Faculty members Shiwen Mao and Prathima Agrawal have been awarded a National Science Foundation grant for their project, “Collaborative Research: Fundamental Research on Adaptive Wireless Video Systems,” to develop enabling technologies for wireless video streaming that can be applied to 4G wireless, as well as legacy cellular networks. The project seeks to address the ongoing smartphone revolution that is drastically increasing demand for video services on wireless devices.

The continual changes in user demand, network traffic, hardware and wireless environment pose significant challenges to allowing efficient exchanges of video data using wireless devices. In this project, Mao and Agrawal are exploring wireless technologies able to adapt to changing communication system states