{"id":6894,"date":"2010-11-04T12:21:03","date_gmt":"2010-11-04T16:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/systems\/?p=6894"},"modified":"2021-02-11T12:47:47","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T17:47:47","slug":"nsf-grant-funds-ece-effort-to-boost-wireless-telecom-efficiency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/nsf-grant-funds-ece-effort-to-boost-wireless-telecom-efficiency\/","title":{"rendered":"NSF Grant Funds ECE Effort to Boost Wireless Telecom Efficiency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Rachel Harrington<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As wireless telecommunication companies look to improve their efficiency, two ECE professors will be behind the scenes, conducting research that could potentially impact both the legal and economic policies of the wireless industry.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_30764\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30764\" style=\"width: 142px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/cise\/files\/2010\/11\/e_alanyali.jpg\" alt=\"Prof. Murat Alanyali\" width=\"132\" height=\"210\" class=\"wp-image-30764 \" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30764\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prof. Murat Alanyali<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently awarded $714,501 to ECE Associate Professors Murat Alanyali and David Starobinski to support their project, \u201cPromoting Secondary Spectrum Markets via Profitability-Driven Methods and Algorithms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWireless telecommunications are undergoing substantial policy reforms in pursuit of better spectral efficiency,\u201d Alanyali and Starobinski wrote in their abstract for the project. \u201cA key element in these reforms entails granting full property rights to spectrum license holders, thereby paving the way to secondary spectrum markets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Radio spectrum is used to conduct everything from phone calls to texting. When businesses like Verizon buy licensing for spectrum, the purchase is regulated by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), and as of now, only one company can use a particular chunk of spectrum. The limited access can lead to poor networks and frustrated cell phone customers.<\/p>\n<p>One of the challenges in creating secondary spectrum markets is that there are concerns from wireless telecommunication companies about both electromagnetic interference and the economics of opening up the market.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_30766\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30766\" style=\"width: 125px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/cise\/files\/2010\/11\/e_starobinski.jpg\" alt=\"Prof. David Starobinski\" width=\"115\" height=\"183\" class=\"wp-image-30766 \" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30766\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prof. David Starobinski<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>How can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ece\/2010\/08\/02\/putting-a-stop-to-busy-signals\/\">Alanyali and Starobinski<\/a> help? They hope to establish methods and algorithms that will ensure that secondary spectrum markets can be profitable for their participants.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA unique feature of this research program is that it spans the engineering, regulatory, and business aspects of wireless communications,\u201d said Alanyali. \u201cWe have an interdisciplinary team that is well-positioned to address these issues, and we are excited about the prospect of making a significant contribution toward shaping the future of wireless communications.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Though Boston University is the lead institution on the project, the research team will also include Assaf Zeevi, a professor at the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University.<\/p>\n<p>The grant for this project will continue through 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Rachel Harrington As wireless telecommunication companies look to improve their efficiency, two ECE professors will be behind the scenes, conducting research that could potentially impact both the legal and economic policies of the wireless industry. The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently awarded $714,501 to ECE Associate Professors Murat Alanyali and David Starobinski to support [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1500,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6894"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1500"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6894"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30767,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6894\/revisions\/30767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}