This $399,947 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to the Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia (UVA) will develop a new paradigm for enabling efficient and reliable wireless communication in congested and contested spectrum environments. The key objectives are to: 1) Enable streaming time-frequency signal alignment to mitigate unpredictable interference, 2) Boost ultra-reliable low-latency communications performance in the sample-starved regime, and 3) Design full-rate signal alignment strategies. The project will validate the research through software radio experiments at UVA and the COSMOS testbed. The work aims to make impactful contributions to shared-spectrum wireless communications by introducing novel interference-immune modalities, with broader impacts on wireless theory, signal processing, and machine learning. The project will also provide educational opportunities and support underrepresented students in spectrum workforce development.
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