NSF PAWR Project Office Intern

NSF PAWR Project Office Internship Position 

The Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research program is enabling experimental exploration of new wireless devices, communication techniques, networks, systems, and services that will revolutionize the nation’s wireless ecosystem while sustaining US leadership and economic competitiveness for decades to come. The PAWR Project Office located in Washington DC is managing this $100 million public-private partnership to deploy and manage up to 4 city-scale research testbeds. 

1. The POWDER-RENEW project is a collaboration between the University of Utah, Rice University and Salt Lake City, with broad support from community, municipal and state leadership. The purpose of the POWDER testbed is to enable innovative research across numerous technical areas including radio development for advanced networks including 5G, Radio Access Network (RAN) architectures, network orchestration models, Massive MIMO, and much more. 
2. COSMOS is partnering with New York City, Silicon Harlem, City College of New York, University of Arizona and IBM, to bring this advanced wireless testbed to life in New York City. The testbed will cover 1 square mile in a vibrant, densely-populated neighborhood in West Harlem. The technical focus of the COSMOS platform is on ultra-high-bandwidth and low-latency wireless communications, with tightly coupled edge computing, a type of cloud computing enabling data processing at the edge of the network.
3. AERPAW is a first-of-its-kind aerial wireless experimentation platform with the goal to accelerate the integration of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) into the national air-space, and to enable new advanced wireless features for unmanned aerial system (UAS) platforms, such as flying base stations for hot spot wireless connectivity. 
4. ARA is establishing its wireless living lab across Iowa State University, the city of Ames, and surrounding farms and rural communities in Central Iowa. With a deeply programmable infrastructure, ARA features a wide range of wireless technologies as well as an application focus on precision agriculture in both crop and livestock farms.

We are looking for a hands-on internship candidate for the Fall 2024 to work on deployment of experiments in one of these 4 platforms. The candidate will actively collaborate with other researchers within the PAWR Project Office and Virginia Tech, as well as with our external collaborators in academia, government and industry. This is a unique opportunity for students interested in develop and leverage their hands-on experience on testbeds. 
 

Key Job Responsibilities: 

The candidate will join the PAWR Project Office team and the proficient and motivated xG Testbed research team led by Dr. Aloizio DaSilva in order to carry out cutting edge and impactful work in the following topics: O-RAN, wireless network infrastructure and Software Defined Radio for cellular communication networks. The duties include design, deployment, execution and data collection of experiments in one of the NSF PAWR platforms. 

This position is 80% remote and 20% in-person at Virginia Tech Research Center in Arlington VA. 

Desired Requirements 

• Basic knowledge of wireless/cellular networks, Linux, docker containers
• College or Undergrad student enrolled in the US based university

Key Job Activities: 

1. Deployment, implementation, analysis and integration of hardware and software at NSF PAWR Testbed architecture. 67%
2. Generate data-set 23%
3. Support use case demonstration 5%
4. Deliver technical presentation and reports 5%

Information

Further information is available from Dr. Aloizio DaSilva (NSF PAWR Technical Project Manager, CCI xG Testbed Director and Virginia Tech Researcher Faculty) aloiziops@vt.edu or aloizio.dasilva@us-ignite.org