Collaborative Research: CRI/IAD: Programmable and At-Scale Infrastructure for Wireless Access, Mobile Computing, and Health Sensing

该合作项目的重点是在城市范围内部署完整、可扩展、多层次和集成的无线移动基础设施，以解决：1.网络协议的规模设计和评估；以及2.通过将医疗健康传感器集成到无线网络中收集的医疗健康数据的汇编和分析。这个合作项目团队将开发、部署和运营一个信息技术基础设施，作为研究和社会变革的平台。该项目和平台的主要创新是：1.多层无线接入网络，具有完全可编程和可观察的节点，在4平方公里范围内服务4,000个用户(规模密度超过现有部署)；2.完全仪表化和部署的移动计算平台，能够联合评估用户行为和终端系统性能，提供节能和用户友好的网络接入；以及3.移动计算平台。一个部署的无线健康传感平台，监测和处理生理数据，并将其与移动计算和无线网络平台无缝互连，以实现针对慢性病的全新低成本治疗。研究基础设施将部署在资源不足的地区，山核桃公园，这是一个位于休斯顿东南部中心的社区，每平方公里有4760名居民，这一密度在研究方面是前所未有的，甚至商业网状结构部署也无法达到这个密度。这一规模为世界各地的类似社区提供了一个可复制和可持续的模板。该基础设施既是社会变革的平台，也是研究创新和概念验证系统设计的平台。

The collaborative project focuses on the deployment of a complete, scalable, multi-tiered and integrated wireless mobile infrastructure at urban scale that addresses: 1. at-scale design and evaluation of network protocols; and 2. the compilation and analysis of medical health data collected via the integration of medical health sensors into the wireless network. This collaborative project team will develop, deploy, and operate an information technology infrastructure that serves as a platform for research and societal change. The key innovations of this project and platform are: 1. A multi-tier wireless access network with fully programmable and observable nodes that serves 4,000 users over 4 km2 (an at-scale density surpassing existing deployments), 2. A fully instrumented and deployed mobile computing platform that enables joint assessment of user behavior and end system performance, providing energy-efficient and user-friendly access to the network, and3. A deployed wireless health-sensing platform that monitors and processes physiological data and seamlessly interconnects it with the mobile-computing and wireless network platforms to enable radically new low-cost treatments for chronic diseases.The research infrastructure will be deployed in an under-resourced area, Pecan Park, a community in the heart of Southeast Houston with 4,760 residents per km2, a density that is unprecedented for research and has not been reached even by commercial mesh deployments. This scale provides a replicable and sustainable template of what is possible in similar communities world-wide. The infrastructure serves as both a platform for societal change and a platform for research innovation and proof-of-concept system design.