Syracuse University (SU) and Virginia Tech (VT) are creating the Wireless Grid Innovation Testbed (WiGiT) with support of National Science Foundation (NSF) Partnership for Innovation program grants #0227879 and #0917973.

WiGiT research and experiments will serve industry needs for intra-system, or crossover work bridging grid or cloud computing on one platform and wireless Internet on another, contributing to open standards and application programming interfaces for wireless grids.

WiGiT will refine transformative technologies to bridge the gap between wireless network middleware and grid application layers, creating new markets and realigning existing ones.WiGiT's open specifications will enable "edgeware" applications over a dynamic wireless (and/or wired) environment. Edgeware applications are a new class of applications that can dynamically make use of content and resources present in devices - phones, pc's, cameras, printers, screens, etc. - connected by a wireless grid.

Initial WiGiT open specifications work will use IEEE 802.11 (WiFi) as an air interface and at the link layer. Software Defined Radio (SDR) systems and cognitive radio networks will be incorporated to enable wireless grid applications over a wide range of wireless technologies.  These systems will efficiently make use of resources based on environmental and user/application constraints and preferences.