ITS Organization Chart Office of the Director Al Vincent, Director Lisé C. Matthews, Administrative Specialist Jill V. Copeland, Secretary Administrative Office Brian D. Lane, Executive Officer Carol B. Van Story, Budget Analyst Lilli Segre, Publications Officer Lawrence Turner, IT Specialist Spectrum and Propagation Telecommunications Measurements Division Engineering, Analysis, and Eric D. Nelson, Chief Modeling Division Ruth Chillemi, Secretary Patricia J. Raush, Chief Telecommunications and Telecommunications Theory Information Technology Division Planning Division Frank H. Sanders, Chief Jeffrey R. Bratcher, Chief Amy Weich, Secretary Kathy Mayeda, Secretary Institute for Telecommunication Sciences National Telecommunications and Information Administration U.S. Department of Commerce 325 Broadway Boulder, CO 80305-3328 303-497-5216 http://www.its.bldrdoc.gov Institute for Telecommunication Sciences FY 2011 Technical Progress Report U.S. Department of Commerce Lawrence E. 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Romero. ii Contents The Institute for Telecommunication Sciences...............1 ITS Overview . 2 Awards and Honors . 5 Spectrum and Propagation Measurements.................7 Radio Noise and Spectrum Occupancy Measurement Research . .8 RSMS Development . 10 RSMS Operations . 12 Spectrum Sharing Innovation Test Bed Pilot Program . .14 Table Mountain Research Program . .16 Telecommunications and Information Technology Planning ...19 Multimedia Research . .20 Project 25 Compliance Assessment Program . 22 Project 25 Standards Development . .24 Public Safety Audio Quality . 26 Public Safety Broadband Demonstration Network . 28 Public Safety Broadband Research . .30 Telecommunications Engineering, Analysis, and Modeling ....33 Interference Issues Affecting Land Mobile Systems . .34 Public Safety Video Quality (PSVQ) . .36 Fading Characteristics Verification . .38 Telecommunications Analysis Services . .40 Propagation Modeling Website . .42 Broadband Wireless Standards . 44 Integration of the Empirical and the Undisturbed-Field Models . 46 Earth-to-Space Propagation Models . 48 Telecommunications Theory ...........................51 Audio Quality Research . .52 Broadband Wireless Research . .54 Coast Guard Spectrum Reallocation Study . .56 Effects of the Channel on Radio System Performance . .58 Interference Effect Tests, Measurements, and Mitigation for Weather Radars . .60 Lockheed Martin Radar Measurement CRADA . 62 U.S. Navy Shore Line Intrusion Monitoring System (SLiMS) Emissions Measurements ..64 Video Quality Research . 66 Technology Transfer .................................68 FY 2011 Private Sector CRADAs . .70 ITU-R Standards Activities . 72 ITU-T and Related U.S. Standards Development . .74 ITS Publications and Presentations in FY 2011 . 76 ITS Standards Leadership and Contributions . 82 ITS Tools and Facilities................................84 ITS Projects in FY 2011 ...............................96 Abbreviations/Acronyms.............................102 iii iv Mission The Institute for Statements Telecommunication Sciences The Department of Commerce creates he Institute for Telecommunication Sciences (ITS) is the research and engineering laboratory the conditions for Tof The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), an agency of economic growth the Department of Commerce (DOC). ITS performs basic research in radio science that provides the and opportunity by technical foundation for NTIA’s policy development and spectrum management activities. promoting ITS research enhances scientific knowledge and understanding in cutting-edge areas of tele- innovation, communications technology. The Institute’s research capacity and expertise is used to analyze new entrepreneurship, and emerging technologies, and to contribute to standards creation. Research results are broadly competitiveness, disseminated through peer-reviewed publications as well as through technical contributions and and stewardship recommendations to standards bodies. ITS staff represent U.S. interests in many national and inter- informed by national telecommunication conferences and standards organizations. Through leadership roles in world-class various working groups, ITS helps to influence development of international standards and policies scientific research to support the full and fair competitiveness of the U.S. communications and information technology and information. sectors. ITS research helps to drive innovation and contribute to the development of communica- tions and broadband policies that enable a robust telecommunication infrastructure, ensure system The National integrity, support e-commerce, and protect an open global Internet. Telecommunica- tions and Information Administration (NTIA) serves as the President’s principal adviser on telecommunica- tions and information policy matters, and develops forward looking spectrum policies that ensure efficient and effective spectrum access and use. The Institute for Telecommunica- Commerce Secretary John Bryson (second from left) visits the Public Safety Communications tion Sciences (ITS) Research (PSCR) laboratory at ITS. Captain Paul Roberts of the Boise, Idaho, Fire Department (far performs telecom- right) and Lieutenant Ken Link of the Monroe Township, New Jersey, Fire Department (second munications from right) were in the lab to participate in ongoing subjective testing experiments conducted research, conducts by the Public Safety Video Quality (PSVQ) project. PSCR is a multi-agency project that directly cooperative supports DOC Strategic Objective 13: “Enhance scientific knowledge and provide information to research and stakeholders to support economic growth and improve innovation, technology, and public safety.” development with ITS Division Chief Jeff Bratcher (center left) co-directs the PSCR project with Dereck Orr (far left) of U.S. industry and the National Institute of Standards and Technology Law Enforcement Standards Office (NIST/OLES). academia, and The work is sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security Office for Interoperability and provides technical Compatibility (DHS OIC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) Community Oriented Policing Ser- engineering vices (COPS) Office, Federal agencies to whom ITS provides technical engineering support as part support to NTIA of NTIA’s mission objective to collaborate with them to begin developing a nationwide interoper- and other Federal able Public Safety Broadband Network. Photo by Will von Dauster, NOAA. agencies. 1 ITS serves as a ITS Overview principal Federal resource for the Outputs conduct of basic research on the • Explore, understand, and improve the use of telecommunication technologies and nature of radio principles waves. Technology • Solve telecommunications challenges for other Federal agencies, state and local transfer helps Governments, private corporations and associations, and international organizations private entities • Develop and influence national and international standards and policies adapt and commercialize • Investigate and invent new information and telecommunication technologies ITS research to • Address emerging telecommunications, information technology, and security enhance existing challenges telecommunica- • Promptly disseminate research results via the most effective media, while maintaining tions products and the highest standards of quality, accuracy, and technical soundness services and develop new ones. A National Research Resource Organization About half of our research programs are The Institute’s technical activities are orga- undertaken for and with other Federal agen- nized into four divisions, which characterize cies; state, local and tribal governments; private ITS’s centers of excellence: corporations and associations; or international • Spectrum and Propagation Measure- organizations. Sponsored research contributes ments: designs, develops and operates state- to NTIA’s overall program and supports the of-the-art spectrum measurement systems; goals of the DOC. measures spectrum occupancy trends and Government agency sponsors that provide emission characteristics of Federal transmit- significant support include the National Insti- ter systems; identifies and resolves radio fre- tute of Standards and Technology’s Office of quency interference involving Federal systems. Law Enforcement Standards, the Department • Telecommunications and Information of Homeland Security, the Department of Technology Planning: plans and analyzes Transportation, the Department of Defense, the telecommunications and information techno- National Archives and Records Administration, logy systems and services, improving their and the National Weather Service. efficiency and enhancing their performance Industry-Sponsored Research and reliability; e.g., Project 25 radios and their interoperability