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| Intra-Pulse Radar-Embedded Communications (Status: Active -- Project Award Date: 04-17-2008) |
| ITTC researchers will develop intra-pulse radar-embedded communications to facilitate covert communication. They aim to embed and recover covert data streams with kbps-level data rates. |
| Advanced Techniques for Continuous Phase Modulation (Status: Active -- Project Award Date: 12-17-2007) |
| ITTC research is advancing the state of the art in Continuous Phase Modulation (CPM). These techniques will affect the performance of current communication standards and influence the formation of future wireless communication standards. |
| Robust Wireless Mesh Networking Research Extension to 23 GHz (Status: Active -- Project Award Date: 10-11-2007) |
| ITTC in collaboration with the KU Department of Geography will determine the correlation of localized weather patterns, such as thunderstorms, and impacts on network performance for longer millimeter wave links. |
| Evaluation of RFID Tags on Metal Cylinders (Status: Active -- Project Award Date: 09-13-2007) |
| ITTC researchers are studying tag performance of multiple tags, especially when two relatively close to each other. Additionally, researchers will share their innovative RFID solutions with the sponsor. |
| Development of an ETSI-Compliant Polycarbonate RFID Tag (Status: Active -- Project Award Date: 08-15-2007) |
| ITTC researchers will modify the radio frequency identification (RFID) system, known as the KU-Tag, to track personal computers (PCs) and laptop computers for an industry sponsor. |
| A Framework for Re-targeting Radio Designs (Status: Active -- Project Award Date: 08-10-2007) |
| ITTC researchers address the challenge of re- using radio designs to implement multiple physical radios. |
| Aspects of Adaptive Pulse Compression (Status: Active -- Project Award Date: 08-01-2007) |
| Research will investigate aspects of adaptive pulse compression relevant to current and future sensing modalities. |
| CT-ISG: Collaborative Research: Non-bypassable Kernel Services for Execution Security (Status: Active -- Project Award Date: 07-27-2007) |
| To protect safety, health, and economic concerns of national interest, it is critical that complex engineered systems maintain survivable operation even in the face of malicious attacks. ITTC researchers are developing services to provide non-bypassable control over access and use of resources, shared system components, and other points of interaction. |
| Rail Sensor Testbed Program: Active Agents in Containers for Transport Chain Security (Status: Active -- Project Award Date: 07-03-2007) |
| ITTC research will fundamentally change the current centralized security model to more of a distributed one, which will make transported objects active agents in their own security. |
| K-INBRE Cellular Pathogen Gene Identification via Graph Data Mining (Status: Active -- Project Award Date: 06-27-2007) |
| New protein sequences offer unprecedented opportunities for knowledge-based sequence annotations. By aiming to automatically transfer experimentally gained biological knowledge from model organisms to newly sequenced genomes, researchers will expedite biological discovery. |
| K-INBRE: Complete, Upgrade and Enhance Data Handling in the Analytical Proteomics Laboratory (Status: Active -- Project Award Date: 06-26-2007) |
| Investigators are refining software that aids in proteomic and other life sciences research. |
| K-INBRE: Web Server Tracker, an Automated Literature, Protein/DNA Sequence and Domain Tracking System (Status: Active -- Project Award Date: 06-26-2007) |
| ITTC investigators are procuring a powerful web application server to replace the server that currently runs Web Server Tracker. |
| PMD Monitoring in Live DWDM Optical Networks (Status: Active -- Project Award Date: 06-13-2007) |
| ITTC researchers will reduce the complexity of the current PMD measuring device and increase its detection efficiency. |
| Collaborative Research: A Virtual Reality Laboratory and Curriculum for Undergraduates (Status: Active -- Project Award Date: 06-01-2007) |
| The number of application areas for virtual reality (VR) continues to grow; however, few colleges offer courses in VR. This project expands ongoing initiatives that will make VR more accessible to undergraduate computer science (CS) programs. |
| A VHDL-Based Telemetry Waveform Generator (Status: Active -- Project Award Date: 05-17-2007) |
| The primary purpose of the project is to implement a VHDL-based waveform generator for a number of waveforms that are part of open communication standards in aeronautical telemetry. |
| Robust Millimeter Wave Metropolitan Mesh Network (Status: Active -- Project Award Date: 04-18-2007) |
| ITTC research will conduct experiments to determine the impact of localized weather patterns, such as thunderstorms, on network performance for longer millimeter wave links. |
| Collaborative Research: Bridging Security Primitives and Protocols: A Digital LEGO Set for Information Assurance Courses (Status: Completed -- Project Award Date: 03-15-2007) |
| The large number of security protocols along with complex procedures and various vulnerabilities remains a challenging topic in the classroom. To aid the learning process, researchers are developing a digital construction set that offers innovative instructional demonstrations and hands-on experiments. |
| CAREER: Machine Learning Approaches for Genome-wide Biological Network Interference (Status: Active -- Project Award Date: 02-22-2007) |
| This research focuses on developing and applying novel computational methods for reconstructing genome-wide biological networks from high-throughput data. |
| An Adaptive, Negotiating Multi-Agent System for Sensor Webs (Status: Active -- Project Award Date: 12-01-2006) |
| ITTC researchers will develop and test nodes, which allow collaboration in a rational manner, within a Sensor Web. |
| An Online Clearinghouse for Bioinformatics Software Sharing and Evaluation (Status: Active -- Project Award Date: 09-29-2006) |
| Researchers will develop an online repository for the sharing, distribution, and evaluation of small-scale, public-domain bioinformatics software tools. |
| Collaborative Research: CSR-EHS: Semantic Domain Integration for Embedded & Hybrid Systems (Status: Active -- Project Award Date: 09-15-2006) |
| ITTC researchers are developing a revolutionary approach to system software for complex engineered systems, in which application QoS requirements, system software QoS semantics, resource management, and behavioral information are integrated. |
| Mobile Wireless Technology and the Impacts on Future Internet (Status: Active -- Project Award Date: 09-15-2006) |
| The NSF workshop will foster collaboration between the mobile and wireless technology and network architecture communities in the United States and Scandinavia |
| NeTS-FIND: CogNet--An Experimental Protocol Stack for Cognitive Radio Networks and Its Integration with the Future Internet (Status: Active -- Project Award Date: 09-15-2006) |
| The CogNet project is performing research on architectural tradeoffs and protocol design approaches for cognitive networks at both local network and the global internetwork levels. |
| Evaluation of Rapid Deployment Mesh Networking for Work Zones (Status: Active -- Project Award Date: 09-01-2006) |
| A new, decentralized wireless communication technology, known as "mesh networks," will rapidly deploy and automatically configure what is needed to blanket a rural work zone. |
| Learning from Small Samples with High Dimensionality (Status: Active -- Project Award Date: 09-01-2006) |
| Target detection/recognition and other operations require the classification of small samples with high dimensionality. However, most current classification methods assume the availability of large sample sizes. |
| NeTS-Find: Collaborative Research: Postmodern Internetwork Architecture (Status: Active -- Project Award Date: 09-01-2006) |
| ITTC researchers will design, implement, and evaluate a minimalist internetwork layer and auxiliary functionality. This will access a larger portion of network design space without sacrificing the economy of scale offered by the unified Internet. |
| Optical-Domain Performance Monitoring for Next Generation Optical Networks (Status: Active -- Project Award Date: 09-01-2006) |
| ITTC researchers are refining their multi-functional optical system performance monitor. In addition to performing high-resolution optical spectrum analyzing, the system is capable of monitoring chromatic dispersion and PMD at each wavelength channel. |
| Portable and Wavelength-Tunable Two-Photon Microscopy (Status: Active -- Project Award Date: 09-01-2006) |
| The interdisciplinary research will result in increased accessibility of multi-photon microscopy for a wide range of biological, chemical, and analytical applications. |
| Quantifying the Impact of Unlicensed Devices on Digital TV Receivers (Status: Active -- Project Award Date: 09-01-2006) |
| This project will perform the first rigorous scientific study to establish the behavior of TV receivers under the sorts of spectrum usage that might be expected from unlicensed devices in the TV white spaces. |
| RFID System Performance Analysis (Status: Active -- Project Award Date: 08-21-2006) |
| ITTC researchers are investigating the suitability of different tags,readers, antennas, and technologies (UHF/HF) for asset tracking of metal tooling. |
| TRI 2006 Research Program Research Initiation (RI Award): A Realistic Driving Simulator Based on Parallel Computing (Status: Active -- Project Award Date: 08-18-2006) |
| ITTC will design and develop a cost-effective and highly realistic simulator for the training and evaluation of drivers. |
| TRI 2006 Research Program Research Team Partnership (RTP Award): Development of Technologies for Trusted Corridors (Status: Active -- Project Award Date: 08-18-2006) |
| ITTC researchers are creating a visible supply chain for the Kansas City group, SmartPort. Recognizing the strategic position of KC, SmartPort has worked to expand export distribution in the metro. |
| Effects of Conductivity, Thickness, and Width on UHF RFID Tag Antenna Efficiency (Status: Active -- Project Award Date: 08-09-2006) |
| ITTC researchers will measure the performance of antennas with various conductive materials and thicknesses and establish the ideal free-space thickness of copper. |
| Graduate Scholarship in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Status: Active -- Project Award Date: 08-07-2006) |
| The proposed award will support the graduate education of Suyang (Hans) Ju. |
| Practical Implementation of a FFT-Pruning Algorithm for NC-OFDM Systems (Status: Active -- Project Award Date: 08-01-2006) |
| The objective of this research is to develop practical algorithms capable of reducing the hardware complexity and execution time of an under-utilized fast Fourier transform (FFT) component. |
| Protein Structurally-and Functionally Specific Packing Motifs (Status: Active -- Project Award Date: 08-01-2006) |
| ITTC researchers will oversee the development of software to identify protein structures. |
| Technology's impact on the health care industry (Status: Active -- Project Award Date: 08-01-2006) |
| Russell Webb is exploring technology that will judge the quality of care, using clinical data. The Ph.D. student is funded through the Self Fellowship. |
| Multi-hop Routing Optimization in Wireless Networks using Genetic Algorithms (Status: Active -- Project Award Date: 06-01-2006) |
| ITTC research is creating algorithms that are capable of searching for the best path between a source and destination node in a wireless multi-hop network. |
| ResiliNets: Multilevel Resilient and Survivable Networking (Status: Active -- Project Award Date: 06-01-2006) |
| The resilient and survivable networking initiative (ResiliNets) is investigating the architecture, protocols, and mechanisms to provide resilient, survivable, and disruption-tolerant networks, services, and applications. |
| New FEC Schemes for Aeronautical TM (Status: Active -- Project Award Date: 05-01-2006) |
| ITTC technology will provide increased spectral and detection efficiency for aeronautical telemetry by treating the modulation itself as a code. |
| Intergovernmental Personnel Act (IPA) Agreement (Status: Active -- Project Award Date: 04-28-2006) |
| Ron Hui, affiliated with CNSL, is directing the Photonics and Device Technologies Program within the National Science Foundation. |
| Adaptive Bit Allocation with Reduced Feedback for Wireless Multicarrier Transceivers (Status: Active -- Project Award Date: 04-01-2006) |
| This work will reduce the amount of feedback information required to perform adaptive bit allocation in multicarrier transceivers. |
| Understanding and Forecasting Ecological Change: Causes, Trajectories and Consequences of Environmental Change in the Central Plains (Status: Active -- Project Award Date: 04-01-2006) |
| This NSF EPSCoR initiative uses Kansas grasslands as a model ecosystem to assess the ecological and societal impacts of global change on coupled human-natural systems. |
| Development of a High Altitude Balloon Experiment System (HABS) to Fly Standard Interface Payloads under Controllable Flight Conditions (Status: Active -- Project Award Date: 03-12-2006) |
| ITTC researchers are developing a new high altitude balloon system. |
| Project Summary: Reconfigurable Computing Cluster (Status: Active -- Project Award Date: 03-10-2006) |
| ITTC researchers are experimenting with a 64-node experimental Reconfigurable Computing Cluster. If successful, it will be a significant step towards cost-effective petascale clusters, which perform quadrillions of operations per second. These supercomputers will be a hundred times more powerful than current systems. |
| Cooperative Diversity Routing Techniques for Hybrid Fiber-Wireless Networks (Status: Active -- Project Award Date: 03-01-2006) |
| Researchers are developing a cooperative diversity routing techniques for hybrid fiber-wireless networks (HFWNs) deployed in a metropolitan areas. |
| Non-destructive PMD Monitoring in Live WDM Optical Systems (Status: Active -- Project Award Date: 03-01-2006) |
| In optical fiber communication systems, polar-mode dispersion (PMD) is one of the most important factors of performance degradation. ITTC researchers developed a novel and efficient PMD monitoring apparatus, based on the coherent detection and RF signal processing. |
| Waveform-Diverse Sensors (Status: Active -- Project Award Date: 11-30-2005) |
| Instead of dealing with interference as simply a deleterious effect, radar applications may use interference as additional sources of information without the requirement of greater bandwidth. |
| Adaptive Distributed Radio Open-source Intelligent Network (ADROIT) (Status: Active -- Project Award Date: 10-01-2005) |
| The Center will provide 10 Agile Radios, a software defined radio, for use in developing and demonstrating capabilities needed for the DARPA project. |
| A Unified Architecture for SensorNet with Multiple Owners (Status: Active -- Project Award Date: 08-25-2005) |
| Sensor networks contribute to the national need to monitor and detect threats. ITTC researchers are working with sensor networks that need to be rapidly deployed and where elements of the overall system are owned/controlled (possibly in real time) by a variety of organizations. |
| Index Switchable III-nitride Planar Lightwave Circuits for Optical Communications (Status: Active -- Project Award Date: 08-17-2005) |
| The development of a carrier-induced index change is necessary for the evolution of high-speed optical communication. ITTC researchers will create this real, functional device for the all-optical packet switch. |
| Simulation of Rosetta Representations and Evaluations (Status: Active -- Project Award Date: 08-15-2005) |
| ITTC software will help electronics designers develop devices such as cellular phones, PDAs, gaming systems, semiconductor chips, and avionics. |
| Stochastic Analysis & Applications (Status: Active -- Project Award Date: 08-01-2005) |
| Recent problems of the modem world generated the need for development of stochastic calculus with fractional Brownian motion (fBm). |
| Computational Prediction of Beta-Sheet Arrangement (K-INBRE) (Status: Active -- Project Award Date: 07-01-2005) |
| The project aims to better understand inter- and intra- molecular long-range interactions, to apply gained knowledge towards finding solutions for neurodegenerative diseases, and to improve prediction of protein 3-D structure. |
| RFID Tag Analysis and Trade Studies (Status: Completed -- Project Award Date: 06-29-2005) |
| ITTC is conducting research on the availability of small RFID tags and testing their operational capabilities. |
| Collaborative Project: Assessing the User-base and Expanding the Usability/ Reach of the Analytical Sciences Digital Library through Developmental Workshops (Status: Active -- Project Award Date: 04-06-2005) |
| Improved efficiencies will greatly increase the rate at which new content is added, increasing the depth and breadth of the Analytical Sciences Digital Library, a peer-reviewed collection of Web-based resources for students, teachers and practitioners of analytical chemistry. |
| First Award: Rapid Integration of Genomic Data from Multiple Sources (Status: Active -- Project Award Date: 03-21-2005) |
| With the steady increase in genomic data, the impact to centers using the public domain Genomic Unified Schema, GUS could be significant. ITTC will provide essential functionality for genome-analysis research and development. |
| Kansas Universities' Technology Evaluation Satellite--the MIST Mission (Status: Active -- Project Award Date: 02-09-2005) |
| Researchers are building and testing a miniature maneuvering control system in a neutral gravity environment by flying it as an experiment on the NASAJSC KC-135 or similar aircraft. |
| Automatic Synthesis of Hardware Features to Augment the POWER Architecture (Status: Active -- Project Award Date: 01-20-2005) |
| TTC researchers are generating a set of hardware features that can be used to augment the POWER architecture. The hardware features, which will be synthesized from native POWER object code, are suitable for programming an FPGA device. |
| Modular Wireless Avionics System for Autonomous UAVs (Status: Active -- Project Award Date: 01-20-2005) |
| Research will focus on developing an airborne flight test module and the supporting flight test ground station. |
| Unified Data Format for Mass Spectrometry Analysis (UDF) (Status: Active -- Project Award Date: 01-13-2005) |
| University of Kansas researchers are developing a suite of data conversion and compression routines capable of generating compact repositories of mass spectrometry data in a unified format suitable for efficient analysis and rapid reconstitution to vendor-specific form. |
| Planetary Advanced Radio Sounder (Status: Active -- Project Award Date: 12-01-2004) |
| The University of Massachusetts-Lowell is supporting ITTC graduate student research for part of its work in NASA's Program for Regional Climate Assessment. The student will develop models in collaboration with NASA to simulate radar sounder performance. |
| Development of an Integrated Bioinformatics Information Infrastructure (Status: Active -- Project Award Date: 10-13-2004) |
| Development of a systematic integrated bioinformatics information infrastructure is critical for fostering such multi-faceted (and often inter-related) bioresearch efforts. ITTC research will devise and implement new-networked bioinformatics infrastructure resources for facilitating collaborative, cross-disciplinary biological studies of relevance to chemical and biological defense. |
| Collaborative Research: High-Speed Self-Configuring Networks Based on Cost-Effective Plug-and-Play Optical(PPO) Nodes (Status: Active -- Project Award Date: 10-01-2004) |
| The project will answer challenging questions of theoretical and practical interest relating to network protocols, analytical optical transmission models, and micro fabrication technology applied to the realization of a micro-OSA. |
| A Computing Facility for Bioinformatics and Life Sciences Research (Status: Active -- Project Award Date: 09-29-2004) |
| A computing facility will facilitate the development, testing and deployment of new computing technologies in support of research on a variety of life sciences problems. The close collaboration between chemists, biologists, mathematicians, and computer scientists using this facility will result in the creation of new computing and information technologies and will directly lead to increasing our understanding of biological systems. |
| Computational Proteomics: Protein Interaction Prediction (Status: Active -- Project Award Date: 09-01-2004) |
| The long-term objectives of this research include better understanding protein functions based on their domain structures and predicting protein domains in terms of their functions. |
| EHS: Dynamic Hardware Reconfiguration to Accelerate Java-Base Embedded Systems (Status: Active -- Project Award Date: 09-01-2004) |
| This project combines commercially available, hybrid devices and a novel run-time system with the goal of building systems with better performance and fewer resources. |
| Ice Thickness Measurements over the Antarctic Peninsula and Selected Outlet Glaciers (Status: Active -- Project Award Date: 09-01-2004) |
| ITTC researhers will conduct airborne radar soundings from a Chilean aircraft. The gathered data from peninsula and outlet glaciers will help researchers study ice-sheet mass balance and glacier response to climate change. |
| Development of a Spatial/Frequency Domain Interferometry Radar System for the Measurement of Sea-Ice Thickness (Status: Active -- Project Award Date: 08-30-2004) |
| Researchers are developing an airborne, interferometery radar system for the direct measurement of sea-ice thickness and extent. The radar will help scientists in their long-term climate predictions. |
| Comparative Analysis of EPC Compliant Devices (Status: Active -- Project Award Date: 08-16-2004) |
| The RFID Alliance Lab will produce a "consumer reports" on commercially available EPC-compliant hardware. These reports will be sold to the industry and will enable end users to make more informed decisions and move quicker and with confidence as they develop their RFID strategies. |
| An Enhanced Genetic Algorithm with Direct Manipulation of Sets for Data Mining. (Status: Active -- Project Award Date: 08-01-2004) |
| Christopher Taylor is creating search tools to mine patient databases, looking for common factors among people with heart disease. The Ph.D. student is funded through the Self Fellowship. |
| Constructing Gene Networks from Microarray Data for Age-Dependent Epiliptogenesis (Status: Active -- Project Award Date: 07-01-2004) |
| It is the goal of this project to develop new computational models for inferring gene networks from microarray data, help investigators understand the molecular mechanisms of epilepsy, and provide new targets for therapeutic intervention in seizure development. |
| First Award: Identify Informative Genes for Cancer Classification (Status: Completed -- Project Award Date: 05-01-2004) |
| This project addresses the problems of identification of informative genes for cancer classification. The main objective of this work is to perform a preliminary investigation on a new margin and genetic-algorithm-based feature-selection algorithm. |
| Optical-Domain Performance Monitoring for Next Generation Optical Networks (Status: Completed -- Project Award Date: 05-01-2004) |
| Optical domain performance monitoring will be crucial to the success of future dynamic optical networks. ITTC researchers are refining a performance monitor that will work with most optical network architecture. It will provide sufficient information for network maintenance and quality control. |
| RICE--Radio Ice Cerenkov Experiment Laboratory Management System for Proteomics Application (Status: Active -- Project Award Date: 01-01-2004) |
| he Radio Ice Cherenkov Experiment (RICE) investigates neutrinos, space particles that may hold information about the physical universe. |
| K-16 Over Tuttle Creek Fatigue Repair Project (Status: Completed -- Project Award Date: 11-01-2003) |
| ITTC researchers are providing the Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT) with their analysis of the Tuttle Creek Bridge, near Manhattan. The Bridge is experiencing cracking that must be repaired. |
| Machine Learning for Failure Prediction in Computer-Controlled Devices (Status: Completed -- Project Award Date: 11-01-2003) |
| ITTC researchers will develop software that can detect future problematic behavior and fix it before a device's failure. |
| Phased-Array Antenna System Development (Status: Completed -- Project Award Date: 10-28-2003) |
| ITTC researchers are developing a phased-array antenna system for Honeywell. This will enable data downlinks from an airborne sensor suite at distances up to 20 miles. A prototype antenna system is being developed to demonstrate system feasibility. |
| National Radio Networking Research Testbed (NRNRT) (Status: Active -- Project Award Date: 10-02-2003) |
| ITTC researchers are developing a National Radio Network Research Testbed (NTNRT) to support research and development of new radio devices, services, and architectures and to provide a facility for researchers to test and evaluate their systems. |
| Reduced Brace Section (RXS): Proof of Concept (Status: Completed -- Project Award Date: 10-01-2003) |
| In the aftermath of the 1994 Northridge Earthquake, the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) updated its building codes with Seismic Provisions for Structural Steel. The updated Seismic Provisions have significantly increased the cost and size of steel connections for structures used for industrial purposes. Professor Kim Roddis is working to lower the cost while helping ensure these buildings perform well in earthquakes. |
| ChatTrack: Archiving and Searching Chat and Instant Messages (Status: Active -- Project Award Date: 09-30-2003) |
| As the chat technology moves from the home to the office, the need for intelligent tools to capture and manage instant messages is growing. Researchers at ITTC are developing this technology with their main focus being information security. |
| Cryospheric Advanced Sensor (CAS): A Spaceborne Microwave Sensor for Sea Ice Thickness and Snow Cover Characteristics Instrument Incubator Program (IIP) (Status: Active -- Project Award Date: 09-12-2003) |
| RSL researchers are developing a radar and its data acquisition system for field experiments. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) will use the system, specially designed for cold weather. |
| Collaborative Project: Assessing the User-base and Expanding the Usability/Reach of the Analytical Sciences Digital Library through Developmental Workshops (Status: Completed -- Project Award Date: 09-04-2003) |
| Reesarchers are working to improve the Analytical Sciences Digital Library (ASDL). The electronic library collects, catalogs, and links web-based information and discovery material pertinent to chemical measurements and instrumentation. |
| Extending the Thread Execution Model for Hybrid CPU/FPGA Architectures (Status: Active -- Project Award Date: 09-01-2003) |
| Recently emerging CPU/FPGA hybrid chips are becoming extremely important components, contributing to the creation of a family of COTS hardware platforms for future RTEC systems. System software for these hybrids must provide a fairly general set of capabilities to support the widening range of applications. But at the same time, it also must be capable of providing the specialized support required to satisfy a particular application's interfacing and performance needs. |
| Model-Based Data Inversion to Estimate Accumulation Rate of Polar Ice Sheets (Status: Active -- Project Award Date: 09-01-2003) |
| Researchers will develop numerically efficient model-based signal processing algorithms to invert collected remote sensing data. They will estimate the density and thickness profiles of the near-surface internal layers by model-based data inversion, and use them to compute the snow accumulation rate. |
| SGER: System-Level Network Modeling (Status: Completed -- Project Award Date: 09-01-2003) |
| Researchers will explore new techniques for design of advanced networking services. Specifically, they will concentrate on understanding and predicting emergent behaviors resulting from interactions between and among services and infrastructure elements. |
| Workshops: Support for Wireless Networking Workshop and PI Meeting (Status: Active -- Project Award Date: 09-01-2003) |
| ITTC researchers will ccontinue to support the National Science Foundation in developing a comprehensive research program in innovative and advanced wireless networking systems. This project proposes to extend their initial work in eliciting research problems through their NSF/FCC Workshop on the Future of Spectrum: Technologies and Policies. |
| Development Multilink PPP Technologies from Iridium (Status: Completed -- Project Award Date: 08-28-2003) |
| The Polar Radar for Ice Sheet Measurements (PRISM) project requires communication to the polar regions. Communication coverage in Greenland and Antarctica must be truly mobile, and its implementation requires relatively inexpensive equipment. ITTC researchers selected to use Multilink point-to-point protocol (MLPPP) over the Iridium satellite system. This system has the potential to support the requirements for remote communications for a government contractor. |
| Intergovernmental Personnel Act (IPA) Assignment for Joseph Evans (Status: Completed -- Project Award Date: 08-18-2003) |
| Joseph Evans, professor of EECS, will spend the next two years at the National Science Foundation, directing a program within the Division of Advanced Networking Infrastructure and Research. |
| Interoperability Testing of Bluetooth Devices: Prototype & Implementation (Status: Completed -- Project Award Date: 08-15-2003) |
| ITTC intends to fill a role complementary to the certification process and aims to measure the interoperability and ease of use of Bluetooth products. |
| KU High Altitude Balloon Experiment System and the KUBESat-1 Project (Status: Active -- Project Award Date: 08-15-2003) |
| The primary goal of this program is to design, build, test, and operate a satellite-like vehicle, commonly called a BalloonSat. It will contain one or more experiments and will be launched on a weather balloon. |
| SmartXAutofill (Status: Active -- Project Award Date: 08-15-2003) |
| SmartXAutofill is an intelligent assistant that automates data entry for XML documents by predicting the values of the XML fields. Our technology supports the complexity and nested structures of XML grammars, and incorporates approximate predictive techniques from Machine Learning. SmartXAutofill achieves much higher accuracy then current auto-complete technologies can offer. |
| ITR: Computation and Communication in Sensor Webs (Status: Active -- Project Award Date: 08-01-2003) |
| We will advance sensor web research by prototyping a machine model that integrates computing and communications requirements. The broader impacts of this work include applications to networking and wireless devices, computer architecture, device technologies, and higher-level abstract embedded systems design. This work will lead to future collaborations, both within the department and outside it, between the investigators and researchers in these areas. |
| Optimal Space-Time Waveform Design of Adaptive, Multi-Mode Radar (Status: Active -- Project Award Date: 08-01-2003) |
| This project will result in the mathematical and algorithmic knowledge required to construct adaptive space-time transmit waveforms that are optimal with respect to specific performance criteria. The efficacy of these methods shall be demonstrated and evaluated using numerical simulations and other mathematical measures. |
| Community Workshop on Computational Simulation and Visualization Environment of Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) (Status: Completed -- Project Award Date: 07-15-2003) |
| Researchers are intending to shift the emphasis of earthquake engineering research from current reliance on physical testing to integrated experimentation, computation, theory, databases, and model-based simulation. The upcoming workshop will help support this shift while developing a supportive collaboration for earthquake engineering research and education. |
| High Resolution Ice Thickness and Plane Wave Mapping of Near-Surface Layers (Status: Active -- Project Award Date: 07-15-2003) |
| Researchers are developing two compact radar systems. The first radar measures ice thickness, deep internal layers with high resolution, and basal conditions. The second radar will detect near-surface internal layers. This data will help scientists understand important glacial processes relevant to glacier dynamics and ice sheet mass balance. |
| KU Antenna Range Improvements (cont) (Status: Completed -- Project Award Date: 05-23-2003) |
| This project will increase the abilities of the University of Kansas Outdoor Antenna Range. The project's sponsor, Honeywell FM&T, will provide technical support. |
| PMD Characterization of Installed Fiber (Status: Completed -- Project Award Date: 05-01-2003) |
| Researchers are continuing work to understand how polarization-mode dispersion (PMD) affects installed (buried) fiber cables. They are researching how this behavior might impact the reliability of a a fiber-optic network. |
| The Future of Spectrum: Technologies and Policies Workshop, May 28-29, 2003. (Status: Active -- Project Award Date: 05-01-2003) |
| The National Science Foundation Workshop on The Future of Spectrum is to determine the state-of-the-art in radio hardware and software technologies, consider spectrum management policy alternatives and report to NSF on possible research directions. The workshop will be held in Washington, DC at the end of May 2003 and bring together approximately 75 participants. |
| Distributed Scheduling Aspects for Time-Critical Targeting (Status: Completed -- Project Award Date: 04-07-2003) |
| KU researchers will work with three other universities to develop a system, ensuring the effective execution of computations. The communication devices have parts distributed across a number of different physical components in a distributed real-time embedded (DRE) system. KU will concentrate on two major research tasks as a subcontractor on this DARPA project. |
| Polar Radar for Ice Sheet Measurements (PRISM) Project (supplement) (Status: Active -- Project Award Date: 03-01-2003) |
| The system will be developed to collect, process, and analyze data in real time and in conjunction with a priori information derived from archived sources. The combined real-time and archived information will be used onboard the vehicles to select and generate an optimum sensor configuration. |
| Investigation of AQUA Response to Stratiform Precipitation Systems (Status: Completed -- Project Award Date: 02-01-2003) |
| Researchers will study the characteristics of cold extra-tropical storms. These are quite different from normal precipitation systems in the tropics. They will begin looking at cloud physics parameters by using microwave sensors. |
| Model-Based Signal Processing Algorithm for MIDP GPR (Status: Completed -- Project Award Date: 01-21-2003) |
| Researchers will develop an algorithm to help scientists learn what exists underneath Mars' surface. ITTC will perform the work under a two-year subcontract with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. |
| Flexible Wireless Systems for Rapid Network Evolution (Status: Completed -- Project Award Date: 01-01-2003) |
| ITTC researchers are developing, implementing, and demonstrating an ultra-wideband communications system based on hundreds to thousands of individual carrier channels. Such systems will allow the rapid deployment of new wireless Internet services. |
| Protocol, Profile, and Interoperability Testing of Bluetooth Devices (Status: Completed -- Project Award Date: 11-15-2002) |
| ITTC researchers will test whether the Bluetooth components are capable of interacting as intended.Bluetooth devices are only as useful as their ability to communicate and interoperate with other Bluetooth devices. Thus, we will perform interoperability tests based on Bluetooth protocols and profiles. |
| Automated Test Generation in Intelligent Systems (GENISYS) (Status: Completed -- Project Award Date: 10-01-2002) |
| ITTC will provide research and development to help EDAptive develop GENISYS tools. |
| Electronic Sensor System Engineering and Capture Environment (ESSENCE) (Status: Completed -- Project Award Date: 10-01-2002) |
| Resarchers will continue to develop Rosetta analysis tools for EDAptive. The year-long project will have four technical areas of research and development. |
| Ice-thickness Measurement over the Patagonian Glaciers and the Pine Island and Thwaites Glaciers, Antarctica (Status: Completed -- Project Award Date: 09-15-2002) |
| ITTC researchers will use airborne radar to measure the ice thickness of the Pagagonian ice fields in Chile and two different glaciers in Antarctica. This will be the first time the radar will attempt to measure a temperate ice sheet. |
| Quantifying the Temporal Characteristics of Congestion Events in the Internet (Status: Active -- Project Award Date: 09-01-2002) |
| ITTC researchers will conduct research on a Quality of Service (QoS) metric for the Internet that can be understood easily and used in the design of future packet networks. While QoS mechanisms have not been widely developed in the past because of their complexity and their misunderstood role in user performance, they could play a crucial role in the future design of packet networks |
| Quantifying the Temporal Characteristics of Congestion Events in the Internet (supplement) (Status: Active -- Project Award Date: 09-01-2002) |
| This supplement will help ITTC researchers conduct research on a Quality of Service (QoS) metric for the Internet that can be understood easily and used in the design of future packet networks. While QoS mechanisms have not been widely developed in the past because of their complexity and their misunderstood role in user performance, they could play a crucial role in the future design of packet networks. |
| Collaborative Project: Expansion and Enhancement of the Center of Excellence in Information Assurance Program (Status: Completed -- Project Award Date: 08-16-2002) |
| The program will expand and improve on existing non-software-engineering Internet security courses. Given the vast amount of banking transactions, electronic commerce, and medical information systems, security requirements for these systems far exceed traditional security requirements for networks. |
| Radar Sounding and Airborne High-Resolution Mapping of Near-Surface Layers of the Greenland Ice Sheet (Status: Active -- Project Award Date: 08-15-2002) |
| ITTC researchers will continue developing and fine-tuning radar to measure ice sheet thickness and snow accumulation rates. This radar will improve data collection over outlet glaciers and transition zones. |
| System Level Design of Embedded Systems (Status: Completed -- Project Award Date: 08-15-2002) |
| This research program will develop and demonstrate capabilities that analyze the complex interactions between heterogeneous, embedded system component domains. The research plan involves three major objectives. |
| Development of a Monostatic/Bistatic Synthetic Aperture Radar System for Two-Dimensional Mapping of Basal Ice Conditions (Status: Completed -- Project Award Date: 08-01-2002) |
| A Ph.D. student in electrical engineering will develop a radar to help gather data on the basal conditions of the Greenland and Antarctica ice sheets. The two-dimensional mapping radar system, similar to a topography map, will help establish more accurate ice flow models. Researchers will have evidence to help evaluate their theories on the melting polar ice sheets. |
| Stochastic Systems and Control (Status: Active -- Project Award Date: 08-01-2002) |
| The major focus of this proposal is the applications of a stochastic calculus for a fractional Brownian motion to stochastic systems, identification and control. |
| KU Antenna Range Capability Upgrade (Status: Completed -- Project Award Date: 05-20-2002) |
| The Radar Sensing and Remote Systems Laboratory will upgrade the University of Kansas Outdoor Antenna Range during the four-month project. The project description includes a detailed listing of the improvements. |
| A Radar Sounder for Measuring Sea Ice Thickness: A Feasibility Study (Status: Completed -- Project Award Date: 03-01-2002) |
| Prasad Gogineni, Deane E. Ackers Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering, and his team will create a wide-band radar that operates over a frequency range of 10-230 MHz. This will allow the radar to tell the difference between thicker ice caps and sea ice. It will be tested on the sea ice off the Alaska coast. Researchers will develop an instrument that is capable of direct measurements of ice thickness and can be put on an airplane to minimize environmental impact. The radar would have extensive mapping capabilities and could replace limited submarine and satellite sonar. |
| Validation of AMSR Snow Depth on Sea Ice Retrievals Using an Airborne Pulse Radar (Status: Active -- Project Award Date: 03-01-2002) |
| The Remote Sensing Laboratory at ITTC is performing research to develop an airborne, stepped-pulse radar that will be able to validate the data on snow depth over sea ice, obtained by NASA's Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) Microwave Imager (SSM/I) using a satellite-based passive microwave algorithm. |
| Characterize API for Real-Time Computing Systems and Test upon Processor Upgrades (CART) (Status: Completed -- Project Award Date: 01-07-2002) |
| ITTC will perform basic research and development of mechanisms for specifying complex testing interfaces and will develop techniques for generating tests when the API interface is not available to the testing procedure. We will help develop translators for generating test vectors for appropriate interfaces, and we will develop techniques for defining input signals directly and for generating test sequences of multiple test inputs. |
| Biodiversity and Ecosystem Informatics (BDEI): Biodiversity Information Organization Using Taxonomy (BIOT) (Status: Completed -- Project Award Date: 01-01-2002) |
| This project proposes to build upon existing work at the University of Kansas related to information discovery, retrieval, and delivery. |
| IP QoS in Broadband Wireless Networks (Status: Completed -- Project Award Date: 01-01-2002) |
| This project addresses the question of how to carry multiple types of traffic with multiple levels of service over the wireless environment. Specifically, the goal is to build a protocol or a mechanism that will allow integrating the wireless environment (represented by the MAC layer) with the QoS architectures proposed for the wired networks (e.g., the Internet Diffserv and Intserv architectures). |
| Modeling Ultra-Dense, Ultra-High Speed WDM Fiber Networks (Status: Completed -- Project Award Date: 01-01-2002) |
| The goal of this new effort is to expand the functionality and operability of this code, to rigorously test it, and to use it to model dense WDM situations of interest to Sprint TP&I. The functionality and operability of the code will be expanded to allow the greatest possible flexibility in modeling the widest possible range of WDM networks with the least possible operator expertise. |
| eCIS (Enterprise Component Integration System) Tool Development (Status: Completed -- Project Award Date: 12-01-2001) |
| This project focuses on investigating and developing enterprise component integration system (eCIS) tools. Three main areas are addressed: (1) defining classification schemes for application domains, (2) defining adaptation architectures, and (3) defining adaptation components. |
| Wideband Planar (HDTV) Antenna (Status: Active -- Project Award Date: 11-24-2001) |
| Many TV antennas do not operate well under multipath signal conditions. Those antennas that are more effective in dealing with multipath signals often have a limited response bandwidth, and some are characterized by a large wind area, creating a "sail" which is easily damaged in moderate to high winds. ITTC researchers are developing antennas with the ability to reduce the negative effects of multipath signals, while offering a wider bandwidth and resistance to wind effects. |
| Ultra-High-Capacity Optical Communications and Networking: III-nitride Wide Bandgap Semiconductors for Optical Communications (Status: Active -- Project Award Date: 11-01-2001) |
| The concepts of this project are distinct from recent mainstream research and development efforts. Through its success, this research may bring a technological breakthrough in fiber-optic networks, as well as the introduction into commerical applications, all optic packet switches. |
| Mobile Sensor Web for Polar Ice Sheet Measurement (PRISM) (Status: Active -- Project Award Date: 10-01-2001) |
| The system will be developed to collect, process, and analyze data in real time and in conjunction with a priori information derived from archived sources. The combined real-time and archived information will be used onboard the vehicles to select and generate an optimum sensor configuration. |
| Development of a Fused Ice Classification Scheme (Status: Completed -- Project Award Date: 09-20-2001) |
| We propose to investigate automated learning techniques to generate classification heuristics that will allow ARKTOS to classify sea-ice in all areas of the Arctic, and, to develop techniques for the assimilation of the results of sea-ice classification algorithms, generating ice concentration maps for the whole Arctic region. |
| Acquisition of Equipment to Support Lightwave and Microwave Research (Status: Completed -- Project Award Date: 09-01-2001) |
| We propose an equipment grant to enhance ongoing and future lightwave communications and radar remote sensing research and education at the University of Kansas. |
| Scalable Performance Models for Large Scale Networks with Correlated Traffic (Status: Completed -- Project Award Date: 08-16-2001) |
| This project aims to study high-speed access networks, as these types of networks have been shown to have highly correlated and bursty traffic. |
| Using Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) to Identify and Correct Errors in Integrated Waybills (Status: Completed -- Project Award Date: 08-01-2001) |
| Case Based reasoning (CBR) is both a problem-solving methodology as well as a theory of reasoning and memory based on the experiences of human reasoning. A CBR system is an intelligent, problem solving system that reasons by retrieving relevant cases from its memory. |
| PNNI Simulator: Performance Evaluation Studies and Continued Development (Status: Completed -- Project Award Date: 05-16-2001) |
| This project is a continuation of a current Sprint-funded project, of which the initial development phase of the PNNI (Private Network-Network Interface) simulator is now complete. One focus of this project's continued work is in finding the full value of the simulator, which has yet to be demonstrated through its use in more extensive performance evaluation studies. A second focus is the continued development of the simulator capabilities, as new features or modifications are required by the needs of specific experiments of interest to Sprint. |
| Traffic Modeling for Network Engineering (Status: Completed -- Project Award Date: 05-16-2001) |
| The basis of this project is the study of ATM call models, analysis of which has been thus far focused on examining the statistical properties of the data on different time scales. Two primary centers of study are on the relationship between coarse time-scale measurements and fine time-scale measurements, and on the characterization of the long-range dependence (LRD) properties of the data. |
| Intelligent Knowledge Management Environments (Status: Active -- Project Award Date: 04-25-2001) |
| The purpose of this project is to define and demonstrate an intelligent knowledge management environment to assist the Defense Information Technology Testbed (DITT)/University After Next (UAN) in providing an advanced reach-back capability for commanders, staff, and other users who have time-critical needs. |
| Software Architectures for Autonomous Communications Systems (Status: Completed -- Project Award Date: 04-12-2001) |
| This program will serve as a catalyst to the formation of a synergistic research group of faculty within the state of Kansas in the general areas of embedded and distributed real-time systems. |
| Verification of UML Meta-Models (Status: Completed -- Project Award Date: 04-11-2001) |
| The MetaV project is developing tools and techniques for verification of UML meta models developed under the DARPA MoBIES program. UML meta models are used to describe the syntax and semantics of domain-specific modeling languages. |
| An Autonomous Mobile Radar for Temperate Ice Thickness Measurements (Status: Completed -- Project Award Date: 04-02-2001) |
| We propose to develop an autonomous mobile radar system for measuring the thickness and water content of glaciers in temperate regions of the world. |
| Systems Level Design Language (SLDL) Development [Rosetta Tools & Techniques] (Status: Completed -- Project Award Date: 03-01-2001) |
| The efforts of Perry Alexander and his colleagues indicate that a requirements- or constraints-specification language for systems on chips (SOC) is possible. Until now, the systems industry has cobbled together existing, but less suitable languages. Dubbed the Rosetta Project after the tablets that cracked the code of Egyptian hieroglyphics the group's undertaking in system language development parallels a time in the 1980s when hardware complexity had outstripped the language that tested it. |
| Quality Access to Online Health Information Based on User Profiles (Status: Completed -- Project Award Date: 01-15-2001) |
| The goal of this project is to develop high-quality access to health information that is available on the World Wide Web for use by individuals and hospital personnel. This project will develop and deploy a "one-stop-shopping" site for high-quality information. |
| Wireless Smart Devices and Their Coordination (Status: Completed -- Project Award Date: 01-10-2001) |
| The proposed research will support Ambient Computing, Inc.'s efforts to develop innovative technologies for smart infrastructure, and in particular wireless sensors that will be coordinated by a distributed software system called the MetaOS. The University of Kansas will test and evaluate the hardware and software systems developed by the company. |
| CAREER/EPSCoR: Cooperative Agents for Conceptual Search and Browsing of World Wide Web Resources (Status: Completed -- Project Award Date: 01-01-2001) |
| What is needed is not just a search engine that produces better results, but rather an organization of the search results based on the concepts contained on the various Web pages. The search process must also become more diverse, removing the incredible demand placed on the handful of popular search sites. |
| Development of 40 Gb/s Test Capability (Status: Completed -- Project Award Date: 01-01-2001) |
| A good understanding in 40 Gb/s optical systems will help Sprint in the decision-making process for the technical planning and integration. The goal of this research it to develop basic capabilities in support of 40 Gb/s optical signal transmission, transport, and reception to support future research thrusts requiring this capability. |
| Low Coherent, High Resolution WDM Reflectometry for Fiber Length Measurement (Status: Completed -- Project Award Date: 12-01-2000) |
| This project aims to test a method that measures the path length in an optical fiber accurately and dynamically. This method combines the traditional low-coherent reflectometry implementation with modern wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) technology. |
| Remote Sensing of East Antarctic Ice Streams (Status: Completed -- Project Award Date: 09-01-2000) |
| This research is aimed at determining the mass balance of East Antarctic ice streams by using surface, airborne and space-borne (in particular, RADARSAT) measurements of relevant ice stream characteristics. |
| Development of a Micropower Impulse Radar Based System for Detecting Vehicles at Railroad Crossings (Status: Completed -- Project Award Date: 08-13-2000) |
| The development effort is divided into six phases during which the technology will be designed, built, and tested before it is installed at the final pilot site of Maywood, Illinois. RSL will design an ultra-wideband radar system, build a working prototype, and test the hardware and software on a local site resembling the final pilot site. |
| Architecture for Space Based Internets [SBI] (Status: Completed -- Project Award Date: 08-01-2000) |
| This three-year NASA project is an extension of ITTC's longstanding work and reputation in the area of Rapidly Deployable Radio Networks (RDRN). The techniques and data ITTC researchers gleaned from this wireless, high-speed communication system for moving military units in the field will now be applied to satellites orbiting in space. |
| Fault Tolerant Flight Control Using Adaptive Predictive Control (Status: Completed -- Project Award Date: 07-10-2000) |
| This project aims to continue development of identification and adaptive control, as well as the application of these methods to flight control systems. |
| An ATM Call Model for Traffic Engineering (Status: Completed -- Project Award Date: 07-01-2000) |
| This project will make use of measurement capabilities to collect traffic data, to develop statistical call models from the data, and to show how these models can be useful for traffic engineering. |
| Complexity, Implementation, and Management Trade-offs for Traffic Aggregation in Future Networks (Status: Completed -- Project Award Date: 06-30-2000) |
| The quality of service (QoS) experienced by the customer is determined by how well the network can allocate the resources required for optimal performance of each customer's task. |
| Architecture and Prototype of an Ambient Computational Environment (ACE) [DARPA] (Status: Completed -- Project Award Date: 06-29-2000) |
| This 2.5-year effort complements ITTC's significant and ongoing work in the field of ambient computational environments, also known as ACE. |
| Fabrication error Indexed eXamples and Solutions (FIXS) (Status: Active -- Project Award Date: 05-16-2000) |
| A research project at the University of Kansas has developed a fabrication repair database. The repair database software, Fabrication error Indexed eXamples and Solutions (FIXS), examines fabrication errors of steel bridge members when detected in the plant and recommends corrective action. |
| Computer Generation of True 3-D (T3D) View for Medical Images (Status: Completed -- Project Award Date: 05-15-2000) |
| ITTC research and development will enable "preprocessing" of medical images before they are viewed. This will allow physicians greater and more effective visual access into the human body. |
| Network Capacity Trade-offs for Traffic Aggregation in Future Networks (Status: Completed -- Project Award Date: 05-01-2000) |
| Evaluation of traffic handling mechanisms for support of Quality of Service (QOS) on the Internet will be a continuing technical issue, impacting network engineering and design. By incorporating sensitivity analysis, this research will provide a tool for long-term planning to show how the various traffic-handling mechanisms will react to growth in network traffic. |
| Torsion of Exterior Girders: Improved Design Aid (Status: Completed -- Project Award Date: 01-01-2000) |
| The proposed work has the potential to achieve better quality and less expensive design of highway bridges for Kansans. The improved design aid would allow rapid and accurate evaluation of proposed construction bracing schemes. |
| Development and Evaluation of a Range-Gated Step-Frequency Radar (Status: Completed -- Project Award Date: 12-15-1999) |
| The Radar Systems and Remote Sensing Laboratory is currently working to develop and test a range-gated, step-frequency (RGSF) radar. The primary objectives are to design and build radar operating over the frequency range from 10 to a 1,000 MHz in different modes, and to test its performance in measuring properties of soils that may be similar to Martian soils. |
| Ambient Computational Environments (ACE) [National Science Foundation] (Status: Completed -- Project Award Date: 09-03-1999) |
| The first of ITTC's Ambient Computational Environment (ACE) projects, this four-year contract with the National Science Foundation supports the equipment needed to create futuristic rooms, or "smart rooms," both in Nichols Hall and elsewhere on KU's campus. |
| Advanced Semiconductor Research Group in the State of Kansas (Status: Completed -- Project Award Date: 08-15-1999) |
| The goal of this project is to establish an Interdisciplinary Research Group (IRG) in semiconductors that is dedicated to the advancement of the group III-nitride (GaN and related compounds) wide band gap semiconductors. |
| Measurement of the Thickness of the Greenland Ice Sheet and High-Resolution Mapping of Internal Layers (Status: Completed -- Project Award Date: 08-15-1999) |
| As part of a long-term study, researchers from the Radar Systems and Remote Sensing Laboratory (RSL) travel north to Greenland almost every year to measure the ice sheet thickness. The objective of the project is to determine the mass balance of the Greenland ice sheet with an ultimate goal of directly linking ice sheet variations to changes in global sea level. |
| Network Monitoring for Performance Analysis and for Enabling Network-Aware Applications (Status: Completed -- Project Award Date: 08-01-1999) |
| This project entails the development and deployment of a NGI service that addresses "network-aware" issues and provides information on network components, network systems, and applications. This service is called ENABLE: Enhancing of Network-aware Applications and BottLeneck Elimination. |
| Open Control Architectures (Status: Completed -- Project Award Date: 07-21-1999) |
| The provision of new services on current and future high-speed networks will require network elements to be flexible and easily controlled. To enable this, a simple, powerful, and flexible network control mechanism is needed. |
| Stochastic Adaptive Control and Related Topics (Status: Completed -- Project Award Date: 07-01-1999) |
| The intent of this research is to investigate a variety of control stochastic problems. |
| A Case Reflective Negotiation Model (Status: Completed -- Project Award Date: 06-16-1999) |
| Teams of agents representing independent, and often competitive, resource constraints must negotiate with one another to ensure that good enough solutions are provided soon enough to be useful. Negotiations concerning a single resource allocation are challenging enough, but a real solution to the real problem must consider how to conduct negotiations and allocate multiple resources to multiple consumers under a wide range of constraints. |
| Innovative Active Networking Services (Status: Completed -- Project Award Date: 06-04-1999) |
| This project aims to integrate developed active networking components into an operational system, develop innovative active networking services, implement a significant active networking testbed, and extend the testbed to additional sites--all of which constitutes a substantial step toward the realization of active networking. |
| High Resolution Optical Spectrum Analyzer for Optical System Link Quality Monitoring (Status: Completed -- Project Award Date: 06-01-1999) |
| During this yearlong project, the team investigated various ways to build an ultra high-resolution, optical spectrum analyzer that had good resolution, wide spectrum range and compact size. |
| Optical Domain Signal Analyzer (Status: Active -- Project Award Date: 06-01-1999) |
| Researchers at ITTC will build an ultra high-resolution, optical spectrum analyzer that has good resolution, wide spectrum range and compact size. They will also produce a prototype of the high-resolution spectral analyzer technology. |
| PMD Characterization on an Active Fiber Link (Status: Completed -- Project Award Date: 05-01-1999) |
| The purposes of this research are to learn more about the dynamics of adaptive PMD compensation, and to validate the principles and effectiveness of a PMD compensation approach developed recently by the researchers at ITTC. |
| Reporting System to Improve Safety of the Blood Supply (Status: Completed -- Project Award Date: 05-01-1999) |
| ITTC researchers are refining a search engine they developed in the ISIM laboratory. This engine will allow blood banks to have a dynamic system rather than the static one they have now. It will permit blood banks to look at their previous records on a database to identify similar adverse situations as ones reported across the country. It will provide access to a national database as well to identify nation-wide trends. |
| Multi-Dimensional Companding Based Sonoelasticity and Scatterer Size Imaging with the TMS230-Based System (Status: Completed -- Project Award Date: 04-01-1999) |