WNCG Faculty Receive National Science Foundation Grants

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $700,000 in grant funding to two of WNCG's professors, Drs. Robert Heath and Scott Nettles, for research into mobile ad hoc wireless networks. The project is entitled "NeTS-ProWiN: Practical Use of Channel Information in Multihop Wireless Networks" focuses on the development of anytime, anywhere communication for mobile nodes that communicate despite changing locations and signal strength—and without fixed wireless infrastructure.

For a different proposal, Dr. Jeffrey Andrews was awarded $115,000 from the National Science Foundation for research on cognitive radios and ad hoc networks. The proposal was jointly awarded for $350,000 to be shared with Dr. Nihar Jindal at the University of Minnesota and Dr. Steven Weber at Drexel University, who is an alumnus of WNCG. The proposal was entitled “ Cognitive Ad Hoc Networks: Capacity Optimization Through Local Adaptation”, and will build on recent novel results on ad hoc network capacity developed by the investigators that use stochastic geometry and adaptive transmission techniques.