Research

Current Sponsored Research Projects

PAWS is leading or participating in multiple government- and industry-sponsored research projects in our core research areas.

NSF IMR: MT: NG-Scope: Fine-Grained NextG Cellular Telemetry : Project Page

Investigating fine-grained NextG cellular RAN telemetry for better end-to-end application performance and enhanced network measurement.
NG-Scope

NSF Convergence Accelerator Track G: AVOID 5G : Project Abstract

PAWS is collaborating with JHU, UCSD, and USC on AVOID 5G to Automate the Verification Of Internet Data-paths for 5G networks.
city internet scene at night

NSF Spectrum Innovation Initiative: National Radio Dynamic Zones : Project Abstract

Investigating spectrum sharing in radio dynamic zones in the NSF PAWR COSMOS and NOAA facilities in New York City.
sunset cellular tower

NSF SWIFT: Enhancing Managed Spectrum Sharing with FR3-Cognizant Digital Twins : Project Abstract

PAWS is building spectrum sharing mechanisms for the FR3 radio band in collaboration with the University of Pittsburgh.

DARPA QuICC: CMOS-Coupled Oscillator Optimization (COBI) : News Article

PAWS is developing NextG algorithms to run on COBI (Univ. of Minnesota) oscillator hardware, in the DARPA Quantum-Inspired Classical Computing (QuICC) program.
dots and lines

NSF RINGS: Resilient mmWave Networks via Distributed In-Surface Computing : Project Page

Building the next generation of more controllable mmWave, multi-band hybrid reconfigurable intelligent surfaces.
walle prototype

Past Sponsored Research Projects

NSF QENeTs: Quantum Compute-Enabled Wireless Networks (2018-2023) : Project Page

QENeTs leverages quantum computation for wireless networks to overcome computational limitations and unlock new levels of performance.
Envisioned QA deployment scenario in a Centralized RAN BBU

NSF RAPID: Machine Learning for Fine-Grained Contact Traceback in Epidemics (2020-2022) : Project Page

This NSF RAPID project leverages neural networks to map cellular readings to a feature space that enables proximity detection for contact tracing.
feature space b

SONY Research Award Program: Focused Research on Reconfigurable Reflectors (2022-2023) : Program Page

This SONY RAP project focused on building smart surfaces for Private Cellular Networks in the CBRS radio band (3550-3700 MHz).
WaveFlex surface

NSF: Continuous Spatial Awareness (CoSA) for Smart and Connected Objects (2016-2020) : Project Page

The CoSA project developed sensing techniques for IoT networks' spatial awareness of nearby mobile devices, RFID-tagged IoT objects, and building tomography.
ArrayTrack

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