A team of Rutgers researchers is part of a multi-university initiative that has been awarded a $300K/1yr Spectrum Innovation Initiative (SII) Planning Grant from the NSF. The other universities in this collaborative effort are Virginia Tech, University of Southern California, University of Colorado-Denver, Stevens Institute of Technology, University of California Irvine, Princeton University and North Carolina State University. The Rutgers team is led by Distinguished Professor Narayan Mandayam (PI). The co-PIs from Rutgers include ECE Assistant Professors Chung-Tse Michael Wu and Jorge Ortiz, CEE Assistant Professor Ruo-Qian (Roger) Wang and Dr. Joseph (Joe) Brodie from Atmospheric Research. SII is a recently announced program at NSF which includes funding for a planned $25M/5yrs research center with full proposals due in March 2021. An abstract of the project is given below:
This planning grant initiates concerted activities for research, education, and community engagement as a stepping stone towards ARIES: A proposed center for versatile, agile, reliable, and scalable spectrum, through a fundamentally novel framework guided by two principles: (a) A reductionist and integrative approach to spectrum research that can identify foundational (domain-agnostic) problems and then integrate them with domain-specific knowledge; and (b) A set of key spectrum attributes (agility, reliability, scalability, and versatility) that serve as a unified framework for quantifying the technical, policy, and social requirements of diverse stakeholders.
Congratulations to Narayan, Michael, Jorge, Roger and Joe!