New evolutions in wireless prototyping technology have resulted in new opportunities and capabilities for experimentation. This thesis investigates how radar waveforms are designed and propose a test-bed with both fully virtual, and hardware implementations that allow new waveforms to be tested and generated. Additionally, this thesis studies the current state of spectral efficiency and proposes a method to measure unused spectrum using off-the-shelf software defined radios (SDRs) to create a multi node sensor network. This thesis lays the groundwork for future novel work and generates large data sets to be used for future research.

Creator

• Jacobs, Mitchell

Contributors

• Wyglinski, Alexander
• Zekavat, Seyed A.
• Ludwig, Reinhold

Degree

• MS

Unit

• Electrical & Computer Engineering

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• etd-107936

Keyword

• Spectrum Sensing
• 5G
• Spectrum Sharing
• Cognitive Radio
• Radar

Advisor

• Wyglinski, Alexander

Orcid

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0573-1350

Committee

• Ludwig, Reinhold
• Zekavat, Seyed A.
• Wyglinski, Alexander

Defense date

• 2023-04-25

Year

• 2023

Sponsor

• MIT Lincoln Labratory Group 33
• MIT Lincoln Labratory Group 65

UN Sustainable Development Goals

• 9 - Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

Date created

• 2023-05-02

Resource type

• Thesis

Source

• etd-107936

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Last modified

• 2024-06-27