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Sessions (100)

Registration Hours

29 Oct 18
7:00 AM - 6:00 PM

Conference Opening & Breakfast Keynote (Marquis Ballroom)

29 Oct 18
8:00 AM - 9:30 AM

Tracks: Keynotes, Plenary Program, USAF Space and Missile Systems Center MILSATCOM

Speaker(s): Lt. Gen. John F. Thompson, USAF

Tutorial: Geolocation Enhanced Mobile Communication Networks (Room Meridian 1)

29 Oct 18
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Tracks: Continuing Education, Technical Tutorials

Speaker(s): Salman Al-Shehri ; Michael Hirsch, Ph.D. ; Pavel Loskot, Ph.D.
Providing communication services in networks of mobile nodes without the fixed supporting infrastructure as in mobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs) is c... More...

Tutorial: Systematic Exploration of Critical Software for Catastrophic Cyber-Physical Malware (Room Meridian 2)

29 Oct 18
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Tracks: Continuing Education, Technical Tutorials

Speaker(s): Ben Holland ; Suresh Kothari
With the advent of highly sophisticated cyber-physical malware (CPM), a cyber-attack can cripple critical services virtually paralyze the nation. I... More...

Technical Panel: Design Approaches to Secure and Resilient Embedded Systems (Room Chicago)

29 Oct 18
9:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Tracks: Continuing Education, Unclassified Technical Panels

Speaker(s): Leonard Elliot ; John Launchbury, Ph.D. ; Jason Li, Ph.D. ; Kendel McCarley ; Raymond Richards, Ph.D. ; Lok Yan, Ph.D.
Over the past decade, the reliance on embedded system (e.g., Unmanned Aerial/Ground Systems (UxS) to carry out critical missions has grown drastica... More...

Technical Panel: Resource Sharing in a Network of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and Drones (Room Dallas)

29 Oct 18
9:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Tracks: Unclassified Technical Panels

Speaker(s): Nora Ayanian, Ph.D. ; Jack L. Burbank ; Mohan Kumar, Ph.D. ; Pavel Loskot, Ph.D. ; Curtis White
In the near future, networks of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and drones will be a common feature in military as well as civilian applicatio... More...

SSC PAC/SPAWAR Poster Display (Imperial Ballroom)

29 Oct 18
9:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Nano-Satellites at SPAWAR, Dr. David Wayne Nano-satellites have emerged as a relatively low cost and agile means to deliver communications conne... More...

Technical Paper Session: BDML-2: Robust Machine Learning (Room Denver)

29 Oct 18
9:40 AM - 10:55 AM

Tracks: Track 5: Big Data and ML for Tactical Networks, Unclassified Technical Paper Sessions

Unsupervised Estimation of Domain Applicability of Models Nirmit Desai and Raghu Ganti (IBM T J Watson Research Center, USA)... More...

Technical Paper Session: NPP-1: Multipoint Communication (Room Saddlebrook)

29 Oct 18
9:40 AM - 11:20 AM

Tracks: Track 2: Networking Protocols and Performance, Unclassified Technical Paper Sessions

ECHO: Efficient Zero-Control Network-wide Broadcast for Mobile Multi-hop Wireless Networks Ram Ramanathan, Christophe Servaes and... More...

Technical Paper Session: BDML-1A: Machine Learning for PHY Layer I (Room Washington)

29 Oct 18
9:40 AM - 12:00 PM

Tracks: Track 5: Big Data and ML for Tactical Networks, Unclassified Technical Paper Sessions

Long Short-term Memory for Radio Frequency Spectral Prediction and Its Real-time FPGA Implementation Siddhartha Siddhartha (The Univer... More...

Technical Paper Session: CSTC-1: Network Security Technology (Room New Orleans)

29 Oct 18
9:40 AM - 12:00 PM

Tracks: Track 3: Cyber Security and Trusted Computing, Unclassified Technical Paper Sessions

Resolving Access Conflicts: An Auction-based Incentive Approach Liang Fang (School of CyberSpace Security, Beijing University of Posts... More...

Technical Paper Session: CSTC-2: Network Protocol Security (Room Miami)

29 Oct 18
9:40 AM - 12:00 PM

Tracks: Track 3: Cyber Security and Trusted Computing, Unclassified Technical Paper Sessions

Secure Neighbor Discovery Using Symmetric Link Management in Tactical Sensor Networks Kelvin Chew (Marine Corps Combat Development Com... More...

Technical Paper Session: SYS-1: Reliable Communication (Room New York)

29 Oct 18
9:40 AM - 12:00 PM

Tracks: Track 4: System Perspectives, Unclassified Technical Paper Sessions

Tactical Communication Link Under Joint Jamming and Interception by Same-Frequency Simultaneous Transmit and Receive Radio Taneli Riihonen&... More...

Technical Paper Session: WSP-1: Wireless Channel Measurements and Modeling (Room St Louis)

29 Oct 18
9:40 AM - 12:00 PM

Tracks: Track 1: Waveforms and Signal Processing, Unclassified Technical Paper Sessions

Modeling of Highly Non-Stationary Low Altitude Aircraft-to-Aircraft Channels Michael Walter, Dmitriy Shutin and Armin Damman... More...

The State of MILSATCOM (Room Atlanta/Boston)

29 Oct 18
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Tracks: USAF Space and Missile Systems Center MILSATCOM

Speaker(s): Thomas Becht

Luncheon Keynote (Marquis Ballroom)

29 Oct 18
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Tracks: Keynotes, Plenary Program

Speaker(s): LTG Bruce T. Crawford, USA

SSC PAC/SPAWAR Poster Display (Imperial Ballroom)

29 Oct 18
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Nano-Satellites at SPAWAR, Dr. David Wayne Nano-satellites have emerged as a relatively low cost and agile means to deliver communications ... More...

Technical Paper Session: BDML-1B: Machine Learning for PHY Layer II (Room Washington)

29 Oct 18
2:00 PM - 3:15 PM

Tracks: Track 5: Big Data and ML for Tactical Networks, Unclassified Technical Paper Sessions

How Secure are Multicarrier Communication Systems Against Signal Exploitation Attacks? Alireza Nooraiepour (Rutgers, the State Univers... More...

Restricted Technical Panel: Status and Issues of the Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) (Room Atlanta/Boston)

29 Oct 18
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Tracks: Restricted Technical Panels, Restricted Technical Program

Speaker(s): Alan Folz, Ph.D. ; Tom McMahon ; Jim Parsons ; Dave Russell ; Amy Sun, Ph.D. ; Brandon Ziedler
This panel will be a technical discussion of the current state of the MUOS program, the next generation UHF SATCOM system that the Navy is acquirin... More...

Technical Paper Session: CSTC-3: Cyber Attack and Countermeasure I (Room New Orleans)

29 Oct 18
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Tracks: Track 3: Cyber Security and Trusted Computing, Unclassified Technical Paper Sessions

TDDEHT: Threat Detection Using Distributed Ensembles of Hoeffding Trees on Streaming Cyber Datasets Asmah Muallem (Tennessee State Uni... More...

Technical Paper Session: NPP-2: Routing, Topology Management, and Localization (Room Saddlebrook)

29 Oct 18
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Tracks: Track 2: Networking Protocols and Performance, Unclassified Technical Paper Sessions

Loop-Free Integrated Forwarding and Routing with Gradients JJ Garcia-Luna-Aceves (University of California at Santa Cruz & Palo Al... More...

Technical Paper Session: SYS-2: RF Systems and Technologies (Room New York)

29 Oct 18
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Tracks: Track 4: System Perspectives, Unclassified Technical Paper Sessions

Signal Combination Techniques to Improve Long Range Communication with Multiple Relays David Heide (Naval Research Laboratory, USA);&n... More...

Technical Paper Session: WSP-2: LPI, LPD, and Secure Communications (Room St Louis)

29 Oct 18
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Tracks: Track 1: Waveforms and Signal Processing, Unclassified Technical Paper Sessions

On Jammer Power Allocation Against OFDM Signals in Fading Channels SaiDhiraj Amuru (IIT Hyderabad, India); Michael Buehrer (... More...

Technical Paper Session: WSP-3: Modulation and Coding (Room Miami)

29 Oct 18
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Tracks: Track 1: Waveforms and Signal Processing, Unclassified Technical Paper Sessions

Precoding for Non-coherent Detection of Continuous Phase Modulations Charles-Ugo Piat-Durozoi (INPT/IRIT, France); Charly Poullia... More...

Tutorial: Navigating Through the Maze of Digital Communication Options in the 21st Century (Room Meridian 1)

29 Oct 18
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Tracks: Technical Tutorials

Speaker(s): Bernard Sklar, Ph.D.
This whirlwind tutorial uses novel, easy-to-understand ways to explain our industry's most creative technologies such as OFDM, SC-OFDM, MIMO, a... More...

Tutorial: Towards a Data-Centric Battlefield: Applications of Named Data Networks in Tactical Networks (Room Meridian 2)

29 Oct 18
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Tracks: Continuing Education, Technical Tutorials

Speaker(s): Alexander Afanasyev, Ph.D. ; Tamer Refaei, Ph.D. ; Lan Wang, Ph.D. ; Lixia Zhang, Ph.D.
Named Data Networks (NDN) has emerged in recent years as a realization of data-centric networking. In a data-centric network model, the focus of th... More...

Technical Panel: Cyberattack Forecasting - Hype or Hope? (Room Dallas)

29 Oct 18
2:30 PM - 4:30 PM

Tracks: Continuing Education, Unclassified Technical Panels

Speaker(s): Kristina Lerman, Ph.D. ; Alex Memory ; Steven Noel, Ph.D. ; Robert Rahmer ; Aunshul Rege, Ph.D. ; Moises Sudit, Ph.D. ; Shanchieh "Jay" Yang, Ph.D.
Cyberattacks on enterprise networks have moved into an era where both attackers and security analysts utilize complex strategies to confuse and mis... More...

Technical Panel: DoD Public Safety Communications and 9-1-1 (Room Chicago)

29 Oct 18
2:30 PM - 4:30 PM

Tracks: Continuing Education, Unclassified Technical Panels

Speaker(s): Christopher Carver ; Serena Chan, Ph.D. ; Laurie Flaherty ; Joseph M. Wassel ; Adam Wasserman
A robust and secure public safety communications capability is required to support Department of Defense emergency management and force protection ... More...

Technical Paper Session: BDML-3: Machine Learning for Network Analysis (Room Washington)

29 Oct 18
3:45 PM - 5:00 PM

Tracks: Track 5: Big Data and ML for Tactical Networks, Unclassified Technical Paper Sessions

Multi-Robot Enhanced MANET Intelligent Routing at Uncertain and Vulnerable Tactical Edge Ming Feng (University of Nevada, Reno, USA);&... More...

SSC PAC/SPAWAR Poster Display (Imperial Ballroom)

29 Oct 18
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Nano-Satellites at SPAWAR, Dr. David Wayne Nano-satellites have emerged as a relatively low cost and agile means to deliver communications ... More...

Registration Hours

30 Oct 18
7:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Breakfast Keynote: U.S. Navy Information Warfare Acquisition -- Providing Information for the Warfighter (Marquis Ballroom)

30 Oct 18
8:15 AM - 9:30 AM

Tracks: Keynotes, Plenary Program

Speaker(s): RADM Christian "Boris" Becker, USN

Restricted Paper Session: Satellite Communications (SATCOM) (Room Denver)

30 Oct 18
9:00 AM - 10:15 AM

Tracks: Restricted Technical Papers, Restricted Technical Program

Session Chair:  Eric K. Hall, L3 Technologies Papers: Tactically Relevant Restoral in a Resilient Hybrid SATCOM Enterprise; (Aut... More...

Restricted Paper Session: Waveform and Signal Processing I (Room Miami)

30 Oct 18
9:00 AM - 10:15 AM

Tracks: Restricted Technical Papers, Restricted Technical Program

Session Chair:  Khanh D. Pham, USAF AFMC AFRL/RVSWS Papers: Approaches for Interference Mitigation with Beamforming; (Authors:&n... More...

Tutorial: Intelligent Learning Algorithms and their Application to Communications and Networking (Room Meridian 2)

30 Oct 18
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Tracks: Continuing Education, Technical Tutorials

Speaker(s): Julia Andrusenko ; Jack L. Burbank
This tutorial aims to provide attendees with practical knowledge of advanced intelligent learning algorithms and how they can be applied to communi... More...

Tutorial: LTE and 5G Protocol Security Procedures and Vulnerability Analyses Using Software Radio Testbeds (Room Meridian 1)

30 Oct 18
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Tracks: Continuing Education, Technical Tutorials

Speaker(s): Vuk Marojevic ; Roger Piqueras Jover ; Jeff Reed
This tutorial provides an introduction to mobile network protocol security and exploitation, with specific focus on the long-term evolution (LTE) a... More...

Technical Panel: Information-Centric Networking for Tactical Data Dissemination – Benefits and Challenges (Room Dallas)

30 Oct 18
9:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Tracks: Continuing Education, Unclassified Technical Panels

Speaker(s): Derya Cansever, Ph.D. ; Lars Landmark, Ph.D. ; Jan Nilsson, Ph.D. ; Niranjan Suri, Ph.D. ; Bastiaan Wissingh ; Lixia Zhang, Ph.D.
Data dissemination is one of the fundamental requirements for tactical military networks. Academic and commercial research has recently led the dev... More...

Technical Panel: Terahertz Communications: Challenges and Opportunities for Defense and Commercial Applications (Room Chicago)

30 Oct 18
9:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Tracks: Unclassified Technical Panels

Speaker(s): William Deal, Ph.D. ; Josep Jornet, Ph.D. ; Daniel Mittleman, Ph.D. ; Mark Rodwell, Ph.D. ; Mark Rosker, Ph.D. ; Jose Siles, Ph.D. ; Ngwe Thawdar, Ph.D.
Terahertz (THz) communication is envisioned as a key wireless technology of the next decade, which can address multiple relevant challenges in defe... More...

SSC PAC/SPAWAR Poster Display (Imperial Ballroom)

30 Oct 18
9:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Nano-Satellites at SPAWAR, Dr. David Wayne Nano-satellites have emerged as a relatively low cost and agile means to deliver communications ... More...

Technical Paper Session: BDML-4A: Adversarial Machine Learning for Tactical Networks I (Room Washington)

30 Oct 18
9:40 AM - 12:00 PM

Tracks: Track 5: Big Data and ML for Tactical Networks, Unclassified Technical Paper Sessions

Spectrum Data Poisoning with Adversarial Deep Learning Yi Shi (Intelligent Automation Inc., USA); Tugba Erpek (Virginia Tech... More...

Technical Paper Session: CSTC-4: Cyber Operation (Room New Orleans)

30 Oct 18
9:40 AM - 12:00 PM

Tracks: Track 3: Cyber Security and Trusted Computing, Unclassified Technical Paper Sessions

Assessment Methodology for Collateral Damage and Military (Dis)Advantage in Cyber Operations Clara Maathuis (Delft University of Techn... More...

Technical Paper Session: NPP-3: Support for Delay-Sensitive Applications (Room Saddlebrook)

30 Oct 18
9:40 AM - 12:00 PM

Tracks: Track 2: Networking Protocols and Performance, Unclassified Technical Paper Sessions

Age of Information for Queues in Tandem Clement Kam, Joseph Molnar and Sastry Kompella (Naval Research Laboratory, USA)... More...

Technical Paper Session: SYS-3: Use of Commercial Technology (Room New York)

30 Oct 18
9:40 AM - 12:00 PM

Tracks: Track 4: System Perspectives, Unclassified Technical Paper Sessions

Autonomous, Cooperative UAV Operations Using COTS Consumer Drones and Custom Ground Control Station Espen Skjervold (Norwegian Defence... More...

Technical Paper Session: WSP-4: MIMO (Room St Louis)

30 Oct 18
9:40 AM - 12:00 PM

Tracks: Track 1: Waveforms and Signal Processing, Unclassified Technical Paper Sessions

Capacity Analysis and Bit Allocation Design for Variable-Resolution ADCs in Massive MIMO Fnu I. Zakir Ahmed (University of California ... More...

SMC 2.0 (Room Atlanta/Boston)

30 Oct 18
10:30 AM - 11:45 AM

Tracks: USAF Space and Missile Systems Center MILSATCOM

Speaker(s): Col James Reynolds, USAF

Restricted Paper Session: Satellite Communications (SATCOM) (Room Denver)

30 Oct 18
10:40 AM - 11:30 AM

Tracks: Restricted Technical Papers, Restricted Technical Program

Session Chair:  Eric K. Hall, L3 Technologies Papers: Flexible Network Solutions for Multi-Service Provider Roaming; (Authors:&n... More...

Restricted Paper Session: Waveform and Signal Processing I (Room Miami)

30 Oct 18
10:40 AM - 11:55 AM

Tracks: Restricted Technical Papers, Restricted Technical Program

Session Chair:  Khanh D. Pham, USAF AFMC AFRL/RVSWS Papers: Wideband Detection of Millisecond Pulsars for Radio Synchronization of Di... More...

SSC PAC/SPAWAR Poster Display (Imperial Ballroom)

30 Oct 18
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Nano-Satellites at SPAWAR, Dr. David Wayne Nano-satellites have emerged as a relatively low cost and agile means to deliver communications ... More...

Technical Paper Session: BDML-4B: Adversarial Machine Learning for Tactical Networks II (Room Washington)

30 Oct 18
2:00 PM - 3:15 PM

Tracks: Track 5: Big Data and ML for Tactical Networks, Unclassified Technical Paper Sessions

Detecting Adversarial Examples Using Data Manifolds Susmit Jha (SRI International, USA); Uyeong Jang (University of Wisconsi... More...

Technical Paper Session: CSTC-5: Machine Learning and Block Chain Technologies for Security (Room New Orleans)

30 Oct 18
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Tracks: Track 3: Cyber Security and Trusted Computing, Unclassified Technical Paper Sessions

Machine Learning Based DDos Detection Through NetFlow Analysis Jiangpan Hou (Institute of Information Engineering,Chinese Academy of S... More...

Technical Paper Session: NPP-4: Named Data Networking (Room Saddlebrook)

30 Oct 18
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Tracks: Track 2: Networking Protocols and Performance, Unclassified Technical Paper Sessions

A Brief Introduction to Named Data Networking Lixia Zhang (University of California at Los Angeles, USA); Alexander Afanasyev&nbs... More...

Technical Paper Session: SYS-4: NATO Special Session (Room New York)

30 Oct 18
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Tracks: Track 4: System Perspectives, Unclassified Technical Paper Sessions

Tactical Router Interoperability: Concepts and Experiments Arjen Holtzer, Ronald in 't Velt and Floris Drijver (TNO... More...

Technical Paper Session: WSP-5: Filterbank Multicarrier Techniques (Room St Louis)

30 Oct 18
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Tracks: Track 1: Waveforms and Signal Processing, Unclassified Technical Paper Sessions

Time Synchronization Sequence with Weighted Conjugate Symmetry Property for FBMC-OQAM Systems Liming Li, Yang Wang and Liqin... More...

Tutorial: Cyber Resiliency Engineering in Practice: Challenges and Lessons-Learned (Room Meridian 1)

30 Oct 18
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Tracks: Continuing Education, Technical Tutorials

Speaker(s): Deborah J. Bodeau ; Richard Graubart ; Rosalie McQuaid
This tutorial provides practical guidance to systems engineers seeking to improve the cyber resiliency of systems in a wide variety of situations. ... More...

Tutorial: Software Defined Networking for Military Networks (Room Meridian 2)

30 Oct 18
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Tracks: Continuing Education, Technical Tutorials

Speaker(s): Alexander Hom ; William Kasch
The military relies heavily on networking technology for tactical edge battlefield communications and cyber warfare operations. Military communicat... More...

Restricted Paper Session: Enterprise Network (Room Denver)

30 Oct 18
2:15 PM - 3:35 PM

Tracks: Restricted Technical Papers, Restricted Technical Program

Session Chair:  Wale Akinpelu, JHU/APL Papers: Remote Management of Cross Domain Solutions with Information Restrictions; (Autho... More...

Restricted Paper Session: Waveform and Signal Processing II (Room Miami)

30 Oct 18
2:15 PM - 3:35 PM

Tracks: Restricted Technical Papers, Restricted Technical Program

Session Chair:  Frederick J. Block, MIT/LL Papers: Methods of Data and Control Segregation for Robust Communications; (Authors:&... More...

Technical Panel: Laser Communications: New Generation of Capabilities (Room Dallas)

30 Oct 18
2:30 PM - 4:30 PM

Tracks: Unclassified Technical Panels

Speaker(s): Michael Abad-Santos ; Justin Luczyk ; Barry Matsumori ; Arnie Streland ; John Troeltzsch
The DOD demand for beyond line of site capacity, driven by a more connected tactical environment and explosion in Intelligence, Surveillance and Re... More...

Technical Panel: Tech Transfer - Accessing Technology for Innovation (Room Chicago)

30 Oct 18
2:30 PM - 4:30 PM

Tracks: Continuing Education, Unclassified Technical Panels

Speaker(s): Vicki Barbur, Ph.D. ; Ben Gibson ; Lesley Millar-Nicholson ; Austin Pugh ; Terry Taber, Ph.D.
The United States continues to lead the world in Research and Development. Every day, Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFDRCs), U... More...

Agile Acquisition (Room Atlanta/Boston)

30 Oct 18
2:45 PM - 4:00 PM

Tracks: USAF Space and Missile Systems Center MILSATCOM

Speaker(s): Barbara J. Baker ; Su Chang

Technical Paper Session: BDML-5: Machine Learning for Social Networks (Room Washington)

30 Oct 18
3:45 PM - 5:00 PM

Tracks: Track 5: Big Data and ML for Tactical Networks, Unclassified Technical Paper Sessions

Separating Terrorist-Like Topological Signatures Embedded in Benign Networks Kshiteesh Hegde (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA);&... More...

Restricted Paper Session: Enterprise Network (Room Denver)

30 Oct 18
4:00 PM - 4:50 PM

Tracks: Restricted Technical Papers, Restricted Technical Program

Session Chair:  Wale Akinpelu, JHU/APL Papers: An Architecture for Cloud Computing in Disadvantaged Tactical Environments; (Auth... More...

Restricted Paper Session: Waveform and Signal Processing II (Room Miami)

30 Oct 18
4:00 PM - 5:15 PM

Tracks: Restricted Technical Papers, Restricted Technical Program

Session Chair:  Frederick J. Block, MIT/LL Papers: Sparse Phased Arrays in Military SATCOM; (Authors: Michael Dowling, Rand... More...

Registration Hours

31 Oct 18
7:30 AM - 5:00 PM

Breakfast Panel: Changes in National Security Space (Marquis Ballroom)

31 Oct 18
8:15 AM - 9:30 AM

Tracks: Keynotes

Speaker(s): Tony Gingiss ; Col Ryan Gulden, USAF ; S. Scott Gustafson ; Jamie Morgan ; Ken Peterman ; Kay Sears ; Maj Gen Roger W. Teague, USAF (Ret.)

Tutorial: How to Synchronize Carrier and Timing Loops in Digital Modems (Room Meridian 1)

31 Oct 18
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Tracks: Technical Tutorials

Speaker(s): fredric harris, Ph.D.
Digital Signal Processing has become the standard method of signal conditioning and signal processing in modulators and demodulators of modern comm... More...

Technical Panel: DCIS CUBE: An Open Architecture for Future Agile Deployable CIS Solutions for NATO and Nations (Room Meridian 2)

31 Oct 18
9:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Tracks: Unclassified Technical Panels

Speaker(s): Alistair Bradbrook ; Thomas Moeller ; Rolando Rivera ; Matt Shadeed ; Tushar Tambay ; Marc van Selm ; Hermann Wietgrefe, Ph.D.
NATO plans to modernize its Deployable Communications and Information System (DCIS) to better meet the challenges imposed by today’s security... More...

Technical Panel: Robotic and Intelligent Automation: Increasing Readiness for Military Communicators (Room Denver)

31 Oct 18
9:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Tracks: Unclassified Technical Panels

Speaker(s): Joe Incorvia ; Marc Mancher ; Mike McGeehan ; Jonathan Padgett
Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is the automation of repetitive manual tasks with a computer-based application that has seen widespread interest a... More...

SSC PAC/SPAWAR Poster Display (Imperial Ballroom)

31 Oct 18
9:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Nano-Satellites at SPAWAR, Dr. David Wayne Nano-satellites have emerged as a relatively low cost and agile means to deliver communications ... More...

Technical Paper Session: WSP-6: Spectrum Sensing (Room Miami)

31 Oct 18
9:40 AM - 10:55 AM

Tracks: Track 1: Waveforms and Signal Processing, Unclassified Technical Paper Sessions

Latency Analysis for Matched Filter Based Detection of Weak Signals Richard M Gutierrez, Arindam Dutta and Daniel W. Bliss&n... More...

Technical Paper Session: BDML-6A: Internet of Battlefield Things (IoBT) I (Room Washington)

31 Oct 18
9:40 AM - 12:00 PM

Tracks: Track 5: Big Data and ML for Tactical Networks, Unclassified Technical Paper Sessions

The Internet of Battlefield Things: The Next Generation of C3I Stephen Russell (United States Army Research Laboratory, USA); Tar... More...

Technical Paper Session: CSTC-6: Data Security Research (Room New Orleans)

31 Oct 18
9:40 AM - 12:00 PM

Tracks: Track 3: Cyber Security and Trusted Computing, Unclassified Technical Paper Sessions

Runtime State Verification on Resource-Constrained Platforms John Clemens (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab, USA); Ra... More...

Technical Paper Session: NPP-5: Performance Enhancement and Analysis for Tactical Communications (Room Saddlebrook)

31 Oct 18
9:40 AM - 12:00 PM

Tracks: Track 2: Networking Protocols and Performance, Unclassified Technical Paper Sessions

Distributed Coherent Group Communications Yi Shi (Intelligent Automation Inc., USA); Satya Prakash Ponnaluri and Yalin ... More...

Technical Paper Session: SYS-5: SATCOM (Room New York)

31 Oct 18
9:40 AM - 12:00 PM

Tracks: Track 4: System Perspectives, Unclassified Technical Paper Sessions

Spatial Modulation for Improved Eavesdropping Resistance in Multi-Beam Satellite Downlinks Stephan P. Winter, Matthias Schraml, M... More...

Technical Paper Session: WSP-7: Signal Processing for Communications I (Room St Louis)

31 Oct 18
9:40 AM - 12:00 PM

Tracks: Track 1: Waveforms and Signal Processing, Unclassified Technical Paper Sessions

On the Performance of Single-Channel Source Separation of Two Co-Frequency PSK Signals with Carrier Frequency Offsets Xiao Bei Liu, Yo... More...

Restricted Technical Panel: Future Narrowband SATCOM Architectures (Room Chicago/Dallas)

31 Oct 18
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Tracks: Restricted Technical Panels, Restricted Technical Program

Speaker(s): Enrico (Rico) Attanasio ; Tim Deaver ; Clare Grason ; Eric Higgins ; Jim Parsons ; Kay Sears
This panel will focus on potential architectures to support the warfighters Narrowband SATCOM needs in the future. The MUOS satellites will exceed ... More...

Future Capabilities and Vision (Room Atlanta/Boston)

31 Oct 18
10:30 AM - 11:45 AM

Tracks: USAF Space and Missile Systems Center MILSATCOM

Speaker(s): Col Michael (Mike) Assid, USAF ; Dr. Thomas Macdonald ; Col Timothy McKenzie, USAF ; John R. Morris ; Joseph E. Vanderpoorten
The panel will address the strategic context and vision for the MILSATCOM Directorate to provide game changing, war winning operational capabi... More...

Luncheon: MILSATCOM Program Manager Panel (Marquis Ballroom)

31 Oct 18
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Tracks: Keynotes, Plenary Program, USAF Space and Missile Systems Center MILSATCOM

Speaker(s): Steven Hayden ; Timothy P. (Tim) McIntyre ; Lt Col Paul Muller, USAF ; Shannon Pallone ; Jay Santee ; Lt Col Kenneth Smith, USAF ; Lt Col Jessica Wedington, USAF

SSC PAC/SPAWAR Poster Display (Imperial Ballroom)

31 Oct 18
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Nano-Satellites at SPAWAR, Dr. David Wayne Nano-satellites have emerged as a relatively low cost and agile means to deliver communications ... More...

Technical Paper Session: BDML-6B: Internet of Battlefield Things (IoBT) II (Room Washington)

31 Oct 18
2:00 PM - 3:15 PM

Tracks: Track 5: Big Data and ML for Tactical Networks, Unclassified Technical Paper Sessions

IoT Devices Fingerprinting Using Deep Learning Hossein Jafari, Oluwaseyi Omotere and Damilola Adesina (Prairie View A&a... More...

Technical Paper Session: NPP-6: Software Defined Networking (Room Saddlebrook)

31 Oct 18
2:00 PM - 3:40 PM

Tracks: Track 2: Networking Protocols and Performance, Unclassified Technical Paper Sessions

OpenSDC: A Novel, Generic Datapath for Software Defined Coalitions Qiao Xiang (Yale University, USA); Franck Le (IBM T. J. W... More...

Technical Paper Session: WSP-8: Signal Processing for Communications II (Room St Louis)

31 Oct 18
2:00 PM - 3:40 PM

Tracks: Track 1: Waveforms and Signal Processing, Unclassified Technical Paper Sessions

On Cooperative Broadcast in MANETs with Imperfect Clock Synchronization Serdar Sahin (Thales Communications & Security & ENSEE... More...

Technical Paper Session: CSTC-7: Cyber Attack and Countermeasure II (Room Miami)

31 Oct 18
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Tracks: Track 3: Cyber Security and Trusted Computing, Unclassified Technical Paper Sessions

Multi-Stage Attack Detection Using Contextual Information Francisco Javier Aparicio Navarro (De Montfort University & Loughborough... More...

Technical Paper Session: CSTC-8: Information Security (Room New Orleans)

31 Oct 18
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Tracks: Track 3: Cyber Security and Trusted Computing, Unclassified Technical Paper Sessions

Attribute Based Encryption for Information Sharing on Tactical Mobile Networks Jim Luo (Naval Research Lab, USA); Qiuxiang Dong&n... More...

Technical Paper Session: SYS-6: Algorithms and Implementation (Room New York)

31 Oct 18
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Tracks: Track 4: System Perspectives, Unclassified Technical Paper Sessions

CHIL: Common-modem Hardware Integrated Library Ryan Murphy, Benjamin Barnett and Landon Wagner (Rockwell Collins, USA);... More...

Tutorial: Resilient and Scalable Interactive Learning (Room Meridian 1)

31 Oct 18
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Tracks: Technical Tutorials

Speaker(s): Tianyi Chen ; Georgios B. Giannakis ; Yanning Shen
Learning from dynamic and large volumes of data is expected to bring significant science and engineering advances along with consequent improvement... More...

Technical Panel: Flexible Terminals: The Lynchpin of a Hybrid Wideband Architecture (Room Chicago)

31 Oct 18
2:30 PM - 4:30 PM

Tracks: Unclassified Technical Panels

Speaker(s): Mark Dale, Ph.D. ; Kurt A. Fiscko, Ph.D. ; Rajeev Gopal, Ph.D. ; Eric Hall, Ph.D. ; David Meadows ; Lt Col Gary Thompson, USAF
There are currently more than 1500 wideband terminal types operating more than 80 modem configurations acquired by 14 organizations worth $15B.&nbs... More...

Technical Paper Session: BDML-7: Emerging Topics in Machine Learning for Tactical Networks (Room Washington)

31 Oct 18
3:45 PM - 5:00 PM

Tracks: Track 5: Big Data and ML for Tactical Networks, Unclassified Technical Paper Sessions

Multi-Domain Integration and Correlation Engine Will Dron, Andrew Hunter, Ali Sydney and Siddharth Pal (Raytheon B... More...

Special Paper Session: International Collaboration for Resilient SATCOM (Room Saddle Brook)

31 Oct 18
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Tracks: USAF Space and Missile Systems Center MILSATCOM

Speaker(s): Lt Col Alula Berhane, USAF ; Samar Hamdan ; Carl Sunshine, Ph.D.
Nations with current SATCOM systems are planning for their replacement over the next decade. This paper summarizes key features of those new system... More...