The 59th General Meeting of the SDR Forum was held June 16-19, 2008 in Portland, Oregon., and included working sessions advancing the SDR Forum 2008 operations plan in support of the commercial, public safety, avionics, and international tactical radio communities. Highlights of this meeting were:

• Ozzie Diaz, Chief Technologist, Mobility & Wireless/PSG CTO Office, HP, will present a keynote during the plenary session on Wednesday by entitled "Personal Mobile Devices, and What Makes Them Personal".  The abstract for this presentation is as follow: Many existing and new device categories are adopting any number of network media interfaces thereby offering some of the greatest ever opportunities for an Always Connected Experience.  However, is this an Always Connected User Experience?  What does the user want from all this connectivity?
• Keynote speakers from Google Inc. and The Association for Maximum Service Television, Inc (MSTV) will join industry leaders from IEEE 802.22, Motorola, Shared Spectrum Company, TDK, Phillips and the Institute for Infocomm Research in presenting their perspectives on the topic of TV White Space Communications in an all day workshop on June 19th held in conjunction SDR Forum meeting. Entitled "Safely Accessing the TV White Space Spectrum - What Can We Do???", this workshop  (Agenda & press release) is aimed at providing a neutral venue for discussion, allowing the Forum’s members and guests to understand the issues and concerns, separate the facts from the myths, and uncover areas of agreement.   

Other work items for this meeting included the continued advancement of the report on the use of SDR and CR technologies to address the needs of the 700 MHz public private partnership, report on cognitive use cases for the chemical plant fire, and the trade study on the multi-service portable radios be performed by the Forum’s Public Safety Special Interest Group. Work will also continue on the issues in international tactical radio document under development by International Tactical Radio Special Interest group, as well as work on the meta-language for mobility use cases and scenario analysis, the cognitive nomenclature document, a response to E2R Phase II program and ITU-R WP5A on questions related to cognitive radio, the specification on securing software reconfigurable communications technologies, test and certification of SDR technologies, and a number of relevant APIs (application programming interfaces) by the Technical Committee.  In addition, the Regulatory Committee provided a plenary summary on their work in defining the Forum’s international regulatory agenda.

The SDR Forum also hosted working meetings of the IEEE SCC41 P1900.5 project and the OMG Software Based Communications Domain Task Force in addition to regular working sessions.

The Meeting Agenda.