EARS: Spectrum Sharing for Short-Latency Immersive Wireless Applications

该项目将开发在共享频谱中运行的交互式无线应用所需的关键技术。共享是新的频谱范例，交互式应用程序对其所需的服务质量要求最高。因此，它们是推动我们对共享理解前沿的完美工具。该项目将探索新的高可靠性编码技术，以保护交互式应用程序，同时满足严格的延迟限制，并探索如何通过显式和隐式信令与相邻的不同系统共存。该项目将有助于理解定义频谱共享的正确监管结构所需的基本知识。从广义上讲，这个项目将研究的交互应用是商业无线下一个发展阶段的关键——因为机器需要相互交互来提高现实世界系统的性能。由于工业控制是一个关键用例，因此该项目可以帮助激活经济中的敏捷制造部门。有效地共享频谱比专用频谱经济得多，因此可以帮助创新的高技能制造业，而美国在这方面比低工资国家有优势。在开发这项技术的同时，该项目将以一种鼓励无线通信、电路实现、控制理论和编码理论之间思想交流的方式训练学生。这些想法将被带入课堂，包括我们的新硕士。旨在培养创新技术领导者的课程。该项目还将通过指导来自代表性不足群体的学生，扩大技术劳动力的参与。

This project will develop the key technologies needed for interactive wireless applications operating in shared spectrum. Sharing is the new spectrum paradigm, and interactive applications are the most demanding in terms of the quality-of-service they require. Thus, they are the perfect vehicle to push the frontiers of our understanding of sharing. This project will explore new high-reliability coding techniques to protect interactive applications while meeting tight latency constraints and explore how to coexist with neighboring disparate systems through explicit and implicit signaling. The project will contribute the fundamental understanding required to define the correct regulatory structure for spectrum sharing. Broadly speaking, the interactive applications that this project will study are the key to the next growth phase in commercial wireless - as machines need to interact with each other to improve the performance of real-world systems. Because industrial control is a critical use case, this project can help invigorate the agile manufacturing sector of the economy. Efficiently shared spectrum is much more economical than exclusive-use spectrum and hence could help innovative high-skill manufacturing where the United States has an advantage over low-wage countries. While developing this technology, the project will train students in a way that encourages cross-fertilization of ideas between wireless communication, circuit implementation, control theory, and coding theory. These ideas will be brought into the classroom, including our new M.Eng. courses aimed at educating innovative technical leaders. The project will also broaden participation in the technical workforce by mentoring students from underrepresented groups.