Project Grant FA95501410050

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's $389,042 Computer and Information Science and Engineering program will support research at the University of Texas at Austin to develop interaction-aware planning and control techniques for robotic navigation in crowded, dynamic environments. Over a three-year period from September 2022 to August 2025, the university researchers will pursue three goals: first, constructing new algorithms to find approximate equilibrium solutions in...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Computer and Network Systems provides $1,009,600 to Arizona State University for research titled "Collaborative Research: SATC: Core: Medium: Foundations of Trust-Centered Multi-Agent Distributed Coordination." The funding period is from June 15, 2022 through May 31, 2026. The award supports the development of theoretical foundations for trust-centered resilience in distributed coordination and optimization of...

The National Science Foundation awarded $749,186 under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program to the University of Colorado Boulder for the 5G Hidden Operations Through Securing Traffic (GHOST) project. The project aims to deliver four layers of security to enable secure operations over untrusted 5G networks. This includes protecting devices from network compromise, anonymizing user identities and locations, obscuring traffic analysis through "ghost" and "false...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $400,000 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program to Arizona State University (ASU) to develop TrustSAS, an innovative AI/ML-powered trustworthy Spectrum Access System (SAS). The key products and services to be delivered through this 3-year grant include: 1) VERISS, a framework that uses graphical neural networks to analyze and evaluate the trustworthiness of crowdsourced spectrum sensing data; 2)...

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...

This $225,000 three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Computer and Network Systems, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), will fund research at The George Washington University to develop security and privacy solutions for 5G and beyond cellular networks. Key activities include designing a heterogeneous data plane framework combining multiple programmable data plane devices for network function processing. Most...

This $600,000 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University to develop an anonymous mobile access architecture for next-generation mobile networks. The research aims to enable anti-tracking capabilities while using mobile networks by integrating decentralized identifiers and anonymous verifiable credential schemes into the 5G authentication and key agreement protocol. Key tasks include developing a secure callee discovery...

This $1.2 million National Science Foundation project grant will support research into physically unclonable wireless systems utilizing chaotic antenna arrays at the University of South Florida from February 2023 to January 2027. The goal is to develop various configurations of chaotic antenna arrays that introduce unclonable randomizations into their geometry. These arrays are intended to exhibit unique radio frequency fingerprints that can authenticate wireless devices joining a network and...

This three-year, $225,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) will support research to develop security and privacy solutions for 5G and beyond cellular networks. The Regents of the University of California at Riverside, in collaboration with researchers in Japan, will pursue technical tasks to design a heterogeneous data plane framework combining multiple programmable data plane devices for network...