Next Generation Spectrum Measurement Algorithms and Infrastructures

Next Generation Spectrum Measurement Algorithms and Infrastructures

The goal of this project is to design a suite of spectrum measurement analysis algorithms and test the applicability of these algorithms across heterogeneous sensor platforms.

 

Workshop Series

National Radio Dynamic Zones Partnership

 

Funding

NSF

This project is supported through a
NSF CAREER Award CNS-1845858.

People

Faculty

Mariya Zheleva portrait

Mariya Zheleva

Mariya Zheleva is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at University at Albany–SUNY. Her research interests include spectrum measurement and management, architectures and protocols for IoT&T networks, network measurement and evaluation, small autonomous cellular networks and in-situ network deployment, particularly in challengeing areas (e.g. rural Africa and agricultural U.S.).
 

PhD Students

Karyn Doke portrait

Karyn Doke

Email: [email protected]

 

 

 

 

 

Undergraduate Students

Tim Warren portrait

Habib Affinnih

NSF REU Fellow (Summer/Fall 2020)
Email: [email protected]
Undergraduate student in Computer Science

 

 

Alumni

Wei Xiong portrait

Timothy Larock (BS, 2016)

Awards and Honors:
Presidential award for undergraduate research

Honors Thesis:
Wireless Frequency Spectrum Characterization and Transmitter Detection Using Wavelets.

Now:
Graduate student at Northeastern University

Publications

2024
2024

VIA: Establishing the link between spectrum sensor capabilities and data analytics performance.
Karyn Doke, Andrew Okoro, Amin Zare, and Mariya Zheleva.
IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM2024).

RadVIEW: Robust radar detection and characterization in high-noise regimes.
Karyn Doke, Shamik Sarkar, Andrew Okoro, Danijela Cabric, and Mariya Zheleva.
IEEE DySPAN 2024.

Towards Data-Driven Policies in Spectrum Management.
Karyn Doke, Ali Abedi, Max Hollingsworth, Mariya Zheleva, Anant Sahai, Dirk Grunwald, and Keith D. Gremban.
IEEE DySPAN'24 Workshops.

2023
2023

Contrastive learning with self-reconstruction for channel-resilient modulation classification.
Erma Perenda, Sreeraj Rajendran, Gerome Bovet, Mariya Zheleva, and Sofie Pollin.
IEEE INFOCOM 2023-IEEE Conference on Computer Communications.

Radio Dynamic Zones: Motivations, challenges, and opportunities to catalyze spectrum coexistence.
Mariya Zheleva, Christopher R. Anderson, Mustafa Aksoy, Joel T. Johnson, Habib Affinnih, and Christopher G. DePree.
IEEE Communications Magazine.

2022
2022

Evolutionary Optimization of Residual Neural Network Architectures for Modulation Classification.
Erma Perenda, Sreeraj Rajendran, Gerome Bovet, Sofie Pollin, and Mariya Zheleva.
IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking.

2021
2021

SYMMeTRy: Exploiting Self-Similarity for Under-Determined MIMO Modulation Recognition.
Wei Xiong, Lin Zhang, Maxwel McNeil, Petko Bogdanov, and Mariya Zheleva.
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (IEEE TMC 2021).

Learning the unknown: Improving modulation classification performance in unseen scenarios.
Erma Perenda, Sreeraj Rajendran, Gerome Bovet, Sofie Pollin, and Mariya Zheleva.
IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM 2021).

MODELESS: MODulation rEcognition with LimitEd SuperviSion.
Wei Xiong, Petko Bogdanov, and Mariya Zheleva.
2021 18th Annual IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication, and Networking (SECON).

CORE: Connectivity Optimization via REinforcement Learning in WANETs.
Alexander Gorovits, Karyn Doke, Lin Zhang, Mariya Zheleva, and Petko Bogdanov.
2021 18th Annual IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication, and Networking (SECON).

2020
2020

Exploiting Self-Similarity for Under-Determined MIMO Modulation Recognition.
Wei Xiong, Lin Zhang, Maxwel McNeil, Petko Bogdanov, and Mariya Zheleva.
IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM 2020).

Towards scalable zero-shot modulation recognition.
Wei Xiong, Petko Bogdanov, and Mariya Zheleva.
The 2020 IEEE 92nd Vehicular Technology Conference (IEEE VTC-Fall'20).

LinksIQ: Robust and Efficient Modulation Recognition with Imperfect Spectrum Scans.
Wei Xiong, Karyn Doke, Petko Bogdanov, and Mariya Zheleva.
arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.04149.

2019
2019

Robust and Efficient Modulation Recognition Based on Local Sequential IQ Features.
Wei Xiong, Petko Bogdanov, and Mariya Zheleva.
IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM 2019).

Third-Party Cellular Congestion Detection and Augmentation.
Paul Schmitt, Daniel Iland, Mariya Zheleva, and Elizabeth Belding.
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (IEEE TMC).

2018
2018

AirPRESS: Efficient Spectrum Summarization Using Compressed Spectrum Scans.
Mariya Zheleva, Timothy Larock, Paul Schmitt, and Petko Bogdanov.
IEEE International Symposium on Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks (IEEE DySPAN 2018).

AirVIEW: Unsupervised transmitter detection for next generation spectrum sensing.
Mariya Zheleva, Tim Larock, Paul Schmitt, and Petko Bogdanov.
IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM 2018).

2017
2017

Enabling a Nationwide Radio Frequency Inventory Using the Spectrum Observatory.
Mariya Zheleva, Ranveer Chandra, Aakanksha Chowdhery, Paul Garnett, Anoop Gupta, Ashish Kapoor, and Matt Valerio.
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (IEEE TMC).

2016
2016

HybridCell: Cellular connectivity on the fringes with demand-driven local cells.
Paul Schmitt, Daniel Iland, Mariya Zheleva, and Elizabeth Belding.
IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM 2016).

2015
2015

Txminer: Identifying transmitters in real-world spectrum measurements.
Mariya Zheleva, Ranveer Chandra, Aakanksha Chowdhery, Ashish Kapoor, and Paul Garnett.
2015 IEEE International Symposium on Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks (IEEE DySPAN 2015).

Software

Modulation recognition using local sequential IQ features

Paper source code.

[Citation:] Wei Xiong, Petko Bogdanov, and Mariya Zheleva. “Robust and Efficient Modulation Recognition Based on Local Sequential IQ Features” in IEEE INFOCOM'19, Paris, France, April 29 - May 2, 2019.

TxMiner: Spectrum cognizance in real-world traces

TxMiner source code.

[Citation:] Mariya Zheleva, Aakanksha Chowdhery, Ranveer Chandra, Ashish Kapoor, and Paul Garnett. “TxMiner: Identifying Transmitters in Real-World Spectrum Measurements” in IEEE DySpan, Stockholm, Sweden, September 29 - October 2, 2015.

Education

Teaching

Spring 2020

On a teaching leave through Dr. Nuala McGann Drescher Diversity and Inclusion Leave Program

Fall 2019

ICSI516 Computer communication networks -- graduate level

Outreach

Spring 2020
Family STEAM night at the Guilderland Public Library

The Family STEAM night at the Guilderland Public Library is a monthly recurring event designed for elementary and middle school students and their parents. The goal is to introduce children to various STEAM disciplines through invited talks/activities prepared by local colleges. The event lasts 1 hour and is hosted in the evening. Our goal was to introduce students to the inner-workings of the Internet. We began with a 15-minute presentation and QnA. We then played a game designed by cse4k12.org on How The Internet Works. We wrapped up our activities by disassembling cable modems, WiFi routers and phones to see how the Internet gets to our homes and devices.

Spring 2020
Invited lecture at Clarkson University

Mariya presented an invited lecture at Clarkson University.

Fall 2019

Mariya was the event chair for the first N2Women Dinner at AMC MobiCom'19. We had a great turnout.

Fall 2019
Keynote at ACM CHANTS'19

Mariya delivered a keynote presentation entitled "Spectrum measurement and management for future spectrum-sharing networks" at the ACM CHANTS'19 workshop.

Summer School on Wireless

August 2020

Summer school on wireless -- virtual edition.

News

Feb. 26, 2021

Our paper “SYMMeTRy: Exploiting Self-Similarity for Under-Determined MIMO Modulation Recognition” was accepted to IEEE/ACM Transactions on Mobile Computing.

 

Feb. 10, 2021

Mariya will serve as the publications chair for MobiSys'21.

 

Dec. 5, 2020

Our paper “Learning the unknown: Improving modulation classification performance in unseen scenarios” was accepted at INFOCOM'21. Congrats to collaborators from KU Leuven and Armasuisse: Erma Perenda, Sreeraj Rajendran, Sofie Pollin and Gerome Bovet.

 

Dec. 1, 2020

Mariya will participate in a panel on 5G and Beyond 5G: Vision and Research Challenges at the N2Women event at GLOBECOM'20.

 

Oct. 1, 2020

New paper on our rural emergency preparedness work appeared in the GetMobile Magazine.

 

Sep. 5, 2020

Mariya will co-lead the NSF Research Partnership on National Radio Dynamic Zones.

 

Sep. 1, 2020

Mariya gave a talk and participated in a panel on AI for Wireless at WoWMoM'20.

 

Aug. 28, 2020

Mariya gave a talk and participated in a panel at the NSF Visionary Workshop on Wireless, Spectrum & Innovation.

 

Jul. 10, 2020

SyMMeTRy received the IEEE INFOCOM'20 Best Poster Award.

 

Jul. 1, 2020

UbiNET’s first PhD graduate, Wei Xiong, received the University at Albany Best Dissertation Award. Congrats, Wei!

 

Jun. 5, 2020

Mariya is organizing the NSF NeTS CAREER webinar for aspiring PIs.

 

May 20, 2020

Our paper entitled “Towards scalable zero-shot modulation recognition” was accepted to VTC-Fall'20. Congrats, Wei and Petko!

 

Apr. 24, 2020

Our paper entitled “Protecting location privacy from untrusted wireless service providers” was accepted to WiSec'20. This is joint work with Keen Sung and Brian Levine from UMass Amherst.

 

Mar. 31, 2020

Congratulations to UbiNET Lab’s first PhD graduate, Wei Xiong. Wei’s thesis title is “Towards Practical Modulation Recognition for Future Spectrum-Sharing Applications”.

 

Mar. 15, 2020

Stop by our poster at IEEE INFOCOM'20 to learn more about fractal features’ application in low-cost MIMO modulation recognition.

 

Feb. 3, 2020

UbiNET Lab will be presenting at the Family STEAM night in Guilderland Public Library on Mar. 2. The talk and activities are geared for elementary and middle-school students and their parents. We will be talking about the Internet.

 

Dec. 17, 2019

Our research was covered by the Capital Region’s Center for Economic Growth.

 

Dec. 12, 2019

Our paper “Exploiting Self-Similarity for Under-Determined MIMO Modulation Recognition” was accepted in INFOCOM 2020.

 

Nov. 10, 2019

Mariya will serve on the ACM MobiSys'20, IEEE SECON'20 and ICTD'20 TPCs.

 

Oct. 25, 2019

Mariya gave a keynote titled “Spectrum Measurement and Management for Future Spectrum-sharing Networks” at ACM CHANTS'19 workshop collocated with MobiCom'19.

 

Oct. 23, 2019

Amazing turnout at the N2Women Dinner at MobiCom'19.

 

Jun. 20, 2019

The UbiNET Lab received the Dynamic Spectrum Alliance 2019 Award for University Research on New Opportunities for Dynamic Spectrum Access.

 

May 6, 2019

Mariya received the NSF CAREER award. The goal of the project is to automate the measurement and management of radio spectrum for future spectrum-sharing applications.