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News
May 25, 2023
Until June 2, 2023, expert researchers from ITS are in Geneva, Switzerland, where they are collaborating with colleagues from all over the world to reach consensus about improvements to the International Telecommunication...
May 1, 2023
Today ITS released the report “ An Analysis of Aggregate CBRS SAS Data from April 2021 to January 2023,”...
March 21, 2023
ITS electronics engineer Dr. Robert T. Johnk, named a Life Senior Member of the IEEE based on his sustained and lasting contributions to the IEEE EMC Society, was selected as a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE...
Recent Publications
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NTIA Technical Report TM-23-568: 5G Challenge Preliminary Event: Evaluating Modular, Interoperable, Multi-Vendor, Open RAN Solutions May 2023, Margaret H. Pinson; Mark Poletti; Julie E. Kub; Jeremy Glenn; Tim Thompson; Robert Kupsh; Naser Areqat; Okmar Dharmadhikari; Annie George; T. Lauriston Hardin; Cory Johnson; Spiros Kapoulas; Sundar Sriram. Today’s mobile wireless networks comprise many proprietary solutions with custom, closed-source software and hardware. Changes to these proprietary elements require complex and meticulous verification...
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NTIA Technical Report TR-23-567: An Analysis of Aggregate CBRS SAS Data from April 2021 to January 2023 May 2023, Douglas Boulware; Anthony Romaniello; Rebecca L. Dorch; Michael G. Cotton. This report presents an analysis of aggregate Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) Spectrum Access System (SAS) data reported quarterly from April 1, 2021, to January 1, 2023. The data provide valu...
This Month in ITS History
May 1965: CRPL Scientist Disappears in Antarctica
On the frigid morning of May 8, 1965, Carl Disch disappeared from Byrd Station in Antarctica. Disch was a Central Radio Propagation Laboratory employee researching forward scatter in the ionosphere. At 9:15 Disch left the Radio Noise Laboratory about a mile and a quarter from the main Byrd station, but apparently missed the hand line that led back to safety. A search party looked for Disch when he failed to return. Byrd station fired flares, and a human chain was formed to methodically search the snow-covered runway where Disch's tracks appeared to lead, but conditions were difficult. Thirty mile an hour winds covered the footprints with snow and threatened the safety of the searchers; the w ...