| Tuesday, June 25, 2019 – Forum/Auditorium | |||||||||
| 9:00 AM | CCAA Workshop Chair | Dr. Janette C. Briones | Welcome, Introductions & CCAA Workshop Overview | ||||||
| 9:15 AM | NASA Glenn Director of Research and Engineering | Dr. Rickey Shyne | NASA Glenn Overview | ||||||
| 9:30 AM | Deputy Associate Administrator for SCaN | Mr. Badri Younes | NASA’s Evolving Space Communication and Navigation | ||||||
| 10:30 AM | Break & Exhibits | ||||||||
| Technical Sessions – Tuesday, June 25, 2019 | |||||||||
| Track 1: Cognitive Communication System & Application | Track 2: Platforms for Advancing Cognitive Communication Technology | ||||||||
| Session Chair: Rigoberto Roche | Session Chair: Dr. Robert R. Romanofsky | ||||||||
| Forum/Auditorium | Presidents Room | ||||||||
| Time | ID | Title | Name | Org. | Time | ID | Title | Name | Org. |
| 10:45 AM | 18 | A Communication Channel Density Estimating Generative Adversarial Network | Aaron Smith | NASA Glenn Research Center | 10:45 AM | 33 | Cognitive Ranging for High Accuracy Inter-Node Coordination in Distributed Antenna Arrays – No show | Serge Mghabghab | Michigan State University |
| 11:10 AM | 24 | Deploying Learned Communications Systems Over NASA’s TDRS System | Tim O’Shea | DeepSig Inc | 11:10 AM | 8 | Reconfigurable Antennas for Cognitive Radio Applications – Cancel | Christos Christodoulou | University of New Mexico |
| 11:35 AM | 2 | Self-Taught Waveform Synthesis and Analysis in the Amplify-and-Forward Relay Channel | Adam Anderson | Oak Ridge National Lab | 11:35 AM | 38 | Survey of Machine Learning Methods for Wideband Space Cognitive Antenna | Samuel Vineyard | Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation |
| 12:00 PM | Lunch (Sunroom) | ||||||||
| 1:00 PM | Keynote Speaker: Dr. Katie Schuman | Evolving Low Power Neuromorphic Solutions for Real-World Applications | Forum/Auditorium | ||||||
| 2:00 PM | Break & Exhibits | ||||||||
| Technical Sessions – Tuesday, June 25, 2019 | |||||||||
| 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 | ||||||||
| 2:15 PM | 5 | Evaluation of Classifier Complexity for Delay Tolerant Network Routing | Rachel Dudukovich | NASA Glenn Research Center | 2:15 PM | 32 | Reconfigurable Gallium Nitride Based Fully Solid-State Microwave Power Module for Cognitive Radio Platforms | Seth W. Waldstein | NASA Glenn Research Center |
| 2:40 PM | 3 | Evaluating Reinforcement Learning Methods for Bundle Routing Control | Ricardo Lent | University of Houston | 2:40 PM | 12 | AI-Driven Self-Optimizing Receivers for Cognitive Radio Networks | Yingying Wang | Case Western Reserve University |
| 3:05 PM | 11 | Robust Deep Reinforcement Learning for Interference Avoidance in Wideband Spectrum | Mohamed Aref | University of New Mexico | 3:05 PM | 9 | Development of a compact and flexible software-defined radio transmitter for small satellite applications | Susann Pätschke | Institute of Space Systems, University of Stuttgart, Germany |
| 3:30 PM | Break & Exhibits | ||||||||
| 3:45 PM | 19 | Reinforcement Learning Applied to Cognitive Space Communications | Rigoberto Roche | NASA Glenn Research Center | 3:45 PM | 25 | Investigation of Spiking Neural Networks for Modulation Recognition using Spike-Timing-Dependent Plasticity | Eric Knoblock | NASA Glenn Research Center |
| 4:10 PM | 37 | A Blockchain-Enabled Multi-Controller SDN-based Resilient Networking Management Mechanism | Jin Wei-Kocsis | The University of Akron | 4:10 PM | 22 | Cognitive Domain Ontologies Based on Loihi Spiking Neurons Implemented Using a Confabulation Inspired Network | Chris Yakopcic | University of Dayton |
| 4:35 PM | 30 | Testing a Neural Network Accelerator on a High-Altitude Balloon | Gilbert Clark | NASA Glenn Research Center | 4:35 PM | 23 | Spiking Neural Network for Asset Allocation Implemented Using The TrueNorth System | Chris Yakopcic | University of Dayton |
| 7:00-9:30PM | Networking Event at the Goodtime III | ||||||||
| Wednesday, June 26, 2019 – Forum/Auditorium | |||||||||
| 9:00 AM | Keynote Speaker: David Chelmins | NASA’s Cognitive Communications Project | Forum/Auditorium | ||||||
| 10:00 AM | Break & Exhibits | ||||||||
| Technical Sessions – Wednesday, June 26, 2019 | |||||||||
| Track 1: Cognitive Communication System & Application | Track 2: Platforms for Advancing Cognitive Communication Technology | ||||||||
| Session Chair: Rigoberto Roche | Session Chair: Dr. Felix Miranda | ||||||||
| Forum/Auditorium | Presidents Room | ||||||||
| Time | ID | Title | Name | Org. | Time | ID | Title | Name | Org. |
| 10:15 AM | 14 | Deep Reinforcement Learning for Continuous Power Allocation in Flexible High Throughput Satellites | Juan Jose Garau Luis | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 10:15 AM | 27 | Machine Learning Based Adaptive Predistorter for High Power Amplifier Linearization | Lun Li | Intelligent Fusion Technology, Inc. |
| 10:40 AM | 39 | Development of a Deep Space Network Simulator | Timothy Hackett | Penn State University | 10:40 AM | 29 | Cognitive Scheduling and Resource Allocation for Space to Ground Communication | Michael Koets | Southwest Research Institute |
| 11:05 AM | 40 | Reconfigurable Transmission Control Method | Khanh Pham | Air Force Research Laboratory | 11:05 AM | 10 | Greedy Based Proactive Spectrum Handoff Scheme for Cognitive Radio Systems | Zhengjia Xu | Cranfield University, United Kingdom |
| 11:30 AM | 20 | State Predictor of Classification Cognitive Engine Applied to Channel Fading | Rigoberto Roche | NASA Glenn Research Center | 11:30 AM | 6 | Smart Communications in Heterogeneous Spacecraft Networks: A Blockchain Based Secure Auction Approach | Pan Li | Case Western Reserve University |
| 11:55 AM | Break & Lunch | ||||||||
| 1:00 PM | Exhibits | 1:00 PM | Cognitive Antenna Gaps and Trends Workshop Session
(WS Lead: Dr. Robert R. Romanofsky) |
Presidents Room | |||||
| 1:25 PM | 15 | Path Planning via Reinforcement Learning for RF Source Localization by a Mobile Agent – Withdraw | Tyler Ward | University of Florida | |||||
| 1:50 PM | 4 | Spectral Attention-Driven Intelligent Target Signal Identification on a Wideband Spectrum | Dr. Jin Wei-Kocsis | University of Akron | |||||
| 2:15 PM | 1 | Using Cognitive Communications to Increase the Operational Value of Collaborative Networks of Satellites | Ryan Linnabary | The Ohio State University | |||||
| 2:40 PM | 17 | Machine Learning and Optimization for Resource-Constrained Platforms | Patrick Barnes | MTI Systems | |||||
| 3:05 PM | Break | ||||||||
| 3:20 PM | 34 | Quantifying Degradations of Convolutional Neural Networks in Space Environments | Abdelrahman Abdalla | Virginia Tech Hume Center University | 3:20 PM | Learned Communications Workshop
(WS Lead, Aaron Smith) |
Presidents Room | ||
| 3:45 PM | 35 | Artificial Intelligence-based Cognitive Cross-layer Decision Engine for Next-Generation Space Mission | Anu Jagannath | ANDRO Computational Solutions, LLC | |||||
| 4:10 PM | |||||||||
| 5:00 PM | CCAA Workshop Concludes | ||||||||