NRDZCOM

NRDZ Community Open Meeting (NRDZCOM) occurs two times a year with one meeting in-person and the other meeting is virtual.

NRDZCOM6 was held virtually on May 6-7, 2025.

Presentation Outline

Hosts: John Chapin (NSF), Joel Dumke (NTIA/ITS)

May 6
  • Greetings and Welcome
    • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

NRDZCOM5 Engineering and Execution Lead Part 1 video thumbnail image

PART 1 (MP4 video, runtime 4 hr 30 min 56 sec)

NRDZCOM5 Engineering and Execution Lead Part 1 video thumbnail image

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

  1. SPARKIE EEL Overview
    • Organization
    • Goals and Outcomes
    • NRDZ-as-a-Service
    • Phase 2 Project Timeline
    • First Experiment Concept
  2. Break
  3. First Experiment Details
    • Hat Creek Radio Observatory (HCRO) Experiment Location
    • OpenZMS at HCRO
    • First Experiment Definition Thoughts
    • Sensors and Algorithms
    • Digital Twin Discussion
  4. Phase 2 Project Discussion
    • Pre-Experiment Investigation
    • Capstones and Deliverables
    • Collaboration and Outreach

Video Captures of the Presentation

NRDZCOM5 Engineering and Execution Lead Part 1 video thumbnail image

(MP4 video, runtime 2 hr 25 min 24 sec)

NRDZCOM5 Engineering and Execution Lead Part 2 Video thumbnail image

(MP4 video, runtime 32 min 23 sec)