DARPA $2M contest looks to bring AI to wireless spectrum provisioning

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Network World Mobile & Wireless Alert Mar 30, 2016 DARPA $2M contest looks to bring AI to wireless spectrum provisioning The defense research agency recently announced a $2 million Grand Challenge called the Spectrum Collaboration Challenge (SC2) and said the primary goal of the contest was to infuse radios with "advanced machine-learning capabilities so they can collectively develop strategies that optimize use of the wireless spectrum in ways not possible with today's intrinsically inefficient approach of pre-allocating exclusive access to designated frequencies." 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