Collaborative Research: EARS: Spectrum and Energy Efficient Radio Resource Access in Wireless Networks with Densely Deployed Underlay Devices

预计未来几年无线通信量将大幅增长。维持这种增长趋势将需要高频谱效率。与此同时，能源效率已成为未来无线网络的另一个基本要求。此外，随着无线网络上视频内容传输的快速升级，如何以高质量的体验支持这些消耗能量和带宽的视频应用将成为未来无线网络的一个非常具有挑战性的问题。受无线技术最新进展和挑战的启发，拟议的研究旨在开发具有密集部署底层设备的下一代无线网络中的体验质量感知频谱效率和节能无线电资源接入方案。拟议的研究项目和活动在加强无线电频谱和无线服务的使用方面具有巨大潜力。该计划将研究一种新的无线网络模式，以满足不断增加的新设备、无线流量需求，并应对全球环境保护的需要。拟议的研究还将提高无线视频的体验质量，这将是未来几年主要的无线流量。该项目将确定具有密集部署底层设备的无线网络中的独特技术挑战，并探索研究问题的新解决方案，包括实现高频谱效率的分布式机会性频谱接入方案、最佳能效方案以及能源和频谱效率权衡，以及具有密集部署底层设备的无线网络中的体验质量感知频谱效率和能源效率。对具有密集底层设备的无线网络中的新型频谱接入方案进行了理论分析和性能评价。将开发仿真和性能评估工具，并与更广泛的科学研究和工程界共享。本研究将极大地促进对无线电频谱效率、能源效率以及视频应用体验质量等领域的理解，为密集部署底层设备的新兴无线网络在现代社会中发挥关键作用，以满足未来无线容量爆炸和能耗升级的需求。该项目将为本科生和研究生提供直接的仿真建模经验，以及设计和开发新无线技术的研究机会。资讯科技学院致力将研究与教育、课程发展与改善、多元化与外展结合，致力在教育及训练学生，特别是女学生及弱势群体学生方面，取得持续的成就，为未来的无线电讯业及社会做好准备。

Wireless traffic volume is expected to expand tremendously in the next few years. Sustaining this growing trend will require high spectrum efficiency. In the meantime, energy efficiency has become another essential requirement for future wireless networks. Furthermore, as video content delivery over wireless networks is expected to escalate fast, how to support these energy and bandwidth consuming video applications with high Quality of Experience is becoming a very challenging issue in future wireless networks. Inspired by recent advances in wireless technologies and challenges, the proposed research aims to develop Quality of Experience aware spectrum efficient and energy efficient radio resource access schemes in next generation wireless networks with densely deployed underlay devices. The proposed research project and activities have significant potentials to enhancing access to the radio spectrum and wireless services. The project will investigate a new wireless network paradigm to meet the ever increasing new devices, wireless traffic demand, and to address the needs on global environmental protection. The proposed research will also improve Quality of Experience for wireless videos, which will be the dominant wireless traffic in the coming years. This project will identify unique technical challenges in wireless networks with densely deployed underlay devices and explore new solutions to research problems, including distributed opportunistic spectrum access schemes to achieve high spectrum efficiency, optimum energy efficiency schemes and energy and spectrum efficiency tradeoffs, and Quality of Experience aware spectrum efficiency and energy efficiency in wireless networks with densely deployed underlay devices. Theoretical analysis and performance evaluation for novel radio spectrum access schemes in wireless networks with densely deployed underlay devices will be obtained. Simulation and performance evaluation tools will be developed and shared with the broader scientific research and engineering community. The proposed research will significantly advance the understanding in the field of radio spectrum efficiency and energy efficiency as well as Quality of Experience for video applications for emerging wireless networks with densely deployed underlay devices, which are expected to play a key role in the modem society to meet the future wireless capacity explosion and energy consumption escalation. The project will give both undergraduate and graduate students direct simulation modeling experience as well as research opportunities in designing and developing new wireless technologies. With an emphasis on integrating research and education, curriculum development and improvement, and diversity and outreach, PIs are committed on the continuous achievement on educating and training students, especially female students and students from under-represented groups, and prepare them for the workforces of future wireless telecommunications industry and society.