu.