The OpenZMS Team

OpenZMS was developed and is led by the Flux Research Group at the University of Utah. The Wireless Interdisciplinary Research Group at the University of Colorado Boulder has deployed and is contributing to OpenZMS.

OpenZMS originated from the effort to construct POWDER-RDZ, a collaborative research effort between several university teams, funded by the National Science Foundation's Spectrum Innovation Initiative: National Radio Dynamic Zones (SII-NRDZ) program:

• University of Utah: SII-NRDZ: POWDER-RDZ - Spectrum sharing in the POWDER platform (PI Kobus Van der Merwe, Co-PI Sneha Kasera)
• Georgia Tech Research Corporation: SII-NRDZ: POWDER-RDZ - Spectrum sharing in the POWDER platform (PI Gregory Durgin)
• Washington University in St. Louis: SII-NRDZ: POWDER-RDZ - Spectrum sharing in the POWDER platform (PI Neal Patwari)

We are continuing to develop OpenZMS to serve as the Zone Management System for the SII-NRDZ Phase II MITRE NRDZ-as-a-Service Field Deployment.

Collaborations and Contributions

The OpenZMS zms-propsim-tirem TIREM-based propagation simulation service was originally developed by members of the Georgia Tech Propagation Group, and modified into the current service by Georgia Tech and Utah POWDER-RDZ team members.

The Wireless Interdisciplinary Research Group at the University of Colorado Boulder, led by Kevin Gifford, and the University of Utah and teamed to extend the OpenZMS core services to support experimentation in passive sensitive-user radio astronomy use cases, and collaborated with researchers at the University of California Berkeley and HCRO-SETI to deploy OpenZMS at the Hat Creek Radio Observatory (HCRO). The Colorado Boulder team contributed support for the TARDYS3 specification to OpenZMS's grant management subsystems, and integrated the Colorado Boulder Radio Frequency Noise Sensor with OpenZMS's monitor abstractions to provide the OpenZMS digital spectrum twin and alarm services with data and interference reports and enhance sharing with sensitive passive spectrum users. The Utah team extended OpenZMS to support a variety of new passive and sensitive-user spectrum sharing use cases.