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NSF Resilient & Intelligent NextG Systems (RINGS) Program is sponsored by National Science Foundation (NSF). The RINGS program supports fundamental research to create the foundation for next-generation wireless networks, partnering with public and private sectors to accelerate technology translation.
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Supports research on emerging next-generation wireless, mobile communication, networking, sensing and computing systems and on global-scale services — with a focus on improving the performance and resilience of these networked systems.
The RINGS program seeks to accelerate research in areas that will potentially have significant impact on emerging Next Generation (NextG) wireless and mobile communication, networking, sensing, and computing systems, along with global-scale services, with a focus on greatly improving the resiliency of such networked systems among other performance metrics.
Modern communication devices, systems, and networks are expected to support a broad range of critical and essential services, incorporating computation, coordination, and intelligent decision making. Resiliency of such systems, which subsumes security, adaptability, and autonomy, will be a key driving factor for future NextG network systems.
Resiliency in both design and operations ensures robust network and computing capabilities that exhibit graceful performance- and service-degradation with rapid adaptability under even extreme operating scenarios. The RINGS program seeks innovations to enhance both resiliency as well as performance across the various aspects of NextG communications, networking and computing systems.
This program seeks to go beyond the current research portfolio within the individual participating directorates by simultaneously emphasizing gains in resiliency (through security, adaptability and/or autonomy) across all layers of the networking protocol and computation stacks as well as in throughput, latency, and connection density.
In this program, NSF is partnering with the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (OUSD R&E), the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and a number of industry partners shown above. This program seeks to fund collaborative team research that transcends the traditional boundaries of individual disciplines to achieve the program goals. AI Artificial Intelligence Gbps Giga-bit per second.
MIMO Multiple-Input and Multiple-Output NextG Next Generation Wireless Broadband Networks PAWR Platform on Advanced Wireless Research UAS Unmanned Aircraft Systems Additional program resources Frequently Asked Questions for RINGS (21-581) RINGS Webinar materials: Click here Awards made through this program Browse projects funded by this program Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Division of Computer and Network Systems (CISE/CNS) Division of Computing and Communication Foundations (CISE/CCF) Directorate for Engineering (ENG) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems (ENG/ECCS)
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NSF Resilient & Intelligent NextG Systems (RINGS) Program is funded by National Science Foundation (NSF). Verify program details on the funder's official page before applying.
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