GRCon15 - Agenda

GRCon15 Agenda Overview

  • Main: Main conference room on Second Floor
  • VSB: Vestigial room off Main on Second Floor
  • I: "In-Phase" room on the Concourse level
  • Q: "Quadrature" room on the Concourse level

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Daily Agenda

Monday - New Developers Day

 8:00

Intro Day Check-In Opens!

 9:00 -  9:30

Intro and GNU Radio Overview

Tom Rondeau and Johnathan Corgan

 9:30 - 10:00

Software Learned Radio: Radio intelligent enough for tomorrow's spectrum

Paul Tilghman

10:00 - 10:30

Building Stronger Collaborations in Astronomy

Glen Langston

10:30 - 11:00

Break

11:00 - 11:45

Building Software Radios

Ben Hilburn

11:45 - 12:30

Lunch, Networking, Posters, and Demos

12:30 - 13:15

Getting started with GNU Radio: using gr_modtool, PyBOMBS, and CGRAN

Martin Braun

13:15 - 14:00

Intro to DSP: Sampling

Jeff Long

14:00 - 14:30

Software Radio Front Ends (RFEs)

Tim Newman

14:30 - 15:00

Break

15:00 - 15:30

Exploring Data

Tim O'Shea

15:30 - 16:00

Using CGRAN: examples of a few OOT projects

Chris Kuethe

16:00 - 16:30

How Not to Write a Block

Tom Rondeau

16:30 - 17:00

Intro to Analog: RF, Computing, Capacity, and Dynamics

Bob McGwier

19:00 - 21:00+

Reception at Birch and Barley, 1337 14th St NW, Washington, DC, 20005, 202-567-2576.

Tuesday - Developers Conference - Day 1

 8:00

Conference Check-In Opens!

 9:00 -  9:45

Conference Introduction and GNU Radio Year-in-Review

Tom Rondeau and Johnathan Corgan

 9:45 - 10:30

Keynote: Hackproof Cognitive Radios

Joe Mitola

10:30 - 11:00

Break

 

11:00 - 11:45

Sponsor Presentation: About Ettus Research

Matt Ettus

11:45 - 12:30

All Your RFz Are Belong to Me - SDR Exploits with GNU Radio

Balint Seeber

12:30 - 13:30

Lunch, Networking, Posters, and Demos

 

13:30 - 14:00

A Look at the GNU Radio Scheduler, Performance, Latency, and Proper Block Design

Johnathan Corgan

14:00 - 14:30

Visualization Tools in GNU Radio

Tim O'Shea

14:30 - 15:00

Stream Tags, PDUs, and Message Passing

Tom Rondeau

15:00 - 15:30

Break

 

15:30 - 16:00

A hybrid LIDAR-RADAR imaging and communication sensor using SDRs for underwater unmanned vehicles

Derek Alley

16:00 - 16:30

gr-ieee802-15-4 - A flexible IEEE 802.15.4 testbed for GNU Radio

Felix Wunsch

16:30 - 17:00

GNU Radio in the Undergraduate Communications Curriculum

Peter Mathys

18:00 - 22:00

Reception at The Mayflower Hotel, 1127 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington, DC 20036, 202-347-3000.

Working Group Breakout Sessions

Wednesday - Developer's Conference - Day 2

 8:00

Conference Check-In Open

 9:00 -  9:30

Sponsor Presentation by DRS: High Performance GNU Radio applications: A Trade-off Comparison of Superhet vs. Zero IF Radio Architectures in Real World Environments

Chuck Dexter

 9:30 - 10:00

An In-Depth look at VOLK

Nathan West

10:00 - 10:30

RFNoC Overview and Introduction

Martin Braun and Jonathon Pendlum

10:30 - 11:00

Break

 

11:00 - 11:30

Software Defined Quantum Stream-Cipher

Michel Barbeau

11:30 - 12:00

High Sample Rate Capture and Post Processing Tools for Synchronized Analysis across Multiple Radios

Orin Lincoln

12:00 - 12:30

Rapid prototyping of PHY/MAC-reconfigurable software-defined underwater acoustic modems with GNU Radio

George Sklivanitis

12:30 - 13:30

Lunch, Networking, Posters, and Demos

 

13:30 - 14:00

Prototyping DVB-S2X using the Ettus X310

Juan Deaton

14:00 - 14:30

Using GnuRadio with the IIO framework

Paul Cercueil

14:30 - 15:00

Big Things in Small Packages: Embedding an SDR platform in Today's Mobile Computing Platforms

John Orlando

15:00 - 15:30

Break

 

15:30 - 16:00

SOCIS Presentation: Polar Codes

Johannes Demel

16:00 - 16:30

Wireless Physical Layer Network Coding

David Halls

16:30 - 17:00

Some DoD R&D Challenges for GNU Radio

Stu Card

18:30 - 20:00

Optional: Tenth Special Cyberspectrum Meetup

Balint Seeber

Working Group Breakout Sessions

Thursday - Developer's Conference - Day 3

 8:00

Conference Check-In Open

 9:00 -  9:30

Sponsor Presentation: About ADI

Robin Getz

 9:30 - 10:00

RFNoC Fosphor

Sylvain Munaut

10:00 - 10:30

GNU Radio on Android

Tom Rondeau

10:30 - 11:00

Break

 

11:00 - 11:30

Optimization of Digital Modulation Schemes using Evolutionary Algorithms

Derek Kozel

11:30 - 12:00

Statistical Signal Parameter Estimation and Modulation Classification in GNURadio

William Headley

12:00 - 12:30

Bursty Signals & Radio Learning

Tim O'Shea

12:30 - 13:30

Lunch, Networking, Posters, and Demos

 

13:30 - 14:00

OFDM in RFNoC

Jonathon Pendlum

14:00 - 14:30

Polar FEC Codes Running at Hundreds of Mbit/s in GNU Radio

Pascal Giard

14:30 - 15:00

Break

15:00 - 15:30

Interference avoiding all-spectrum cognitive channelization around narrowband and wideband primary station

George Sklivanitis

15:30 - 16:00

A Geosynchronous Rideshare Digital Transponder

Bob McGwier

16:00 - 16:30

Lightning Talks

16:30 - 17:00

Closing

Tom Rondeau

Working Group Breakout Sessions

  • FASS -- WG Chair: Tim O'Shea
  • VOLK -- WG Chair:  Nathan West