RADAR 2018 - RADAR & COMMUNICATION SPECTRUM SHARING

This workshop will provide a forum for the presentation of recent/ongoing work on the topic of radar and communication spectrum sharing and will emphasize the identification of technology gaps for practical realization. There is a growing contention over the use of the radio-frequency (RF) spectrum caused by the accelerating demand for consumer use of the spectrum via 4G and soon to be 5G wireless communications. The increasing need for this finite resource is driving innovation into new ways in which radar and communications systems can cohabitate the spectrum. The problem of spectrum congestion between communication and radar systems has been broadly recognized, with spectrum congestion being a primary early driver of the waveform diversity effort that began in 2001. More recently this topic has received increasing attention, such as via the DARPA programs on spectrum sharing for radar & communications (SSPARC) and RadioMap, and the establishment of the US National Spectrum Consortium. This workshop will bring together communications and radar engineers to discuss the growing problems associated with spectrum sharing.
To ensure complete coverage of the advances in this field, original contributions are solicited on topic areas including, but not limited to, the following:
Regulatory and measurement compliance aspects of spectrum sharing
Systems engineering issues for spectral compliance and associated advances
Approaches to address interference arising from spectrum sharing
Methods for radar/communication co-design
Dynamic spectrum access and software-defined systems for spectrum sharing
Transmitter and receiver architectures for spectral coexistence
Radar/Wi-Fi spectrum sharing: radar protection, impact of radar on Wi-Fi
Cognitive spectrum sensing
Theoretical limits of radar/communication co-design
Radar-embedded communications
Communication signal design for passive radar (i.e. commensal radar)