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 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...
This $900,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program supports research to enhance the performance, intelligence, and security of Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) technology. The project, led by Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech), aims to address key challenges in O-RAN across three interconnected research thrusts: Developing a data-driven approach for real-time multi-user...
This $300,000 federal Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program, supports collaborative research at Michigan State University to enhance the performance, intelligence, and security of O-RAN (Open Radio Access Network) technologies. The project aims to address key challenges in O-RAN by developing data-driven beamforming techniques, machine learning algorithms for multi-user MIMO control, and safeguard...
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...
The National Science Foundation awarded Purdue University a $215,000 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070) from January 2023 through December 2025. The grant will support research into developing scalable artificial intelligence-based solutions and appropriate access point deployment planning tools to enable large-scale implementation of cell-free massive MIMO networks. This work constitutes an important step toward...
The Ohio State University received a $299,999 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). The grant supports collaborative research on "black-box optimization of white-box networks" to enable autonomous resource management and enhanced quality of experience in next-generation wireless networks. Key focus areas include developing efficient multi-timescale...
This $200,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports a collaborative research project led by Tufts University. The project aims to develop an enhanced edge computing architecture and algorithms for low-latency 5G and beyond 5G (B5G) networks to enable high-quality augmented/virtual/mixed reality (XR) applications on mobile devices. The key products and services to be delivered...
This $150,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports the development of an Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) wireless testbed and training curriculum at the Stevens Institute of Technology. The key products and services include: 1) Extending the abilities of wireless professionals by providing public and remote access to an O-RAN-based wireless cyberinfrastructure, which integrates...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $422,733 Project Grant under its Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program to Purdue University. The award period runs from March 1, 2024 to September 30, 2024. The project aims to develop and evaluate algorithms and protocols to leverage 5G cellular networks for wide-area environmental sensing applications such as traffic monitoring, weather tracking, and civil infrastructure monitoring. Key research tasks include identifying...