Proposal: CNS 0551650 PI: Raju, G. V. S. Institution: University of Texas at San Antonio
The University of Texas at San Antonio, a leader in higher education for Hispanic students and a rapidly growing research university, will establish a strong interdisciplinary research effort in wireless networks and security, high-speed networking, parallel and distributed computing, and image processing. Research includes progress on mathematical software libraries for cluster computers, 3D image reconstruction for tomography, persistent wireless networks, and energy-efficient and secure ad hoc and sensor networks. This award will support faculty and graduate student participants. Broader impacts of this project include increasing institutional capacity for research, increasing minority participation in graduate training, and enhancing the workforce for South Texas.
The outcomes of research on wireless networks and parallel computing will have significant impact on the cost and accessibility to internet for users, particularly those in remote areas. Our results on energy-efficient and secure use of wireless networks will facilitate making these networks more pervasive. Our research on parallel computing can be applied to solving biochemistry problems and fine tuning numerical libraries for optimal performance, generating a large number random number streams to facilitate large-scale simulations, and the 3-D image reconstruction for a computed tomography. We contribute to the state of the research by sharing our results through publications. The impact of this research is seen at three levels: students, university, and community. The outcome of this research provides more avenues to bring women and minority students into our programs. At the university level, the collaborative research program with other institutions and industry will have a significant impact in research development and employment opportunities for our students. At the community level, the students from this research project will add to the skilled work force and to local industry in South Texas as well as nationally. Another impact of this project is increased dissemination of our experiences and the best practices to support students at the university and community levels.
