ICE-T: RI: Software Hardware Efficient Extensible Protocols (SHEEP)

无线设备已经变得无处不在。 新的设备不断上线，这些设备的协议也在不断发展。 这项研究将研究一个灵活的平台，可以支持各种不同的设备和协议，用于高数据速率无线网络和低功耗，低带宽设备，这些设备是物联网（IoT）的一部分。 这代表着从前几代的刚性网络向更大的多功能性和适应性的转变。 由此产生的研究将使新设备更容易与现有系统集成，并有可能改变全球支持无线网络的方式。这种多功能性的基本推动因素包括：更灵活的无线电接入技术和无线网络边缘的资源动态管理。 这项研究代表了美国和爱尔兰的研究人员之间的一项新的合作，以寻求一种共同的策略来研究物理层无线协议。 将研究新协议的原型设计以及开发一种灵活的方法来支持现有协议。 该平台包括硬件和软件，以支持跨一系列协议的原型设计和实验，特别是在物理层。 基础平台将使用最先进的硬件，可以很容易地升级为新的硬件成为可用。 此外，支持软件包将简化具有无线和通信背景的研究人员对基础硬件的使用。 硬件/软件实施将允许在不同性能点支持一系列无线应用程序。 硬件的运行时重新配置将能够快速适应现有环境。 灵活性和可重构性将确保未来协议的真实的时间实现可以进行实验。爱尔兰和美国之间将开发无线网络研究的共享测试床。 测试平台将是灵活和可重构的，因此支持无线协议和边缘计算的新设计。 该试验台包括硬件和软件，将用于研究和教育目的。 可以在美国和爱尔兰以及全世界使用的教育材料将被开发和广泛分享。 该项目开发的材料将与欧洲地平线2020研究人员共享，并通过互联网，会议和开源软件共享。 该奖项反映了NSF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。

Wireless devices have become ubiquitous. New devices are coming on line all the time, and protocols for these devices continue to evolve. This research will investigate a flexible platform that can support a variety of different devices and protocols for both high data rate wireless networking and low power, low bandwidth devices that are part of the Internet of Things (IoT). This represents a shift from the rigid networks of previous generations, towards greater versatility and adaptability. The resulting research will enable new devices to integrate with existing systems more easily, and has the potential to change the way wireless networking is supported worldwide. Essential enablers for this versatility include: more flexible radio access technologies and dynamic management of resources at the edge of wireless networks. This research represents a new collaboration between researchers in the US and in Ireland to pursue a common strategy to investigate physical layer wireless protocols. Prototyping of new protocols as well as developing an agile approach to support existing protocols will be investigated. The platform includes both hardware and software to enable prototyping and experimentation across a range of protocols especially at the physical layer. The base platform will use state-of-the-art hardware that can easily be upgraded as new hardware becomes available. In addition, supporting software packages will ease the use of the base hardware for researchers with wireless and communications backgrounds. Hardware/software implementations will allow the support of a range of wireless applications at different performance points. Run-time reconfiguration of hardware will enable rapidly adapting to the existing environment. Flexibility and reconfigurability will ensure that real time implementations of future protocols can be experimented with.Shared test-beds for wireless networking research will be developed between Ireland and the US. The test-beds will be flexible and reconfigurable and thus support novel designs in wireless protocols and edge computing. The test-beds, which include both hardware and software, will be used for both research and educational purposes. Educational materials that can be used in both the US and Ireland as well as worldwide will be developed and shared widely. Material developed in this project will be shared with European Horizon 2020 researchers, as well as through the internet, conferences, and open source software. The resulting platform will enable flexible, adaptable and scalable wireless networking.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.