Enabling Radio Access Strategies for Pervasive and Smart Applications of Wireless in the New Digital Economy

今天，无线通信处于许多关键应用的核心，这些应用强烈地影响着我们日常生活的大部分方面。由于无线领域的持续发展，预计还会发生根本性的范式转变。这些范式转变将允许通信基础设施无缝地自组织，以实现优化的频谱、成本和能源效率。在物联网(IoT)的新领域，它们还将使通信链接不仅发生在人与人之间，而且还可以发生在智能机器(如家用电器)、设备和车辆(M2M/D2D/V2V)之间，到2020年，连接将达到数百亿。这些范式转变有望在未来实现真正的智能通信。由于与新的传感器和雷达系统的成功集成，无线领域的平行发展最近在健康、环境、安全、安全等领域涌现出新的智能监控应用。智能通信和监控之间的交叉融合使无线今天能够成为电网、车辆、家庭、城市等未来智能管理应用的关键使能。由于其日益普及，无线的这三个智能应用(通信、监控和管理)正在深刻地塑造当今21世纪的数字经济。该研究计划的短期目标是解决智能通信在当前从安装(通信以通信)到部署(通信以服务于新应用)的转变中不久将在无线电接入级别面临的变革性挑战。为了满足预期的数据紧缩，我们寻求设计新的无线电接入策略，通过重新思考当今在HetNet物理层和MAC层虚拟化的背景下预见的一些关键技术驱动因素，实现真正的智能通信。虚拟化是一种根本性的范式转变，承诺将这些战略推向全面的灵活性、可管理性和成本、频谱和功率效率。通过实现这一近期目标，该计划的长期目标是在21世纪的数字经济中实现无线的普遍和智能应用。

Wireless communications lie today at the very heart of many key applications that strongly impact most aspects of our daily life. Fundamental paradigm shifts are yet expected due to ongoing developments in wireless. These paradigm shifts shall allow communication infrastructure to self-organize seamlessly for optimized spectrum-, cost- and energy-efficiency. In the new realm of the internet of things (IoT), they shall also enable communication links to take place not only between persons, but also between smart machines (such as home appliances), devices and vehicles (M2M/D2D/V2V), connections due to reach tens of billions by 2020. These paradigm shifts are poised to enable truly smart communications in the future. Parallel developments in wireless due to successful integration with new sensor and radar systems have recently sprang the emergence of new smart monitoring applications in health, environment, safety, security, etc. And cross-fertilization between smart communications and monitoring allow wireless to stand today as a crucial enabler of future applications in smart management of power grids, vehicles, homes, cities, etc. Due to their increasing pervasiveness, these three smart applications of wireless (communications, monitoring and management) are deeply shaping today the 21st-century digital economy. The short-term objective of this research program is to tackle the transformative challenges smart communications will shortly face at the radio access level in its current shift from installation (communications for communications) to deployment (communications to the service of new applications). In order to meet the expected data crunch, we seek to devise novel radio access strategies that enable truly smart communications by rethinking some of the key technical drivers foreseen today within the context of HetNet virtualization at both PHY and MAC layers. Virtualization is a fundamental paradigm shift that is pledged to push these strategies to a full-fledged scale of flexibility, manageability and efficiency in cost, spectrum and power. By achieving this immediate goal, the long-term objective of this program is to enable pervasive and smart applications of wireless in the 21st century digital economy.