Project Grant 1821089

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 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program provides $100,333 to the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) to develop smart surfaces capable of adaptively modifying wireless channels. The goal is to unlock the full potential of wireless networks by manipulating the propagation environment to achieve greater spatial multiplexing and coverage for massive numbers of devices and exponential growth in data...

The National Science Foundation awarded $270,928 under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships federal grant program (CFDA 47.084) to Beamlink, Inc. of Pasadena, California. The project grant will support the development of small, portable cellular base stations to provide connectivity in disaster zones and hard to reach areas. Specifically, the funding will allow Beamlink to research and implement a base station utilizing 2G and 2.5G radio for communicating with high densities of cell...

This $350,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Computer and Network Systems, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program, will fund research to develop approaches for optimally managing renewable-powered mobile observational networks. The University of Michigan will create and validate new strategies for trading off energy harvesting and scientific data collection in networks consisting of a renewably-powered host agent and satellite...

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 $149,985 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program will fund research at Boston University on real-time liquid wireless networking for data-intensive rural applications from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2025. The research aims to investigate a real-time liquid wireless networking framework to enable predictive, reliable delivery of data across heterogeneous rural wireless networks supporting applications like...

This $352,360 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Computing and Communication Foundations supports the development of an "Adaptive Multi-Tiered, Multi-Task Base Station Infrastructure for Communication-Denied Environments" at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. The project aims to create a multi-tiered infrastructure utilizing autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and autonomous vehicles as mobile base stations to provide communication...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Computer and Network Systems, under the CFDA program "Computer and Information Science and Engineering", provides $300,000 in funding to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) to conduct collaborative research on "BLACK-BOX OPTIMIZATION OF WHITE-BOX NETWORKS: ONLINE LEARNING FOR AUTONOMOUS RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN NEXTG WIRELESS NETWORKS". The research aims to facilitate...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Cooperative Agreement award, funded under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084), provides $1,000,000.00 to Wilo Networks Inc. to develop a cutting-edge sensor network platform designed to operate with exceptionally low power consumption. The core innovation involves integrating low-power wake-up radio technology with optimized network protocols, enabling always-on, low-latency communication without the traditional...

This $294,051 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 a technical framework called "OpenNect" to democratize wireless access and promote collaboration among stakeholders. The project aims to address spectrum scarcity and inefficiency in current wireless systems by leveraging open-source technologies and decentralized models to enhance spectrum efficiency,...