RINGS: LARA: Layering for Active Resiliency and Awareness in Next-generation Wireless Networks

无线网络是一种重要的社会基础设施，就像电力、水和交通系统一样。随着自然和人为中断事件的不断增加，网络服务对不可预见的中断事件的弹性变得至关重要。无线网络设计中的现有技术不直接提供大规模破坏性事件，诸如禁用基站的天气事件。换句话说，当今的无线网络在确保自身弹性方面发挥的作用很小。我们的研究通过为下一代网络提供一种新的弹性范式来推进国家基础设施，繁荣和福利。特别是，这项研究的具体目标是设计新一代的无线网络，通过感知内部系统状态和外部环境来保持警惕。将传感纳入未来的物理层将是实现下一代（如6G）无线网络的基石。联合感知和通信将使有限资源的高性能分配成为可能，并为网络创造对自身及其环境进行推理的能力。我们断言，这样一个范例需要采用以下设计原则：首先，弹性系统假设不可预见的中断可能会发生。 第二，这些系统通过积极管理资源来形成一种世界观，从而实现积极的准备和恢复能力，从而保持警惕。第三，有了积极的警惕，弹性系统处于一种持续的准备状态，通过对系统未来的反事实推理，不断调整他们对世界的看法。该项目将通过积极和持续地与工业界就未来的网络设计进行合作，促进学术研究的转化。拟议的工作将产生软件，开放数据共享和研究，利用PI广泛的开源实验记录。PI将扩大现有的教育和推广计划，以增加其机构中代表性不足的团体对电气计算机工程的参与。这些计划侧重于各级教育和参与，从教师到博士后研究人员，研究生和本科生。特别是，我们将采取数据驱动的方法来扩大代表性不足的群体在该领域的旗舰会议以及每年在加州圣地亚哥大学举行的年度信息理论与应用研讨会的参与。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 networks are an essential societal infrastructure, much like power, water, and transportation systems. With the growing incidence of natural and human-induced disruptions, it has become critical that network service is resilient to unforeseen disruptive events. The state of the art in wireless network design does not directly provision for large-scale disruptive events such as a weather event disabling base-stations. In other words, the wireless networks of today play a small role in ensuring its own resiliency. Our research advances the national infrastructure, prosperity and welfare by providing a novel resiliency paradigm for Next Generation networks. In particular, the specific aim of this research is to design a new generation of wireless networks that stay vigilant by sensing both the internal system state and the external environment. The inclusion of sensing into a future physical layer will be a cornerstone of realizing next generation (such as 6G) wireless networks. Joint sensing and communication will enable high performance allocation of limited resources and create the ability for the network to reason about itself and its environment. We assert that such a paradigm needs to adopt the following design principles: First and foremost, resilient systems assume that unforeseen disruptions can and will occur. Second, the systems are smart in their vigilance by actively managing the resources to form a world-view that enables active preparedness and resilience. Third, armed with active vigilance, resilient systems are in a constant state of preparedness, continually adapting their view of the world by counterfactually reasoning about the system’s future. This project will facilitate the translation of academic research through an active and sustained engagement with industry on this future network design. The proposed work will yield software, open data sharing and research leveraging the PIs’ extensive track-record of open-source experiments. The PIs will expand the existing educational and outreach programs to increase participation from under-represented groups in Electrical & Computer Engineering at their institutions. These programs focus on all levels of education and engagement, from faculty to post-doctoral researchers, graduate students and undergraduates. In particular, we will take a data-driven approach to widening participation of underrepresented groups in flagship conferences of the field as well as the annual Information Theory and Applications workshop which is held annually at University of California San Diego.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.