Project Grant 2433807
- This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $380,000 to Northwestern University to investigate an innovative approach for managing the radio spectrum. The key products and services to be delivered under this 3-year award include: Analysis of a new regulatory model based on assigning rights to spectrum receivers rather than licensing transmitters, in order to increase total wireless capacity,...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.049) provides $380,000 in funding to Northeastern University to develop RF-centric machine learning techniques for real-time situational awareness and mitigation of misbehavior in wireless spectrum usage. The project aims to address challenges around spectrum scarcity, rising demand, and security/privacy vulnerabilities in software-defined wireless...
- 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 $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, provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), aims to develop innovative microelectronic hardware solutions for future wireless communication systems. The $380,000 award to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will fund research into high dynamic-range software-defined radio front-ends capable of mitigating various types of radio interference in congested spectrum environments. The 3-year project...
- This Project Grant award, valued at $308,750.00 and provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, supports research investigating market-driven approaches to radio spectrum management that leverage artificial intelligence (AI). The key objectives of this collaborative research project are to develop AI-powered mechanisms for optimizing spectrum allocation, securing spectrum sensing against adversarial manipulations, and...
- 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...
- This $400,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) is for a 3-year research project led by North Carolina State University (NC State). The project aims to develop robust intelligent algorithms for managing and optimizing dynamic wireless spectrum access, which is critical for emerging technologies like autonomous vehicles and the metaverse. Key innovations include techniques for...
- 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 of $759,422 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program supports research to explore innovative methods for sharing radio spectrum, infrastructure, and services across diverse wireless systems. The key focus areas include: Designing a flexible architecture for dynamic spectrum management Developing automated systems to enable sharing of heterogeneous wireless services like sensing Creating algorithms and...
This $654,541 Project Grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, supports research by Northwestern University to develop custom-designed hardware and algorithms for accelerating the solution of optimization problems related to spectrum allocation for next-generation wireless communications. The research aims to address the computational challenges of efficiently allocating limited radio spectrum to an increasing number of connected devices, by utilizing spectrum consumption models and probabilistic computing hardware. This project contributes to U.S. leadership in wireless communications infrastructure and workforce development through student engagement and integration of research results into courses. The award period is from August 1, 2025 to July 31, 2028.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $654.5k | 7/31/25 |