Block Grant 21PHORCSC6

This National Science Foundation (NSF) award under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) provides $599,943 to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) to advance the concept of local 6G connectivity. The project focuses on developing a novel neural network-based method for wireless channel representation to enable controllable, resilient, and secure local 6G networks that leverage reflective intelligent surface technology. Key...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program grant (CFDA 47.070) provides $172,848 to the Trustees of the Colorado School of Mines to investigate fundamental design trade-offs in a retro-reflective uplink enabled integrated sensing and communication with optical wireless (ISAC-OW) system for large-scale networks. The project will develop a cross-domain framework for the integrated design of efficient and scalable retro-reflective...

This $190,020 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program will support research to create resilient, large-scale cyber-physical systems (CPS), with a focus on connected and autonomous transportation systems (CATS). The research project, titled "CHORUS: Resilient Distributed CPS Through Rational and Dynamic Decision-Making Among Multiple Stakeholders," aims to develop rigorous, scientific...

This $600,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant, awarded under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program, will fund research at Duke University to develop new approaches for enabling predictable wireless communication and radar sensing for 6G wireless technology. The key research thrusts include: 1) designing modulation schemes to simplify prediction of the wireless input-output relationship, 2) developing signal processing filters in the...

This $125,540 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) will support research to develop techniques that enable emerging cellular technologies like 5G/6G to meet the stringent connectivity requirements of innovative societal applications such as augmented reality, telerobotics, and Internet-of-Things. The key focus is on advancing Radio Access Network (RAN) slicing, a 5G feature that allows...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Computer and Network Systems, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), provides $665,053 to San Jose State University Research Foundation (doing business as San Jose State University) for the period of July 15, 2022 through June 30, 2025. The grant supports development of a next-generation cooperative perception system with multi-modal sensing and low-latency communication capabilities....

This federal Project Grant award, provided by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs under the Cyber Capacity Building program (CFDA 19.035), is funding the continuation of the AUS CyberCX project. The $296,003.95 award will support a cybersecurity advisor being on-site in Palau for an additional 7 months to continue the work of this cybersecurity initiative. The grant period runs from July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2028, and the award recipient is CQR Inc. (doing...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program supports collaborative research to develop robust and scalable cell-free massive MIMO technology for beyond-5G/6G wireless access networks. The $262,967 award to the San Diego State University Foundation covers the project period from October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2026. The research aims to create new nonlinear statistical inference methods for...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) provides $237,676 in funding to Tufts University to organize and host the 2024 Cyberinfrastructure for Sustained Scientific Innovation (CSSI) Principal Investigators (PI) Meeting. The PI meeting, scheduled for August 12-13, 2024 in Charlotte, NC, will serve as a forum for CSSI PIs to share technical information, explore innovative topics, discuss...

This three-year, $600,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program will support the development of next generation 6G wireless communication systems using machine learning algorithms. Specifically, the award to the University of California, San Diego will fund four components: machine learning-based sparse channel modeling in constrained environments; novel block-sparse channel modeling using domain knowledge and data-driven...