Project Grant 2232457

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. The project involves experiments in spectrum sharing between communications networks and scientific sensing systems operating across various radio frequency bands between 1.7 GHz and 28 GHz. Outcomes will include techniques for efficiently generating and using Spectrum Consumption Models within a large-scale Zone Management System to achieve high spectrum efficiency and scalability while managing interference. Evaluation will incorporate simulations and real-world experimentation. Results aim to validate an adaptive framework for increased spectrum sharing that could support future wireless growth while addressing congestion concerns.