The SDR 10 Technical Conference and Product Exhibition will be held November 30th to December 3rd in Washington D.C. This preeminent technical conference is the primary venue for presenting new research results in the software defined and cognitive radio technologies including multimode/multiprotocol terminal design, Multimode Terminal and Infrastructure Design, Security Services, Mobile Ad-Hoc and Dynamic Spectrum Access Networking, Standards, Certification and Validation, Testing and Tools. Participants have the opportunity to present their work, attend panel and keynote talk sessions, and interact with many others performing leading-edge research in the field.
Attending this conference will provide students with exposure to industry and the real problems they will face when entering the workforce in the design, development, manufacture and deployment of advanced wireless systems. Such exposure will help them to better understand how their course work at university applies in a real world setting, and will accelerate the pace at which they become productive upon graduation. At the conference they will meet and interact the leading researchers and practitioners in this field.
This proposal requests funding to support approximately 16 graduate and undergraduate students in the United States to attend this premiere conference. Travel scholarships will be awarded to students based on academic merit and preference will be given to students in NSF under-represented categories including women and minorities.
The purpose of this project was to provide financial support for students at the graduate and undergraduate level to attend the SDR’10 Technical Conference and Product Exposition held November 30th to December 3rd 2010 in Washington D.C. The goal in providing such support was to provide students with exposure to industry and the real problems they will face when entering the workforce in the design, development, manufacture and deployment of advanced wireless systems. Such exposure will help them to better understand how their course work at university applies in a real world setting, and will accelerate the pace at which they become productive upon graduation. SDR’10 had 486 registered delegates from over 22 different countries around the world, including many of the recognized technical leaders in the reconfigurable radio community. Students attending SDR’10 had access to a rich technical program advancing their domain knowledge, including: 19 Technical sessions presenting over 100 peer reviewed papers that provide a perspective on the current state of the art in reconfigurable radio technology and the practical commercialization of these technologies, future trends or technology innovations. Topics in the paper sessions include security solutions, radio frequency technologies, baseband processing, modeling, spectrum access and sensing, public safety, location based techniques, multi-mode systems and base stations. 15 half day tutorials and "expert lectures" providing hands on experience with technologies and tools 7 Workshops exploring market adoption of Software Defined Radio and Cognitive Radio, harmonizing spectrum policy, and satellite communications Demonstrations of emerging technologies and solutions to real world problems. In addition, students were able to meet and interact the leading researchers and practitioners in the field. 31 travel grant awards were made by the conference’s program committee under this project. Grants of up to $375 were made for students living within 300 miles of the event, and grants of up to $650 were made for students living more than 300 miles away. Grants were made against actual expenses, and receipts were required before payment was made. The Forum also provided lodging at the conference hotel for a fixed number of nights as a matching contribution when the student stayed in the conference hotel. One student declined the grant as a conflict prevented him from attending the conference. Students receiving a travel grant were required to submit a short report on their conference experience and expenses. Overall the responses were positive, with students gaining valuable insight into the industry and making important connections that will help them in years to come. The summary report from each student was provided to the NSF as a part of the final report, providing additional insight into the results.
