New cellular bands increasingly overlap with incumbents such as radio astronomy, Earth exploration satellites, weather sensing, and satellite communications. My work studies how 6G networks can share spectrum with these services, from interference modeling to programmable, real-time sharing mechanisms built on Open RAN. I am PI on an NSF Open Spectrum grant.

Topics

• Above 100 GHz: coexistence between active wireless links and passive sensing (e.g., radio astronomy and Earth exploration) in the sub-terahertz and terahertz bands.
• 7-24 GHz upper midband (FR3): sharing spectrum and services with incumbent terrestrial and non-terrestrial users.
• Programmable sharing with Open RAN: neutral-host architectures, and dApps that sense and react to incumbents in real time.

Key papers

• M. Polese, V. Ariyarathna, P. Sen, J. V. Siles, F. Restuccia, T. Melodia, and J. M. Jornet, “Dynamic spectrum sharing between active and passive users above 100 GHz,” Communications Engineering (Nature), vol. 1, pp. 1-9, May 2022.
• M. Polese, X. Cantos-Roman, A. Singh, M. J. Marcus, T. J. Maccarone, T. Melodia, and J. M. Jornet, “Coexistence and Spectrum Sharing Above 100 GHz,” Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 111, no. 8, pp. 928-954, Aug 2023. arXiv
• P. Testolina, M. Polese, J. M. Jornet, T. Melodia, and M. Zorzi, “Modeling Interference for the Coexistence of 6G Networks and Passive Sensing Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 23, no. 8, pp. 9220-9234, Aug 2024.
• P. Testolina, M. Polese, and T. Melodia, “Sharing Spectrum and Services in the 7-24 GHz Upper Midband,” IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 62, no. 8, pp. 170-177, Aug 2024. arXiv
• P. Testolina, E. Beshaj, M. Polese, and T. Melodia, “Spectrum Sharing Across Terrestrial and Non-Terrestrial Services in the FR3 Upper Midband,” IEEE DySPAN 2025. arXiv
• M. Tsampazi, P. Testolina, M. Polese, and T. Melodia, “Satellite-Terrestrial Spectrum Sharing in FR3 through QoS-Aware Power Control and Spatial Nulling,” IEEE DySPAN 2026. arXiv
• L. Bonati, M. Polese, S. D’Oro, S. Basagni, and T. Melodia, “NeutRAN: An Open RAN Neutral Host Architecture for Zero-Touch RAN and Spectrum Sharing,” IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2023. arXiv
• R. Gangula, A. Lacava, M. Polese, S. D’Oro, L. Bonati, F. Kaltenberger, P. Johari, and T. Melodia, “Listen-While-Talking: Toward dApp-based Real-Time Spectrum Sharing in O-RAN,” IEEE MILCOM 2024 (demo). arXiv

See also: dApps and the E3 interface and the full publication list.