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。无论是监控崩溃的基础设施的视频馈送，还是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个语音链接，**通信都可以提高态势感知，并允许拯救更多生命。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ETS**在18年多的时间里开发了一流的无线技术，能够有效地部署**可靠的宽带基础设施。由**超级电子公司于1999年推出的第一个将无线电定义为产品的全球软件成为市场领导者，通过不断改进和**研究保持领先地位。**这种系统在灾难应对中是必需的，这本质上涉及到在不可预测的**情况下进行部署。自ETS-Ultra Electronics合作开始以来，Ultra的无线系统在数据速率和灵活性以及功能方面都得到了**数百倍的发展。它们具有高度的适应性，**支持认知方案，支持MIMO、OFDMA，并且在它们的最新化身中，能够用于**陆地、水上或空中宽带通信的特设HetNet。在讲座项目中，学生将参与**前沿知识的创造，作为下一代无线系统的基础。该研究计划**针对4个战略目标：1)在大多数**不可预测的情况下对异类网络的稳定性和汇聚性进行分析；2)针对频谱感知进行无线信号分析；3)针对非常规情况开发性能**改进策略；以及4)在恶劣条件下开发安全和链路可用性**增强机制。这一新提出的研究计划利用了**前主席计划，以最大限度地充分发挥结果的潜力。

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.