SBIR-STTR Award

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Award last edited on: 9/25/2013

Sponsored Program
SBIR
Awarding Agency
DOD : Army
Total Award Amount
$1,131,836
Award Phase
2
Solicitation Topic Code
A11-038
Principal Investigator
Babak Azimi-Sadjadi

Company Information

Intelligent Automation Inc (AKA: IAI)

15400 Calhoun Drive Suite 190
Rockville, MD 20855
   (301) 294-5200
   contact@i-a-i.com
   www.i-a-i.com
Location: Single
Congr. District: 06
County: Montgomery

Phase I

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Phase I year
2011
Phase I Amount
$150,000
Current wireless communication hardware is optimized to receive signals from a single user, and does not have provisions to decode signals from multiple users (both cooperative and non-cooperative) simultaneously. Processing signals from multiple users simultaneously requires development of new hardware, resulting in increased cost and complexity. In order to reduce the cost of implementing multi-user receivers, we propose the idea of modifying existing conventional receiver structures so that it is possible to decode information from multiple sources. This will result in a product that can be easily adopted into current wireless communication systems with little cost overhead.

Keywords:
Demodulation, Modulation, Optimized Demodulation Techniques, Capture Effect, Fm.

Phase II

Contract Number: ----------
Start Date: ----    Completed: ----
Phase II year
2013
Phase II Amount
$981,836
We propose to develop a next generation radio frequency network channel emulator simulator tool called RFnest-48 that can evaluate a fully-connected wireless mesh network consisting of up to 48 nodes represented using physical devices (?real? nodes) and 200 nodes simulated in software (?virtual? nodes). The virtual and real nodes interact seamlessly through additional devices (?surrogate? nodes) that represent the interference on virtual nodes due to real nodes, and vice-versa. RFnest-48 uses a combination of direct digital conversion and an RF front-end design that can support incoming frequencies between DC and 3 GHz.

Keywords:
Network Emulation, Channel Emulation, Fpga, Channel Modeling