Special Workshop: DARPA SC2
Wednesday, 15 November
Session
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Topic
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Min
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Contents
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Keynotes
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SC2 Program Overview
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40
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- What is Collaborative Intelligent Radio Network (CIRN) technology
- Why is SC2 important
- Key tech and program challenges
- What is Colosseum
- Program structure and progress to date
Paul Tilghman, DARPA
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Collaborative Intelligent Radio Networks as a Multiagent System
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40
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- CIRN as a multi-agent AI problem
- Competition as driver for multi-agent AI technology
- Strategic agents and incentives for collaboration
Michael Wellman, University of Michigan
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Morning Session
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WinnForum Chair Introduction
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10
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How SC2 topics tie into the WinnForum Top 10 list
Manuel Uhm
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Technology Challenges
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30
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1. Application challenges
- What are the characteristics of a use case or scenario in which collaboration offers benefits?
- What canonical cases are good for driving research?
John Chapin, DARPA SETA
2. New wireless network design challenges
- What new capabilities are needed in PHY/MAC/NET?
- What new information has to be created, disseminated, or processed?
Jody Neel, Federated Wireless
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The Colosseum System
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50
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3. MCHEM: At-scale realistic testing in a channel emulator
- Hardware and software architecture
- Why is 256x256 not just a linear scale-up of COTS 16x16 emulators?
Ashish Chaudhari, Ettus
4. Colosseum: A remotely accessible, shared test resource
- Hardware and software architecture surrounding the MCHEM
- What is hard about efficient sharing of a large channel emulator among remote users.
- Operational experience: challenges and fixes
Jason Uher, Johns Hopkins APL
5. Scenarios for testing Colosseum and CIRNs
- Challenges and solutions in generating realistic tests
- The scenario compilation pipeline
- Test and validation methods for Colosseum itself
Binoy Kurien, MIT Lincoln Labs
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Afternoon Session 1
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Collaboration Protocol
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30
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6. SC2CP: The key enabler for collaboration
- What are the concepts that CIRNs need to express?
- What are collective actions or decisions we would like CIRNs to do? Which have occurred in Phase 1 so far?
- How can a program like SC2 evolve a useful protocol?
Craig Pomeroy, DARPA SETA
7. A collaborative AI perspective on SC2CP
- How does SC2CP compare to protocols used in other collaborative AI domains?
- What are the fundamental problems in protocols like this?
- What approaches have proven broadly useful that should be applied in this domain?
Andrew Adams, Johns Hopkins APL
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Early Experiences
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15
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8. Observations from SC2 Phase 1
- What has been learned from scrimmages held to date?
- What important challenges are competitors struggling with?
Paul Tilghman, DARPA
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Transitioning Collaborative Spectrum Sharing from Research to Reality
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30
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Introduction: The SC2 Stakeholders Council
Paul Tilghman, DARPA
Panel Discussion
- What mission needs of my organization could be helped by collaborative spectrum sharing?
- What has to be done to the technology post-competition to make it fit those needs?
- What needs to be proven to get me/my organization seriously interested in adoption?
- What might deployment look like from a Policy perspective (e.g. how to certify a network that learns)?
Manuel Uhm (Moderator)
Ravi Potluri, Verizon
Ali Khayrallah, Ericsson
Kenneth Baker, NTIA ITS
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Next Steps
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15
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- Program and CIRN technology roadmap
- How interested parties can get involved
Paul Tilghman, DARPA
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Afternoon Session 2
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Demonstration
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30
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- Colosseum: schedule, configure, run an experiment
- CIRNs: run a scrimmage match
- Spectrum visualization and Collaboration Protocol logs: investigating what happened
Jason Uher, Johns Hopkins APL
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Q&A Discussion
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60
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Manuel Uhm, Moderator
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