This $599,943 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) aims to develop techniques for more efficient and resilient real-time communications in critical cyber-physical systems like aircraft, automobiles, and industrial control networks. The key innovations include creating holistic models, algorithms, and software designs to achieve the scalability, adaptability, and resiliency...
This $400,601 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) aims to develop rigorous scientific mechanisms that enable resilience in large-scale cyber-physical systems (CPS), with a focus on connected and autonomous transportation systems (CATS). The key research thrusts include: 1) Modeling cyber, physical, and human assets and their interconnections, as well as economic and policy constraints, to...
This $400,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) is for a 3-year research project led by North Carolina State University (NC State). The project aims to develop robust intelligent algorithms for managing and optimizing dynamic wireless spectrum access, which is critical for emerging technologies like autonomous vehicles and the metaverse. Key innovations include techniques for...
This $552,893 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program will fund research to enable natively resilient 6G mobile networks. The project aims to leverage the equivalence between different network resources, components, and functions, referred to as "fungibility," to enhance the network's ability to withstand and recover from disruptions while maintaining service continuity. Key research...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $300,000 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program to North Carolina State University (NC State) to study the integration of aerial network elements (ANEs) such as drones and unmanned aerial vehicles into existing terrestrial wireless networks. The 3-year project, titled "NETS: SMALL: COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: NSF-NSERC: 3D HARMONY: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ENABLED HARMONIOUS WIRELESS...
This $305,746 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) aims to develop technical solutions for a more open and democratized wireless access ecosystem. The project, titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: NETS: SMALL: LAST MILE AS A FREE MARKET: DEMOCRATIZING WIRELESS ACCESS WITH ON-DEMAND DECENTRALIZED CONTRACTS," is led by North Carolina State University. The key objectives are to: 1)...
This $250,000 National Science Foundation Project Grant supports research and education activities at North Carolina State University from January 2023 through July 2026. The grant is funded through NSF's Engineering Directorate under the CFDA program for Engineering. The university will conduct research to proactively control wireless device errors across computing, caching and communications layers for performance gains in areas like energy efficiency and throughput. Researchers will design...
This $557,659 National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program aims to develop a comprehensive theory for second-order cross-layer design of wireless networks. The project, awarded to the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (Tees), seeks to advance the fundamental understanding of wireless network capabilities in supporting emerging applications like virtual reality and connected vehicles. The key objectives...
This $300,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program supports research to improve wireless network security designs. The project aims to (1) create stronger, practical adversary models to understand the limitations of security for Internet of Things (IoT) systems that leverage wireless channel properties, and (2) design new defense strategies to advance the state-of-the-art in wireless network...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $472,060 project grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to the University of North Texas for the period of May 15, 2023 to April 30, 2026. The grant supports the development of an enhanced open networked airborne computing platform to facilitate design, implementation, and testing of integrated control, computing, communication, and networking capabilities for airborne applications. Key deliverables include...