CRCD/EI: Control and Optimization of Communication Systems

在过去的十年中出现了一个令人兴奋的范例，它将强大的控制和优化理论应用于通信网络的设计和分析，从而产生了远远超出20世纪80年代建立的框架的智力和实际影响。这一趋势是由通信和网络领域的新需求以及控制和优化理论的最新进展推动的。已经有大量的研究成果和应用需要转移到大学课程和行业中。此外，新的成果正在快速产生，这加大了学生和工程师理解和应用这些新见解和新技术的需求。本项目开发了通信系统控制与优化的新课程及相关课件，教导学生将工程问题视为需要控制的动态系统和需要优化的线性/非线性目标的心态，并使他们具备这样做的能力。它涵盖了该领域的主要通信和网络进展，并通过数值和实验项目为学生提供实际问题的实践经验。这门跨学科课程具有灵活的模块化结构，每个模块所需的数学背景都采用“及时”的方法呈现。该项目开发的教学材料可用于其他机构和行业。它积极追求各种传播途径。它将把最新的研究进展转化为计算机科学和电子工程的主流课程，并促进知识从学术界向工业界的传播。

An exciting paradigm is emerging over the last decade that applies pow-erful control and optimization theories to the design and analysis of communi-cation networks, resulting in intellectual and practical impacts much beyond the established frameworks of the 1980s. This trend has been driven by both new needs from the communications and networking fields and recent advances in control and optimization theories. There is already a substantial body of re-search results and applications that need to be transferred to university cur-riculum and the industry. Moreover, new results are being created at a rapid pace, intensifying the need for students and engineers to understand, and ap-ply, these new insights and techniques. The current project develops a new course on control and optimization of communication systems, and associated courseware, that teach students the mentality of tackling engineering problems as dynamic systems to be controlled and linear/nonlinear objectives to be opti-mized, and equip them with the ability to do so. It covers major communica-tions and networking advances in this area and provide students with hands-on experience on practical problems through numerical and experimental projects. This inter-disciplinary course has a flexible modular structure and the mathe-matical background needed in each module is presented using a 'just-in-time' approach. The project develops instructional materials that can be used in other institutions and the industry. It vigorously pursues various paths of dis-semination. It will transfer recent research advances into the mainstream cur-riculum of CS and EE, and facilitate the spread of knowledge from academia to the industry.