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

提案编号：CNS 07-09044 PI： 格瓦拉·纳西尔机构：东北大学 Boston，MA 02115- 5005标题： 跨层无线协议设计和原型项目的IAD设备建议：该项目，开发和实施一种网络技术，导致“环境智能”，要求测试和测量设备进一步发展目前的异构无线网络项目。这项工作旨在通过一个适当设计的强大而安全的数字环境来增强人们的能力，该环境了解他们的位置，背景和需求。为了使无处不在的计算在实践中，它是必不可少的，以建立强大的，可扩展的，安全的无线网络，可以容纳各种各样的移动的设备。原型和实验用于验证所开发的协议。一套射频仪器可以实现以下研究工作：。更好、更快地测试、调试和排除射频板故障;数字化和生成任意频率的信号;以及。准确的信号测量和信号生成更广泛的影响：这项工作通过数字环境影响社会，该环境将意识到人们的存在及其背景，并对他们的需求敏感。应用领域涉及无处不在/普及计算、弹性和从自然和人为灾难中快速恢复，以及为老年人和残疾人提供更好的生活质量的安全服务。利用无线通讯的功能，把现实世界与电脑世界连接起来，还有其他好处，例如监察桥梁、道路、隧道结构、水质，以及根据人的出现和位置控制家居温度等。在教育方面，这些设备可帮助学生透过实验和测量，更了解无线电传播的复杂性;此外，还将提升一门课程，让本科生参加。

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.