The COSMOS team and collaborators received a $1.25M NSF Grant from the Spectrum Innovation Initiative: National Radio Dynamic Zones (SII-NRDZ) program, titled “Spectrum Sharing via Consumption Models and Telemetry – Prototyping and Field Testing in an Urban FCC Innovation Zone.”
The project will investigate methods for automatic RF spectrum sharing, and will prototype a spectrum management system within two facilities in West Harlem, New York City: (i) the NSF PAWR COSMOS testbed and (ii) the NOAA Cooperative Science Center for Earth System Science and Remote Sensing Technologies (NOAA-CESSRST). The two facilities are in an Innovation Zone created by the FCC to facilitate research and testing. New York City's dense urban environment is a stressful case for spectrum sharing, and techniques validated in this project are expected to function well in other cities as well as in less-dense environments.
Systems available at the facilities will be used for spectrum sharing experiments, including communications-passive sharing using a weather measurement radiometer at 28 GHz and communications-communications sharing using unlicensed 5G cellular and WiFi networks at 6 GHz. The automatic system to be prototyped is called the Zone Management System (ZMS) for a Radio Dynamic Zone to be established around the two facilities. The ZMS represents a new spectrum management approach that combines a standardized fundamental information model (known as a Spectrum Consumption Model, or SCM), measurement-assisted decision making, scalable spectrum sensing, and continuous risk analysis and management.
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