NSERC / Ultra Electronics TCS Industrial Research Chair in High Performance Wireless Emergency and Tactical Communications

无线通信不仅是现代社会的基本组成部分，也是现代公共安全和人道主义任务的关键。无论是监控倒塌基础设施的视频馈送，预报即将到来的当地天气状况的卫星图像，还是用于协调干预的数千条语音链接，通信都能提高态势感知能力，从而挽救更多生命。在许多紧急情况下，通信基础设施超载或完全失灵。Ultra Electronics TCS和ÉTShave在超过18年的时间里开发了一流的无线技术，能够有效部署可靠的宽带基础设施。1999年，ultra Electronics推出了全球第一个软件定义无线电产品，成为市场领导者，通过不断改进和研究保持领先地位。这样的系统在灾难响应中是必需的，从本质上讲，这涉及到在不可预测的情况下部署。自ÉTS-Ultra电子合作开始以来，Ultra的无线系统在数据速率和灵活性方面发展了数百倍，而且在功能方面也是如此。它们具有高度适应性，支持认知方案，MIMO， OFDMA，并且在其最新版本中，能够用于陆地，水上或空中宽带通信的Ad-Hoc HetNets。在主持项目中，学生将参与前沿知识的创造，为下一代无线系统奠定基础。该研究计划涉及4个战略目标：1)在大多数不可预测情况下异构网络的稳定性和收敛性分析，2)频谱感知的无线信号分析，3)非常规场景下性能改进策略的开发，以及4)在恶劣条件下安全性和链路可用性增强机制的开发。这项新提出的研究计划利用了以前的主席计划，以最大限度地发挥结果的潜力。

Wireless communications are not only a fundamental part of modern society, they are key to modern publicsafety and humanitarian missions. Whether it is a video feed monitoring a collapsing infrastructure, a satelliteimage for up-coming local weather conditions or thousands of voice links to coordinate interventions,communications improves situational awareness and permits to save more lives. In many emergency situations,the communication infrastructure is overloaded, or completely out of order. Ultra Electronics TCS and ÉTShave developed, over more than 18 years, a best in class wireless technology enabling the efficient deploymentof a reliable broadband infrastructure. The first worldwide software defined radio as a product, introduced byUltra Electronics in 1999, became the market leader, a leadership maintained by continuous improvements andresearch.Such systems are required in disaster response, which, by nature, involves deployment in unpredictedsituations. Since the ÉTS-Ultra Electronics collaboration's inception, Ultra's wireless systems evolved byhundred-fold factors in data rate and flexibility, but also in terms of functionality. They are highly adaptable,cognitive schemes enabled, MIMO, OFDMA and, in their latest incarnation, capable of Ad-Hoc HetNets forterrestrial, overwater or airborne broadband communications. In the chair program, students are involved in thecreation of leading edge knowledge as a foundation to next generation wireless systems. The research programaddresses 4 strategic objectives: 1) Stability and convergence analysis of heterogeneous networks in mostlyunpredictable situations, 2) Wireless signal analysis for spectrum awareness, 3) Development of performanceimprovement strategies for unconventional scenarios, and 4) Development of security and link availabilityenhancement mechanisms under harsh conditions. This new proposed research program capitalizes on theprevious Chair program to maximize full reach of the results' potential.