Research

Funded Proposals ($1.17 M)

1. University of Houston, Start up grant, Fall 2003, Optical Networking research lab (ONRL)-phase I. ($102,700)

PI: Driss Benhaddou

 

2. Grants to Enhance and Advance Research (GEAR), University of Houston, 9/2004-8/2005. "Application of Optical Code Division Multiple Access (OCDMA) in high-speed optical switching systems". The purpose of this project is to investigate a potential application of OCDMA in backplane and switching systems for high speed communications networks ($18,200.00).

PI: Driss Benhaddou

 

3. SPRINT, 4/04-4/05, "Unified End-to-End Provisioning in Multi-Domain Metro-Core Networks". The purpose of this project is to perform comparative analysis of different optical network control plane architectures for Sprint networks ($112,812.00).

PI: D. Benhaddou

Co-PI: Nasir Ghani (TN Tech. University)

 

4. Southwestern Bell Corp. (SBC), Fall 2005, "COT/SBC technology alliance" ($250,000).

PI: D. Benhaddou

Co-PI: S. Chacon, D. Gurkan, X. Yuan, J. Lustberg

 

5. The International Society for Optical Engineering, 2005, Educational Grant in Optical Science and Engineering ($2,000).

PI: D. Gurkan

Co-PI: D. Benhaddou,

 

6. FDIP, University of Houston, fall 2005, Distributed Online Laboratory Instruction for Optical Communication Circuits Courses ($4,000).

PI: D. Benhaddou

Co-PI: D. Gurkan,

 

7. NSF (DUE-0536823), "Collaborative Research: An Online Laboratory for optical Circuits Courses" ($125,000)

PI: Driss Benhaddou

Co-PI: Deniz Gurkan, Alan Mickelson (University of Colorado), and Zhongqi Pan (University of Louisiana)

 

8. ILX Lightwave (instrument grant), 2006, Laser Instrument for remote optical circuits laboratory ($10,000).

PI: D. Gurkan

Co-PI: D. Benhaddou

 

9. GEAR, 1/31/06, "An Affordable Personalized Chronic Illness Management System Based on a Distributed Biomedical Sensor Network" ($60,000)

PI: Xiaojing Yuan

Co-PI: Deniz Gurkan and Driss Benhaddou

 

10. NASA, "Intelligent Sensor Network Testbed for ISHM" ($493,000)

PI: Deniz Gurkan

Co-PI: Xiaojing Yuan, and Driss Benhaddou