Project Grant 1632565

Tiami LLC was awarded a $125,000 Project Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture to develop a repeater coordination method for expanding rural broadband access. Under the award, Tiami will design and evaluate a compact wireless repeater system that translates 5G mobile network frequencies to TV white space to effectively double the transmission range of TVWS networks in a cost-effective manner. The Phase I study period, from July 2023...

This SBIR Phase I Project Grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under its Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program, provides $275,000 in funding to Tiami LLC, a minority-owned small disadvantaged business, to design and prototype an intelligent 5G wireless repeater. This effort aims to enable pervasive, high-throughput mobile broadband connectivity across underserved urban and rural areas, addressing shortcomings in current 5G deployments. The...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Program (CFDA 47.070) provides $135,000 to The Trustees of Princeton University for a 4-year collaborative research effort on curving wireless data beams around obstacles using sub-terahertz accelerating beams. The research aims to develop novel beam-forming solutions for future ultra-high frequency wireless local area networks (LAN) to overcome signal blockage issues....

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $244,830 to Tufts University to conduct collaborative research on fundamental challenges in extremely wideband, highly directional channels for future terahertz-enabled wireless networks. The key objectives are to design hybrid beamforming algorithms for wideband multicarrier systems, investigate joint user association with base stations and reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, and...

This SBIR Phase I project, awarded by the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.084 - NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships), aims to develop massively parallel protocols for software-based wireless systems. The $273,383 award, granted on September 15, 2023, will enable Lutris, Inc., the for-profit awardee, to demonstrate the feasibility of using commodity computing hardware and specially designed software to implement radio processing tasks at high speed. This approach has the potential...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I award, under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program, provides $274,944 to Uninet LLC to explore the feasibility of extending 5G software-defined networking and virtual network slicing technologies to non-terrestrial satellite constellations. The project aims to develop more efficient networking solutions to support growing demand for satellite internet services, addressing...

This Project Grant award of $400,000.00 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to Brown University supports fundamental research to develop key building blocks for realizing next-generation wireless networks operating in the sub-THz spectrum above 100 GHz. The project will yield three primary research outputs: 1) a method for rapid localization of mobile users to enable highly directive transmissions, 2) the first experimental sub-THz network enabling...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's $375,000 Computer and Information Science and Engineering program will support the development of opportunistic millimeter-wave receivers and associated algorithms from 2023 to 2025. The University of Southern California will use the funding to create transceiver hardware and array-based receivers that can adaptively operate within the 18-54 GHz spectrum through machine learning techniques. The receivers will identify available...

This $294,051 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) to the Trustees of the Colorado School of Mines, effective October 1, 2024 through September 30, 2027. The goal of this project is to develop technical solutions for a more open and decentralized wireless access ecosystem. It aims to leverage open-source technologies and decentralized models to promote competition and...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project award to OSO Semiconductor Inc., a minority-owned small business, will develop a new phased array communication technology to achieve lower power consumption, smaller form factors, and more affordable price targets. The $274,992 grant, awarded on December 15, 2023, will fund the development and testing of an ultra-low loss beamforming circuit that can be integrated into a unique low-power phased...