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Table of Contents
Technical Reports
In reverse chronological order.
[33]  
Final Report
        S.W. Ellingson, Technical Report No. 33, December 30, 2008.
[32]  
Non-Volatile Configuration Scheme for the Stratix II EP2S60 DSP Development Board
        Q. Liu and S.W. Ellingson, Technical Report No. 32, October 21, 2008.
[31]  
User Interface for the NIJ Public Safety Radio
        Q. Liu, R. Thandee, S.M. Hasan, and S.W. Ellingson, Technical Report No. 31, October 22, 2008.
[30]  
Revision of the RFIC Board for NIJ Public Safety Radio
        S.M. Shajedul Hasan and S.W. Ellingson, Technical Report No. 30, July 22, 2008.
[29]  
Design and Development of an RF Front End Board for NIJ Public Safety Radio
        S.M. Shajedul Hasan and S.W. Ellingson, Technical Report No. 29, July 22, 2008.
[28]  
Revision of the ADC/DAC Board for NIJ Public Safety Radio
        S.M. Shajedul Hasan and S.W. Ellingson, Technical Report No. 28, July 22, 2008.
[27]  
Design Techniques for Multiband/Multimode Radios
        S.W. Ellingson, Technical Report No. 27, June 5, 2008. (Short course lecture slides)
[26]  
Multiband Public Safety Radio Using a Multiband RFIC with an RF Multiplexer-Based Antenna Interface
        S.M. Shajedul Hasan and S.W. Ellingson, Technical Report No. 26, June 16, 2008. (Submission to SDR'08)
[25]  
Multiband Antenna-Receiver Integration using an RF Multiplexer with Sensitivity-Constrained Design
        S.M. Shajedul Hasan and S.W. Ellingson, Technical Report No. 25, Jan 15, 2008. (See "Project Documents" for the (more recent) presentation slides.)
[24]  
Design and Development of an ADC/DAC Evaluation Board for NIJ Public Safety Radio
        S.M. Shajedul Hasan and S.W. Ellingson, Technical Report No. 24, November 20, 2007.
[23]  
Phase II Technical Report
        S.W. Ellingson, S.M. Shajedul Hasan, M. Harun, and C.R. Anderson, Technical Report No. 23, October 5, 2007.
[22]  
Design and Development of an Evaluation Board with RFIC Ver. 4
        S.M. Shajedul Hasan and S.W. Ellingson, Technical Report No. 22, September 1, 2007.
[21]  
Performance Evaluation of RFIC Ver. 4 in Public Safety Frequency Bands
        S.M. Hasan, M. Harun, and S.W. Ellingson, Technical Report No. 21, July 9, 2007.
        Note: Distribution of this report is currently limited.
[20]  
Optimum Noise Figure Specification
        S.M. Shajedul Hasan and S.W. Ellingson, Technical Report No. 20, April 25, 2007.
        Note: Manuscript submitted for publication in IEE Electronics Letters, review pending.
[19]  
Performance Evaluation of RFIC Ver. 3b in Public Safety Frequency Bands
        S.M. Shajedul Hasan and S.W. Ellingson, Technical Report No. 19, April 5, 2007.
        Note: Distribution of this report is currently limited.
[18]  
Blackfin-Based Continuous Baseband Processing
        Jang Hoon Oh and S.W. Ellingson, Technical Report No. 18, April 1, 2007.
        Design Files described in this report are available.
[17]  
The Rise of All-Band All-Mode Radio
        S.W. Ellingson and S.M. Shajedul Hasan, Technical Report No. 17, January 9, 2007.
        Note: This is the original manuscript (complete with references) of the article that became "What's in Radio's Future" (see "Project Documents" below.)
[16]  
A Wideband RF Downconverter for the NIJ Public Safety Radio
        S.M. Shajedul Hasan and S.W. Ellingson, Technical Report No. 16, December 1, 2006.
        Design Files described in this report are available.
[15]  
Phase I Technical Report
        S.W. Ellingson, Technical Report No. 15, October 1, 2006.
[14]  
Report for the NIJ SCA Based Radio
        P. Balister, T. Tsou, and J.H. Reed, Technical Report No. 14, September 30, 2006.
[13]  
Measurement and Analysis of the Sti-Co Interoperable Mobile Antenna
        Kathy Wei Hurst and S.W. Ellingson, Technical Report No. 13, September 30, 2006.
[12]  
FM Waveform Implementation Using an FPGA-Based Digital IF and a Linux-Based Embedded Processor
        S.M. Shajedul Hasan, Kyehun Lee, and S.W. Ellingson, Technical Report No. 12, September 29, 2006.
        Design Files described in this report are available.
[11]  
An Audio System for the Blackfin
        S.M. Shajedul Hasan and S.W. Ellingson, Technical Report No. 11, September 28, 2006.
[10]  
A Candidate RF Architecture for a Multiband Public Safety Radio
        S.M. Shajedul Hasan and S.W. Ellingson, Technical Report No. 10, September 28, 2006.
        Design Files described in this report are available.
[9]  
USRP Hardware and Software Description
        P. Balister and J. Reed, Technical Report No. 9, June 30, 2006.
[8]  
Requirements for an Experimental Public Safety Multiband/Multimode Radio: Analog FM Modes
        S.W. Ellingson, Technical Report No. 8, July 27, 2006.
        Includes detailed frequency tables.
[7]  
Interfacing a Stratix FPGA to a Blackfin Parallel Peripheral Interface (PPI)
        S.M. Shajedul Hasan and Kyehun Lee, Technical Report No. 7, July 23, 2006.
        Software and Design Files described in this report are available.
[6]  
Implementation of OSSIE on OMAP
        M. Robert, P. Balister and J. Reed, Technical Report No. 6, June 23, 2006.
[5]  
Embedded Systems and SDR
        M. Robert, P. Balister and J. Reed, Technical Report No. 5, June 23, 2006.
[4]  
A Comparison of Some Existing Radios with Implications for Public Safety Interoperability
        S.W. Ellingson, Technical Report No. 4, June 1, 2006.
[3]  
Implementation Status of the SCA-Based FM Radio
        P. Balister and J.H. Reed, Technical Report No. 3, January 31, 2006.
[2]  
An Investigation of the Blackfin/uClinux Combination as a Candidate Software Radio Processor
        S.M. Shajedul Hasan and S.W. Ellingson, Technical Report No. 2, January 24, 2006.
[1]  
Prototyping a Software Defined Radio Receiver based on USRP and OSSIE
        S.M. Shajedul Hasan and P. Balister, Technical Report No. 1, December 14, 2005.
Project Documents
In reverse chronological order.
- S.M. Shajedul Hasan, New Concepts in Front End Design for Receivers with Large, Multiband Tuning Ranges, Ph.D. Dissertation, Virginia Polytechnic Inst. & State University, April 2009.
- S.M. Shajedul Hasan and S.W. Ellingson, "Multiband Public Safety Radio using a Multiband RFIC with an RF Multiplexer-based Antenna Interface," Software Defined Radio (SDR) '08, Washington DC, October 2008.
- S.M. Hasan and S.W. Ellingson, "Multiband Antenna-Receiver Integration using an RF Multiplexer with Sensitivity-Constrained Design" (presentation slides), IEEE Int'l Antennas & Propagation Symp., San Diego, CA, July 10, 2008. See Technical Report #25 (above) for paper.
- S. Ellingson and S.M. Hasan, "Multiband/Multimode Radio" (presentation slides), NIJ Commtech Technical Working Group Meeting & Program Review, Boulder, CO, April 2, 2008. Also available: Quad Chart.
- S. Ellingson, "Multiband/Multimode Radio," International Wireless Communications Expo (IWCE), Las Vegas, NV, Feb 27, 2008.
- T. Tsou, P.J. Balister, J.H. Reed, Latency Profiling for SCA Software Radio, SDR Forum Technical Conference, Denver, CO, November 2-4, 2007.
- P.J. Balister, C. Dietrich, J.H. Reed, Memory Usage of a Software Communications Architecture Waveform, SDR Forum Technical Conference, Denver, CO, November 2-4, 2007.
- S.W. Ellingson and S.M. Hasan, "Multiband/Multimode Radio" (presentation slides), NIJ CommTech PI Meeting, Arlington, VA, October 24, 2007.
- S. Ellingson, "Multiband Radio (Update from Spring 2006)" (presentation slides), NIJ / Commtech Technical Working Group Meeting & Program Review, Las Vegas, NV, April 24, 2007.
- S. Ellingson, "All-Band All-Mode Radio for Public Safety" (presentation slides), International Wireless Communications Expo (IWCE), Las Vegas, NV, March 28, 2007.
- S.W. Ellingson and S.M. Shajedul Hasan, "What's in Radio's Future? All-band all-mode radio could solve interoperability challenges," MissionCritical Communications, March 2007, pp. 50-60. Note: The published version was heavily edited, including changing the title and (unforgivable!) removing the references! Here is a complete version including the references: The Rise of All-Band All-Mode Radio.
- S.W. Ellingson, "All-Band All-Mode Radio for Public Safety" (presentation slides), NIJ CommTech PI Meeting, Irvine, CA, Jan 11, 2007.
- S.M. Hasan et al., "A Low Cost Multi-Band/Multi-Mode Radio for Public Safety," SDR Forum, Orlando FL, November 2006.
- S.M. Hasan et al., "A Low Cost All-Band All-Mode Radio for Public Safety Applications" (poster), 2006 Wireless Personal Communications Sym., Jun 2006.
- S. Ellingson and J. Reed, "Multi-Band Multi-Mode Radio for Public Safety," (presentation slides), International Wireless Communications Expo (IWCE), Las Vegas, NV, May 19, 2006.
- S. Ellingson and J. Reed, "A Low-Cost All-Band All-Mode Radio for Public Safety: Kickoff Meeting at Virginia Tech," (presentation slides), October 13, 2005.
Links
Organizations Involved in Technical Solutions to Public Safety Interoperability
Public Safety Radio Interoperability (Technical)
- SDR Forum, "Software Defined Radio Technology for Public Safety," SDRF-06-A-0001-V0.00, April 14, 2006.
- AGILE Program, "Technical Evaluation of the TRP-1000 and ACU-1000 - Test Procedure and Results," Report TE-00-0002-01, August 25, 2000.
- AGILE Program (NLECTC-NE), "Guide to Radio Communications Interoperability Strategies and Products," Report TE-02-02, April 1, 2003.
- F. Brickle, "FEMA & Open Communications Systems", posting to www.groklaw.net, Sep 16, 2005.
- P. Jones, "When Open Standards Really Matter", posting to www.groklaw.net, Sep 13, 2005.
- National Inst. of Justice: National Task Force on Interoperability
- NLECTC: JUSTNET - Technologies for Public Safety in Critical Incident Response Conference and Exhibition.
- Public Safety Wireless Network (PSWN) Program, "Software Enabled Wireless Interoperability Assessment Report - Voice-Over-Internet Protocol Technology", December 2001.
- Public Safety Wireless Network (PSWN) Program, "Software Enabled Wireless Interoperability Assessment Report - Software Defined Radio Subscriber Equipment", March 2002.
- A. Shah, J. Nimmer, D. Franklin, "A Prototype All-Software Public Safety Interoperability System", 2004 Software Defined Radio Technical Conference, Phoenix, November 2004.
- C. Stephenson, "Interoperable Communications Technology", 2004 IDGA Software Radio Summit, Tysons Corner, VA, February 2005.
Public Safety Radio - General
- Federal Communications Commission, Report to Congress: On the Study to Assess Short-Term and Long-Term Needs for Allocations of Additional Portions of the Electromagnetic Spectrum for Federal, State, and Local Emergency Response Providers, December 19, 2005.
- National Institute of Justice, Guide for the Selection of Communication Equipment for Emergency First Responders, NIJ Guide 104-00, Vol. 1, February 2002.
- National Task Force for Interoperability, Why Can't We Talk? Working Together to Bridge the Communications Gap To Save Lives: A Guide for Public Officials, February 2003.
- National Task Force for Interoperability, Why Can't We Talk? Working Together to Bridge the Communications Gap To Save Lives: A Guide for Public Officials - Supplemental Resources, February 2003.
- Project 25
- TETRA
- Platforms Wireless International Corp. Airship-based interop system.
Software Defined Radio
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