I-Corps: Determining the Relative Location of Malicious Nodes within Vehicle-to-Vehicle Wireless Networks for Driver Safety

I-Corps项目的广泛影响/商业潜力将在全球范围内实现：第五代蜂窝，制造业的工业4.0自动化和数据交换，连接和自动驾驶汽车以及智能城市3.0计划，重点是提高无线收发器的定位能力。随着自动驾驶汽车的部署，对精确定位数据的需求不断增长，预计到2022年，仅联网汽车市场的价值就将超过220亿美元。这些举措的一个关键经济驱动因素是产生新的用例，为最终用户应用程序提供准确的实时定位。在全球定位数据市场中，准确估计用户设备的位置对新型通信系统至关重要。通过使下一代无线系统能够在本地确定彼此的位置，任何对全球定位系统（GPS）精度和可用性的依赖都可能与它们的操作要求脱钩。这不仅将为最终用户提供实时安全应用，而且还将允许在GPS性能下降的地区（如人口密集的城市）提供新的移动宽带服务。这个I-Corps项目旨在确定下一代无线系统的新型智能天线的可行性。智能天线利用低成本天线制造和整合电路，与下一代宽带无线电通信特殊协议。该协议已经开发出来并进行了概念验证，是使这种新型智能天线在宽带通信网络中提供每帧到达方向估计的关键因素。该项目的产品由单个智能天线和支持软件组成，该软件提供具有定位功能的单通道无线电。目前，精确的实时定位只能使用多天线和繁琐的信号处理算法，这些算法可能无法移植到现有的硬件中。使用新的智能天线，无线电可以在对接收帧进行角度估计的同时保持90%以上的数据包传输速率。通过与通信领域的关键利益相关者进行客户发现过程，这种新的智能天线可能会在目前无法提供此类功能的无线电平台上提供真正的到达方向估计。预计将在I-Corps项目完成后做出是否进入市场的决定。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The broader impact/commercial potential of this I-Corps project will enable global aspects of: 5th Generation cellular, manufacturing's industry 4.0 automation and data exchange, connected and autonomous vehicles, and smart cities 3.0 initiatives, focusing on improving the positioning capability of wireless transceivers. The connected vehicle market alone is expected to be valued over $22 billion by 2022 as the demand for accurate positioning data grows with the deployments of autonomous vehicles. A key economic driver for these initiatives is to generate new use-cases in delivering accurate real-time positioning for end-user applications. In the global market of positioning data, accurate estimation of user equipment location will be crucial for new communication systems. By enabling next generation wireless systems to determine their positions locally with respect to each other, any reliance on Global Positioning System (GPS) accuracy and availability may be decoupled from their operational requirements. This will not only provide real-time safety applications for end-users, but also allow new mobile broadband services in areas where GPS is degraded, such as in dense urban cities. This I-Corps project seeks to determine the feasibility of a new smart antenna for next generation wireless systems. The smart antenna leverages low-cost antenna manufacturing and consolidated electrical circuits, to communicate a special protocol to next generation wide-band radios. This protocol, which has already been developed and proof-of-concept-ed, is the key enabler to making this new smart antenna provide direction-of-arrival-estimation per frame of wide-band communication networks. This project's product is comprised of a single smart-antenna accompanied with support software that provides a single-channel radio with localization capabilities. Currently, accurate real-time localization is only capable using multiple-antennas and cumbersome signal processing algorithms which may not be portable into existing hardware. With the new smart antenna, a radio can maintain above 90% packet delivery rates, while performing angular estimation of the received frame. Through a customer discovery process with key stakeholders in the communications field, this new smart antenna may prove to provide true direction-of-arrival-estimation on radio platforms which currently are not able to provide such functionality. A go/no-go market decision is expected at the completion of the I-Corps program.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.