This National Science Foundation (NSF) Cooperative Agreement award under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) provides $2,600,001 to the University of Utah to enhance and sustain the POWDER (Platform for Open Wireless Data-driven Experimental Research) platform. POWDER is a wireless "living laboratory" in Salt Lake City that enables remote, real-world research to accelerate the development of next-generation mobile networks and...
This Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program, aims to coordinate a reference open-source system community for future-generation wireless networks. The $1,500,000 award to Northeastern University, with a project period from July 2025 to June 2027, combines different open-source tools to create a complete, user-friendly open-source reference architecture for 5G and future networks. The project...
This $150,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program provides funding to the University of Hawaii at Manoa to develop an Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) wireless testbed and training program. The project aims to train the next-generation wireless workforce by allowing trainees to access and operate advanced wireless communications equipment and instruments, including software-defined...
This $150,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports the development of an Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) wireless testbed and training curriculum at the Stevens Institute of Technology. The key products and services include: 1) Extending the abilities of wireless professionals by providing public and remote access to an O-RAN-based wireless cyberinfrastructure, which integrates...
This $2,000,000 Project Grant was awarded by the Department of Commerce National Telecommunications and Information Administration under the Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Fund Grant Program (CFDA 11.038). The purpose is to develop testing and evaluation procedures for open and interoperable solutions for next-generation (5G-Advanced and beyond) radio access network (RAN) components in the FR3 spectrum band, with a focus on shared and adversarial scenarios. Key activities include...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate provides $289,839 to The Trustees of Columbia University in New York, New York for a collaborative research project titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: SII-NRDZ:SPECTRUM SHARING VIA CONSUMPTION MODELS AND TELEMETRY - PROTOTYPING AND FIELD TESTING IN AN URBAN FCC INNOVATION ZONE." The project period runs from January 1, 2023 through December 31, 2025. The award supports the development...
This $997,866 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports the "CYBERPOWDER - Wireless Networking Workforce Development Using the POWDER Platform" project at the University of Utah. The project aims to develop educational material and provide training on the NSF-funded POWDER platform to address the workforce shortage in wireless networking and next-generation wireless...
This Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program, supports the development of new diagnostic testing methods for Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) systems, which are critical components of 5G and future mobile network infrastructure. The $200,000 award, effective October 1, 2024 through September 30, 2027, aims to create a systematic approach to mobile network diagnostic testing that...
This $305,746 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) aims to develop technical solutions for a more open and democratized wireless access ecosystem. The project, titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: NETS: SMALL: LAST MILE AS A FREE MARKET: DEMOCRATIZING WIRELESS ACCESS WITH ON-DEMAND DECENTRALIZED CONTRACTS," is led by North Carolina State University. The key objectives are to: 1)...
This Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070), aims to develop an Open Dynamic Spectrum Management (O-DSM) system to improve spectrum sharing between commercial 5G/6G networks and federal/non-federal users across mid-band frequencies like the lower 3 GHz and FR3 bands. The key goals of this $397,356 project, with a performance period from July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2030,...