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WUN Cognitive Communications Consortium

Journée GDR/ISIS, Paris, France, 9th May 2011

David GraceCommunications Research Group

Department of Electronics

University of York, UK

Introduction

� Technical rationale for WUN CogCom

� Key aims

� Key research priorities

� Consortium make-up

Organisational structure

2 Journée GDR/ISIS, 9th May 2011

� Organisational structure

� Achievements

A Mix of Disciplines

Wireless Communications

Distributed Artificial Intelligence

Cognitive Cognitive Cognitive Cognitive CommunicationsCommunicationsCommunicationsCommunications


Regulatory Policy& Economics

Electromagnetics Implementation

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Key Aims

� The overarching aim of the group is:

� To play a leading role in Cognitive Communications research

through global collaboration

� In order to achieve this, key aims are:

� To influence the research and regulatory agendas worldwide in the field of cognitive communications


field of cognitive communications

� To organise regular seminars, meetings and workshops on cognitive communications at member locations, and other suitable venues.

� To secure research funding as a consortium (or smaller member groupings) to support the WUN CogCom activities in cognitive communications

� To support exchange of personnel between WUN CogCom members, to facilitate research collaboration and learning in the field

Key Research Priorities

� The key research priority for the Consortium is:

� The application of cognitive principles to communications through the enabling research areas of:

� Cognitive communications for ‘smart’ environments

� Cognitive networking for hierarchical ad hoc and sensor networks

Low complexity cognitive radio


� Low complexity cognitive radio

� Cognitive radio for next generation spectrum access

� ‘Green’ cognitive radio

� Robust cognitive radio

� Cognitive communications for body sensor networks

� Sensing and measurement for cognitive radio

� Cognitive Acoustics

WUN Cognitive Communications Consortium

6 Journée GDR/ISIS, 9th May 2011Membership at July 2010

Organisational Structure 1

� Steering Group

� Responsible for setting the direction of the RP, decisions reach via consensus where possible, if not, majority voting

� Membership represents all constituenciesDr David Grace Chair University of York, UK

Dr Kareem Baddour USA Region CRC, Canada

Prof Honggang Zhang Asia Region Zhejiang University, China


Dr Defeng (David) Huang Australasian Region University of Western Australia

Dr Mihael Mohorcic Europe Region Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia

Dr Maziar Nekovee Industry BT, UK

Tim Clarke Distributed AI University of York, UK

Prof Pavel Pechac Electromagnetics Czech Tech Uni,Prague, Czech Rep

Prof Linda Doyle Implementation CTVR, Ireland

Harriet Cross WUN Coordinator University of York, UK

Louise Heery WUN General Manager WUN

Organisational Structure 2

� Member’s Group

� Responsible for approving decisions made by the Steering Group, realised through majority voting

� Includes one person from each partner


Communications with Members 1

� Website (www.wun-cogcom.org)

� Email lists ([email protected])


� Email lists ([email protected])

� all, asia, australasia, europe, usa

� uk, australia, nz

� See private website for the complete list

Communications with Members 2

� Skype (wun-cogcom)

� Linked In Page

� RSS Feeds


� Meltwater Drive Shared Area

� Wiki Area www.wun-cogcom.org/wiki

� Twitter @wuncogcom

Key Achievements 1

� Public WUN CogCom Workshop – September 2010

� WUN CogCom Best Paper Award 2011

� Staff and Student Exchange

� Support from WUN RDF, Erasmus etc

Emerging linkage with other bodies


� Emerging linkage with other bodies

� IEEE TCCN

� COST IC0902

� Endorsement of courses (IET Propagation Course)

� Several bilateral/multilateral linkages emerging

Key Achievements 2

� Edited Book approved by Wiley

� Cognitive Communications: Distributed Artificial Intelligence (DAI), Regulatory Policy & Economics, Implementation

� To be published in 2012


� Editors: David Grace and Honggang Zhang

� Authors: From WUN CogCom

Indicative Table of Contents 1Cognitive Communications:

Distributed Artificial Intelligence(DAI), Regulatory Policy & Economics, Implementation David Grace and Honggang Zhang (Editors/Authors)

Part 1 Introduction

1. Introduction to Cognitive Communications [20]

David Grace, University of York, UK

Part 2 Wireless Communications


2. Cognitive Radio and Networks for Heterogeneous Networking [40]

Haesik Kim and Aarne Mämmelä, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland

3. Channel Assignment and Power Allocation Algorithms in Multicarrier Based Cognitive Radio Environment [40] M. Shaat and F. Bader, Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya-CTTC, Spain

4. Filter Bank Techniques for Multi-Carrier Cognitive Radio Systems [30]

Yun Cui, Zhifeng Zhao, and Honggang Zhang, Zhejiang University, China

5. Distributed Clustering of Cognitive Radio Networks [30]

K. E. Baddour, O. Ureten, T. J. Willink, Communications Research Centre Canada

Indicative Table of Contents 2Part 3 Application of Distributed Artificial Intelligence

1. Machine Learning applied to Cognitive Communications [30] Aimilia Bantouna, Kostas Tsagkaris, Vera Stavroulaki, Panagiotis Demestichas, University of Piraeus, Greece

2. Reinforcement Learning for Distributed Power Control and Channel Access in Cognitive Wireless Mesh Networks [40] Xianfu Chen, Zhifeng Zhao, Honggang Zhang, Zhejiang University, China

3. Reinforcement Learning-based Cognitive Radio for Open Spectrum Access [40] Tao Jiang, David Grace, University of York, UK

4. Learning Techniques for Context Diagnosis and Prediction in Cognitive Communications [30] Aimilia Bantouna, Kostas Tsagkaris, Vera Stavroulaki, Panagiotis Demestichas, University of Piraeus, Greece

5. Social Behaviour in Cognitive [40]


5. Social Behaviour in Cognitive [40] Husheng Li, The University of Tennessee, USA

Indicative Table of Contents 3

Part 4 Regulatory Policy and Economics

11. Regulatory Policy and Economics of Cognitive Radio for Secondary Spectrum Access [40]

Maziar Nekovee, BT Research, UK, Peter Anker, Netherlands Ministry of Economic Affairs

Part 5 Implementation

12. Cognitive Radio Communications and Networking in TV White Spaces: Principles and Practice [40] Maziar Nekovee, BT Research, UK


13. Cognitive Femtocell Networks [40] Faisal Tariq and Laurence S. Dooley, The Open University, UK

14. Cognitive acoustics: a way to extend the lifetime of underwater acoustic sensor networks [40] David Huang, University of Western Australia

15. CMOS Radio Frequency Transceiver Considerations for Dynamic Spectrum Access (DSA) [40] Mark Oude Alink, Eric Klumperink, Bram Nauta, André Kokkeler and Gerard Smit, University of Twente, The Netherlands

WUN CogCom Aachen Meeting 4 May 2011


Conclusions

� WUN CogCom has been established to facilitate research collaboration

� Key activities include� Staff/student exchange

� Collaborative projects

� Period meetings


� Period meetings

� Journal special issues, conferences and workshops

� Edited book

� Next meeting scheduled for Houston, USA� In parallel with IEEE Globecom 2011

Contact Details

� Dr David Grace

� Email: [email protected]

� Tel: +44 (0)1904 322396

� Fax: +44 (0)1904 322335

For more info


� For more info

� WUN Cognitive Communications Consortium

� www.wun-cogcom.org

Merci!

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