CRI: IAD Equipment for Cross-Layer Wireless Protocols Design and Prototyping

提案#:CNS 07-09044 PI(s): Guevara Noubir机构：东北大学波士顿，Ma 02115-5005标题：跨层无线协议设计和原型项目的IAD设备提议：该项目，开发和实施导致“环境智能”的网络技术，要求测试和测量设备进一步开发异构无线网络的当前项目。这项工作的目的是通过适当设计的强大和安全的数字环境赋予人们权力，该环境了解他们的位置、背景和需求。为了在实践中实现无处不在的计算，必须构建健壮的、可扩展的和安全的无线网络，以适应各种各样的移动设备。原型设计和实验用于验证开发的协议。一套射频仪器可以进行以下研究工作：。更快、更好地测试、调试和排除射频板故障；数字化并产生任意频率的信号；和。更广泛的影响：这项工作通过一个数字环境影响社会，这个环境将意识到人们的存在和他们的背景，并将对他们的需求敏感。应用领域包括无处不在/普适计算、弹性和从自然和人为灾害中快速恢复，以及为老年人和残疾人提供更好的生活质量的安全服务。利用无线通信的能力将物理世界与网络世界连接起来，还具有其他优势，例如监控桥梁、道路、隧道结构、水质、根据人的存在和位置控制家庭温度等。在教育方面，该设备通过实验和测量帮助学生更好地理解无线电传播的复杂性；此外，还将升级一门课程，让本科生参与其中。

Proposal #: CNS 07-09044 PI(s): Guevara Noubir Institution: Northeastern University Boston, Ma 02115-5005Title: IAD Equipment for Cross-Layer Wireless Protocols Design and Prototyping Project Proposed:This project, developing and implementing a networking technology leading to "ambient intelligence," requests test and measurement equipment to develop further a current project on heterogeneous wireless networks. The work aims to empower people through an appropriately designed robust and secure digital environment that is aware of their location, context, and needs. In order to enable ubiquitous computing in practice, it is essential to build robust, scalable, and secure wireless networks that can accommodate a wide variety of mobile devices. Prototyping and experimentation serve to validate the developed protocols. A set of radio-frequency instruments enables the following research endeavors:. Better and faster testing, debugging, and troubleshooting of RF boards;. Digitizing and generating signals at arbitrary frequencies; and. Accurate signal measurement and signal generationBroader Impacts: The work impacts society through a digital environment that will be aware of the presence of people and their context, and will be sensitive to their needs. Application areas involve ubiquitous/pervasive computing, resiliency, and quick recovery from nature and man-made disasters, and provision of safety services for a better quality of life for the elderly and disabled. Using the capability of wireless communication to connect the physical world to the cyber-world presents other advantages, such as monitoring bridges, roads, tunnel structures, water quality, control of temperature of the home according to the presence and location of people, etc. On the educational front, the equipment helps students to better understand the intricacies of radio propagation through experimentation and measurement; moreover, a course will be upgraded and undergraduate students will be involved.