Software Radio Tutorial

Sunday Morning, September 18

Speakers: Shuvra S. Bhattacharyya, University of Maryland, Kyusun Choi, Penn State University

With the proliferation of wireless technology and RF spectrum use, the ¡°SDR-enabled user devices and network equipment can be dynamically programmed in software to reconfigure their characteristics for better performance, richer feature sets, advanced new services that provide choices to the end-user and new revenue streams for the service provider.¡± This tutorial addresses fundamentals of SDR, digital radio, and multirate signal processing, as well as hardware and software techniques for implementation of software radio systems. Moreover, the fundamental issues behind different SDR approaches will be addressed.

Anyone with interest in embedded systems application in software radio. Fundamental digital radio, DSP algorithm, and SDR implementation knowledge would be useful to practicing engineers, researchers, consultants, and students.

SHUVRA S. BHATTACHARYYA is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS) at the University of Maryland, College Park. KYUSUN CHOI is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University, University Park.

Sensor Network Tutorial

Sunday Afternoon, September 18

Speakers: Mani Srivastava and Jens Palsberg, UCLA

Embedded networked sensors are powerful new type of instrument with the potential of advancing knowledge by observing and manipulating the physical world at unprecedented scales and resolutions. By harnessing the collective computing, communication, sensing, and actuation capabilities of a large number of resource constrained devices, sensor networks make possible an exciting range of useful applications that involve interactions with the physical world. By combining the hard problems associated with both embedded systems and distributed systems, sensor networks offer unique software programming challenges to the system developers. In this tutorial we will address the software development challenges in sensor network by comprehensively looking at programming models, languages, operating systems, middleware services, application frameworks, and development tools. A detailed discussion of the various problems and solution approaches will be accompanied by examples from real-life systems, many of which the two presenters have been closely involved in developing.

The tutorial material would be aimed at researchers and industry practitioners with EE and CS backgrounds who wish to learn about software design issues in wireless sensor networks. The tutorial will also be useful to people who are already active in software design aspects of sensor networks, and wish to gain a holistic understanding of the area.

Mani Srivastava (http://nesl.ee.ucla.edu) is a Professor on the Electrical Engineering Faculty at UCLA. Jens Palsberg is a Professor of Computer Science at UCLA.