ECE Distinguished Professor Dipankar Raychaudhuri together with WINLAB Chief Technologist Ivan Seskar and Prof. Carlos Bastidas from Syracuse University has received a new NSF grant entitled “Collaborative Research: NewSpectrum: Track 1: Distributed Data-Driven Spectrum Management Architecture for the Next Era of Wireless” under the new NSF spectrum program. Rutgers is the lead and Prof. Raychaudhuri is the Rutgers PI. The total funding amount is $800K for 3 years, with Rutgers share of $550K.

Wireless communication services and associated applications rely on the use of radio frequency (RF) spectrum resources for their operation. Due to the rapid growth in the use of these services, spectrum management agencies and wireless service providers need to migrate from current spectrum use practices to more dynamic spectrum assignment and sharing mechanisms. The development of robust decentralized spectrum sharing among heterogeneous wireless networks, radio devices and passive receivers networks has the potential to significantly enhance the economic efficiency with which spectrum resources are utilized and will be needed to address spectrum scarcity concerns as wireless technologies, markets, and regulatory policies evolve at different local and global time scales. This project addresses these challenges by focusing on the design and validation of a distributed and data-driven next-generation architecture for dynamic spectrum management among decentralized and heterogeneous wireless systems.

More information of the this project can be found at: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2433975&HistoricalAwards=false