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58th SDRF General Meeting in Rome, Italy and SCA Test, Evaluation and Certification Workshop

The SDR Forum 58th General Meeting will be held April 14-17, 2008 in Rome, Italy. The Meeting will be held at the Meliá Roma Aurelia Antica, located at Via degli Aldobrandeschi, 223 - 00163 Roma. Tel. +39 06 66 544 Fax: +39 06 66 544 467. The Forum room rate is €135 for a standard room; €155 for a superior.

This meeting will include working sessions advancing the SDR Forum 2008 operations plan in support of the commercial, public safety, avionics, and tactical radio communities. Among the highlights of this meeting will be a plenary presentation by Motorola Program Manager Didier Bourse introducing the E3 (End-to-End Efficiency) program, a plenary roundtable session led by innovITS CEO Phil Pettitt exploring the use of software defined and cognitive radio technologies in intelligent transportation systems. Other activities will include continued advancement of the cognitive use cases and the trade study on the multi-service portable radios by the Forum's Public Safety Special Interest Group as well as work on the meta-language for mobility use cases and scenario analysis, the cognitive nomenclature document, response to ITU-R WP5A questions on cognitive radio, the specification on securing software reconfigurable communications technologies, and a number of relevant APIs (application programming interfaces) by the Technical Committee. In addition, the Regulatory Committee will provide a plenary summary on the initial results of the SDR Forum regulatory request for information, which will be used as a basis for defining the Forum's international regulatory agenda. Please see the schedule presented above for more details.

The Meeting cost will be:

• Members - $350 or €250
• Non-Members - $400 or €275
• Workshop - $100 or €75

Please use the Registration Form to register for the Meeting and Workshop. You must make you own hotel reservation.

The SCA Test, Evaluation and Certification Workshop will take place on Thursday, 17. April 2008.

The SDR Forum will also host an all-day workshop on Software Communications Architecture (SCA) test, evaluation and certification on Thursday, April 17, in Rome italy. Government and industry leaders from around the world - including representatives from the EDA (European Defense Agency), NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization), and the EC-JRC (European Commission Joint Research Center) - will meet to discuss requirements and key issues in international test and certification of SCA technologies.

Eight years after its initial launch by the Modular Software-Programmable Radio Consortium for the Department of Defense's JTRS (Joint Tactical Radio System) program, the SCA is undergoing a phase of international consideration for SDR development, with governments worldwide evaluating the adoption of the SCA in support of their national and multi-national interests. A key part of this evaluation is addressing the need for harmonized test and certification procedures for SCA-enabled radios, waveforms and technologies used in international markets. As an organization serving both government and industry members around the world, the SDR Forum is uniquely positioned to derive the needs and requirements of the international SDR/SCA community and create consolidated recommendations for use by national radio acquisition authorities.

The goal of this workshop is to capture requirements from the international SCA stakeholders to lay the foundations of future test, evaluation and certification of SCA-based radios and other products. This workshop can be regarded as the first step of a process, leading to projects within the SDR Forum that will define concepts, strategies, methods and recommendations that address this goal.

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