• Dr. Antonella Bogoni

  Brief Biography:

  Antonella Bogoni was born in Mantova, Italy. She received the M.S. Degree in electronics engineering in 1997 and the Ph.D. degree in 2004 from University of Parma, Italy. From 1998 to 1999 she was grantee of Marconi S.p.a. at the University of Parma. From 2000 to 2006 she was researcher of CNIT (Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Telecomunicazioni) at the Parma University up to 2001 and then at Photonic Networks National Laboratory in Pisa, Italy.From 2006 to 2010 she is head of research at the Integrated Research Center for Photonic Networks and Technologies. Currently she is head of research area in the same center. From 2006 she is CEO of PhoTrix. In 2008 and 2010 she was visitor at USC, California. In 2009 she received the European Research Council Starting Grant. In 2010 she is awarded by the Fulbright advanced research scholarship. She has been Scientific Coordinator for National and International projects and involved in several international, EU and national projects. She is co-author of 7 chapters and books, more than 80 papers on international journals, 200 contributes for international conferences and 45 international patents. She presented more than 30 invited contributions at international conference and on international journal. She is Program co-chiar of OSA Photonics in Switching 2013 conference. She participated to revision committees of international conferences and she is reviewer for international journals and for the European Commission within FP7 and for FNRS (Fond de la rechearche scientifique) and Thalis and Archimedes platforms . Her research interests are in the area of fiber optical transmissions, especially in ultra-fast all-optical signal processing and pulsed source generation, and in the microwave area especially in radar and wireless communication systems based on photonics.

  Speech Theme: Photonics for new generation fully-digital radar and wireless communication systems: from the photonic-based RF signal generation to the optical RF sampling

  Speech Description: The speech will introduce the role of photonics for new generation radar and wireless communication systems. Modern techniques for the photonic-assisted RF generation will be detailed to provide extremely stable multicarrier signals up to the millimeter wave band, with an arbitrary amplitude and phase modulation and phase noise independent on the frequency.

  At the receiver photonic technologies will be reported for the optical sampling directly at RF and for the down-conversion of multiple heterogeneous RF signals, allowing an increased resolution. The innovative transceiver features guaranteed by the use of photonics, will be demonstrated for the development of new generation fully digital multiband single and array radar systems working at high frequency (X band and beyond), and for the design of radically new multi-protocol software-defined wideband wireless communication apparatus.

  Finally new applications for safety, traffic and environment control and for new mobile broadband services enabled by the photonic-based radar and wireless communication systems respectively will be summarized.

• Dr. Apurva N. Mody

  Brief Biography:

  Dr. Apurva N. Mody (apurva.mody@ieee.org) is the Chairman of IEEE 802.22 Working Group (WG) on Wireless Regional Area Networks (WRANs) (www.ieee802.org/22). He is also the Chairman of the Whitespace Alliance (www.WhiteSpaceAlliance.org). The IEEE 802.22 Wi-FARTM/ Super Wi-Fi Standards will support Cognitive Radio (CR) based use of the TV Band WhiteSpaces to enable regional and rural broadband wireless access serving more than 3.5 Billion people. Other Machine to Machine applications will drive the volumes. Under Dr. Mody' s leadership, the IEEE 802.22 WG is the recipient of the IEEE SA Emerging Technology Award. Dr. Mody received his Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology. His research was based on Receiver Implementation for Multiple Input Multiple Output Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing Systems. Dr. Mody was granted five patents through his Ph. D. research which were later sold to Intellectual Ventures. Since June 2005, he has been also performing research on Cognitive Radio systems. Dr. Mody has contributed to the field of Machine Learning based Cognitive Communications in White as well as Gray Spaces, feature based spectrum sensing, signal classification, co-existence techniques, security for CR based systems, information fusion, game theoretical decision making, policy based management etc. Dr. Mody has played a pivotal role in growing the expertise and market share for his company on CR, Dynamic Spectrum Access (DSA) related programs. Dr. Mody has been a key contributor on many programs and invited speaker at many Government and commercial events. Dr. Mody has published more than 50 conference and journal publications and is an author of more than 15 US and international patents.

  Dr. Mody is the Senior Member of the IEEE, President' s Fellow while at Georgia Tech, Member of Tau Beta Pi and Eta Kappa Nu Honor Societies.

  Speech Theme: From WhiteSpace Enabled Rural Broadband to Cognitive M2M

  Speech Description: Regulators all over the world have realized the importance of WhiteSpaces. WhiteSpaces are the un-used or under-utilized portions of the spectrum. There is an on-going debate on licensed vs license-exempt use of this spectrum. Currently 73% of the people in the world do not have internet access. Nearly 3.5 Billion people live in rural areas with hardly any internet availability. License-exempt use of WhiteSpaces enabled through Cognitive Radio (CR) technology has the potential to change all that and benefit many emerging economies such as Brazil. Other Machine to Machine (M2M) applications will drive up the volumes. WhiteSpace spectrum can support a wide variety of applications including regional and rural area broadband access, local area networks, hot-spots, health-care applications, cellular off-load, smart utility networks, remote control and monitoring applications, home-land security, disaster-recovery etc. Skeptics exist but recently, CR related research has seen an explosive growth all over the world, and software radio defined test-beds and prototypes are being tested and deployed in many parts of the world already. The first part of the presentation will describe ideas and results on machine learning based cognitive communications in White as well as the Gray space. The second part of the talk will focus on IEEE 802.22 Standards and WhiteSpace Alliance activities to promote this eco-system and other standards such as 3GPP / LTE, IEEE 802.19.a, IEEE P1900, IETF etc.

  Further Information on WhiteSpace Alliance: The mission of the Whitespace Alliance (www.WhiteSpaceAlliance.org) is to promote the development, deployment and use of standards based products and services as a means of providing broadband capabilities via TV band and other emerging WhiteSpaces. By promoting the use of standards, the Alliance will enable companies to provide broadband connectivity at reasonable cost. The WSA will also act as an enabler of the emerging white spaces ecosystem through educational activities and helping to put in place interoperability, conformance, and compliance testing to make sure that our member stakeholders get the needed information & collaborations to succeed both in the market place and with regulatory requirements. WhiteSpace Alliance will promote the use of IEEE, 3GPP and IETF Standards for use in the WhiteSpaces.

  Further Information on the IEEE 802.22 Standard: IEEE 802.22 systems will provide broadband access to wide regional areas around the world and bring reliable and secure high-speed communications to under-served and un-served rural communities, which are estimated to include nearly half of the worlds population. The IEEE 802.22-2011 is the first IEEE 802 Standard for operation in the Television (TV) Whitespaces, defined as the available or un-occupied TV channels. It is also the first IEEE Standard that focuses on broadband connectivity in rural areas where most vacant TV channels can be found, thus helping to bridge the digital divide. IEEE 802.22 Working Group is the recipient of the IEEE SA Emerging Technology Award. This new standard for Wireless Regional Area Networks (WRANs) takes advantage of the favorable transmission characteristics of the VHF and UHF TV bands to provide broadband wireless access over a large area up to 100 km from the transmitter. Each WRAN could deliver 22 Mbps to 29 Mbps, depending upon the country of deployment, without interfering with reception of existing TV broadcast stations. IEEE 802.22 incorporates advanced cognitive radio capabilities including dynamic spectrum access, incumbent database access, accurate geo-location techniques, spectrum sensing, regulatory domain dependent policies, spectrum etiquette, and self-coexistence for optimal use of the available spectrum. The new IEEE P802.22b amendment proposes to support enhanced broadband and monitoring applications.

• Prof. Boaz Nadler

  Brief Biography:

  Boaz Nadler was awarded a Ph.D. in applied mathematics from Tel-Aviv University. After 3 years at Yale University, he joined the Weizmann Institute of Science where he is currently a faculty member.

  Dr. Nadler research interests include mathematical statistics, statistical machine learning and applications to image and signal processing.

  Speech Theme: Detection of Signals in Noise, Spectrum Sensing and Random Matrix Theory

  Speech Description: Detection of signals in noise from multivariate observations is a fundamental problem in many different fields, including in particular, spectrum sensing applications. In this talk I'll review several such problems and their connections to various classical multivariate statistical problems, including principal component analysis and MANOVA. I'll then show how these can be studied by a combination of matrix perturbation and random matrix theory.

IWT - International Workshop on Telecommunications The International Workshop on Telecommunications (IWT) is a biennial event sponsored by Instituto Nacional de Telecomunicações (Inatel), Brazil. The IWT'09 will be held at Ericsson in São Paulo, Brazil, from 16 to 19 of February, 2009.

Its main goal is to promote and discuss the latest innovations in the telecommunications area. It will be a great opportunity for all the professionals and researchers to share ideas and learn more about the new developments and researches.

Besides its social program, the workshop will offer tutorials, plenary sessions and keynote sessions presented by internationally recognized experts, featuring a technical program with researchers from academia and engineers from industry, network operators and service providers.

Authors are invited to submit extended abstracts describing original works in telecommunications area for the technical papers to be presented at the workshop.

Hope to meet you in the IWT'09 in São Paulo, Brazil!

Prof. Dr. Carlos Alberto Ynoguti
General Chairman