This Project Grant award of $322,594 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program supports research at Brigham Young University (BYU) to develop opportunistic wireless subprotocols that can enhance the adaptability of existing wireless devices without hardware modifications. The key objectives are to establish a testbed for subprotocol development, create innovative subprotocols, and integrate these subprotocols into a...
This $300,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program supports research to improve wireless network security designs. The project aims to (1) create stronger, practical adversary models to understand the limitations of security for Internet of Things (IoT) systems that leverage wireless channel properties, and (2) design new defense strategies to advance the state-of-the-art in wireless network...
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,...
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 award for $199,991 was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) federal grant program. The award aims to develop a new framework for designing efficient decentralized algorithms that can reliably make decisions while bounding the average proportion of wrong decisions in a resource-constrained network. The research will explore three main thrusts: (i) communication-efficient multi-hop network...
This $557,659 National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program aims to develop a comprehensive theory for second-order cross-layer design of wireless networks. The project, awarded to the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (Tees), seeks to advance the fundamental understanding of wireless network capabilities in supporting emerging applications like virtual reality and connected vehicles. The key objectives...
This two-year, $192,598 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will fund research at Santa Clara College to develop new methodologies, algorithms, and software frameworks for WiFi technology applications. The grantee will investigate expanding WiFi use for non-mission-critical Internet of Things devices in residential and campus environments to improve energy efficiency and communication timeliness. It will also explore enabling mission-critical...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) award of $199,998 to Florida State University, with a performance period from October 15, 2024 to September 30, 2026, supports the development of a novel hardware-software communication framework to enable spectrum-efficient and power-efficient wireless coexistence for heterogeneous Internet of Things (IoT) devices operating in the 2.4GHz unlicensed spectrum. The...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $300,000 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program to the University of Oklahoma to conduct research on improving wireless network security designs. The 3-year project aims to: (i) create stronger adversary models to understand the limitations of security in IoT systems leveraging wireless channel properties, and (ii) design new defense strategies to advance the state-of-the-art in wireless network...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $135,000 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program to Brown University. The grant, titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: CISE: MEDIUM: CURVING DATA AROUND OBSTACLES USING SUB-THZ ACCELERATING BEAMS", is focused on developing a novel solution to the challenge of wireless data transmission at ultra-high frequencies (above 100 GHz) being blocked by obstacles. The research program explores the...