TECHNICAL SYMPOSIUM

Saturday, November 23, 2019Westin New York Times Square, New York City, NY

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7:30 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. .................................................................................Continental Breakfast

8:00 a.m. – 8:15 a.m. ............................................................................. Welcome & Introductions John Facella, P.E.

8:15 a.m. – 9:15 a.m. ...................................... “RF for Connected and Highly Automated Vehicles” Panel: Barry Einsig, Jason M. Conley

9:15 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. .................................................... Progress Report on RCA’s Youth Initiative Carole Perry

9:45 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. ........................................................................................................ Break

10:00 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. ...................................................... Youth Presentation “Since Last Time: Exploration of the New Space Industry”

Padraig Lysandrou, Ph.D. student

10:45 a.m. – 11:45 p.m. ....“Massive MIMO and Beyond: Innovation in the Wireless Physical Layer” Prof. Thomas Marzetta Ph.D., NYU Wireless

11:45 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. ................................................................................... Lunch (On your own)

1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. ........................................... “Wireless Network Virtualization and Evolution, where are we now and where are we headed?”

Bassem Iskander, JMA Wireless

2:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. ................................................................“The Explorer I Satellite Program” Dr. Henry Richter

2:30 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. ..........................................................................................................Break

2:45 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. ............................................................................. “Television on the Moon” Panel: David Bart, RCA, Alex Magoun, Ph.D., IEEE Outreach Historian

3:30 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. .........................................................................“AMSAT’s CubeSat Satellite” Prof. Alan Johnson Ph.D., Villanova Univ. & AMSAT

4:15 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. ..................................... “The Edge of Space Sciences DMR Eclipse Project” Mike Pappas, Orban Labs

5:00 p.m. – 5:10 p.m. .......................................................................................................Wrap up John Facella, P.E.

2019 TECHNICAL SYMPOSIUM AGENDA ABSTRACTS & SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES

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2019 TECHNICAL SYMPOSIUM AGENDA ABSTRACTS & SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIESRF for Connected and Highly Automated Vehicles” Panel: Barry Einsig, Principal, CAVita, Jason M. Conley, Executive Director, OmniAir Consortium

Connected and Highly Automated Vehicles have been the buzz in the media for some time, and have seen billions of dollars’ worth of investment globally. Many companies are working on this, including the traditional car manufacturers in Detroit and Tech companies like Waymo, Uber, and Tesla. Intelligent transportation systems (ITS) use the 5.9 Ghz band dedicated to 802.11p assigned by the FCC for use in the dedicated short range communications (DSRC) service, but this band is also shared with other services including military, satellites, and amateur and ISM use. More recently there have been other industries and technologies looking to utilize this Public Safety Licensed spectrum, from the Wi-Fi community to the 3GPP Cellular Industry. The infrastructure is beginning to be deployed on a national level, state by state, city by city. This presentation will discuss some of these deployments, the applications, and use cases as well as the lessons learned.

Speaker Biographies

Barry Einsig is currently a Principal at CAVita. Previously he was the Global Automotive and Transportation Executive in Cisco’s Automotive and Connected Car Group. He is responsible for driving the growth strategy, business planning, thought leadership and solutions designs and validation for all modes of transportation.

He has been in the industry for over 20 years serving in a variety of roles for Automotive, Transportation, and Smart Cities systems. Barry was issued a patent for Video Quality of Service delivery over LTE services. He is a Board member for the Connected Vehicle Trade Association, and an advisor for the Singapore Ministry of Transport for their Connected and Highly Automated vehicle systems.

Jason Conley serves as the Executive Director of OmniAir Consortium, the leading industry association promoting interoperability and certification for ITS, tolling, and Connected Vehicles. Mr. Conley has over 15 years of experience in transportation and security technologies. He joined OmniAir directly from MorphoTrust

USA, an identity solutions and services provider, where he led the organization’s Government Affairs team. He has also served in senior roles at the Transportation Security Administration, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Intelligent Transportation Society of America, and the shared mobility start-up, Avego (now Carma Technologies). He earned his law degree at the Columbus School of Law at the Catholic University of America, and an undergraduate degree from Wake Forest University. He is a member of the Virginia State Bar.

“Since Last Time: Exploration of the New Space Industry” Youth Presentation: Padraig Lysandrou, Ph.D. candidate

This presentation will be based on my experience in this field. I’ll cover some of the most exciting aspects of the new-space industry from broadband satellite constellations to my more recent endeavors: navigational issues, the problem of safely landing rockets and hopefully people on other planets.

Speaker Biography

It’s been 5 years since I last attended an RCA event. I studied Electrical and Aerospace engineering at Cornell with the help of the ARRL and RCA. I started off as an RF engineer on some of the satellite projects in the Space System Design Studio, continuing similar work at SpaceX and Blue Origin for summer internships. I eventually

found myself pulled towards spacecraft guidance, navigation, and control and have continued with my work and studies in this field.

“Progress Report on RCA’s Youth Initiative” Carole Perry, RCA Director

This presentation will highlight the latest RCA activities and work with youth and students to encourage them to pursue STEM-based (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) careers. Carole and RCA have been assisting youth to discover the fun of STEM and wireless for over 30 years. Some new youth initiatives will be discussed, including a proposal for a Spacecamp amateur radio station in Alabama, and assistance to the RCA Young Achievers as they recruit and support other young hams.

Speaker Biography

RCA Director Carole Perry has been the Chairperson of RCA Youth Activities since 2007. She created the RCA Young Achiever program which identifies and rewards students in high school and below who have demonstrated technical excellence and creativity. To date, 107 such awards have been presented. She initiated the tradition

of introducing an RCA Young Achiever to give a presentation at the RCA Technical Symposium every year. This has come to be valued as a very prestigious honor for the young person; both by colleges and by business people in the wireless industry. Ms. Perry also chooses the RCA Young Achiever recipient of the IWCE Scholarship at the RCA Breakfast event every year.

During the course of the year, Carole and her committee members visit various schools and Boy and Girl Scout troops to introduce the fun of ham radio and to encourage youngsters to pursue technical careers. Carole is constantly traveling to promote RCA’s youth activities, and her travels have even taken her to Germany and India!

Carole has been invited to conduct Youth Forums in Michigan,

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Director Perry has been an RCA member since 1991, and was elected an RCA Fellow in 1995, and is also a Board Member of the Quarter Century Wireless Association. She is a retired New York City middle school teacher.

“Massive MIMO and Beyond: Innovation in the Wireless Physical Layer” Professor Thomas Marzetta, Ph.D., NYU Wireless

Massive MIMO (Multiple-Input, Multiple-Output) is a central technology in the Fifth Generation of wireless. Massive MIMO base stations employ arrays of physically small, individually controlled antennas to communicate with a multiplicity of user terminals, where the number of base station antennas is considerably greater than the number of active users. Each of the users is served under the entire allocated time/frequency resources which, combined with the excess of base station antennas, is responsible for unprecedented spectral efficiency (bits/second/Hertz), uniformly good service throughout the cell, and superior energy efficiency (bits/Joule).

In anticipation of ever-increasing demand for wireless service, researchers are earnestly seeking new breakthroughs in the wireless physical layer, beyond Massive MIMO. Holographic Massive MIMO (also called Holographic RF System, Holographic Beamforming, and Large Intelligent Surface) is a possible successor to Massive MIMO, which, in its extreme form, would replace an array of discrete antennas with a spatially continuous transmitting/receiving aperture. A key question is whether the continuous aperture yields fundamentally new types of operation that cannot be obtained from a traditional antenna array. Other researchers believe that a closer fusion of electromagnetic theory with communication theory may produce breakthroughs. Thus, electromagnetic theory predicts some surprising and non-intuitive macro-phenomena, such as resonant evanescent wave coupling (in which evanescent plane-waves, which nominally carry only reactive power, are forced to transport real power) and super-directivity (where an array of closely-spaced antennas can have directivity that far exceeds the Rayleigh resolution limit), that rely on principles all-but-unused by today’s communication theorists.

Speaker Biography

Professor Thomas Marzetta, Ph.D., is the Distinguished Industry Professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering, ECE Department, and an Associate Director of NYU Wireless. Born in Washington, DC, he received the PhD and SB in Electrical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1978 and 1972, and the

MS in Systems Engineering from University of Pennsylvania in 1973. Prior to joining NYU in 2017, he had three industrial research careers: petroleum exploration (Schlumberger-Doll Research, 1978 – 1987), defense (Nichols Research Corporation,

1987 – 1995), and telecommunications (Bell Labs, 1995 – 2017). At Bell Labs, he directed the Communications and Statistical Sciences Department within the former Mathematical Sciences Research Center, and he was elected a Bell Labs Fellow. He originated Massive MIMO, one of the cornerstones of fifth generation wireless technology. He is lead author of the book “Fundamentals of Massive MIMO”. Prof. Marzetta was on the Advisory Board of MAMMOET (Massive MIMO for Efficient Transmission), an EU-sponsored FP7 project, and he was Coordinator of the GreenTouch Consortium’s Large Scale Antenna Systems Project. Recognition for his contributions to Massive MIMO include the 2017 IEEE Communications Society Industrial Innovation Award, the 2015 IEEE Stephen O. Rice Prize, and the 2015 IEEE W. R. G. Baker Award. He was elected a Fellow of the IEEE in 2003, and he received an Honorary Doctorate from Linköping University in 2015.

“Wireless Network Virtualization and Evolution, where are we now and where are we headed?”Bassem Iskander, JMA Wireless

Network Virtualization is becoming a hot topic in the cellular wireless industry. In this session we will explore what network virtualization is. Next we will discuss CBRS (Citizens Band Radio Service), which utilizes LTE transport technology to provide voice and data services in the 3.5 GHz band. We will look at benefits and challenges, where is all of this going, and what will it look like when we get there?

Speaker Biography

Bassem Iskander is currently a Senior Systems Engineer at JMA Wireless. With over 20 years of experience, Bassem has seen the telecommunications industry from several varying and unique perspectives: he spent 15 years working for the wireless carriers; he later became a technical consultant specializing in In-Building DAS;

an engineering manager at a large integrator; and now works at an equipment manufacturer. This gives Bassem key insight on the inner and outer workings of the industry. At his core, Bassem is a RF engineering expert. He specializes in site and venue design, capacity, optimization and In-Building DAS. Bassem is a champion of value engineering and finding the most cost effective and technically sound solution available.

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ABSTRACTS & SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES ABSTRACTS & SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES“The Explorer I Satellite Program” Dr. Henry Richter

The Explorer 1 earth satellite was launched January 31, 1958 as America’s entry into spaceflight. America had been humbled by the Russians beating them into space with Sputnik’s I and II in 1957. Explorer’s launch preceded NASA and was an Army mission carried out by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Army Ballistic Missile Agency. The program will be described by one of its participants in those very early days of space exploration.

Speaker Biography

Dr. Henry Richter was a key figure in the success of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) when Explorer I was launched in 1958. Dr. Richter managed the satellite, its instruments, and its ground communications, and was the first to confirm that it had reached orbit. This was before America even had a space agency. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration

(NASA) was formed as a result of the success of the Explorer satellites, which had imbued Americans with a renewed sense of pride after the Russians had beaten them to space with Sputnik 1 (October 4, 1957) and Sputnik 2 (November 3, 1957). Richter continued advancing space technology as America began the race to the moon. But his own trajectory would not be smooth. Henry Richter (not to be confused with Charles Richter of ‘Richter Scale’ fame) would experience a series of mishaps and failures before understanding the true secret of success. Along the way, he would also find satisfying explanations for the amazing designs he grew to appreciate on his own vessel: ‘Spacecraft Earth.’ He is the author of several books including America’s Leap Into Space: My Time at JPL and the First Explorer Satellites, and Spacecraft Earth: A Guide for Passengers.

Prior to beginning his consulting career, Dr. Richter served as a Section Chief at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, where he headed development of the free world’s first satellite — Explorer I. Dr. Richter also had responsibility for all scientific instruments for the Ranger, Surveyor, and Mariner programs and spacecraft, and helped develop the world-wide DOD/NASA spacecraft tracking and communications network [Deep Space Network, or DSN]. He was honored in 2008 with the present and three former Directors of JPL by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Annual Achievement Award as a Spaceflight Pioneer.

Henry was then named Vice President and Technical Director of Xerox Electro-Optical Systems, Inc. (now Loral Corporation) in Pasadena, where he supervised a wide variety of scientific research, engineering development and hardware production in the fields of communications, upper atmosphere rocketry, tracking and telemetry, space power systems, exotic space propulsion systems, scientific instruments, semiconductor devices, computer applications, biosciences, and military

hardware.

He then took up a challenge to serve as the Communications Engineer for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s extensive microwave and mobile radio networks, which ultimately led to the development of his consulting practice.

Dr. Richter received his Ph.D. in Chemistry, Physics, and Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology, as well as his Bachelor of Science from the same institution. He was the first Newmont Fellow of the California Institute of Technology, is a Senior Life Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, a Senior Member Emeritus of the American Chemical Society, a Senior Member of the American Geophysical Union, and was elected a member of the New York Academy of Sciences. He is a recipient of the Otto Schmidt Medal awarded by the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. Dr. Richter has served on the National Industrial Advisory Committee to the Federal Communications Commission, and the Evaluation and Advisory Panel on Time and Frequency of the National Bureau of Standards. He holds a First Class Radio-telephone License and an Amateur Extra Class Amateur Radio License issued by the Federal Communications Commission. He is a retired California Professional Engineer.

“Panel Discussion: Television on the Moon” David Bart, RCA Publications Chairman and Editor of the RCA Proceedings, Alex Magoun, Ph.D., IEEE Outreach Historian and Former Director of the David Sarnoff Library

We will revisit the history of planning and executing television broadcasts on the Apollo moon landings in 1969. NASA’s use of live TV cameras on the Apollo space missions was a conflicted one. Opinions ranged from recognizing the technical and political value of the broadcasts to whether these were merely publicity stunts that consumed critical mass limitations within the spacecraft as well as training time and that both could be better utilized for other purposes. In hindsight, the television coverage enabled the world to participate in the Apollo missions, and the recorded video footage has proven to be of great historical value. We will revisit some of the technical challenges, successes, and failures, and discuss the legacies of the first TV broadcasts from the moon

Speaker Biographies

David P. Bart is the Senior Director of the Great Lakes Region, Forensic and Dispute Resolution Services, RSM US LLP. He has a BA and MBA degrees from the University of Chicago, and numerous certifications including CIRA, CDBV, CFE, ASA. He is a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute, Assoc. Insolvency & Restructuring

Advisors, American Society Appraisers, Assoc. Certified Fraud Examiners. Dave has been an RCA Director since 2011, and the editor of the RCA Proceedings publication, and Chair of the

Publications Committee since 2014, Chair of Historical Committee 2011-2015. He is an IEEE Member and Treasurer

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ABSTRACTS & SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES ABSTRACTS & SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIESof the IEEE Historical Committee. Dave is also a Director of the Antique Wireless Association and former co-editor of the AWA Review. He has been the Director, Vice President, and Treasurer of the Museum of Broadcast Communications in Chicago. Dave is a recipient of RCA’s Ralph Batcher Award and AWA’s Dr. Max Bodmer Award and AWA’s Harry Houck award for historical preservation.

Alex Magoun, Ph.D. is the outreach historian for the IEEE. Dr. Magoun has his BA in History from Trinity College (CT), his MA in History from the University of East Anglia, and his PhD in American History from the University of Maryland, where he studied with noted historian of technology Robert Friedel, the founding director of

the IEEE History Center. Alex is an expert on the history of television, was the director of the revived David Sarnoff Library, and most recently has been working as a consulting historian. He is the author of David Sarnoff Research Center: RCA Labs to Sarnoff Corporation (2003) and Television: The Life Story of a Technology (2009). He has a wide range of experience in the public history of technology relevant to IEEE’s historical activities, including organizing archives, launching a Web site, hosting documentarians, conducting oral histories, fundraising, and developing school programs. Alex also has direct knowledge of and experience with IEEE, having served on the IEEE History Committee, consulted for the IEEE History Center, and — while at Sarnoff — received a grant from the IEEE Foundation.

“Designing the AMSAT CubeSat Simulator: A Functional Satellite Model for the Classroom”Professor Alan B. Johnson, Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept., Villanova University, AMSAT VP of Educational Activities

The AMSAT CubeSat Simulator is an educational outreach project of AMSAT, the Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation. First, AMSAT’s history will be described, covering 50 years of building and launching amateur radio satellites into orbit. Next, the educational goals of AMSAT will be described. The design objectives and requirements for the CubeSat Simulator will be described. The Simulator generates real UHF telemetry signals transmitted in the 70cm ham radio band using AFSK (Audio Frequency Shift Keying). Data about voltages, currents, and temperatures in the Simulator is transmitted to an SDR (Software Defined Radio) ground station, where the data is demodulated, decoded, and graphed. The design, based on a Raspberry Pi Zero W CPU and an AX5043 digital transceiver chip will be described. Experience building and using the Simulators at universities and high schools will be described. Finally, design improvements and future plans for the Simulator will be covered.

Speaker Biography

Dr. Alan B. Johnston got his start in electronics and radio as a teenager when he got his ham radio extra class license, call sign KU2Y. He built satellite antennas, and tracked satellites, and communicated using the AMSAT OSCAR-8 satellite. He earned a Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University

of Melbourne, Australia, and a Doctorate in Electrical Engineering from Lehigh University. He worked for twenty five plus years in the telecommunications and internet communications industry, contributing to IETF standards and becoming a recognized expert in Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), and Web Real-Time Communications (WebRTC). He recently joined the faculty of Villanova University Electrical and Computer Engineering Department as a Teaching Professor, where he is the faculty advisor of the Villanova University CubeSat Club. He has written five technical books and the technothriller novel “Counting from Zero”, and holds over a dozen US patents. You can follow him on Twitter @alanbjohnston.

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ABSTRACTS & SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES ABSTRACTS & SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES“The Edge of Space Sciences DMR Eclipse Project” Mike Pappas, V.P. & Co-Owner, Orban Labs Inc.

Two years prior to the total eclipse of the sun (August 2017) the Edge of Space Sciences (EOSS) non-profit was approached by Colorado University Boulder Space Grant Consortium and NASA about flying a pair of balloons with high resolution cameras for the eclipse. We did a survey of the predicted payload landing zone (Southeastern Wyoming/Western Nebraska) and found that there was little to no cellular service and zero amateur repeater coverage. Terrain considerations negated the use of VHF or UHF simplex and HF didn’t have the right propagation. Additionally Wyoming was expecting 600,000 people to converge on the state for the Eclipse, doubling the population of the State. There were significant concerns about fuel, food & public safety resources. Our track and recovery teams would not be familiar with the roads or terrain, and they would have to contend with heavy traffic along with tracking both balloons and staying in touch with the launch team and tracking and recovery coordinator.

We will describe the challenges we had in solving these communications problems. We ended up designing a four site DMR radio system, and we will share the issues we had to address and the lessons learned from this project.

Speaker Biography

Mike Pappas is currently the VP of Business Development and a co-owner of Orban Labs, Inc. Division of DaySequerra, one of the broadcast industry’s best-known names in audio processing. Previously he was a Principal Network Engineer at Intrado, HFConnect. He developed and helped to deploy the HDConnect disaster

communications network, including an advanced mesh network and HF Cellular options. Mike also managed Intradio’s Thor (Tactical Homeland Organized Response) Multi-Agency Unified Command & Control Platform RF communications system which served many critical agencies including U.S. Park Police, FBI, US Secret Service, AMTRAK Police, Virginia State Police, and others. Prior to that Mike held positions as Contract Chief Engineer at Jazz 89 KUVO (www.kuvo.org), and provided contract engineering services for KGNU, Boulder Community Radio (www.kgnu.org).

Technical Symposium Host Biography

John Facella, P.E. is a Principal at Panther Pines Consulting, LLC, specializing in public safety communications consulting, and general management consulting. He has over 30 years in the wireless industry, including

28 years working for both Motorola and Harris, and over 2 years as a senior vice president with a national consulting company. He has held positions including product management, systems engineering management, and Director of Public Safety Markets. He has also held general management positions in a number of high tech startup companies. Mr. Facella has been a frequent presenter at wireless industry trade shows, and written numerous articles. He was a 10 year member of the International Assoc. of Chiefs of Police Communications Committee, and was a 9 year member of the International Assoc. of Fire Chiefs Communications Committee. He is a member of the NPSTC Broadband EMS Working Group, and the National Fire Protection Association 1221 and 1802 committees. He has a BSEE from Georgia Tech, an MBA in marketing from Georgia State University, and is a registered professional engineer in the State of Illinois. Mr. Facella served in the U.S. Army Signal Corps as a platoon leader. He is a life member of the IEEE, and is a Fellow, Life Member, and Executive Vice President of the Radio Club of America, and he received RCA’s President’s award in 2014. He also has 30 years of experience as a part-time fire fighter and EMT, and has numerous certifications. He is a life member of the ARRL, the QCWA, and the Antique Wireless Association.

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