Colorado State University was awarded a three-year, $200,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The grant will support collaborative research titled "SWIFT: Enabling Intelligent Pinpoint Space-Spectrum Utilization and Sharing." The research is focused on developing techniques to more efficiently utilize and share access to the radio frequency spectrum in space....
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...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences awarded a $247,971 Project Grant to Colorado State University to conduct collaborative research on "SWIFT-SAT: DASS: Dynamically Adjustable Spectrum Sharing Between Ground Communication Networks and Earth Exploration Satellite Systems Above 100 GHz." The 3-year project, which commenced on January 1, 2024, aims to develop techniques for more flexible spectrum sharing and coexistence between...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $260,000 to Northeastern University to develop methods that improve communication performance in shared, congested, and contested spectrum bands. The project aims to leverage the structure of interference rather than treating it as noise to enhance the reliability and throughput of communication systems. Key research focuses include leveraging characteristics of interference...
This $800,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research at Rutgers, The State University in New Brunswick, NJ. The goal is to develop affordable, accurate, and near-real-time spectrum situational awareness and protection capabilities using backscatter radio fabric technology. Specifically, the project will: Develop a framework for multidimensional spectrum situational awareness using a backscatter fabric to...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $199,902 Project Grant to the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The grant will support the development of an adaptive incremental deep learning architecture to infer radio frequency signals in dynamic spectrum sharing environments in real time. The proposed research aims to advance self-learning of spectrum sensing, signal classification, and radio frequency parameter characterization through an online...
This $600,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant, awarded under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program, will fund research at Duke University to develop new approaches for enabling predictable wireless communication and radar sensing for 6G wireless technology. The key research thrusts include: 1) designing modulation schemes to simplify prediction of the wireless input-output relationship, 2) developing signal processing filters in the...
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 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation provides $190,000 to The Trustees of Princeton University under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to support research investigating ways to share the electromagnetic spectrum using an automatic spectrum management system. Specifically, the funding will support prototyping and field testing of a Zone Management System in an urban testbed established across facilities in New York City's Harlem neighborhood....
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $450,000 to Colorado State University (CSU) from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2027. The project aims to develop a novel adaptive, fully anisotropic multiscale hp-element method to revolutionize simulation-based design in computational electromagnetics (CEM). The research will create exponentially convergent techniques to accurately and efficiently model multiscale, non-smooth behavior...