Powder-RENEW - Users' Workshop 2018

Workshop Overview

We are pleased to host the 2018 POWDER-RENEW platform users' workshop, co-located with IEEE ICC 2018 in Kansas City, MO. The goal of the workshop is to expose potential users, from academia, industry, and government, to current platform plans and to obtain their input while these plans are still formative.

To ensure a true interactive workshop setting, attendance will be limited and by invitation.

Please note that registration for ICC is not required to attend the workshop.

Workshop dates and times

Start: Wednesday, May 23, at 12:30 PM

End: Thursday, May 24, at 1:30 PM

Location

The workshop will be co-located with ICC 2018 in Kansas City, MO, at the Sheraton Kansas City Hotel at Crown Center. (For breakout sessions we will also use rooms at the nearby Westin Kansas City at Crown Center.)

Agenda

Schedule Overview

Wednesday, May 23rd 2018:

Registration

12:00pm-1:00pm Badge pickup next to ICC registration desk

Pre-workshop Session (Sheraton: Exhibit Hall B)

1:00pm-2:00pm PAWR Panel (part of regular ICC program)

Workshop Schedule Day 1 UPDATED: (Westin Hotel: Shawnee)

2:15pm-2:20pm Opening Remarks
2:20pm-3:00pm Research Challenges Statements
3:00pm-4:20pm POWDER-RENEW Presentations

Session Overview (Kobus Van der Merwe)
Wireless and Network Infrastructure (Kirk Webb)
Profiles: Packaged Experiment Descriptions and Demo (Rob Ricci and Jon Duerig)
Software Stacks (Kobus Van der Merwe)
Massive MIMO (Ashu Sabharwal and Rahman Doost-Mohammady)
Spectrum (Gary Wong)
Antenna Experimentation (David Schurig)

4:20pm-4:40pm Break
4:40pm-5:40pm Breakout Session I

Features (academic) (Facilitators: Walt Magnussen and Neal Patwari; Scribe: Jon Duerig)
Features (industry) (Facilitators: Ali Khayrallah and John Kaewell; Scribe: Eric Eide)

5:40pm-6:00pm Breakout Feedback
6:00pm-6:10pm Planning For Second Day
Dinner on your own...

Thursday, May 24th 2018:

Workshop Schedule Day 2 (Sheraton: Chicago A)

8:00am-8:30am Breakfast
8:30am-8:40am Plan For The Day
8:40am-10:00am Breakout Session II

Tentative: Experimental Software (Facilitators: Vijay Gopalakrishnan and Ian Wong; Scribe: Eric Eide)
Tentative: Infrastructure (Facilitators: Ahmed Eltawil and Bozidar Radunovic; Scribe: Andy Buffmire)
Tentative: Radio Capabilities (Facilitators: Rose Hu and Marcos Tavares; Scribe: Jon Duerig)

10:00am-10:30am Breakout Feedback
10:30am-10:50am Break
10:50am-12:10pm Breakout Session III

Tentative: Applications and Services (Facilitators: Syed Hassan Ahmed and Sneha Kasera; Scribe: Jon Duerig)
Tentative: Data collection, measurements and analysis (Facilitators: Michael Cotton and Hongwei Zhang; Scribe: Gary Wong)
Tentative: Sustainability (Facilitators: Andy Buffmire and Joe Kochan; Scribe: Kirk Webb)

12:10pm-12:40pm Breakout Feedback (with lunch)
12:40pm-13:00pm Wrapup

Attendees

Confirmed Attendees

Syed Hassan Ahmed, University of Central Florida
Eric Anderson, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Oscar Bejarano, Rice University
Lyle Bertz, Sprint
Andy Buffmire, University of Utah
Kang Chen, Southern Illinois University
Mike Cotton, NTIA
Jon Duerig, University of Utah
Rahman Doost, Rice University
Eric Eide, University of Utah
Ahmed Eltawil, University of California, Irvine
Vijay Gopalakrishnan, AT&T Labs - Research
Abhimanyu Gosain, PAWR Project Office
Ryan Guerra, Skylark Wireless
Lance Hartung, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Rose Hu, Utah State University
Mingyue Ji, University of Utah
John Kaewell, InterDigital Communications
Ken Karnofsky, MathWorks
Sneha Kasera, University of Utah
Ali Khayrallah, Ericsson Research
Joe Kochan, PAWR Project Office
Karen Lightman, CMU/Metro21
Shih-Chun Lin, North Carolina State University
Liangping Ma, InterDigital Communications
Jane Mack, InterDigital Communications
Walt Magnussen, Texas A&M University
James Martin, Clemson University
Tommaso Melodia, Northwestern University/PAWR Project Office
Thyaga Nandagopal, National Science Foundation
Neal Patwari, University of Utah
Yi Qian, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Bozidar Radunovic, Microsoft Research
Robert Ricci, University of Utah
Ashu Sabharwal, Rice University
Fred Schreider, InterDigital Communications
Albert Seubers, Atos
Clay Shepard, Skylark Wireless
David Schurig, University of Utah
Marcos Tavares, Nokia Bell Labs
Kira Theuer, National Instruments
Kobus Van der Merwe, University of Utah
Kirk Webb, University of Utah
Gary Wong, University of Utah
Ian Wong, National Instruments
Hongwei Zhang, Iowa State University

Powder-RENEW Users' Workshop 2018