This $237,666 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) will support a collaborative research project to assess the connectivity and performance of anchor institution networks (AIDs). The primary awardee is the University of California, Davis, which will work with researchers from Northeastern University and the University of California, Santa Barbara on this effort. The project aims to...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Award (CFDA 47.070) provides $255,646 to Northeastern University for a 3-year collaborative research project to assess the network connectivity and performance of anchor institutions such as public libraries, schools, and hospitals. The project will conduct rigorous measurements to create an annotated map of anchor institutional networks, evaluate their reliability through outage...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $600,000 Project Grant to the University of California, Santa Barbara under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070) to develop tools and methodologies for augmenting, denoising and debiasing crowdsourced internet access measurements. The three-year award beginning October 1, 2022 will support the creation of a broadband offerings tool to aggregate internet service provider plan data and link it with...
The University of Chicago was awarded a $750,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Social and Economic Science under CFDA Program 47.075 to develop and validate new sampling and modeling approaches for measuring broadband performance at the community level. The research aims to inform ongoing federal broadband infrastructure investment efforts by empowering local stakeholders with tools to gather longitudinal internet performance data and understand how this...
This $100,001 Project Grant award was provided by the National Science Foundation's Division of Computing and Communication Foundations under the CFDA 47.070 Computer and Information Science and Engineering program. The grant supports a collaborative research project between the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and researchers from the University of Michigan and Merit Network. The key objectives are to: Develop new statistical methodology for detecting and mapping network delays,...
This $600,000 two-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program will support the development of a first-of-its-kind open-source measurement infrastructure platform. The University of Chicago will design, develop, and deploy this platform to enable new classes of research on digital infrastructure access across U.S. populations. Specifically, the platform aims to facilitate studies on the national digital divide challenge by...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $100,000 supports the development of a programmable closed-loop measurement platform for last-mile networks. Funded under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), the award brings together researchers from the University of California, Santa Barbara and the University of Chicago from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2023. The project aims to explore the feasibility of a scalable data collection platform that...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $189,830 will support the creation of accurate maps of mobile broadband network coverage quality through 2025. Funded under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program, the award brings together experts from the University of California, Santa Barbara and the Georgia Institute of Technology to develop mathematical models using latent Gaussian processes. These models will combine multiple measurement datasets to predict how...
This $300,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports research at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) on developing consolidated data plane management tools for network functions (NFs). The project aims to design efficient algorithms and data structures to automatically manage the deployment and resource usage of multiple co-existing NFs, which are crucial for managing...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $999,913 project grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to the University of California, Santa Barbara for the period of October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2023. The grant funds the "CC* INTEGRATION-LARGE: DEMOCRATIZING NETWORKING RESEARCH IN THE ERA OF AI/ML" project. Key deliverables include developing an Internet of Things laboratory to study network traffic behavior from connected devices...
This $243,695 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program will support a collaborative research project led by the University of California, Santa Barbara. The project aims to conduct rigorous measurements and analysis to assess the network connectivity, reliability, and performance of anchor institutions (such as public libraries, schools, and hospitals) that rely on high-quality broadband internet connections to provide essential services. The key objectives are to create an annotated map of anchor institutional networks, evaluate their reliability and outage occurrences, and determine whether they meet the bandwidth needs of networked applications used by the communities they serve. This research has the potential to facilitate broadband equity and access efforts by providing comprehensive data on the state of connectivity at these critical anchor institutions, particularly in historically marginalized communities. The project will publicly release all non-sensitive datasets and code to enable further research and advocacy in this area.