KUMA SIGNALS, LLC — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: A15-020
KUMA SIGNALS, LLC — SBIR Phase I award from Department of Defense.
- Amount
- $99,946
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Army
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase I
- Topic
- A15-020
- Solicitation
- 2015.1
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- TX
- Period
- 2015-09-15 → 2016-03-14
Description
Kuma Signals, LLC (Kuma) proposes to produce and prototype a practical mobile ad hoc networking (MANET) wireless protocol that features interference alignment (IA), multi-user MIMO (MU-MIMO), and single-user MIMO. While SU-MIMO and MU-MIMO is market-proven, IA is not. Many of the technical hurdles to accomplish IA have been overcome, including time and frequency synchronization and CSI distribution, but several practical challenges related to modulation, transceiver calibration, and medium access control (MAC) remain. In the work plan contained in this proposal, Kuma proposes to solve these remaining problems, finally proving that IA is market ready. In phase 2, Kuma proposes to partner with the University of Texas at Austin, architects of the most advanced IA prototyping efforts to date.