Agenda
An agenda for the 2024 U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Spectrum Week is provided below. Sessions are subject to change, as details are finalized. Please note that sessions running at the same time will be in separate rooms within the Spectrum Week location.
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This agenda has been updated for NSF Spectrum Week with the latest information.
7:00 a.m. – Breakfast and Registration
8:30 a.m. – IEEE DySPAN morning workshops: WS-01 – Decentralized, ORAN-centric Spectrum Sharing Strategies; WS-02 – Spectrum Coexistence in Passive Earth Observation and Radio Astronomy; WS-03 – Signal Reuse for Spectrum Efficiency
IEEE DySPAN morning tutorial: Riding the New Wave: Spectrum Strategies for the 5G and 6G Era
SWIFT: Welcome and Day’s Highlights; NSF Opening Remarks; Upcoming NSF Opportunities; Meeting Overview and Logistics; Keynote 1: New Spectrum Access Capabilities above 100 GHz
10:00 a.m. – Coffee Break
10:30 a.m. – IEEE DySPAN morning workshops continue
IEEE DySPAN Morning Tutorials: Understanding O-RAN: A Tutorial on Architecture, Interfaces, Algorithms, Spectrum Sharing, and Research in Colosseum (Part 1); Interference Management and Medium Access Techniques for Dependable Communications in the 6G Era.
SWIFT: Keynote 2: Spectrum Challenges in the 5G/6G Era; Keynote Panel Discussion; Principal Investigator Lightning Videos
12:15 p.m. – Lunch
1:15 p.m. – IEEE DySPAN afternoon workshops: WS-04 Spectrum Access for Local 6G Networks; WS-05 DySPAN FAST: Field Trials for Advanced Spectrum Sharing; FAST Parallel Paper Session
IEEE DySPAN afternoon tutorials: Understanding O-RAN; Enabling Dynamic Spectrum Managing, Dynamic Spectrum Access, and Spectrum SharingL the IEEE 1900.5 Standard for Modeling Spectrum Consumption
SWIFT: Poster Session I; Breakout Sessions
3:15 p.m. – Coffee Break
3:45 p.m. – IEEE DySPAN afternoon workshops continued
SWIFT: Breakout reports, NSF Closing Remarks
5:00 p.m. – Welcome Reception, Joint Poster Session: SWIFT Posters II & SpectrumX Posters I
7:00 a.m. – Breakfast and Registration
8:30 a.m. – All Spectrum Week and IEEE DySPAN: Welcome and Keynote 1 – Tom Power, General Counsel, CTIA, and Preston Marshall, Director of Wireless Standards and Policy, Google
9:30 a.m. – NSMA Kickoff and State of the Spectrum
SpectrumX Overview, Update, and Community, moderated by Scott Palo, associate director of SpectrumX
IEEE DySPAN Session A1/B1 Single Track Papers 1
10:45 a.m. – Coffee Break
11:15 a.m. – SWIFT + SpectrumX – Data Sharing for Spectrum Sharing Research Panel
IEEE DySPAN Session A2/B2 Single Track Papers
NSMA 6GHz in the Headlines Panel: Mission-critical Networks & Innovative Unlicensed Networks
12:30 p.m. – Lunch
1:15 p.m. – All Spectrum Week and IEEE DySPAN: Panel – Industry View of Spectrum Sharing panel
2:30 p.m. – NSMA: Satellite Mega Constellations Panel & History of the Wireless Telecommunications Review (WTR), The World’s Largest Research Project into Wireless Safety
IEEE DySPAN: Session A3 Coexistence I; Session B3 Satellites
4:00 p.m. – IEEE DySPAN: Coffee Break, Demos, Posters
Spectrum Week: Coffee Break
4:30 p.m. – NSMA Competing on Safety, the New Frontier for Spectrum Management Panel
SpectrumX: Spectrum Education
IEEE DySPAN: Session A4 Measurement Campaigns; Session B4 Regulations and Policy I
5:45 p.m. – Spectrum Week/IEEE DySPAN: Social – Networking with a Purpose, Sponsored by SpectrumX Broadening Participation and IEEE DySPAN
7:00 a.m. – Breakfast (ends at 8:30 a.m.) and Registration
8:30 a.m. – All Spectrum Week and IEEE DySPAN: Spectrum Week Welcome, Keynote
Keynote: Dave Willis, Group Director of Spectrum, OfCom
9:30 a.m. – IEEE DySPAN: Session A5 Machine Learning I; Session B5 Security and Privacy
SpectrumX: Spectrum Awareness: SpectrumX Flagship Project Overview
NSMA: Spectrum Management Activities at the FCC/OET
10:45 a.m – IEEE DySPAN: Coffee, Demos, and Posters
NSMA and SpectrumX: Coffee Break
11:15 a.m. – IEEE DySPAN: Session A6 MMWave; Session B6 Passive Users
NSMA: Drone Enhanced Spectrum Measurements
12:15 p.m. – Lunch
1:30 p.m. – IEEE DySPAN and Spectrum Week: Panel: Broadband Digital Divide
Moderator: Monisha Ghosh, Professor, University of Notre Dame
Panelists: Ashutosh Dutta, 5G Chief Strategist, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Edward Oughton, Professor, George Mason University
Darrah Blackwater, Indigenous Law and Policy Fellow, University of Arizona College of Law
Matthew Sprintson, High school senior, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology
2:30 p.m. – IEEE DySPAN: Session A7 Radio Dynamic Zones; Session B7 Regulations and Policy II
SpectrumX: Collaboration Models and Discussion
NSMA: Spectrum Management Guidelines Developments; NSMA Working Group 3; Spectrum Management Certification and Employment Opportunities
4:00 p.m. – Career Fair begins (Open to all)
Coffee Break
IEEE DySPAN Demos and Posters
4:30 p.m. – IEEE DySPAN: Session A8 Machine Learning II; Session B8 Spectrum Sensing
Spectrum Week: Career Fair continues
7:00 p.m. – IEEE DySPAN Banquet (IEEE DySPAN attendees only)
7:00 a.m. – Breakfast (ends at 8:30 a.m.) and Registration
8:30 a.m. – All Spectrum Week and IEEE DySPAN attendees: Spectrum Week Welcome and Keynote Speakers
Moderator: Eric Burger, DySPAN Conference Chair, Research Director of the Commonwealth Cyber initiative at Virginia Tech
Keynote speakers: Thomas Hazlett, Hugh Macaulay Endowed Professor of Economics, Clemson University
Giulia McHenry, Chief, Office of Economics and Analytics, FCC
9:30 a.m. – IEEE DySPAN: Tutorials; Session A9 Spectrum Access; Session B9 Coexistence II
SpectrumX: Spectrum Awareness: SpectrumX Flagship Project Planning Session (Open to all)
NRDZ: NRDZCOM4 Opening, Lightning Talks I
10:45 a.m. – Coffee Break
IEEE DySPAN: Last call for demos and posters
11:15 a.m. – IEEE DySPAN: Tutorial starts – Open AI Cellular (OAIC): An Open-Source AI-Based O-RAN Platform and Framework Enabling 6G Wireless Research (Part 1)
SpectrumX: SpectrumX Broadening Participation: Building an Individual Development Plan (IDP) – Open to all
NRDZ: Lightning Talks II
12:15 p.m. – Lunch
1:30 p.m. – All Spectrum Week and IEEE DySPAN attendees: Keynote Speaker and Panel: Accelerating Spectrum Progress Through Experimentation and Data
Moderator: Martin Doczkat, FCC Office of Engineering and Technology
Panelists: Scott Patrick, NTIA-OSM
Doug Hyslop, CTIA
Wade Mueller, USSTRATCOM Joint Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations Center
2:30 p.m. – IEEE DySPAN: Tutorial – Machine Learning fro Security and Security for ML in Spectrum
SpectrumX: SpectrumX Working Meeting: National Spectrum Strategy Engagement (SpectrumX members and affiliates only)
NRDZ: Spectrum Sharing Field Experiments
4:00 p.m. – Coffee Break
SpectrumX Poster Session II
4:30 p.m. – SpectrumX Poster Session II continues
NRDZ: Spectrum Sharing Testbeds – Panel and Fireside Chat
6:30 p.m. – SpectrumX Directors Executive session (Closed session for SpecrumX Directors only)
8:00 a.m. – WSRD R&D Plan Workshop Welcome, Opening Remarks, and WSRD Workshop on the National Spectrum R&D Plan – Introduction and Plan Overview
Welcome: WSRD Co-Chairs: John Chapin, Special Advisor for Spectrum Division of Computer and Network Systems (CISE/CNS), National Science Foundation; and Michael DiFrancisco, Senior Technical Advisor, Office of Spectrum Management (OSM), National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA)
Opening Remarks: Austin Bonner, Deputy U.S. CTO for Policy, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP)
8:30 a.m. – Panel 1
9:05 a.m. – Panel 2
9:35 a.m. – Coffee Break
10:00 a.m. – Panel 3
10:45 a.m. – Panel 4
11:30 a.m. – Lunch Break
12:30 p.m. – Panel 5
1:15 p.m. – Panel 6
2:00 p.m. – Coffee Break
2:30 p.m. – Panel 7
3:00 p.m. – Panel 8
3:30 p.m. – Conclude Workshop