WiFiUS: Coordinating US-Finland Collaboration on Wireless Research through WiFiUS PI Meetings

物联网（IoT）有望创造新的经济机会，并大大提高普通人群的生活质量。拟议的协调项目旨在汇集来自美国和芬兰的各种专家研究人员和科学家。这一努力将通过利用两国之间的独特技能和能力，确定物联网的最佳实践，并推动最先进的技术。 该项目将在以往成功的联合项目的基础上促进合作，这些项目在无线网络和通信领域带来了全球创新。该项目涉及组织计划在今后三年内举行的会议，其中包括为研究人员举办的技术讲习班和为学生举办的两个以教育为重点的暑期学校。 代表性不足的少数群体成员将积极参加所有这些会议。这一努力将直接与几个国家级目标联系起来，如加强数据科学和大数据，气候变化，灾害应对，该拟议项目建立在芬兰和美国之间的无线创新（WiFiUS）计划过去取得的成功的坚实基础之上，并扩展了该计划，以建立长期的长期研究和教育合作的两个世界领先的无线网络领域。该项目的具体目标是解决物联网的无线网络挑战，这在以前以主题为中心的WiFiUS电话中没有得到充分的覆盖。研讨会和暑期学校感兴趣的主题包括物联网架构和协议，通信，计算和存储的网络功能，以及物联网中的安全和隐私。它还将使各种相关国际项目和专业知识的参与者能够在两国物联网方面的新兴实验平台，标准和无线技术政策方面共享知识和相互促进。

Internet of Things (IoT) is poised to create new economic opportunities and considerably enhance the quality of life of the general population. The proposed coordination project is aimed at bringing together a diverse body of expert researchers and scientists from the U.S. and Finland. This effort will result in identifying the best practices of IoT and push forward the state of the art, by leveraging unique skills and capabilities between the two countries. The project will facilitate collaboration by building on the previous successes of joint projects that have resulted in global innovations in the area of wireless networks and communication. The project is concerned with organizing meetings planned over the next three years that include technical workshops for researchers and two education-focused summer schools for students. Members from under-represented minority groups will be proactively included for all these meetings. This effort will directly link to several national-level objectives like enhancing data science and big data, climate change, disaster response, smart cities that have been prioritized within the U.S.The proposed project builds upon and extends the solid foundation of the past successes achieved within the Wireless Innovation between Finland and U.S. (WiFiUS) program for building long-term research and education collaboration between the two world leaders in the field of wireless networking. The specific thrust of this project is on solving the wireless networking challenges for IoT, which has not been adequately covered in previous topic-focused WiFiUS calls. The topics of interest in the workshops and summer schools include IoT architectures and protocols, network functions with communication, computation, and storage, and security and privacy in IoT. It will also enable sharing of knowledge and cross-fertilization among the participants of various relevant international projects and expertise with respect to emerging experimental platforms, standards and wireless technology policies in the two countries with respect to IoT.