This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program provides $259,943 to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to develop methods that improve communication performance in shared, congested, and contested spectrum bands. The project brings together researchers from MIT, Northeastern University, and Boston University to leverage the structured characteristics of interference to enhance communication systems, rather than treating...
The National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded a $350,000 Project Grant to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from September 1, 2021 to August 31, 2024 under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. This three-year collaborative research project, titled "SWIFT: Facilitating Spectrum Access by Noise Guessing," will develop techniques to improve spectrum access and utilization through noise prediction. By enabling devices to...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $199,902 Project Grant to the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The grant will support the development of an adaptive incremental deep learning architecture to infer radio frequency signals in dynamic spectrum sharing environments in real time. The proposed research aims to advance self-learning of spectrum sensing, signal classification, and radio frequency parameter characterization through an online...
This federal Project Grant award, valued at $380,000.00 and awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, supports the development of a wideband, ultra-linear transceiver circuit for new spectrum between 7-24 GHz. The principal investigator at the University of California, Berkeley aims to design an agile radio front-end that can dynamically access large swaths of bandwidth, with programmable center frequency and bandwidth,...
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 $700,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports the development of cutting-edge circuit designs and signal processing algorithms to enhance the resilience of radio telescopes against radio frequency interference (RFI) from satellite transmissions. The primary goal is to enable the continued operation of radio astronomy service (RAS) in the presence of unavoidable RFI through a modulo sampling-based approach. The research...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award for $171,717, with a performance period from January 1, 2025 to January 31, 2025, is part of the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The award aims to develop transformative technologies for dense and in-situ spectrum monitoring to enable effective spectrum sharing and dynamic spectrum access for future 6G and beyond cellular networks. The key products and services to be delivered under this grant include: (1) Ultra-efficient,...
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 three-year, $750,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), will fund research at the University of Michigan to develop novel multifunctional materials and devices for interference-immune broadband wireless systems. Specifically, the grant will support investigating the use of self-biased multiferoic materials and algorithms to learn how network participants use spectrum over...
This $400,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports research to enable autonomous fine-grained spatial spectrum sensing and sharing. The project, titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: SII-NRDZ: SWEEPSPACE", investigates new methods to mitigate radio-frequency interference and improve efficient use of the electromagnetic spectrum. The research team at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) will...