The National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) has awarded a $259,943 Project Grant to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for the project "Collaborative Research: Interferers in Our Midst". The award period is from Sep 1, 2024 to Aug 31, 2027.
This project brings together researchers from MIT, Northeastern University, and Boston University to develop new methods that improve communication performance in congested and contested wireless spectrum. The key focus is on leveraging the structured nature of interference, rather than treating it as noise, to enhance throughput and reliability of communication systems. The researchers aim to develop receiver-side techniques that can improve performance without requiring changes to existing infrastructure, enabling backward compatibility and graceful technology adoption. This work has the potential to enable more efficient use of scarce spectrum resources, allowing more communications services to reliably co-exist and advancing national priorities.