MITRE Engineer Receives Best Paper Award at DySPAN Conference

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McLean, Virginia, June 21, 2007 — MITRE Principal Communications Engineer Dr. John Stine received the Best Paper Award at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers' (IEEE) DySPAN 2007 conference held in Dublin, Ireland, April 17-20. DySPAN is a global symposium on dynamic spectrum access networking.

Dr. Stine's paper, titled "A Location-Based Method for Specifying RF Spectrum Rights," details a method for allocating location-based spectrum rights that enables spectrum management with finer resolution in space and frequency. It proposes a mathematical model that simplifies the tasks of managing the spatial reuse of spectrum and of conveying spectrum rights in a way that both machines and people can understand them. The model enables the dynamic management of spectrum and could be used to create a business model that would allow brokers to offer spectrum in a secondary market. The full paper is available at http://www.mitre.org.

"It was great for me to get this award because it gives credibility to the idea," says Dr. Stine. "Having a paper that goes into great technical detail and has received an award like this can help to influence thought on how to solve the spectrum management problem. This idea could be a big win for all users of spectrum by allowing more users in the same spectrum."

MITRE has a patent pending on Dr. Stine's work, and MITRE's Technology Transfer Office is exploring licensing the technology so that commercial brokers could lease spectrum to those who need it when it is not being used by the entities that hold the rights to it.

Dr. Stine has over 20 years of experience in wireless telecommunications, electrical engineering, operations research, testing, and construction. He received his B.S. in general engineering at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, and he earned M.S. degrees in Manufacturing Systems Engineering and Electrical Engineering and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. He is a senior member of the IEEE and a member of its Communications Society. He has published numerous articles on ad hoc networks and other topics.

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