Project Grant 2523751
- This $225,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program supports research to enhance physical layer security and energy efficiency in ultra-dense Internet of Things (IoT) networks. The project integrates intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRS) to dynamically reconfigure wireless signal paths and improve secure communication channels between legitimate IoT devices and mitigate eavesdropping risks. The...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program, titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: CISE CORE SMALL: NETS: INTELLIGENT REFLECTING SURFACE ASSISTED PHYSICAL LAYER SECURITY ENHANCEMENT FOR ULTRA-DENSE IOT NETWORKS", is focused on enhancing physical layer security and energy efficiency in ultra-dense Internet of Things (IoT) networks. The $150,000 award, which runs from October 1, 2025 to...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program awarded a $175,000 Project Grant to San Francisco State University (SFSU) from July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2027. The purpose of this grant is to develop an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted framework to enable spectrum sharing and sensing for the coexistence of heterogeneous wireless systems. The project aims to leverage machine learning techniques and IRS physics-based...
- 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...
- This federal Project Grant award for $384,182.00, provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070), is focused on establishing the foundational scientific theory, security principles, and practices that define the field of Internet of Things (IoT) cloud security. The key objectives are to: Formalize the threats concerning the emerging paradigms of IoT interoperability to conduct novel attacks, and formally verify...
- This Project Grant award, titled "CRII: CIF: EXPLOITING, MODELING, AND LEVERAGING HIDDEN FEATURES IN IOT FOR EFFICIENT AND SECURE COMMUNICATION," was provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070). The $139,527 award to Texas Tech University System aims to develop analysis, models, and techniques to enable seamless collaboration and secure communication among heterogeneous...
- This Project Grant award of $200,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports research to develop a novel hardware-software co-design communication framework that enables parallel communication and improved spectrum utilization and power efficiency for heterogeneous Internet of Things (IoT) devices operating on the crowded 2.4GHz unlicensed spectrum. The framework will leverage software-defined radios (SDRs)...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $300,000 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program to the University of Oklahoma to conduct research on improving wireless network security designs. The 3-year project aims to: (i) create stronger adversary models to understand the limitations of security in IoT systems leveraging wireless channel properties, and (ii) design new defense strategies to advance the state-of-the-art in wireless network...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) award of $199,998 to Florida State University, with a performance period from October 15, 2024 to September 30, 2026, supports the development of a novel hardware-software communication framework to enable spectrum-efficient and power-efficient wireless coexistence for heterogeneous Internet of Things (IoT) devices operating in the 2.4GHz unlicensed spectrum. The...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Program Project Grant award of $1,049,997 from October 1, 2025 to September 30, 2028 supports the development of a unified framework to integrate different low-power wireless technologies, such as LoRa and Bluetooth, for diverse Internet of Things (IoT) applications. The project aims to design, implement, deploy, and evaluate a multi-protocol networking system solution that can reduce the cost of...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) provides $225,000 in funding to San Francisco State University (SFSU) to research a framework for enhancing physical layer security and energy efficiency in ultra-dense Internet of Things (IoT) networks using intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRS). The key innovations include: (1) an IRS control strategy to improve secure communication channels by adjusting the IRS configuration based on inter-device relational states; (2) a friendly jamming mechanism enabled by traffic pattern analysis; and (3) a learning-based framework to dynamically optimize the IRS configuration for enhanced security and energy efficiency. The project, scheduled to run from October 2025 to September 2028, aims to address challenges in dense IoT networks by leveraging the randomness of physical wireless channels to secure communications, as well as support national workforce development through interdisciplinary research training and cybersecurity education.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $225.0k | 8/19/25 |