The National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) awarded Purdue University a $499,989.00 project grant on November 1, 2024 to develop a unified framework and designs for integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) systems. The key objectives are to:
Identify and quantify the fundamental tradeoffs between communications and sensing functionalities.
Adopt an information-theoretic broadcast channel framework to enable efficient ISAC designs and implementation.
Develop collaborative techniques between communications and sensing to maximize performance gains.
Implement and test the ISAC solutions in software and hardware, particularly in the context of urban air mobility applications.
The project aims to advance the fundamental understanding of ISAC, develop new ISAC designs with substantially improved performance, and reduce the complexity and cost of ISAC applications in diverse domains such as autonomous driving, smart agriculture, and the Internet of Things. No subawards are planned under this grant.