This $243,695 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program will support a collaborative research project led by the University of California, Santa Barbara. The project aims to conduct rigorous measurements and analysis to assess the network connectivity, reliability, and performance of anchor institutions (such as public libraries, schools, and hospitals) that rely on high-quality broadband...
This $100,001 Project Grant award was provided by the National Science Foundation's Division of Computing and Communication Foundations under the CFDA 47.070 Computer and Information Science and Engineering program. The grant supports a collaborative research project between the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and researchers from the University of Michigan and Merit Network. The key objectives are to: Develop new statistical methodology for detecting and mapping network delays,...
This $237,666 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) will support a collaborative research project to assess the connectivity and performance of anchor institution networks (AIDs). The primary awardee is the University of California, Davis, which will work with researchers from Northeastern University and the University of California, Santa Barbara on this effort. The project aims to...
The University of Chicago was awarded a $750,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Social and Economic Science under CFDA Program 47.075 to develop and validate new sampling and modeling approaches for measuring broadband performance at the community level. The research aims to inform ongoing federal broadband infrastructure investment efforts by empowering local stakeholders with tools to gather longitudinal internet performance data and understand how this...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $189,830 will support the creation of accurate maps of mobile broadband network coverage quality through 2025. Funded under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program, the award brings together experts from the University of California, Santa Barbara and the Georgia Institute of Technology to develop mathematical models using latent Gaussian processes. These models will combine multiple measurement datasets to predict how...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $100,000 supports the development of a programmable closed-loop measurement platform for last-mile networks. Funded under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), the award brings together researchers from the University of California, Santa Barbara and the University of Chicago from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2023. The project aims to explore the feasibility of a scalable data collection platform that...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Award (CFDA 47.070) provides $255,646 to Northeastern University for a 3-year collaborative research project to assess the network connectivity and performance of anchor institutions such as public libraries, schools, and hospitals. The project will conduct rigorous measurements to create an annotated map of anchor institutional networks, evaluate their reliability through outage...
This $600,000 two-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program will support the development of a first-of-its-kind open-source measurement infrastructure platform. The University of Chicago will design, develop, and deploy this platform to enable new classes of research on digital infrastructure access across U.S. populations. Specifically, the platform aims to facilitate studies on the national digital divide challenge by...
This $600,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program will fund the development of a global spectrum observatory through mobile spectrum sensing kits and supporting software ecosystem. Specifically, the University of California, San Diego will receive funding from August 15, 2022 to July 31, 2025 to design, implement, deploy and make available low-cost kits that allow for spectrum sensing and measurement across diverse, wide...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $999,913 project grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to the University of California, Santa Barbara for the period of October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2023. The grant funds the "CC* INTEGRATION-LARGE: DEMOCRATIZING NETWORKING RESEARCH IN THE ERA OF AI/ML" project. Key deliverables include developing an Internet of Things laboratory to study network traffic behavior from connected devices...