This Project Grant award of $145,000 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports collaborative research to develop novel self-accelerating wireless data transmission beams that can adapt to and propagate around physical obstacles. The research aims to enable high-frequency, directional wireless communication networks operating in the near-field regime, which could improve performance and bandwidth for...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) provides $599,996 to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) to enhance the understanding of physical models of optical elements and fiber systems, and improve optical networking technologies. The key goals are to: (1) implement optical phase conjugators in a field testbed and incorporate the physical layer model into network simulation; (2) implement...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation will fund $485,000 to Iowa State University for collaborative research on spectrum sharing for rural broadband access. The research team will conduct preliminary studies and field trials at the Advanced Research for Rural Broadband Living Lab in Iowa to develop electromagnetic spectrum sharing methods appropriate for rural areas. Initial work will focus on enhancing control and communications of unmanned aircraft systems and integrating...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) award provides $200,000 to Iowa State University for the development of a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) panel capable of simultaneously programming both the transmission and reflection of electromagnetic waves. This project aims to enhance the functionality and energy efficiency of RIS technology to support resilient 5G and 6G wireless communications,...
This three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Computer and Network Systems, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070), provides $150,000 to the International Computer Science Institute to support research on real-time liquid wireless networking for data-intensive rural applications. Specifically, the award will fund the investigation and development of a real-time liquid wireless networking framework to...
Iowa State University received a $175,000 project grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems. The award was made under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to support research titled "GRAPH NEURAL NETWORKS: A FEATURE AND STRUCTURE LEARNING APPROACH" from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2023. The project aims to advance the development of graph neural networks through investigator-initiated research...
Iowa State University will receive $218,212 under a two-year National Science Foundation Project Grant in the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program to develop a sub-millisecond topological feature extractor for high-rate machine learning. The university will investigate real-time topological data analysis capabilities by developing advances in mathematical, software, and hardware foundations to enable integration of topological data analysis with machine learning for...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $422,653 Project Grant under CFDA 47.041 "Engineering" to the University of Washington to fund research on "Coherent Co-Packaged Optics (C2PO) Using Offset-QAM Modulation". The 3-year project aims to develop advanced optical communication technologies that can support computationally intensive applications like generative artificial intelligence, providing dense and ultra-low power multi-terabyte per second inter/intra-rack...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded a $400,000 Project Grant to the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (Tees) under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The goal of the 3-year project is to develop an energy-efficient coherent optical interconnect architecture that can enable dramatic increases in datacenter and high-performance computing bandwidth-density and energy-efficiency. The key technical innovations...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) award provides $135,000 to The Trustees of Princeton University to conduct collaborative research on curving data transmission beams around obstacles using sub-terahertz accelerating beams. The 4-year project aims to develop novel strategies for generating and manipulating self-accelerating beams that can adapt to transient blockage events, enabling more robust...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $100,000 project grant to Iowa State University of Science and Technology under the NSF's Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program. The grant will support the development of robust multi-input, single-output (MISO) free-space optical communications (FSOC) prototypes to enable high-capacity, long-distance wireless "X-haul" networking for rural broadband connectivity. The project aims to leverage spatial, polarization, and wavelength diversity to mitigate challenges in terrestrial FSOC, such as beam wandering and scintillation. Iowa State University will also develop the ARAOPTICAL 2.0 programmable networking system to optimize the operation and integration of the MISO FSOC system into a holistic X-haul architecture. The project will conduct extensive measurement campaigns and develop machine learning models to understand the behavior of MISO FSOC links under different weather conditions. Subawards are planned under this grant.