NRDZCOM
NRDZ Community Open Meeting (NRDZCOM) occurs two times a year with one meeting in-person and the other meeting is virtual.
NRDZCOM7 was held virtually on January 14, 2026.
MITRE-led NRDZ Phase 2 Engineering and Execution team discussed results from the recent Hat Creek Radio Observatory (HCRO) Field Exercise.
Presentation Outline
Hosts: John Chapin (NSF), Joel Dumke (NTIA/ITS)
Agenda
Video Part 1
- SPARKIE Project Introduction – Curtis Watson
Video Part 2
- 00:00:00 – 00:13:15: HCRO Field Exercise Introduction – Patty Larkoski
- 00:16:33 – 00:34:36: Terrestrial RFI Mitigation for Radio Astronomy – Kevin Gifford
- 00:34:36 – 00:55:29: Dynamic Spectrum Management and Protection for RA Facilities with OpenZMS – David Johnson
- 00:13:16 – 00:16:33: MITRE HCRO Field Exercise Discussion
- 01:11:36 – 01:35:42: Capstone A / Questions / Discussion – Curtis Watson 01:39:33 – 01:42:52: Capstone A / Questions / Discussion (continued) – Curtis Watson
- 01:35:42 – 01:39:33: NRDZ Partnership and Workshop Series – Mariya Zheleva
- 01:42:52 – 01:43:01: BREAK
- 01:43:01 – 01:47:47: 2026 SPARKIE EEL Project Plans – Curtis Watson
- 01:48:47 – 02:05:26: Terrestrial System Co-existence Evaluation in CBRS and FR-3 systems using OpenZMS – Manu Gosain, Michele Polese, Hai Cheng
- 02:05:36 – 02:35:35: Expanding OpenZMS Digital Twin Analysis and Federation Services – David Johnson, Ethan Stanley, Dustin Maas, Kobus Van der Merwe
- 02:35:48 – 02:51:05: PG&E Smart Meter Detection System Design – Oren Collaco
- 02:51:53 – 03:15:01: RFToolkit Design Features and Preliminary Results – Kaushik Chowdhury
- 03:15:10 – 03:21:17: MITRE wrapup – Curtis Watson
- 03:21:17 – 03:25:27: BREAK
- 03:25:43 – 03:34:21: Lessons from AERPAW’s Altitude-Dependent Sub-6 GHz Spectrum Measurements between 2022-2025 – Ismail Guvenc
- 03:35:10 – 03:46:33: SII-NRDZ-SBE: Bridging the Techno-economic Gap for the Design of Spectrum Zone Management Systems – Randall Berry, William Lehr, Igor Kadota
- 03:46:42 – 03:54:31: AeroSpec: An Adaptive Spectrum Framework for Autonomous Aerial Systems: Optimization, Decentralized Markets, and Deployment – Morteza Hashemi
- 03:54:44 – 04:04:51: SOPP: High-Performance Radio Interference Analysis for Radio Astronomy – Bo Pearce
- 04:05:07 – 04:16:38: Possible terrestrial Fixed Service sharing of passive bands above 100 GHz: Potential and challenges – Michael J. Marcus
- 04:16:49 – 04:25:02: Operational Data Sharing: Recent progress in real-time coordination between satellite operators and radio telescopes – Bang D. Nhan
- 04:25:25 – 04:36:18: Sweepspace FineGrained Space, Time, and Frequency Awareness of Spectrum Usage – Dinesh Bharadia
- 04:36:37 – 04:47:00: SII-NRDZ: Spectrum Sharing via Consumption Models and Telemetry: Prototyping and Field Testing in an Urban FCC Innovation Zone – Carlos Caicedo Bastidas, Tingjun Chen, Kyle Jamieson, Fred Moshary, Dipankar Raychaudhuri, Ivan Seskar, Gil Zussman
- 04:47:08 – 04:47:32: BREAK
- 04:47:32 – 04:56:32: A DoW Spectrum Innovation Center – Charles Baylis
- 04:56:40 – 05:07:25: Zero Trust Architecture for Radio Astronomy Presented – Sylvia Llosa
- 05:07:55 – 05:09:46: Market and Protocol design for Multi-operator Radio Resource Sharing: Research Direction and Current Status – Koushik Kar, Yuanhao Chang, Hongmiao Yu, and K. K. Ramakrishnan
Video Captures of the Presentation
PART 1 (MP4 video, runtime 24 min 38 sec)
PART 2 (MP4 video, runtime 5 hr 20 min 31 sec)
NRDZCOM6 was held virtually on May 6-7, 2025.
MITRE presented an overview of the NRDZ Phase 2 SPARKIE EEL project.
Presentation Outline
Hosts: John Chapin (NSF), Joel Dumke (NTIA/ITS)
May 6
- Greetings and Welcome
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- Joel Dumke, NTIA/ITS
- SII-NRDZ Program Update
- John Chapin, NSF
- Community Updates: Projects
- NRAO Spectrum Management NRDZ Highlights
- Chris DePree, NRAO
- Recent Developments in Operational Data Sharing (ODS)
- Bang Nhan, NRAO
- Recent Developments in NRAO’s Advanced Spectrum Monitoring System (ASM-2)
- David Bordenave, NRAO
- Mitigation of Satellite RFI to Radio Astronomy
- Kevin Gifford, CU Boulder
- Open-source software tools to protect Radio Astronomy from satellite RFI
- Kevin Gifford, CU Boulder
- Active Passive Spectrum Sharing Above 100 GHz and ITU Res. 731
- Michael Marcus, Marcus Spectrum Solutions
- AERPAW Updates on 3D Spectrum Awareness with UAVs
- Ismail Guvenc, NC State
- Spectrum Sharing at 7GHz
- Elliot Eichen, CU Boulder
- Securing the Skies: Customizing ZTA for Radio Astronomy Research
- Sylvia Llosa, CU Boulder
- An Open Spectrum Management Framework for 6G Coexistence with Active/Passive Incumbents
- Vijay Shah, NC State
- Playas 5G Development Update
- Jonathan Ashdown, USAF
- NRAO Spectrum Management NRDZ Highlights
- Community Updates: SII-NRDZ-SBE Projects
- Spectrum Sharing with Limited Transfers and Costly Inspections
- Randall Berry, Northwestern University
- Sweepspace: Fine-Grained Space, Time, and Frequency Awareness of Spectrum Usage
- Dinesh Bharadia, University of California San Diego
- Bridging the techno-economic gap for the design of spectrum Zone Management Systems
- Igor Kadota, Northwestern University
- RescueNet: AI-Driven Radio Access Network for Rapid Disaster Response
- Dario Pompili, Rutgers University
- Spectrum Sharing with Limited Transfers and Costly Inspections
- COSMOS RDZ – Prototyping Spectrum Sharing via Spectrum Consumption Models (SCMs)
- Gil Zussman, Columbia
- SPARKIE EEL Team Update
- Curtis Watson, MITRE
- Long-Duration Experimentation at RA Facility
- Hat Creek
- Green Bank
- VLA
- DSA 2000
- Haystack
- David DeBoer, Berkeley
- Sheldon Wasik, NRAO
- Frank Schinzel, NRAO
- Greg Hellbourg, Caltech
- Frank Lind, MIT
- Work Session Introduction
- Curtis Watson, MITRE
- Work Session: Spectrum Sharing “Capture the Flag”
- Work Session Out Brief
- Closing Remarks
May 7
- Opening Remarks
- Joel Dumke, NTIA/ITS
- NRDZ Community Lean Coffee Sessions
- Mariya Zheleva, U. Albany
- Community Updates: NewSpectrum
- Enabling Dense and In-Situ Spectrum Monitoring via Analog Correlators and Circuits-System Co-Design
- Tingjun Chen, Duke
- Signal Alignment: A practical way to communicate under unpredictable interference
- Nikolaos Sidiropoulos, Virginia
- Semiconductor Plasma Phased Arrays with Integrated System Performance-to-Radiator Mapping
- Dimitrios Peroulis, Purdue
- Toward Untethered Extended Reality Through Wireless Sensing and Communications Co-design
- Mingzhe Chen, Miami
- Physics-Guided Wireless Digital Twin: From Differentiable Ray Tracing to Vision-Guided Approach
- Longfei Shangguan, Pittsburgh
- EFFICIENT: BackscattEr Fabric For MultidImensional SpeCtrum SItuational AwarENess and ProTection
- Aggelos Bletsas, Rutgers
- Distributed Data-Driven Spectrum Management Architecture
- Carlos Enrique Caicedo Bastidas, Syracuse
- Distinguishing noise from interference in decoding
- Ken Duffy, Northeastern
- Robust Intelligence for Next-Gen Wireless
- Ruozhou Yu, NC State
- Wideband Ultra Linear Transceiver Circuits (WULT-C) for New Spectrum Applications
- Ali M Niknejad, Berkeley
- Enabling Dense and In-Situ Spectrum Monitoring via Analog Correlators and Circuits-System Co-Design
- OpenZMS Overview/Update
- David Johnson, U. Utah
- OpenZMS Demo
- David Johnson, U. Utah
- Work Session Introduction
- Kobus Van der Merwe, U. Utah
- Work Session: Spectrum Experiments Enabled by OpenZMS
- Work Session Out Brief
- NRDZCOM6 Closing Remarks
- Joel Dumke, NTIA/ITS
- John Chapin, NSF
Video Captures of the Presentation
PART 1 (MP4 video, runtime 4 hr 30 min 56 sec)
PART 2 (MP4 video, runtime 3 hr 21 min 58 sec)
NRDZCOM5 was held virtually on December 10-11, 2024.
MITRE presented an overview of the NRDZ Phase 2 SPARKIE EEL project.
Presentation Outline
- SPARKIE EEL Overview
- Organization
- Goals and Outcomes
- NRDZ-as-a-Service
- Phase 2 Project Timeline
- First Experiment Concept
- Break
- First Experiment Details
- Hat Creek Radio Observatory (HCRO) Experiment Location
- OpenZMS at HCRO
- First Experiment Definition Thoughts
- Sensors and Algorithms
- Digital Twin Discussion
- Phase 2 Project Discussion
- Pre-Experiment Investigation
- Capstones and Deliverables
- Collaboration and Outreach
Video Captures of the Presentation
(MP4 video, runtime 2 hr 25 min 24 sec)
(MP4 video, runtime 32 min 23 sec)