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，还是显示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ÉTS**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年由**Ultra Electronics推出的第一个全球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。**此类系统在灾难响应中是必需的，而灾难响应本质上涉及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100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，能够为陆地，水上或空中宽带通信提供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。该研究计划有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)频谱感知无线信号分析；3)非常规场景下性能改进策略的开发；4)恶劣条件下安全性和链路可用性增强机制的开发。这个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 public**safety and humanitarian missions. Whether it is a video feed monitoring a collapsing infrastructure, a satellite**image 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 ÉTS**have developed, over more than 18 years, a best in class wireless technology enabling the efficient deployment**of a reliable broadband infrastructure. The first worldwide software defined radio as a product, introduced by**Ultra Electronics in 1999, became the market leader, a leadership maintained by continuous improvements and**research.**Such systems are required in disaster response, which, by nature, involves deployment in unpredicted**situations. Since the ÉTS-Ultra Electronics collaboration's inception, Ultra's wireless systems evolved by**hundred-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 for**terrestrial, overwater or airborne broadband communications. In the chair program, students are involved in the**creation of leading edge knowledge as a foundation to next generation wireless systems. The research program**addresses 4 strategic objectives: 1) Stability and convergence analysis of heterogeneous networks in mostly**unpredictable situations, 2) Wireless signal analysis for spectrum awareness, 3) Development of performance**improvement strategies for unconventional scenarios, and 4) Development of security and link availability**enhancement mechanisms under harsh conditions. This new proposed research program capitalizes on the**previous Chair program to maximize full reach of the results' potential.