Project Grant DESC0021561

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) provides $600,000 in funding to The Trustees of Princeton University's Office of Research and Project Administration to develop innovative technologies for fine-grained network monitoring. The key objectives are to create a software component called a Telemetry Imputation Layer (TIL) that can recover detailed network performance data from limited sampling,...

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 Project Grant award of $400,000 from the National Science Foundation's Division of Computer and Network Systems supports research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) to develop techniques for monitoring network traffic and estimating Internet performance experienced by users. The project aims to design deep learning frameworks for classifying end-user segments based on access networks, client platforms, and application usage, as well as online sampling, hashing, and...

This Project Grant award of $599,795 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure was made to The Leland Stanford Junior University (doing business as Stanford University) to build an open-source network measurement platform. The platform is designed to enable researchers and network operators to ask complex, real-world questions about high-speed internet networks, whose performance and traffic characteristics have fundamentally changed over the past...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Computer and Network Systems awarded Duke University a $300,000 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The goal of this 2-year EAGER (Early-concept Grants for Exploratory Research) project is to leverage an existing testbed in the Duke-Durham Research Triangle to investigate fiber sensing-based heterogeneous traffic monitoring and its integration with data communication networks. The...

The National Science Foundation awarded Tfwireless Inc. a $276,000 Project Grant under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnership program (CFDA 47.084) to develop rateless codec technology for proximity space links. The award period runs from November 1, 2021 to April 30, 2023 in Burbank, California. Under this grant, Tfwireless Inc. will deliver physics-based rateless codec technology intended to enable reliable communication for proximity space links. The NSF Technology, Innovation, and...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $604,728 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to the Regents of the University of Colorado, a U.S. state government institution of higher learning. The grant supports research and development of "Transparent Network Acceleration" (TNA), a novel networking architecture and design flow that can automatically build and deploy efficient hardware and software acceleration for network...

This $2,159,268 Project Grant awarded by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) under the Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Fund Grant Program (CFDA 11.038) supports Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) in developing a new neural network-based methodology to optimize testing and performance evaluation for Open Radio Access Network (Open RAN) systems. The key activities include: Analyzing the statistical relationships between...

The National Science Foundation awarded $270,928 under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships federal grant program (CFDA 47.084) to Beamlink, Inc. of Pasadena, California. The project grant will support the development of small, portable cellular base stations to provide connectivity in disaster zones and hard to reach areas. Specifically, the funding will allow Beamlink to research and implement a base station utilizing 2G and 2.5G radio for communicating with high densities of cell...

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...