Future Directions in Signal Processing, Communications, Information Theory, and Physical Layer Networking

研讨会论坛将汇集大约25名在通信、信息理论、信号处理和网络(重点是较低层)的交叉点工作的领先研究人员，以探索NSF CISE-CIF计划的未来方向、潜在倡议和长期目标。讲习班将评估每一学科的现状，确定新出现的重要研究领域、近期和长期目标、未来的挑战和机遇，并在实现这一目标的背景下提出五年计划。研讨会还将编写一份报告，详细说明协商一致的结论和建议，作为研究界的指南。讲习班力求实现通信、信息理论、信号处理和物理层联网等交叉领域之间思想交流的高度协同潜力。论坛将讨论小型、移动、高能效的传感、处理和通信设备的无处不在所带来的对传统模式的戏剧性改变的需要。论坛还将讨论对新理论和技术的需求，以利用大型、分散和复杂的网络系统的巨大潜力。作为关于未来方向和挑战的调查结果和建议的结果，这次讲习班所促进的研究领域将支持对国家技术基础的增长至关重要的使能技术的发展。

The workshop forum will bring together approximately 25 leading researchers working at the intersections of communications, information theory, signal processing and networking (with emphasis on the lower layers) to explore future directions, potential initiatives and long-term goals of the NSF CISE-CIF program. The workshop will assess the current status of each of the respective disciplines, identify emerging areas of important research, near and long-term goals, future challenges and opportunities, and lay out a five-year vision, in the context of what will it take to get there. The workshop will also produce a report detailing consensus findings and recommendations that will serve as a guide to the research community. The workshop seeks to realize the high synergistic potential for cross-fertilization of ideas among the intersecting fields of communications, information theory, signal processing and physical layer networking. The forum will address the need for dramatic changes in conventional paradigms brought on by the ubiquity of small, mobile, energy-efficient sensing, processing and communicating devices. The forum will also address the need for new theory and technology to harness the tremendous potential of large, decentralized, and complex networked systems. The areas of research fostered by this workshop, as an outgrowth of the findings and recommendations on future directions and challenges, will support the development of enabling technologies critically important to the growth of the technological base of the nation.