The demonstrations for this year’s IEEE DySPAN symposium in Chicago have been selected. Out of the applicants, 17 proposals from 14 groups spread across the US & Canada, Europe, and Asia made the cut. In addition to impressive standalone demos, we’re expecting some highly interesting interaction (and hopefully innovation) involving the various demonstrations. There will be a good mix of ‘whitespace’ devices that will deal with dynamic transmission sources, demonstrations of policy-based systems, and demonstrations built on SDR and cognitive radio-based networks. Here’s the list of groups that will be taking part:

• Adaptrum (USA)
• Centre for Telecommunications Value-Chain Research (Rep. of Ireland)
• Centre for Wireless Telecommunications, Virginia Tech (USA)
• Delft University of Technology (the Netherlands)
• Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R) (Singapore)
• Motorola (USA)
• OMESH Networks (Canada)
• Philips Research (USA)
• PrismTech (USA)
• Rockwell Collins (USA)
• Shared Spectrum Company (USA)
• University of South Florida/Anritsu (USA)
• Stevens Institute of Technology (USA)
• University of Utah (USA)

We’ll add more information about these to the demonstrations webpage on the DySPAN ‘08 website over the next few weeks.