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 $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 Project Grant award for $380,000.00, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070), aims to develop a theoretical foundation for the economics of multi-operator spectrum sharing over both licensed and unlicensed frequency bands. The overarching goal is to investigate novel privacy-preserving game theoretic models that can enable wireless operators to effectively share spectrum resources,...
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 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 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...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $7,898,849 Cooperative Agreement to The Mitre Corporation for the "MITRE NRDZ-AS-A-SERVICE FIELD DEPLOYMENT" project under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) federal grant program. The project, led by Mitre in collaboration with several universities, focuses on conducting long-duration dynamic spectrum sharing experimentation to advance the use of adaptive coexistence techniques that enable multiple spectrum users to...
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 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 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.049) provides $380,000 to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from June 1, 2025 to May 31, 2028 to develop innovative microelectronic hardware solutions for future wireless communications systems. The key products and services to be delivered under this award include: 1) a low-power, harmonic-resilient software-defined radio (SDR) prototype enabled...