NSF Workshop on Biologically Enabled Wireless Networks

NSF 生物无线网络研讨会

• 批准号: 1057955
• 负责人: Guevara Noubir
• 金额: $ 9.45万
• 依托单位: Northeastern University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-09-15 至 2012-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1057955&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NSF; Workshop; Biologically; Enabled; Wireless

Over the last decade, wireless networks have achieved major successes and emerged as the key technology for enabling ubiquitous access to information. However, several challenges remain, energy-efficiency being one of the most notable. At the same time, bio-organisms are well known for energy efficiency. From the brain that performs outstandingly complex tasks with only few tens of watts, to the ear that carries the equivalent of billion floating-point operations per second, biological systems are orders of magnitude more efficient than state of the art wireless systems. A natural, although challenging, question is if we can build biologically enabled wireless networks. Several research communities have been working on new biologically enabled computation and communication paradigms, the biophysics and biomedical communities have been exploring ways to remotely interact with biological organisms. However, these communities rarely interact with each other. This workshop?s goal is to bring them together, articulate a vision for biologically-enabled wireless networks, and define a clear set of challenges to be solved and recommendations for future inter-disciplinary collaborations in this emerging area. Experts from several communities will present the state of the art in (1) enabling mechanisms for bio-networks, such as electromagnetic energy harvesting and transduction into biological signals, and magnetic control of biological systems, (2) molecular computation and communication networks considering both the fundamental information and computation theoretic issues and system design, and (3) synthetic biology as a way to engineer biologically enabled wireless devices but also how biologically enabled devices can be made less sensitive to their environment.

在过去的十年中，无线网络取得了重大成功，并成为实现无处不在的信息访问的关键技术。然而，仍然存在一些挑战，能源效率是最值得注意的挑战之一。与此同时，生物有机体以能源效率而闻名。从仅用几十瓦就能完成极其复杂任务的大脑，到每秒执行相当于十亿次浮点运算的耳朵，生物系统的效率比最先进的无线系统高出几个数量级。一个自然的，虽然具有挑战性的问题是，我们是否可以建立生物功能的无线网络。一些研究团体一直在研究新的生物计算和通信模式，生物物理学和生物医学界一直在探索与生物有机体进行远程交互的方法。然而，这些社区很少相互交流。这个车间？的目标是将它们聚集在一起，阐明生物启用的无线网络的愿景，并定义一组明确的挑战，以解决和建议，为未来跨学科的合作，在这个新兴领域。来自多个社区的专家将介绍（1）生物网络的实现机制，如电磁能量收集和生物信号的转导，以及生物系统的磁控制，（2）分子计算和通信网络，同时考虑基本信息和计算理论问题和系统设计，以及（3）合成生物学作为设计生物学使能的无线设备的一种方式，以及如何使生物学使能的设备对它们的环境不太敏感。