Project Grant FRTEC000611

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...

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 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate provides $289,839 to The Trustees of Columbia University in New York, New York for a collaborative research project titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: SII-NRDZ:SPECTRUM SHARING VIA CONSUMPTION MODELS AND TELEMETRY - PROTOTYPING AND FIELD TESTING IN AN URBAN FCC INNOVATION ZONE." The project period runs from January 1, 2023 through December 31, 2025. The award supports the development...

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 $540,000 National Science Foundation Project Grant supports research from January 2023 through December 2025 to advance seamless coexistence of positioning and communication in 5G and beyond wireless systems. Funded under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), the award to Georgia Tech Research Corporation will characterize tradeoffs between communication and positioning performance. It will also leverage collaborative positioning to design an...

This Project Grant award of $550,000 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports the development and validation of a distributed, data-driven architecture for dynamic spectrum management among heterogeneous wireless systems. The goal is to overcome the limitations of centralized spectrum management and increase spectrum efficiency. The project focuses on designing protocols and algorithms for a Distributed...

This Project Grant award from the Federal Highway Administration's Highway Research and Development Program (CFDA 20.200) provides $7,980,000 to the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) to implement a Centralized Transit Signal Priority (TSP) system for the city of Chicago. The project involves the design, installation, and implementation of hardware and software to enable TSP without requiring additional field equipment. Key products and services include timing design, signal...

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...

Tiami LLC will develop a three-dimensional indoor tracking system utilizing digital television (DTV) stations as positioning beacons under a $197,362 cooperative agreement from the Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology. The award is part of the Science, Technology, Business and/or Education Outreach program (CFDA 11.620) to evaluate and stimulate technological innovation. Specifically, Tiami will design signal processing algorithms and evaluate positioning...

The Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) was awarded an $8.89 million Project Grant from the Federal Transit Administration's Federal Transit Formula Grants program (CFDA 20.507) to construct a traffic signal interconnect and communication network to implement transit signal priority on Ashland Avenue in Chicago, Illinois from August 2021 to March 2027. The network will connect intersections to the city's centralized traffic management software and facilitate communication between transit vehicles...