EARS: Novel Beam Steering Apertures and Waveforms for High Capacity Broadband Wireless Nodes

建议摘要-用于高容量宽带无线节点的新型波束控制孔径和波形智能优点对宽带无线的需求已经使现有系统达到了极限。在不远的将来，移动的GB/S将需要便携和可穿戴的无线节点，这将需要显着提高频谱效率。这项工作提出了一种综合的研究概念，将波束控制天线阵列的创新与抗干扰波形和算法结合在一起。到目前为止，大多数为便携和可穿戴无线应用开发的天线和阵列都有固定的宽波束。这使得它们的效率非常低，因为大部分辐射的射频能量被头部或身体吸收，导致电池能量浪费。在这项由南加州大学领导的工作中，将利用可引导寄生阵列的概念来开发更小的形状因数天线阵列。将研究阵列增益和角覆盖对阵列参数的依赖关系，以开发新的设计规则。从系统的角度来看，已经致力于在不同的联网策略中最大限度地提高频谱效率。然而，传统的针对同构网络开发的频谱利用策略正在被整合到异质网络中，这成为了异质网络的瓶颈。为了打破这一瓶颈，USF团队提出了增强型部分重叠结构域的概念。首次将移动端的波束控制方法与考虑增强的部分重叠的域的时频利用率相结合。将开发一个系统级试验台来评估所提出的阵列和波形的性能。更广泛的影响这项工作的更广泛的影响包括它在波束控制天线阵列领域产生新的基础知识的潜力，以及未来高容量便携式/可穿戴无线应用的抗干扰波形/算法。这将对商业和军事通信领域产生影响。直接的有形成果将是一个系统级的试验台，将为未来的设计师提供结果、结果和设计指南。这项研究还包括来自哥伦比亚本尼迪克特学院的一个团队，该学院是HBCU(历史上的黑人学院和大学)机构。本尼迪克特团队将进行研究和教育活动，以开发示范模块，以加强未来对本科生、高中生、女性和少数族裔学生的外展和招聘努力

Proposal Summary - Novel Beam Steering Apertures and Waveforms for High Capacity Broadband Wireless Nodes Intellectual MeritThe demand for broadband wireless has put existing systems to their limits. In not so distant future mobile Gb/s portable and wearable wireless nodes will be required which will necessitate significant improvements in spectral efficiency. This work proposes an integrated research concept which brings together innovations in beam steering antenna arrays and interference immune waveforms and algorithms. To date most of the antennas and arrays that have been developed for portable and wearable wireless applications have fixed broad beams. This makes them very inefficient because much of the radiated radio frequency power is absorbed by the head or the body resulting in wasted battery power. In this work led by USC significantly smaller form factor antenna arrays will be developed by exploiting the steerable parasitic array concept. The dependency of the array gain and angular coverage on array parameters will be studied to develop new design rules. From a systems perspective, efforts have been devoted to maximize spectral efficiency within heterogeneous networking strategies. However, conventional spectrum utilization strategies which are developed for homogeneous networks are being integrated to the heterogeneous networks, which stand as the bottleneck of the heterogeneous network. To break that bottleneck the concept of enhanced partial overlapping domains is proposed by the USF team. For the first time, beam steering approaches at the mobile will be combined with time-frequency utilization considering enhanced partially overlapped domains. A system level testbed will be developed to evaluate the performance of the proposed arrays and waveforms. Broader ImpactsThe broader impact of this work includes its potential for new fundamental knowledge generation in the field of beam steering antenna arrays and interference immune waveforms/algorithms for future high capacity portable/wearable wireless applications. This will have effects on commercial and military communication domains. Immediate tangible outcome will be a system level testbed that will provide results, outcomes, and design guidelines to prospective designers. This research also involves a team from Benedict College, Columbia, SC, an HBCU (Historically Black Colleges and Universities) Institution. The Benedict team will conduct research and educational activities that will lead to the development of demonstration modules that will enhance future outreach and recruitment efforts of undergraduate students, high school students, and female and minority studen