Agenda
ISART 2016: Spectrum Forensics • August 1-3, 2016
Unless otherwise specified, all events held at The Westin Westminster, 10600 Westminster Blvd., Westminster, CO 80020
As more and more spectrum users are pressed to operate in shared bands, effective spectrum sharing sill require an entirely new legal and regulatory environment, as well as sophisticated technologies that can reliably thread the three parameters of time, frequency, and location to deliver acceptable service in shared bands without interfereing with other users of the same or adjacent bands. Spectrum forensics will help build and maintain good fences to make good neighbors.
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9:00 AM 10:30 AM |
At the Boulder Labs: Tours of ITS and CTL Labs ITS: Indoor Propagation Measurements NIST: Antenna Metrology |
At the Boulder Labs: 8:30-12:00 IEEE 802.22.3 Meeting 10:30 AM-12:30 PM WSRD Meeting |
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12:00 PM |
Registration |
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1:00 PM |
Tutorial on the Legal Process of Spectrum Forensics: Civil & Criminal Case Studies The prequel tutorial provided essential background for ISART participants who are not familiar with the FCC Enforcement Bureau’s criteria and process for both civil and criminal spectrum interference investigations and enforcement actions.
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8:00 AM |
Registration |
Demos and Posters |
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9:00 AM |
Welcome: Patricia Raush, ITS |
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9:15 AM |
Keynote Address: Greg Shannon (OSTP Cyber Security) |
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9:45 AM |
Break |
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10:00 AM |
Panel: Policy Considerations This panel explored the implications of technological developments on spectrum policy as they relate to the forensic analysis of radio interference. As telecommunications systems increase in complexity and quantity, and intentional misuse of spectrum is democratized through ready access to inexpensive software defined radios and comprehensive code repositories, the future frequency, severity, and consequence of interference is of increasing concern. This panel considered commercial wireless industry approaches and existing FCC and NTIA frameworks for identification and mitigation of harmful interference through both legal and technical channels. Considering past experiences with the Internet, future looking perspectives on the intentional criminal misuse of spectrum were also considered. As exemplified in other regulatory frameworks, spectrum forensics will require the development of new disciplines to collect and interpret spectrum related artifacts to pinpoint sources of interference, initiate corrective action and, in some cases, prosecute offenders.
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12:00 PM |
Lunch (on your own) |
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1:30 PM |
Presentations
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3:00 PM |
Break |
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3:15 PM |
Panel: Spectrum Monitoring Economic and technical constraints limit the scope of data available for spectrum forensics. Good architectural design can maximize limited resources and provide novel processes for data acquisition, integration, management, and use. In this panel, spectrum data architects and users discussed, evaluated, and weighed ideas for a national infrastructure that (1) supports data aggregation from diverse sources and (2) establishes a logical separation between infrastructure and information, in order to promote specialization and economies of scale in areas such as sensor design, data visualization, and information extraction. The panel started with a strawman spectrum monitoring architecture then evaluated ideas, options, and recommendations for design requirements, business models, and next steps.
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5:30 PM |
Reception and Demonstrations |
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7:30 PM |
Dinner |
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9:00 AM |
Welcome: Patricia Raush, ITS |
Demos and Posters |
At the Boulder Labs: 12:00 PM WInnForum |
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9:15 AM |
Presentation |
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9:45 AM |
Break |
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10:00 AM |
Panel: Enabling Technologies and Standards The technical enablers of spectrum forensics span monitoring instrumentation, computational resources, and standards for recording spectrum measurements. Monitoring instrumentation includes not only the downconverters, digitizers, and signal analyzers capable of analyzing the wide bandwidths of current and future wireless broadband systems, but also antenna arrays and related technologies for direction finding and localization of emitters. In addition, storage architectures will be needed to record vast amounts of data and make them readily available for subsequent analysis. Computational resources will be needed to detect anomalous spectrum behavior in real time as well as to analyze captured data off-line. Finally, standard formats for signal waveforms and associated metadata would bring the benefits of open architectures to future spectrum forensics solutions. This panel reported on the state-of-the-art in the technologies and standards that make spectrum forensics possible and identified gaps where future development and standardization are needed. |
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12:00 PM |
Lunch (on your own) |
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1:30 PM |
Presentations |
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2:30 PM |
Break |
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2:45 PM |
Panel: Data Analytics This panel focused on the mathematical techniques for analyzing captured signal data, with an emphasis on machine learning, data mining and artificial intelligence techniques. The limitations and potential pitfalls of each technique were considered along with the advantages and capabilities. Related to this topic is the question of what type and quantity of data need to be captured and retained in order to use each technique. Time and frequency resolution and appropriate quantization are examples of this. The panel discussed current research results and identified specific topics and techniques where future research is still needed.
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4:45 |
Closing Remarks: Keith Gremban (ITS Director) |
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At the Boulder Labs: WInnForum |
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Monday, August 1, 2016