Project Grant 2232459

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate provides $290,000 to Rutgers, The State University from January 1, 2023 through December 31, 2025. The funding supports research and development of spectrum sharing techniques through prototyping and field testing within an FCC Innovation Zone in New York City.

Specifically, the grant delivers collaborative research on developing a Zone Management System to automatically share spectrum usage among disparate wireless services like communications and scientific applications. This will involve experimenting with spectrum sharing scenarios using systems available at two facilities in Harlem - the COSMOS testbed and NOAA-CESSRST center. Techniques validated in this dense urban environment are expected to enable more efficient spectrum usage in other cities and less dense areas. Outcomes include furthering standardization of spectrum consumption models, algorithms for measurement-assisted decision making, and a scalable framework for adaptive spectrum sensing. Results from simulations and real-world experiments aim to contribute to the broader concept of radio dynamic zones on a potential national scale.