Software Radio (Sora)The Software Radio (Sora) program theme seeks to address the challenges of using PC architectures for high-speed software-defined radio (SDR) platforms. Microsoft Research Asia has developed a new high-performance wireless platform based on software running on a PC. The platform, called Sora, allows academic users to experiment with novel wireless networking technologies. The goal of this theme is to build on this work to advance research in using software radio technology to provide state of the art wireless networking. Learn more...
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Sora Invitation for Proposals 2010
Radio control board provides a high-speed Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) interface to the host PC In October 2009, Microsoft Research Asia announced a global invitation for research proposals that explore exciting innovations by using the Microsoft Research Software Radio (Sora) platform. We received 32 proposals by the end of January 2010. Following detailed technical reviews, we announced the award of the Sora Academic Kits to 18 universities and 20 winners as follows. The invitation for proposals (IFP) process is expected to continue in 2010 with a second phase for funding of selected projects.
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University |
Name of Awardee |
Research Title |
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Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications |
Qimei Cui |
Research on Non-synchronization Problems of Cooperative Communications |
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Carnegie Mellon University |
Srinivasan Seshan |
Sora in the CMU Wireless Emulator and Enabled Projects |
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Duke University |
Romit Roy Choudhury |
Physical Layer Informed Wireless Networking |
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Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
Qian Zhang |
Interference Alignment in Multi-Cell MIMO WLAN Networks—Algorithm Design and Testbed Evaluation |
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Korea University |
Hyogon Kim |
Rate Diverse Network Coding : Breaking the Broadcast Bottleneck |
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Seoul National University |
Sunghyun Choi |
A Practical High-Throughput Wireless LAN System Supporting Downlink Multi-User MIMO transmissions |
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Stanford University |
Philip Levis |
SORA for 802.11n Experimentation |
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Stevens Institute of Technology |
Joe Mitola |
Classification, Modeling and Control of Cognitive Radios Using Hierarchical Neural Network |
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Tsinghua University |
Ming Zhao |
Distributed Wireless Communication System over SoRa |
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University of California, Los Angeles |
Songwu Lu |
A Probabilistic Protocol and Algorithm Design Approach to 802.11n Networks: MAC and Rate Adaptation |
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Mario Gerla |
Bringing Cognitive Radios to Vehicles: a Testbed Study | |
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University College London |
Kyle Jamieson |
SecureAngle: Angle-of-Arrival Based Security for Wireless Networks |
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University of California, Davis |
Xin Liu |
Beyond Listen-Before-Talk: SORA-enabled Cognitive Radio Access in Distributed Multiuser Networks |
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University of Cambridge |
Bogdan Roman, |
High Performance and Reliable Wireless Access Control Using Multi-Carrier Bursting |
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Nitin Vaidya |
Towards Next Generation Information Theoretic Wireless Networking and Security |
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University of Michigan |
Kang Shin |
Adaptive Wireless Networking via MSR Software Radio Platform |
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Mingyan Liu |
Pushing the Wireless Coexistence Boundary Using the SORA Platform | |
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University of Texas at Austin |
Lili Qiu |
Spectrum Sensing and Sharing in White Space |
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University of Washington |
Hui Liu |
A Sora-Based Hybrid Broadcasting and Access Radio Station |
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University of Wisconsin-Madison |
Suman Banerjee |
Differential Robustness for Wireless Systems through Application Guidance Almost for Free |
Sora Academic Preview Workshop, Beijing, China
Microsoft Research Asia hosted a technical preview workshop in September 2009 to introduce the forthcoming Microsoft Research Software Radio research platform to leading academics in the networking community from 10 countries and 37 universities. Learn more...
