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 $616,702 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) aims to develop a novel heterogeneous photonic chip solution to enable ultra-high bandwidth, energy-efficient data transmission for artificial intelligence (AI) computing clusters. The key products and services to be delivered include: A highly integrated photonic chip platform that accommodates processing units (CPUs, TPUs, GPUs), high-bandwidth memory, and accelerator/ASIC...
This $225,000 three-year 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), will fund research at The George Washington University to develop security and privacy solutions for 5G and beyond cellular networks. Key activities include designing a heterogeneous data plane framework combining multiple programmable data plane devices for network function processing. Most...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $749,999 Project Grant to the University of California, San Diego under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program. The grant will fund research to develop techniques enabling the Department of Defense to securely leverage commercial 5G wireless networks for mission-critical operations globally. The university will create three components. The first takes advantage of programmable data planes to facilitate path measurements and shift...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program totaling $187,180 will support research into hybrid switching in data center networks from October 1, 2022 through July 31, 2023. The grant recipient, Princeton University, will develop systems-driven modeling and principled algorithms to address the challenges of fast, dynamic switching capabilities needed to meet rapidly growing and changing traffic demand patterns in...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Computer and Network Systems, under the CFDA Program 47.070 "Computer and Information Science and Engineering", provides $300,000 in funding to Wayne State University from October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2026. The project aims to facilitate the transition from traditional black-box network designs to a white-box network architecture, which will significantly reduce costs and enhance quality-of-experience...
This $552,893 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program will fund research to enable natively resilient 6G mobile networks. The project aims to leverage the equivalence between different network resources, components, and functions, referred to as "fungibility," to enhance the network's ability to withstand and recover from disruptions while maintaining service continuity. Key research...
This Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070), aims to advance autonomous network orchestration and slicing-as-a-service capabilities for next-generation mobile networks. The $531,134 award to the University of Nebraska will develop an "AutoSlicing" framework to enable deep reinforcement learning policies for continual network orchestration and adaptation, with the goal of...
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 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...