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 communications onto trustworthy routes without modifying existing networks or devices. The second develops an automated application to identify router-level paths avoiding adversaries and verify communication paths behave as expected. The third recommends expanding availability of secure communication paths to 5G networks by identifying high-value networks and applying geopolitical frameworks to evaluate trustworthy routes. This interdisciplinary research across network measurement, 5G, programmable switches, security evaluation, and geopolitical influence aims to complement zero-trust architectures and secure 5G implementations.
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