SALSA Team

Universities, a testbed, a start-up, and industry partners building spectrally agile radios for the upper mid-band.

Supported by NTIA Innovation Fund (NOFO-1 & 2)

People & partners

Participating organizations

SALSA brings together RFIC designers, systems researchers, a testbed, and a start-up with a path to commercial products.

University · Lead

NYU

Project lead. Receiver RFIC, system architecture, scalable array processing, O-RU integration, and co-existence algorithms.

University · NOFO-2

Princeton

Wideband transmitter and power amplifier RFICs.

Testbed · NOFO-2

Rutgers WINLAB

Deployment and trials in the COSMOS O-RAN testbed in New York City.

Start-up

Pi-Radio

NYU spin-off. FR3 software-defined radios, RFIC packaging, and the modular MIMO platform.

Industry · NOFO-2

Nokia

System-level capacity evaluation, spectrum studies, and standards.

Industry · NOFO-2

Analog Devices

O-RU interface platform for integration into O-RAN networks.

University · NOFO-1

FIU

Adaptive null-forming and integrated sensing arrays in FR3.

Project personnel

Investigators

NOFO-1: Testing for Open, Secure and Adaptive Spectrum Sharing in FR3 (2023–2028). NOFO-2: Spectrally Agile and Scalable Open Radio Units for the Upper Mid-Band (2025–2030).

Sundeep Rangan

NYU

Lead PI NOFO-1NOFO-2

Lead PI on both awards; system architecture, scalable array processing, and co-existence algorithms.

Hamed Rahmani

NYU

NOFO-1NOFO-2

Spectrally agile receiver RFIC design.

Aditya Dhananjay

Pi-Radio

NOFO-1NOFO-2

FR3 SDRs, RFIC packaging, and the modular MIMO platform.

Arjuna Madanayake

FIU

NOFO-1

Adaptive null-forming and integrated sensing arrays in FR3.

Marco Mezzavilla

Politecnico di Milano

NOFO-1

Frequency-hopping FR3 SDR platform and multi-band system design.

Ivan Seskar

Rutgers WINLAB

NOFO-2

Integration into the COSMOS O-RAN testbed.

Kaushik Sengupta

Princeton

NOFO-2

Wideband transmitter and power amplifier RFIC design.

Jinfeng Du

Nokia

NOFO-2

System-level evaluation, spectrum studies, and standards.

Students

This work is supported by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Fund under awards 36-60-IF003 (NOFO-1) and 36-60-IF2419 (NOFO-2). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of NTIA.