This National Science Foundation (NSF) Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems (ECCS) Division Project Grant award of $400,000 to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) aims to develop learning-based interference mitigation techniques for wireless spectrum sharing. The research will focus on three key thrusts: 1) designing supervisory learning algorithms to enable individual radio devices to decode data packets in the presence of unknown interference, 2)...
This three-year, $750,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), will fund research at the University of Michigan to develop novel multifunctional materials and devices for interference-immune broadband wireless systems. Specifically, the grant will support investigating the use of self-biased multiferoic materials and algorithms to learn how network participants use spectrum over...
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 National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program provides $259,943 to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to develop methods that improve communication performance in shared, congested, and contested spectrum bands. The project brings together researchers from MIT, Northeastern University, and Boston University to leverage the structured characteristics of interference to enhance communication systems, rather than treating...
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 $375,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program supports collaborative research at the University of Notre Dame du Lac from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2025. The research focuses on addressing coexistence challenges in three mid-band radio frequency spectra recently made available for commercial wireless use—the C-band, the Citizens Broadband Radio Service band, and unlicensed 6 GHz bands. The University researchers...
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...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $199,902 Project Grant to the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The grant will support the development of an adaptive incremental deep learning architecture to infer radio frequency signals in dynamic spectrum sharing environments in real time. The proposed research aims to advance self-learning of spectrum sensing, signal classification, and radio frequency parameter characterization through an online...
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...
This Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, aims to develop innovative microelectronic hardware solutions to enhance the performance and resilience of future wireless systems in highly dynamic and congested spectrum environments. The key products and services to be delivered under this $380,000 award, spanning from June 1, 2025 to May 31, 2028, include: A low-power, harmonic-resilient software-defined radio...