= WARP Workshop at DySpan 2011 (Aachen, Germany) - May 3, 2011 =
The 11th WARP workshop will be help in conjunction with the DySpan 2011 conference. Conference details can be found at http://www.ieee-dyspan.org/.

'''REGISTRATION:''' https://icm3.ieee.org/eventmanager/onlineregistration.asp?eventcode=sns

== Event Details ==

'''Tuesday, 3 May 2011'''
'''8:00am – 5:00pm'''

''Cognitive Wireless Networking with WARP''

''Tutorial Chairs'': Petri Mahonen (RWTH Aachen, Germany), Ashutosh Sabharwal (Rice University, USA)

This hands-on tutorial will introduce the participants to developing cognitive radio prototypes, especially for higher layer concepts.

The tutorial is a full-day session split into two parts. In the morning session, we will focus on WARP basics. This will include the current Rice MIMO-OFDM reference design implementation on WARP and software medium access control (MAC). In the afternoon, we will use the tools developed in the morning session to focus on an emerging application: cognitive wireless networks. We will focus on different methods of targeting WARP's wireless resources that allow rapid prototyping. We will then introduce the RWTH flexible cognitive radio MAC layer design.

Additionally, we will discuss also the key lessons learned from clean-slate implementations on the WARP hardware, and methods to leverage existing open-source code base. We will showcase cutting-edge research actively being performed using WARP in the form of several demonstrations. These will also serve to encourage collaborative discussions between the workshop participants.

NOTE: Due to the finite amount of hardware resources available for this tutorial, registration will be limited.

== Instructors ==
Melissa Duarte and Chris Hunter ([http://warp.rice.edu/ Rice University])

Patrick Murphy ([http://mangocomm.com/ Mango Communications])

Junaid Ansari, Xi Zhang, Andreas Achtzehn and Jad Nasreddine ([http://www.inets.rwth-aachen.de/ RWTH Aachen University])

== Materials ==
The workshop materials (slides, handouts, etc.) will be posted here after the workshop.

=== Other Useful Resources ===
 * [wiki:WARPLab]
 * [wiki:OFDMReferenceDesign OFDM Reference Design]
 * [wiki:HardwareUsersGuides/FPGABoard_v1.2 FPGA Board Users Guide]
 * [wiki:HardwareUsersGuides/RadioBoard_v1.4 Radio Board Users Guide]
 * [//WARP_API WARP APIs]
 * Radio Controller
   * [wiki:HardwareUsersGuides/RadioBoard_v1.4/RadioController Overview]
   * [source:/PlatformSupport/CustomPeripherals/drivers/radio_controller_v1_22_a/src Software Source]
   * [source:/PlatformSupport/CustomPeripherals/pcores/radio_controller_v1_22_a/hdl Hardware Source]
 * [source:/ResearchApps/PHY/MIMO_OFDM WARP OFDM Transceiver]
 * [source:/PlatformSupport/WARPMAC WARPMAC Source]
 * [source:/ResearchApps/MAC MAC Implementations]
 * [http://xilinx.com/univ/ Xilinx University Program]