MARCH 2011 SECTION MEETING INFORMATION
MARCH MEETING
Cognitive Radio Technology
DATE: Thursday, March 24, 2011
PLACE : Raffel’s – 10160 Reading Road (see below for directions)
TIME : 5:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. – Social Time
6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. – Dinner
7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. – Presentation
COST: $12- $20, See information in Reservations
MENU SELECTIONS: Buffet Menu: BBQ’d Ribs, Marinated Char Grilled Chicken Breast, Au Gratin Potatoes, Steamed Fresh Broccoli, Cole Slaw, Tossed Salad, Dinner Rolls and Butter. There is also a bar available for the purchase of alcoholic drinks.
LOCATION: Raffel’s is located at 10160 Reading Road, south of Glendale-Milford Road on the east side of Reading. Take I-75 to the Glendale-Milford Rd. Exit, go east on Glendale-Milford Road approximately ¾ of a mile to Reading Rd. and turn right on Reading.
RESERVATIONS: (Please note New Procedure) New on-line reservation system. Please make reservations for this meeting by going to: Cognitive Radio Technology meeting . You may pay on-line via PayPal, or by cash or check at the door.
On-line dinner reservation: $12.00 (member), $15.00 (non-member).
All dinner reservations close at noon on March 22, 2011.
Walk-in dinner rate (i.e. no reservation): $15.00 (member), $20.00 (non-member). No guarantee that meals will be available for walk-ins. Cash or check only. Valid IEEE Membership card required for member rate.
** You are welcome to attend this meetings without purchasing dinner – Registration is requested**
Voice Mail reservations have been eliminated.
PE CREDITS: Depending on the subject matter, attendance at IEEE Cincinnati Section Meetings now qualifies the attendee for Professional Development Hours towards renewal of Professional Engineers Licenses. Required documentation will be available following the meeting! The Section Meetings also provide a great opportunity to network with fellow engineers in the area.
ABOUT THE MEETING:
The Cincinnati Chapter of the IEEE is proud to offer a presentation of the state of the art in Cognitive Radio Technology by two leading experts in the field, Dr. James Neel, President and co-founder of Cognitive Radio Technologies (CRT), and David Maldonado, Business Development manager at L-3 Nova Engineering. This emerging technology is having a profound effect on the way radios and frequency spectrum will be used in the future. Both gentleman are graduates of Virginia Tech, a pioneering institution in cognitive radio technologies.
From Wikipedia: “Cognitive radio is a paradigm for wireless communication in which either a network or a wireless node changes its transmission or reception parameters to communicate efficiently avoiding interference with licensed or unlicensed users. This alteration of parameters is based on the active monitoring of several factors in the external and internal radio environment, such as radio frequency spectrum, user behavior and network state.
The idea of cognitive radio was first presented officially by Joseph Mitola III in a seminar at KTH, The Royal Institute of Technology, in 1998, published later in an article by Mitola and Gerald Q. Maguire, Jr in 1999.[1] It was a novel approach in wireless communications that Mitola later described as:
The point in which wireless personal digital assistants (PDAs) and the related networks are sufficiently computationally intelligent about radio resources and related computer-to-computer communications to detect user communications needs as a function of use context, and to provide radio resources and wireless services most appropriate to those needs.[2]
It was thought of as an ideal goal towards which a software-defined radio platform should evolve: a fully reconfigurable wireless black-box that automatically changes its communication variables in response to network and user demands.”
ABOUT THE PRESENTERS:
Dr. James Neel is the President of Cognitive Radio Technologies, which he founded in 2007 with Dr. Jeff Reed to commercialize cognitive radio research from Virginia Tech. The leading small business for incorporating artificial intelligence into wireless networks with three SBIRs on cognitive spectrum management and contracts on topics ranging from applying behavioral learning to detecting the intention of wireless networks to rapidly deployable networks for disaster responses. Dr Neel is the Chair of the Cognitive Radio Work Group in the Wireless Innovation Forum (formerly the SDR Forum), and has received three paper awards for the design of cognitive radio networks.
Mr. David Maldonado is currently the Manager of the Advanced Programs and New Technologies Development Group at L-3 Nova Engineering. In addition, Mr. Maldonado is part of the Business Development group. In his combined role, Mr. Maldonado is responsible for identifying new technologies and emerging markets of business development. He is also part of the company’s Internal Research and Development (IRAD) selection committee. It is in this capacity that Mr. Maldonado has participated in the system engineering of various next generation SDR-based communications systems and supported integration, test and evaluation of Cognitive Radio algorithms into the company’s product offerings. Mr. Maldonado has also contributed to the creation of a tightly integrated development process between the modeling, simulation and hardware development teams to ensure a successful and more effective transition of innovations to deployable systems. Much of this work has been integral to L-3 Nova Engineering’s maturation, rapid integration and transition of technologies developed in conjunction with Small Business and University partners directly impacting DoD developments such as the JTRS WNW waveform program.
Mr. Maldonado obtained his MS from Virginia Tech (VT) where he is currently working on his PhD degree. As part of his work, Mr. Maldonado was one of the pioneers of the Center for Wireless Telecommunications (CWT) Cognitive Engine (CE) at VT. He has been part of Cognitive Radio developments since its inception and an active participant of the Wireless Innovation Forum (formerly the SDR Forum) Cognitive Radio Working Group where he held Vice-Chair and Chair positions.
Prior to Joining L-3 Nova Engineering, Mr. Maldonado held a District Sales Manager position at Anritsu Company as part of their wireless Test and Measurement (T&M) group where he served as a liaison between Sales, Marketing and Engineering groups. Mr. Maldonado’s career in advanced wireless development started in the commercial arena as an RF engineer of Ericsson’s Mobile Handset R&D group.