A Wideband Autonomous Cognitive Radio Development and Prototyping System
Abstract
The requested funding is aimed at equipping the cognitive radio laboratory (http://cognitive-radio.ece.unm.edu/) at the ECE Department of University of New Mexico with a Wideband Autonomous Cognitive Radio Development and Prototyping System that will help augment the current research program in cognitive radios with development, prototyping and testing capabilities. The requested equipment will expand the on-going research into developing a prototype of wideband autonomous cognitive radio system resulting in following benefits: 1. Supporting collaborative research, development and prototyping of self-learning, real-time reconfigurable cognitive radio devices and networks among faculty and students at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UNM. In particular, the scientific work will include development and implementation of spectrum knowledge acquisition and cognitive communications protocols. The purchased equipment will also be made available for other areas of research within the ECE including robotics networks, autonomous vehicular networks and W/V and millimeter wave band research. 2. Supporting both graduate and undergraduate engineering teaching and training with hands-on laboratory courses and projects and, in particular, in senior design capstone projects that will use the purchased equipment. 3. Supporting the development of cognitive and software-defined radio (SDR) systems by local hi-tech small businesses as they seek to commercialize technologies developed by regional universities, in particular UNM, and federal labs via SBIR, STTR and other programs 4. Supporting outreach to local high schools through summer internship programs at the ECE department and lab visit invitations in order to get students be aware of the impact of STEM fields so that they are excited about pursuing STEM education and careers. Moreover, expanding the UNMÕs on-going partnership with the AFRLÕs La Luz Academy for attracting high school students to STEM areas and work with the UNMÕs recently established STEM Collaborative Center. The requested Wideband Autonomous Cognitive Radio Development and Prototyping System (WACR Development and Prototyping System) consists of three infrastructure modules (a Network Spectrum Analyzer, a Vector Signal Generator and a Rapid Printed Circuit Board (PCB) Fabrication Unit) and a Software Defined Radio (SDR) testbed made of several USRP SDR (Universal Software Radio Peripheral Software Defined Radio) platforms. The project team consists of several ECE faculty, post-graduate research scholars, graduate and undergraduate students associated with the Cognitive Radio Group at the ECE@UNM as well as their collaborators from AFRL and local high-tech small business companies. The Cognitive Radio Group at the UNM has been in cognitive radio research more than 7 years and have established themselves as leaders in this field.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Jan 12, 2017
- Source ID
- W911NF1610466
Entities
People
- Sudharman Jayaweera
Organizations
- Army Contracting Command
- Office of the Secretary of Defense
- University of New Mexico