Tuesday, June 27, 2017 – Forum/Auditorium
9:00 am CCAA Workshop Chair Dr. Janette C. Briones Welcome, Introductions & CCAA Workshop Overview
9:05 am NASA Glenn Director of Research and Engineering Dr. Rickey Shyne NASA Glenn Overview
9:15 am Deputy Associate Administrator for SCaN Mr. Badri Younes SCaN Next Generation Communications Capabilities, a Beacon of Light into NASA’s Future
9:45 am Keynote Speaker Dr. Steve “Cap” Rogers Autonomy, Artificial Intelligence and Human Machine Teaming – Frequently Asked Questions
10:45 am Break
Technical Sessions – Tuesday, June 27, 2017
Track 1: Cognitive Communication System & Application Track 2: Platforms for Advancing Cognitive Communication Technology
Session Chair: Rigoberto Roche Session Chair: Rainee Simons
Forum/Auditorium Presidents Room
Time ID Title Name Org. Time ID Title Name Org.
10:55 am 106 Implementation of a Space Communications Cognitive Engine Timothy Hackett Penn State 10:55 am 113 A Pattern Matching Approach to Map Cognitive Domain Ontologies to the IBM TrueNorth Processor Soumyajit Mandal Case Western Reserve
11:20 am 122 Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning-based Deep Neural Networks for Cognitive Space Communications Timothy Hackett Penn State 11:20 am 109 Deep Learning Cognitive Radar for Micro-UAS Detection and Classification Jin Wei University of Akron
11:45 am 120 Modulation Classification of Satellite Communication Signals Using Cumulants and Neural Networks Aaron Smith NASA GRC 11:45 am 121 Cognitive Radar Experiments at The Ohio State University Graeme Smith Ohio State University
12:10 pm Lunch (Sunroom)
 
1:10 pm Keynote Speaker: Dr. James Lyke  Resilient Space-based Software Defined Networks Forum/Auditorium
2:10 pm Break
Technical Sessions – Tuesday, June 27, 2017
Track 1: Cognitive Communication System & Application Track 2: Platforms for Advancing Cognitive Communication Technology
Session Chair: Rigoberto Roche Session Chair: Marie Piasecki
Forum/Auditorium Presidents Room
2:20 pm 108 Deep belief network for automated modulation classification in cognitive radio Jin Wei University of Akron 2:20 pm 127 Smart Antennas Design for Real-Time Multi-Channel Power Spectral Density Estimation and Target Localization Jingyang Lu Intelligent Fusion Technology, Inc.
2:45 pm 112 Machine Learning for Space Communications Service Management Tasks James Barnes MTI Systems 2:45 pm 123 Wideband Reconfigurable Harmonically Tuned GaN SSPA for Cognitive Radios Seth Waldstein The University of Cincinnati
3:10 pm 111 A Pattern Matching Approach to Map Cognitive Domain Ontologies to the IBM TrueNorth Processor Tarek Taha University of Dayton 3:10 pm 124 Reconfigurable Wideband Circularly Polarized Stacked Square Patch Antenna for Cognitive Radios Miguel Barbosa Kortright University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus
3:35 pm Break
Technical Sessions – Tuesday, June 27, 2017
Track 1: Cognitive Communication System & Application Track 2: Platforms for Advancing Cognitive Communication Technology
Session Chair: Rigoberto Roche Session Chair: Rainee Simons
Forum/Auditorium Presidents Room
Time ID Title Name Org. Time ID Title Name Org.
3:45 pm 114 Software Defined Radios as Cognitive Relays for Satellite Ground Stations Incurring Terrestrial Interference Nozhan Hosseini University of South Carolina 3:45 pm 105 Data Synchronization for Throughput Maximization in Distributed Transmit Beamforming Sudharman Jayaweera Bluecom Systems and Consulting
4:10 pm 134 A Q-Learning Based Rendezvous Strategy for Cognitive Radios Clifton Watson Air Force Research Laboratory 4:10 pm 128 Cognitive Radio Testbed for Beamforming Network of Satellite Communication Jingyang Lu Intelligent Fusion Technology, Inc.
4:35 pm 104 A Novel Cognitive Anti-jamming Stochastic Game Sudharman Jayaweera Bluecom Systems and Consulting 4:35 pm 133 An Experimental Platform for Multi-spacecraft Phase-Array Communications Jekan Thangavelautham ASU – SpaceTREx
7:00-9:30PM Networking Event at the Nautica Queen
Wednesday, June 28, 2017 – Forum/Auditorium
9:00 am Keynote Speaker: Mr. Tim O’Shea Learning Signal Processing and Communications Systems from Data Forum/Auditorium
Technical Sessions – Wednesday, June 28, 2017
Track 1: Cognitive Communication System & Application Track 2: Platforms for Advancing Cognitive Communication Technology
Session Chair: Rigoberto Roche Session Chair: Rainee Simons
Forum/Auditorium Presidents Room
Time ID Title Name Org. Time ID Title Name Org.
9:55 am 118 Naturalistic Flying Study as a Method of Collecting Pilot Communication Behavior Data Chang-Geun Oh Kent State University 9:55 am 117 Apparatus for Characterizing Millimeter Wave Propagation through Magnetoelastic Multiferroic Materials Nitin Parsa The University of Akron
10:20 am 119 Spectrum Availability Prediction for Cognitive Aerospace Communications: A Deep Learning Perspective Pan Li Case Western Reserve 10:20 am 138 Power Allocation for Shared Transponders: A Statistical Optimal Control Paradigm   Khanh Pham Air Force Research Laboratory
10:45 am 126 A Game-Theoretic DRA Approach for Improved Spread Spectrum Frequency Hopped Waveforms Performance in the Presence of Smart Jammers Dan Shen Intelligent Fusion Technology, Inc. 10:45 am 137 Resilient Synchronization of Remote Time Dissemination Systems: A Pursuit-Evasion Graphical Game Approach Khanh Pham Air Force Research Laboratory
11:10 am Break
11:20 am 136 Software Defined Radio based Mixed Signal Detection in Spectrally Congested and Spectrally Contested Environment Zhiqiang Wu Wright State University 11:20 am 107 Digital Architecture for Real-Time CNN-based Face Detection for Video Processing Smrity Bhattarai The University of Akron
11:45 am 135 Primary User Authentication of Cognitive Radios using Underlay Waveform Rohit Chakarvarthy Wright State University 11:45 am 139 Multi-user FSO Communication Link Hazem Refai University of Oklahoma
12:10 pm Lunch (Sunroom)
CCAA Workshop Concludes

See IEEE CCAAW 2017 papers.