I-Corps Teams: Duocon - Advanced Wireless Technology

这个i-Corps项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力是巨大的，因为该平台是下一代宽带应用的一系列高速无线通信的使能器。下一代电信网络(5G及以上)将是技术范式的转变，这不仅是网络的演变，也是完全连接的智能传感器和设备的整个生态系统的底层结构。5G是许多应用的推动者，几乎将影响每个行业，从汽车、制造业、医疗保健到智慧城市物联网(IoT)和智能家居。然而，完全实现5G的经济增长将取决于网络部署的强健程度，需要与过去使用的不同方法。为了实现数据速率和容量的十倍增长，5G网络将严重依赖先进的无线技术。该公司的技术平台将解决无线无线电和网络的一些关键挑战，并将在全球率先实现5G的竞赛中为5G的快速推出和增长铺平道路。这个i-Corps项目旨在为新兴的高速无线应用实现多千兆无线通信。该公司技术的核心是高性能射频前端，这使我们的创新无线收发器能够实现独特的功能组合。建议的射频前端基于新颖的系统级架构以及与现有最先进的光纤速度无线模块根本不同的高性能射频组件和子系统。为了实现射频前端，该团队正在应用一套创新的设计方法和技术，以应对拟议的复杂射频前端架构的挑战。该公司的射频前端平台是该方法的核心技术贡献和智力优势，它提供了必要的硬件，以实现具有终极网络健壮性和敏捷性的真正光纤速度网络的愿景，并为运营商和企业节省了大量成本。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势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 is significant since the platform is an enabler of a range of high-speed wireless communications for next generation broadband applications. The next generation of the telecommunication network (5G and beyond) is going to be a technological paradigm shift, which is not only an evolution of the network but also the underlying fabric of an entire ecosystem of fully connected intelligent sensors and devices. 5G is an enabler of many applications and will impact virtually every industry sector, ranging from automotive, manufacturing, healthcare to smart city Internet of Things (IoT) and smart homes. Full realization of the economic growth of 5G, however, will depend on how robustly the network is deployed, and will require different approaches from those used in the past. In order to enable the ten-fold increase in data-rate and capacity, 5G network will heavily rely on advanced wireless technologies. The company's technology platform will solve some of the key challenges of wireless radios and networks, and will pave the way towards the rapid roll-out and growth of 5G, in the global race to get to the 5G first.This I-Corps project aims to enable multi-gigabit wireless communications for the emerging high-speed wireless applications. The core of the company's technology is a high-performance RF front-end, which enables our unique combination of features in our innovative wireless transceiver. The proposed RF front-end is based on novel system-level architectures along with high-performance RF components and sub-systems that are fundamentally different from the existing state-of-the-art fiber-speed wireless modules. To enable realization of the RF front-end, the team is applying a set of innovative design methodologies and technologies to tackle the challenges of the proposed complex RF front-end architectures. The company's RF front-end platform is the core technical contribution and intellectual merit of the approach, which provides the hardware necessary to enable the vision of a truly fiber-speed network with the ultimate network robustness, agility, with significant cost savings for the operators and businesses.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.