Current projects
1. Project duration: 2017–present
Agency: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Defense Science Office (DSO) via Sub-award from Ocius Technologies LLC
Program Manager: Dr. James Gimlett
Title: STTR Phase-II: Analog Co-Processors for Complex System Simulation and Design
Total budget: $1,510,000
Lead-PI: Arjuna Madanayake, FIU+University of Akron, $900,000
Co-PIs: 1) Dale Mugler, Ocius Technologies; 2) S.I. Hariharan, UA; 3) Soumyajit Mandal, CWRU (sub-award from FIU).
In the process of being transferred to FIU
2. Project duration: 2017–present
Agency: NSF Circuits, Communications and Sensing Systems (CCSS)
Program Manager: Dr. Jenshan Lin
Title: Wideband Multibeam Antenna Arrays: Low-Complexity Algorithms and Analog-CMOS Implementations
Total budget: $403,259
Lead-PI: Arjuna Madanayake, University of Akron, $228,259
Other PIs/CoPIs: 1) Soumyajit Mandal, CWRU; 2) Sirani K. Perera, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (sub-award from FIU).
In the process of being transferred to FIU
3. Project duration: 2017–present
Agency: NSF Circuits, Communications and Sensing Systems (CCSS) SpecEES
Program Manager: Dr. Jenshan Lin
Title: SpecEES: Collaborative Research: Spatially Oversampled Dense Multi-Beam Millimeter-Wave Communications for Exponentially Increased Energy-Efficiency
Total budget: $750,000
Lead-PI: Arjuna Madanayake, University of Akron, $187,500
Successfully transferred and continuing at FIU.
Other PIs: 1) Soumyajit Mandal, CWRU; 2) Xin Wang, Stony Brook University; 3) Ted Rappaport, New York University.
Completed projects
4. Project duration: 2016–present
Agency: NSF CISE
Program Manager: Dr. Tao Li
Title: CI-P: Collaborative Project: Planning for Community Infrastructure to Support Research for Simulating Complex Systems
Total budget: $100,000
Lead-PI: Arjuna Madanayake, University of Akron, $50,003
Other PIs/CoPIs: 1) Soumyajit Mandal, CWRU; 2) S.I. Hariharan, UA.
5. Project duration: 2015–present (COMPLETED)
Agency: NSF CCSS
Program Manager: Dr. Jenshan Lin
Title: Collaborative Research: Arrays, Analog RF 2-D Filters, and Nanostructured Multiferroic Antennas
for MM-wave OAM-Multiplexed Wireless Systems
Total budget: $405,984
Lead-PI: Arjuna Madanayake, University of Akron, $305,994
Other PIs/CoPIs: 1) Ryan Toonen, UA; 2) Yu Zhu, UA; 3) Rashaunda Henderson, University of Texas at Dallas.
6. Project duration: 2014–present
Agency: NSF CCSS
Program Manager: Dr. Jenshan Lin
Title: Collaborative Research: Electronically-Scanned Wideband Digital Aperture Antenna Arrays using Multi-Dimensional Space-Time Circuit-Network Resonance: Theory and Hardware
Total budget: $408,000
Lead-PI: Arjuna Madanayake, University of Akron, $208,000
Other PIs/CoPIs: 1) Xin Wang, Stony Brook University.
7. Project duration: 2015–present
Agency: Office of Naval Research (ONR) STEM Program, sub-award via Tennessee State University (TSU)
Program Manager: Dr. Jason Feser
Title: Embedded Systems Security Education
Total budget: $360,000
Co-PI: Arjuna Madanayake, University of Akron, $180,000
PIs: 1) Nghi Tran 2) Jeffrey Fan, TSU.
8. Project duration: 2012–2016 (COMPLETED)
Agency: NSF Enhancing Access to Radio Spectrum (EARS)
Program Manager: Dr. George Haddad
Title: EARS: Collaborative Research: Enhancing Spectral Access via Directional Spectrum Sensing
Employing 3D Cone Filterbanks: Interdisciplinary Algorithms and Prototypes
Total budget: $549,894
Lead-PI: Arjuna Madanayake, University of Akron, $240,894
Co-PIs: 1) Vijay Devabhaktuni, University of Toledo; 2) Srinivas Vemuru, Ohio Northern University; 3)
Chungseng Xin, Old Dominion University.
Abstract This NSF EARS project proposes a new spectrum sensing architecture combined with joint link scheduling and routing to significantly enhance access to the radio spectrum. Traditional non-directional sensing algorithms do not offer information about the direction of primary and secondary signals, directional information on interference, and information on network node location, and hence significantly limit the potential of cognitive radio technology in terms of spectrum utilization. This project envisions a generalized framework leading to the determination and subsequent utilization of spatio-temporal vacancies in time, frequency, position and direction. New mathematical, hardware, and software algorithms
and techniques will be pioneered toward enabling low-complexity digital radios. Multi-dimensional sensed information will drive the innovation of cross-layer link scheduling and routing schemes aimed at boosting the cognitive radio network performance. The proposed innovations will be accomplished through mathematical formulation and modeling of directional sensing algorithms based on multi-dimensional signal processing concepts. The project will also investigate low-complexity fast algorithms for enabling real-time realization
leading to new types of (i) digital integrated circuits, (ii) new design techniques for cognitive radios, and (iii) highly agile radio frequency component models all leading to an integrated directional spectrum sensor.
9. Project duration: 2016–2017
Agency: DARPA DSO STTR Program via Ocius Technologies LLC.
Program Manager: Dr. Vincent Tang
Title: STTR Phase-I: Analog Co-Processors for Complex System Simulation and Design
Total budget: $150,000
Lead-PI: Arjuna Madanayake, The University of Akron, $90,000
Co-PIs: 1) Dale Mugler, Ocius Technologies; 2) SI Hariharan, UA.
10. Project duration: 2015–2016 (COMPLETED)
Agency: DARPA Microsystems Technology Office (MTO).
Program Managers: Dr. Kenneth Plaks and Stephen Hary (AFRL)
Title: Multi-Beam RF Aperture Arrays using Multiplierless Approximate-FFT
Total budget: $165,002
Lead-PI: Arjuna Madanayake, The University of Akron, $165,002
11. Project duration: 2013–2015 (COMPLETED)
Agency: Office Of Naval Research (ONR) Communications and Networking Technology Division.
Program Managers: Dr. Santanu Das
Title: BAA-14-001: Rectangular Aperture Arrays based on 3-D IIR Space-Time RF-to-Bits Digital Beam Filters
Total budget: $207,791
Lead-PI: Arjuna Madanayake, University of Akron, $207,791
12. Project duration: 2012–2013
Agency: Office Of Naval Research (ONR) Communications and Networking Technology Division.
Program Managers: Dr. Santanu Das
Title: BAA-13-001: Ultra-Wideband Aperture Arrays using Multi-Dimensional DSP
Total budget: $115,234
Lead-PI: Arjuna Madanayake, The University of Akron, $115,234
13. Project duration: 2013 and 2017
Agency: NSF I-Corps Sites program (On-campus)
Program Managers: NA
Title: Two completed I-Corps Sites Programs in two years
Total budget: $5,000
Lead-PI: Arjuna Madanayake, The University of Akron, $5,000