This three-year, $299,937 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) will support research at San Diego State University and collaborating institutions on energy-efficient terahertz communications technologies for beyond fifth-generation wireless systems. The award funds four interconnected research thrusts: 1) channel estimation, performance analysis, and hardware design for doubly massive MIMO systems using...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program provides $456,593 to Northeastern University for research entitled "Enabling Mobile Terahertz Communication for 6G Cellular Networks." The research aims to develop foundational channel modeling methodologies and design protocols and algorithms for the physical and link layers to integrate the terahertz spectrum into truly mobile and complex 6G cellular networks. It takes a...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a 3-year, $300,000 Project Grant to the University of California Irvine (UC Irvine) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program. The purpose of this collaborative research award is to develop advanced signal processing and resource allocation methods for cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless access networks, which can provide more uniform coverage and data rates compared to traditional...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems Project Grant, awarded under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), provides $250,000 in funding to the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine) from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2026. The project aims to develop novel transceiver architectures, circuit blocks, design techniques, and communication strategies to enable energy-efficient millimeter wave wireless networks. The research effort...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $244,830 to Tufts University to conduct collaborative research on fundamental challenges in extremely wideband, highly directional channels for future terahertz-enabled wireless networks. The key objectives are to design hybrid beamforming algorithms for wideband multicarrier systems, investigate joint user association with base stations and reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, and...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $360,000 Project Grant to the University of California, Los Angeles under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to develop frequency-comb-enabled intelligent sensing technology for millimeter-wave and terahertz integrated circuits. Over a three-year period from September 2022 to August 2025, the university will design and test a novel radar device capable of performing broadband coherent detection and sensing from 600 GHz to the terahertz frequency...
This $390,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports the development of new technologies that utilize the terahertz (THz) frequency range to enable high-speed, highly directive wireless data transmission with dynamic obstacle avoidance capabilities. The primary goals of the project are to develop two key devices - an amplitude modulator and a spatial light modulator - that will allow for the creation of efficient and...
This $600,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports research to develop a generative channel modeling framework for 6G upper mid-band (FR3) spectrum. The key goals are to reduce the channel probing overhead and enable efficient interference management and spectrum coexistence for 6G cellular networks, leveraging innovations in generative AI. The prime awardee, the University of...
This $400,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to Brown University supports research to develop key building blocks for realizing high-data rate, low-latency 6G wireless networks operating in the sub-terahertz spectrum above 100 GHz. The project will yield a rapid localization method to dynamically track mobile users, as well as an experimental multi-user sub-terahertz network that can simultaneously transmit to multiple users...
This National Science Foundation project grant of $392,690 will fund research at the University of California, Los Angeles from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2025. The grant is part of NSF's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), which supports investigator-initiated research and education in all areas of computing, communications, and information science and engineering. Specifically, the university researchers will investigate using machine learning...