Project Grant N629092412071

This Project Grant award of $142,783.00 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) supports the organization and hosting of the NSF Spectrum Week 2024 conference in Arlington, Virginia from May 13-17, 2024. The event brings together three major programs funded through the NSF Spectrum Innovation Initiative (SWIFT, NRDZ, and SPECTRUMX) to hold collaborative meetings and social events. New elements for 2024 include co-location and coordination with the IEEE DySPAN 2024 conference, participation...

This $139,095 National Science Foundation project grant supports research into designing principles for a future-proof Internet control plane. Funded under the NSF's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), the award supports a collaborative research effort between the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The project aims to address challenges in evolving Internet control protocols to meet growing demands on the network. Key...

This Project Grant award for $304,639, funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070), will support the development of a new network primitive called Deadline-Ordered Multicast (DOM) at New York University (NYU). The DOM abstraction will combine multicast capabilities with synchronized clocks to accelerate the performance of distributed systems, such as distributed databases, coordination services, and...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program provides $373,326 to the University of Texas at Austin to conduct research on massive multiple-input multiple-output (MMIMO) antenna systems for future mobile telecommunication networks. The key objectives are to: Advance resilient and personalized channel estimation using distributed and federated learning techniques to address interference issues with pilot signals. Leverage...

This Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program, supports the development of new diagnostic testing methods for Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) systems, which are critical components of 5G and future mobile network infrastructure. The $200,000 award, effective October 1, 2024 through September 30, 2027, aims to create a systematic approach to mobile network diagnostic testing that...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) award of $299,686 will fund the University of Connecticut (UConn) to design efficient tools that automatically manage the algorithm design, deployment and resource management of multiple co-existing network functions (NFs) through a new concept called consolidated data planes. Key objectives include: Developing an automatic tool to construct consolidated data plane...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant award of $279,999 provides funding from Fiscal Year 2023 to 2026 under the federal Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The award will support research activities to develop a cross-system architecture design for autonomous wireless networks based on lifelong machine learning. Specifically, the University of Massachusetts Amherst will conduct research to advance the design...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $199,971 to the University of Notre Dame to conduct collaborative research on enabling dense and in-situ spectrum monitoring. The key objectives are to develop ultra-efficient analog cross-correlators (X-CORR) for ultra-low latency spectrum sensing, design protocol-aware X-CORR configurations to enable fine-grained in-band spectrum sensing, and optimize the deployment of a dense...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) aims to design, develop, and prototype a secure, scalable, global name-based network service integrating the Named-Data Networking (NDN) and Scalability, Control, and Isolation on Next-Generation Networks (SCION) protocols. The $288,979 project, awarded on May 1, 2025 and scheduled for completion by Apr 30, 2027, will address two key research...

This $294,051 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports the development of a technical framework called "OpenNect" to democratize wireless access and promote collaboration among stakeholders. The project aims to address spectrum scarcity and inefficiency in current wireless systems by leveraging open-source technologies and decentralized models to enhance spectrum efficiency,...