WSRD Workshop: Making Data Available for National Spectrum Management

8:30 am

Welcome from WSRD Co-Chair

Mike DiFrancisco, NTIA OSM

8:35 am

Welcoming Remarks

Kamie Roberts, NITRD NCO virtual

8:40 am

Perspectives on Data for National Spectrum Management and Implications to National Spectrum Strategy

Matt Pearl, EOP/National Security Council virtual

9:00 am

Overview of the NIST Privacy Framework

Dylan Gilbert, NIST

9:20 am

Spectrum Use and Planning

Joel Taubenblatt, FCC WTB

9:40 am

Observations on Data for Federal Spectrum Management & IT Modernization

Alan Rosner, NTIA

10:00 am

Insights on Policy and Regulatory Issues that may Shape the Future of Spectrum Monitoring

Dale Hatfield, UC Boulder & Silicon Flatirons

10:20 am

Technical Keynote Linking Data Collection, Storage, Dissemination, and Operations

John Chapin, NSF

10:45 am

Break

11:00 am

Session 1: Requirements Perspectives

Session Briefings and Panel to Address Key Questions

Tom Rondeau, DOD OUSD (R&E) - MODERATOR

Lisa Guess, Cradlepoint-Ericsson

Charles Cooper, NTIA

Joel Taubenblatt, FCC WTB

Steve Ellingson, Virginia Tech

Key Questions:

• What are the Top 5 “most wanted” spectrum data sets in each of the following three areas:
  • Policy Making
  • Spectrum Management and Operations?
  • R&D
• What are the most important data characteristics for each area (completeness, accuracy, diversity, etc.)

NOTE: Workshop participants are encouraged to continue thinking about these questions throughout Day 1 and Day 2. The group will reconvene in Session 5 to establish a non-prioritized Top 5 for each area.

12:30 pm

Lunch

1:30 pm

Tours of NIST and NTIA Boulder Labs

Make sure to sign up for the tours during check-in as space is limited.

3:00 pm

Session 2: Constraints and Policy Issues

Session Briefings and Panel to Address Key Questions:

Derek Khlopin, NTIA - MODERATOR

Martin Doczkat, FCC

Lisa Guess, Cradlepoint-Ericsson

Martin Weiss, University of Pittsburgh

Mark Walker, CableLabs

Key Questions:

• What are the legal, policy, and privacy constraints and how can they be overcome while supporting the needs of policy making, spectrum management and operations, and R&D?
• Are there digital equity or inclusion issues to be considered?
• What operational security issues need to be considered?  (For agency operations but also for key spectrum dependent functions – health care, transportation, etc.)

5:30 pm

Adjourn/Reception

8:00 am

Session 3: Spectrum Data Collection

Session Briefings and Panel to Address Key Questions:

Melissa Midzor, NIST NASCTN - MODERATOR

Mike Cotton, NTIA ITS – MODERATOR

Won Namgoong, University of Albany

Kobus van der Merwe, Univ. of Utah (POWDER)

Greg Wagner, DISA DSO

Andy Clegg, Google

Jenifer Alvarez, Maxar/Aurora Insight

Brian Jordan, Aerospace Corporation

Key Questions:

• How (technically) can we collect spectrum data in a way that:
  • is affordable, scalable, trustworthy, power-efficient, and useful, is legal and respects privacy concerns,
  • meets the needs of policy, operational and R&D users?

Key Factors:

• Data ownership
• Hardware affordability, directionality; Receiver System challenges – interpolation, probability of false positives/negatives (Receiver Operating Characteristics curve over an area); backhaul bandwidth, storage bandwidth.
• Crowd sourcing issues – trust, systematic errors.
• Software systems challenges - moving computation to the data – virtual platform standards.

10:15 am

Break

10:30 am

Session 4: Spectrum Data Storage and Dissemination

Session Briefings and Panel to Address Key Questions

Kaushik Chowdhury, Northeastern University – MODERATOR

Nada Golmie, NIST CTL

Doug Boulware, NTIA ITS

Monisha Ghosh, Notre Dame University/Spectrum X

Keith Gremban, CU Boulder/Silicon Flatirons

Key Questions:

• How do we make spectrum data available broadly to support policy making, operations, & R&D?
  • How do we control who gets access?
• How to pay for a data storage and distribution infrastructure?
• Who controls it – governance to maximize benefits and prevent misuse?
• Are there new techniques for accomplishing goals while storing less privacy-sensitive data?
• How do we label data to make it useful for all possible (legal) purposes?

Key Factors:

• A quantity problem - Vast amounts of data; Do we need to be shipping disc drives around the country? Or contract with a big cloud that hosts all the data and folks upload their processing algorithms to it?
• A standards/metadata/labeling problem - how to capture/represent enough information that downstream processing by 3rd parties (& AI) is enabled?
• An architecture problem - how to federate different repositories/systems?

12:30 pm

Lunch

1:30 pm

Tours of NIST and NTIA Boulder Labs

Make sure to sign up for the tours during check-in as space is limited.

3:00 pm

Session 5: Summary of Challenges and Ideas for Challenge Resolution

Workshop Output Session

Keith Gremban, CU Boulder/Silicon Flatirons – SESSION CHAIR

Goals:

• Document the top 5 “most wanted” spectrum data sets in each of the following three areas:
  • Policy Making
  • Spectrum Management and Operations?
  • R&D

• Summarize challenges associated with obtaining and using data about spectrum to support policy making, operations, and R&D.
• Discuss and document ideas for resolution of these challenges through the action of researchers, industry, agencies, regulators, and/or legislators.
• Discuss what results should be included in the National Spectrum Strategy to address data-driven processes for long-term spectrum planning that increase transparency into current and future Federal and non-Federal spectrum use and that anticipate and enable technological advances in order to facilitate spectrum access.

5:30 pm

Adjourn