Multi-Scale Wireless Access Virtualization Schemes for the Sustainable Development of the New Digital Societies and Shared Economies

10年前，史蒂夫·乔布斯（Steve Jobs）向世界推出了苹果（Apple）的iPhone。当时很少有人能预测到智能手机和其他联网设备对我们彼此交流方式的影响。但是，无线设备的这些重大进步，以及未来的5G（第五代）无线通信标准，将把世界推向我们今天已经生活的永远在线、永远连接的时代。随着物联网（IoT）在商业、工业和住宅应用中的兴起，设备对设备（D2D）通信也将起飞。所有这些设备结合在一起，每天产生的固定或移动数据量惊人，超过2.5万亿字节。随着对更多设备和更多数据的需求不断向前推进，尤其是随着虚拟或增强现实和触觉互联网的出现，边界必须被打破，以实现范式转变的“智能通信”，并使这个数据驱动的设备驱动的数字社会和共享经济世界成为现实。本研究计划的短期目标是解决智能通信在无线接入层面即将面临的变革性挑战，目前正处于从安装（“coms for coms”）到部署（“coms”到新应用服务）的转变阶段。为了满足预期的数据危机，我们寻求设计新颖的无线接入策略，通过重新思考今天在称为多尺度无线接入虚拟化（MS-WAV）的新环境中可预见的一些关键技术驱动因素，实现真正的智能通信，我们在这里应用于物理层和MAC层。虚拟化是一种基本的范式转变，它已经准备好将这些战略推向灵活性、可管理性和成本、频谱和功率效率的成熟规模。然而，今天它被设想为“大或小”的基础设施方面，即云或雾ran（无线接入网络）。“称之为巨人或强者之间的合作”。我们将WAV概念进一步推向了一个新的多尺度水平，在这种水平上，任何类型的“小型”或“微型”设备之间的直接协作，协作消费他们愿意共享的任何资源（带宽，处理，功率，内存等）成为可能，而无需中间人，“资源巨头或强者”。“我们称之为共享经济中的民主化”。通过实现这一近期目标，该计划的长期目标是在21世纪的数字社会和共享经济中实现无线普及和智能应用的可持续发展。

It was only 10 years ago when Steve Jobs introduced the Apple iPhone to the world. Few people at the time could predict the impact smartphones, and other connected devices, would have on the way we communicate with each other. But these significant advances in wireless devices, along with future 5G (5th generation) wireless communications standards, converge to thrust the world into the always-on always-connected era that we already live in today. And with the rise of the Internet of Things (IoT) in commercial, industrial, and residential applications, device-to-device (D2D) communications will take off as well. All of these devices already combine to create every single day an astonishing amount of fixed or mobile data worth of over 2.5 quintillion bytes. As the drive for more devices and more data pushes ever forward, more so with the advent of virtual or augmented reality and the tactile Internet, boundaries have to be pushed faraway to enable paradigm-shifting “smart communications” and make this data-driven device-powered world of digital societies and shared economies a reality. 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 (“coms for coms”) to deployment (“coms” 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 a novel context called multi-scale wireless access virtualization (MS-WAV) we apply here at both PHY (physical) and MAC (medium access control) layers. Virtualization is a fundamental paradigm shift already poised to push these strategies to a full-fledged scale of flexibility, manageability and efficiency in cost, spectrum and power. It is, however, envisioned today for the “big or less so big” infrastructure side, i.e., Cloud or Fog RANs (Radio Access Networks). “Call it cooperation between giants or the strong”. We push farther the WAV concept to a new multi-scale level whereby direct collaboration between “small” or "tiny" devices of any type for cooperative consumption of any resources they are willing to share (bandwidth, processing, power, memory, etc.) becomes possible without the middlemen, “the giants or the strong in resources”. “Call it democratization in the shared economy”. By achieving this immediate goal, the long-term objective of this program is to enable the sustainable development of pervasive and smart applications of wireless in the 21st-century digital societies and shared economies.