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University of Notre Dame

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The Wireless Institute (WI) is a research center within the prestigious College of Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. The Wireless Institute was established in January 2010 to leverage Notre Dame’s extensive experience, tackle important interdisciplinary problems involving both radio technologies and spectrum policy, and broaden the University’s impact on the world. WI engages faculty from the departments of electrical engineering, computer science, and engineering, sociology, law, and finance. WI created the first NSF Industry-University Cooperative Research Center (IUCRC) program at Notre Dame and now leads the NSF Spectrum Innovation Initiative (SII) Center.

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Summer 2025 undergraduate student research opportunity deadline February 28
U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) SpectrumX is excited to invite undergraduate students interested in wireless and radio frequency research to participate in its Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU+) program this summer.
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SMART Hub and NSF SpectrumX Researchers Organize Radio Spectrum Workshop at IEEE International Conference in Washington, D.C. on June 17
Spectrum Innovation Centers SMART Hub (https://spectrumsmart.org) and SpectrumX (https://spectrumx.org) are teaming up to present a workshop entitled “Radio Spectrum for Microwave Practitioners” at the IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium in Washington, D.C., on Monday, June 17. Organizers are Charles Baylis, Ph.D., Director of SMART Hub, Baylor University, and Andy Clegg, Spectrum Engineering Lead, Google.
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Laila Fighera Marzall stands at the front of a room, wearing a mask, with her presentation at NRSM 2024.
NSF SpectrumX members help lead 50th Anniversary USNC-URSI National Radio Science Meeting
In January 2024, the National Radio Science Meeting celebrated its 50th anniversary. Twelve members of the SpectrumX, the National Science Foundation Spectrum Innovation Center, including two of the center’s students, were in attendance to further national conversations about radio science, telecommunications and electrical engineering. The meeting, hosted by the U.S. National Committee (USNC) of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI) and the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine, took place from January 9-12, and resulted in the discussion of 12 research papers co-authored by SpectrumX members.
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Policy Comments and Congressional Testimonies

NSF SpectrumX actively encourages and supports its members to contribute to regulatory and policy proceedings on radio spectrum issues. Center members submit policy comments and testify at congressional hearings to […]

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M. Ghosh, "Next Steps for the 3 GHz Band," in IEEE Wireless Communications, vol. 32, no. 3, pp. 12-12, June 2025, doi: 10.1109/MWC.2025.11016237.

May 27, 2025

M. Ghosh, "A New Paradigm: Mid-Band, Sharing-Native 6G," 2025 19th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), Stockholm, Sweden, 2025, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.23919/EuCAP63536.2025.10999176.

5G mobile communication6G mobile communicationCellular networksPropulsionProtocolsStandardizationWireless communication

May 21, 2025

A. Tusha et al., "A Comprehensive Analysis of Secondary Coexistence in a Real-World CBRS Deployment," in IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 1397-1409, June 2025, doi: 10.1109/TCCN.2025.3567608.

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May 7, 2025

E. J. Oughton, G. Geraci, M. Polese, M. Ghosh, W. Webb and D. Bubley, "The Future of Wireless Broadband in the Peak Smartphone Era: 6G, Wi-Fi 7, and Wi-Fi 8," in IEEE Wireless Communications, doi: 10.1109/MCOM.003.2400479.

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April 21, 2025