Wednesday, June 4, 2008 – 8:00-9:00 AM
“The Future of Cognitive Radio”
Dr. Joseph Mitola, Consulting Scientist, The MITRE Corporation
The radio research community has aggressively embraced cognitive radio for dynamic radio spectrum management to enhance spectrum usage, e.g. in ISM bands and as secondary users in unused TV bands, but the needs of the mobile wireless user have not been addressed as thoroughly on the question of high quality of information (QoI) as a function of place, time, and social setting (e.g. commuting, shopping, or in need of medical assistance). This talk considers cognitive radio in motivating use cases such as public safety, humanitarian aid, and disaster relief for an interdisciplinary perspective where machine perception in visual, acoustic, speech, and natural language text domains provide cues to the automatic detection of stereotypical situations, enabling the radio to more intelligently select from among radio bands and modes to deliver high QoI within social and technical constraints.
Dr. Jospeh Mitola is an internationally recognized expert on software-defined and cognitive radio systems and technologies who addresses critical DoD communications and information processing challenges in MITRE’s Department of Defense (DoD) Federally Funded R&D Center (FFRDC). Between 2002 and 2005, he was on loan to the US DoD to develop trustable cognitive systems with DARPA, where he was awarded the OSD medal for exceptional public service.
In addition to having published the first paper on software radio architecture in 1991, he has taught short courses on software radio in the US, Asia, and Europe. He was founding chair of the SDR Forum in 1996 and first to receive the Forum’s Achievement Award. In his 1999 “Licentiate in Teleinformatics,” he coined the term cognitive radio to refer to technologies integrating machine perception of vision and language with machine learning into software radio. His doctoral dissertation, Cognitive Radio [KTH, June 2000], created the first teleinformatics framework for autonomous software radios. Cognitive radio addresses the situation-dependent control of radio, power, network, and information resources in software-defined radio (www.it.kth.se/~jmitola). Dr. Mitola published the first interdisciplinary graduate text on software radio, “Software Radio Architecture,” and the first graduate text on cognitive radio architecture [Wiley 2006].
Prior to joining MITRE, Dr. Mitola was the Chief Scientist of Electronic Systems, E-Systems Melpar Division, culminating a career at E-Systems that began in 1976. He has also held positions of technical leadership with Harris Corporation, Advanced Decision Systems, and ITT Corporation. He began his career with the US DoD in 1967.
Dr. Mitola holds the BS in EE (Northeastern University ‘72); MSE (The Johns Hopkins University ’74); Licentiate in Engineering (May, 99); and Doctorate in Teleinformatics (both from The Royal Institute of Technology, KTH, Stockholm) June, 2000.
NOTE: Dr. Mitola’s affiliation with The MITRE Corporation is provided for identification purposes only. His association does not imply the endorsement of MITRE nor its sponsors for his personal views.