Research Projects

Some of our Active Projects

Federal Railroad Administration Project

This project focuses on researching novel wireless communications capabilities and solutions for next-generation passenger rail services and freight rail services. It explores communications architectures, the optimization and efficient reuse of scarce RF spectrum resources, modular software-driven radio designs, and cognitive radio capabilities.

FRA Project

Belcan 5G

Together with Belcan, our team is exploring the capabilities, limitations, and areas of improvement in utilizing commodity 5G cellular communications technologies for highly sensitive communications applications.

5G Research

Operational Technology (OT) Security Analysis

This project, sponsored by the Nebraska Center for Energy Sciences Research (NCESR), focuses on researching and developing a comprehensive platform capability for analyzing OT communications protocols and their implementations for cybersecurity vulnerabilities.

OTSA Project

Rural Railroad Safety Center Project

This project aims to explore the modernization of RF telecommunications technologies for legacy RF bands in use by the North American freight rail industry, with a particular focus on utilizing these advances to improve the safety, reliability, and efficiency of rail operations in rural areas.

RRSC Project

Examples of Successfully Completed Projects

Animal Tag Project

Establishment of an Innovative Self-Powered Smart Wireless Animal Identification and Tracking Research Core in Nebraska with Applications to Production Agriculture

Nebraska Research Initiative, 2/1/09-5/30/12

Wayside Communications

Study of Standards-Based Wireless Networking Technologies in Railroad Environments

Federal Railroad Administration, 9/17/04 - 12/31/11

CYVET

CYVET: A Cyber-Physical Security Assurance Framework based on a Semi-Supervised Vetting Approach

Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Department of Energy, 1/15/20 - 3/23/23

Railyard Worker Safety

Railyard Worker Safety through innovative Mobile Active Train Detection and Risk Localization

University Transportation Center for Railway Safety (UTCRS), 7/1/16 - 6/30/18

Realtime Railcar Monitoring

Research & Development - Development of a Standard Communication Protocol for Wireless Sensor Network in Mobile Railroad Environment

Federal Railroad Administration, 7/1/10 - 7/31/15