This Project Grant award of $550,000 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports the development and validation of a distributed, data-driven architecture for dynamic spectrum management among heterogeneous wireless systems. The goal is to overcome the limitations of centralized spectrum management and increase spectrum efficiency. The project focuses on designing protocols and algorithms for a Distributed...
This $200,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports research to develop advanced analog circuits and systems for dense, in-situ spectrum monitoring. The key products and services to be delivered include: (1) Ultra-efficient, single-shot analog cross-correlators capable of rapidly computing cross-correlations between input signals and template waveforms. This enables low-latency spectrum sensing...
This $190,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), will fund research into spectrum sharing techniques from January 2023 through December 2025. The award supports development of a Zone Management System prototype to enable spectrum sharing across disparate wireless services, such as communications, scientific sensing, and radar systems, within an Innovation Zone...
This $600,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program will fund the development of a global spectrum observatory through mobile spectrum sensing kits and supporting software ecosystem. Specifically, the University of California, San Diego will receive funding from August 15, 2022 to July 31, 2025 to design, implement, deploy and make available low-cost kits that allow for spectrum sensing and measurement across diverse, wide...
This $400,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports research to enable autonomous fine-grained spatial spectrum sensing and sharing. The project, titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: SII-NRDZ: SWEEPSPACE", investigates new methods to mitigate radio-frequency interference and improve efficient use of the electromagnetic spectrum. The research team at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) will...
This $400,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) is funding the development of a comprehensive framework for managed spectrum sharing in the FR3 frequency band (7-24 GHz). The key products and services being delivered under this 3-year award (10/1/2024 - 9/30/2027) include: Building a wireless digital twin to accurately model signal propagation and enable spectrum access/management...
This Federal Project Grant award of $100,000, issued by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences under CFDA Program 47.049, funds a collaborative research effort between an economist and two electrical engineers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The project aims to use insights from mechanism design to develop ways to share wireless spectrum in the 6 GHz band, addressing the pressing need for economically viable spectrum sharing...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences awarded a $200,000 Project Grant titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: SII-NRDZ-SBE: BRIDGING THE TECHNO-ECONOMIC GAP FOR THE DESIGN OF SPECTRUM ZONE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS" to Northwestern University. This 2-year award, effective September 1, 2023, supports collaborative research between an economist and two electrical engineers to apply mechanism design insights to develop approaches for shared access to...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) provides $249,430 to Syracuse University to develop and validate a distributed, data-driven architecture for dynamic spectrum management among decentralized wireless systems. The key focus of the project is to design protocols and algorithms that can enable flexible, scalable, and robust spectrum coordination between peer wireless networks,...
This Project Grant award of $759,422, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070), supports research to explore methods for different wireless services to efficiently share radio spectrum and infrastructure. The project, titled "From Open RAN to Open Spectrum - Sharing Spectrum, Services, and Infrastructure in Spectrum Era 4", aims to develop flexible spectrum management...