Cognitive Radio Blog

Under Construction!

JamesNeel — Tue, 20 May 2014 20:31:01 +0000

The blog is being updated.

Wireless + Game Theory Contractor Position

JamesNeel — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:35:10 +0000

I just got a call from a headhunter looking for someone who could remotely work on a 5-month long project related to wireless and game theory (which I figure means cognitive radio) for 40 hrs / wk. I can

CogNeA Updates

JamesNeel — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:51:59 +0000

(link) CogNeA is pushing their standard into ECMA.

CogNeA contributed its specification to Ecma

Quick Links 3/13/09 [Update]

JamesNeel — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 11:10:27 +0000

ECWS Presentations from 802 Plenary

While I wasn

Quick Links 3/6/9

JamesNeel — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 10:09:41 +0000

Conferences and Contests

(link) The SDRF sends a reminder that abstracts are due March 20.

(link) The 3rd annual Smart Radio Challenge is now open.

(link) 12th Annual Conference on

Wi Not WiFi on Steroids?

JamesNeel — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 11:00:37 +0000

Though the term

DoD Implicitly Requiring Policy-Based DSA on SDRs?

JamesNeel — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 23:26:46 +0000

I attended a talk by Jeff Boksiner at the IDGA SDR conference where he spoke on DOD Instruction 4650.01 issued on Jan 09, 2009 (pdf), which requires new devices to have a Spectrum Supportability Risk Assessment (SSRA) performed at each acquisition milestone (conceptual, experimental, developmental, operational) to determine the impact on all known

Georgia Tech issues CogNEA press release

JamesNeel — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 08:05:27 +0000

(link) Yesterday, Georgia Tech issued a press release announcing their membership in CogNEA.

There

CrownCom09 submission deadline delayed to March 2

JamesNeel — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 13:50:06 +0000

Via email (and on their site), there

OfCOM Consultation on Cognitive radio

JamesNeel — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:48:22 +0000

(link) OfCOM

Cognitive radio in Lynchburg that

JamesNeel — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:13:08 +0000

Ok, it

Other White Space News

JamesNeel — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:04:13 +0000

Beyond the launching of the database group news below.

(link) White spaces may be coming to Europe.

But the UK is not the only market in Europe, and in less space-restrictive countries it could be practical to utilise white spaces, which explains the White Space Coalition launching a European campaign at the European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations.

Dr. Alexandre Kholod, of the Swiss Federal Office of Communications, told PolicyTracker, after the meeting, that he didn

White Spaces Database Group

JamesNeel — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:36:55 +0000

(link) Yesterday, Google et al announced the formation of a group to standardize whitespace database information.

With a goal of bringing the benefits of white spaces to consumers as soon as possible, the Group intends to establish data formats and protocols that are open and non-proprietary and will advocate that database administration be open and non-exclusive.

[somewhat reordered paragraphs] Founding members of the White Spaces Database Group include Comsearch, Dell, Google Inc., HP, Microsoft Corporation, Motorola Inc., and NeuStar.

(link) The Google public policy blog added:

In the coming weeks and months, members of the group will be offering to the Commission their perspectives, and some specific recommendations, about the technical requirements we would like to see adopted for the database. Many of these specifications ultimately will be heavily technical; put simply, we

DTV Transition Update [Updated]

JamesNeel — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 18:35:05 +0000

Following up on the earlier news that Obama wanted to delay the DTV transition, there

CogNEA Update

JamesNeel — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 18:24:58 +0000

Pat Carson from TDK gave a short presentation on CogNEA today at the SDRF CRWG / Secondary Spectrum Test Group joint meeting and said the information was for public consumption, so here

FCC Errata on White Space Rules

JamesNeel — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:25:52 +0000

(pdf) (doc) On Friday (9th), the FCC issued a document noting the errors in FCC 08-260A (

Potentially really bad white space news (and a little good) [Updatedx2]

JamesNeel — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:09:55 +0000

(pdf) First the good news. Today, the FCC announced that they were starting a white space fellowship program to help

Backlogged Calls for Papers

JamesNeel — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:02:02 +0000

While trying to find time to

WordPress issues

JamesNeel — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 12:14:25 +0000

3 times in the last 9 months (the most recent being the last couple weeks), wordpress has died on me (or at least not let me log in) until I hacked its code around some.

Beyond

UHF Cognitive Networks Alliance (CogNeA)

JamesNeel — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 18:01:51 +0000

I was just emailed a press release announcing the formation of an industry group to define a protocol (PHY / MAC) for white space data networks.

They hope to have a draft standard for comment available in the first half of 2009.

Since I don