NSERC CREATE Training Program in Pervasive and Smart Wireless Applications for the Digital Economy (PERSWADE)

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Wireless networks and systems (WNS) lie today at the very heart of many key applications that strongly impact most aspects of our daily-life and promise today fundamental paradigm shifts. These paradigm shifts shall allow communication infrastructure to self-organize seamlessly for optimized spectrum-, cost- and energy-efficiency. They shall also enable communication links to take place not only between persons, but also between machines, devices and vehicles; connections due to reach tens of billions by 2020. These paradigm shifts are poised to enable in the near future truly "smart communications". Parallel developments in WNS due to their successful integration with new sensor and radar systems have recently sprang the emergence of new "smart monitoring" applications in health, environment, safety, security, manufacturing, metrology, etc. And cross-fertilization between smart communications and monitoring is giving birth to emerging applications in "smart management" of power grids, homes, offices, hospitals, cities, vehicles, etc. Due to their increasing pervasiveness, these three smart applications of WNS technologies stand today as some of the key enablers of the 21st-century digital economy. In close collaboration between the applicants and their industrial partners, this program was carefully developed to offer added-value experience to students, but also to supervisors and partners, through the following well thought out program components that provide trainees with invaluable job-readiness skills specifically needed by the wireless sector: more industry-oriented research projects that address interdisciplinary wireless integration challenges in the digital economy, industry-hosted internships that offer hands-on experience to trainees, specialized courses, seminars, panel discussions with industrials, and an annual summer school. The program will fund 108 students and will train 210 in total over 6 years. This program shall make them better prepared and job ready to contribute faster to the growth, innovation and competitiveness of a very broad range of Canadian businesses.