Project Grant 1843462

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 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 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...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $380,000 to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to develop advanced microelectronic hardware solutions that can enhance the performance and resilience of future wireless communication systems in congested spectrum environments. The key products and services to be delivered under this 3-year award include: (1) a low-power, harmonic-resilient...

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 of $145,000 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports collaborative research to develop novel self-accelerating wireless data transmission beams that can adapt to and propagate around physical obstacles. The research aims to enable high-frequency, directional wireless communication networks operating in the near-field regime, which could improve performance and bandwidth for...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) provides $249,430 to Syracuse University to develop and validate a distributed, data-driven architecture for dynamic spectrum management among decentralized wireless systems. The key focus of the project is to design protocols and algorithms that can enable flexible, scalable, and robust spectrum coordination between peer wireless networks,...

This Project Grant award of $550,000 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports the development and validation of a distributed, data-driven architecture for dynamic spectrum management among heterogeneous wireless systems. The goal is to overcome the limitations of centralized spectrum management and increase spectrum efficiency. The project focuses on designing protocols and algorithms for a Distributed...

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...

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...