This $400,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) is for a 3-year research project led by North Carolina State University (NC State). The project aims to develop robust intelligent algorithms for managing and optimizing dynamic wireless spectrum access, which is critical for emerging technologies like autonomous vehicles and the metaverse. Key innovations include techniques for...
This $348,573 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems, under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041), will fund research at North Carolina State University from September 2022 through August 2025. The university will advance the frontiers of federated learning through exploring tradeoffs among learning performance, communication efficiency, privacy protection, and system robustness under a generalized...
This $600,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant, awarded under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program, will fund research at Duke University to develop new approaches for enabling predictable wireless communication and radar sensing for 6G wireless technology. The key research thrusts include: 1) designing modulation schemes to simplify prediction of the wireless input-output relationship, 2) developing signal processing filters in the...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $600,000 Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) Project Grant to the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine) to conduct research on asynchrony and limited feedback in next-generation wireless communications systems. The 3-year project aims to analyze the performance and design of multiple access techniques, such as non-orthogonal and grant-free systems, that allow for simultaneous transmission by multiple users while...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $300,000 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program to North Carolina State University (NC State) to study the integration of aerial network elements (ANEs) such as drones and unmanned aerial vehicles into existing terrestrial wireless networks. The 3-year project, titled "NETS: SMALL: COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: NSF-NSERC: 3D HARMONY: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ENABLED HARMONIOUS WIRELESS...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $260,000 to Northeastern University to develop methods that improve communication performance in shared, congested, and contested spectrum bands. The project aims to leverage the structure of interference rather than treating it as noise to enhance the reliability and throughput of communication systems. Key research focuses include leveraging characteristics of interference...
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 National Science Foundation project grant of $196,230 awarded to Villanova University on September 1, 2023 will support research advancing interference-aware constellation design for next-generation wireless networks through August 31, 2025. The funding falls under the NSF Engineering Directorate's CFDA program 47.041, which aims to foster innovation and excellence in engineering research and education nationwide. Specifically, the university will conduct academic research developing...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $179,126 to Kennesaw State University Research and Service Foundation, Inc. for research enabling secure, energy-efficient in-band full duplex wireless communication techniques. The research will design and develop deep learning solutions for self-interference cancellation, power control, and security to enable simultaneous transmission and reception of information using this spectrum-efficient...
This $174,734 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) supports research at The University of North Carolina at Charlotte to develop a holistic design methodology for optimized network-on-chip communications architectures. The methodology aims to address security, reliability, performance, and energy efficiency challenges in contemporary multicore systems through a flexible, learning-enabled interconnection...
This $250,000 National Science Foundation Project Grant supports research and education activities at North Carolina State University from January 2023 through July 2026. The grant is funded through NSF's Engineering Directorate under the CFDA program for Engineering.
The university will conduct research to proactively control wireless device errors across computing, caching and communications layers for performance gains in areas like energy efficiency and throughput. Researchers will design hardware and software to harvest and render errors to specific data bits at runtime. They will also integrate errors with contextual awareness using implicit signaling and develop edge networking protocols to facilitate control of erroneous data.
In parallel, the university will create new wireless-focused laboratory experiences, lectures, outreach demonstrations and an undergraduate/graduate co-learning program. These education activities aim to better prepare K-12 students for college studies in wireless technologies and increase workforce diversity, with a focus on underrepresented groups. The combined research and education efforts supported by this grant aim to further innovations in wireless applications like artificial intelligence and smart health.