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

研讨会论坛将汇集大约25位在通信、信息理论、信号处理和网络（重点是低层）交叉领域工作的主要研究人员，探讨NSF CISE-CIF项目的未来方向、潜在举措和长期目标。研讨会将评估每个学科的现状，确定重要研究的新兴领域，近期和长期目标，未来的挑战和机遇，并在实现目标所需的背景下制定五年愿景。讲习班还将产生一份报告，详细说明协商一致的结果和建议，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相互融合的高度协同潜力。该论坛将讨论由于无处不在的小型、移动、节能的传感、处理和通信设备所带来的对传统范式的巨大变革的需要。论坛还将讨论对新理论和新技术的需求，以利用大型、分散和复杂的网络系统的巨大潜力。这次讲习班所促进的研究领域，作为关于未来方向和挑战的结论和建议的结果，将支持发展对国家技术基础增长至关重要的使能技术。

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.