Wednesday, April 20, 2022

Tara Javidi awarded $1M NSF grant to make wireless networks more resilient

Tara Javidi, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at UC San Diego, has received a $1M award from the National Science Foundation’s Division of Computer and Network System as part of NSF’s new Resilient & Intelligent NextG Systems (RINGS) program.

Javidi, who is a founding co-director of the Center for Machine-Intelligence, Computing and Security (MICS) at UC San Diego, was awarded the grant to design a new generation of wireless networks that are resilient to unforeseen disruptive events, such as a weather event that can disable base station operations. The specific aim of the project is to design intelligent and actively vigilant networks that are in a constant state of preparedness, continually adapting their view of the world by actively sensing the environment, learning from the past, and counterfactually reasoning about the system’s future.

To bring intelligence and vigilance to these wireless networks, Javidi’s team will work on providing a novel active resiliency paradigm that senses both the internal system state and the external environment to learn and reason about anomalies. The inclusion of sensing into a future physical layer will be a cornerstone of realizing next generation wireless networks such as 6G. Joint sensing and communication will enable high performance allocation of limited resources and create the ability for the network to reason about itself and its environment.

Project title: LARA: Layering for Active Resiliency and Awareness in Next-generation in Wireless Networks

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