Bringing Wireless Internet Connectivity to Everything

将无线互联网连接带入一切

• 批准号: RGPIN-2019-04176
• 负责人: SalehiAbari, Omid
• 金额: $ 2.04万
• 依托单位: University of Waterloo
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2019-01-01 至 2020-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=682132
• 关键词: Bringing; Wireless; Internet; Connectivity; Everything

With the advent of the Internet of Things (IoT), billions of new connected devices will come online, enabling new applications in very diverse areas. While exciting, this will create unprecedented demand for energy-efficient and high-throughput wireless internet connectivity that cannot be satisfied by existing wireless networks. This limitation is due to the fact that there is huge diversity in the demands and constraints on today's applications. Some applications work with small sensors and need to operate using minimal energy and bandwidth, while others use high-data-rate multimedia systems, which require multiple-gigabit-per-second throughput. Both extremes stress the communications, and energy resources available to these connected devices, and they require different solutions to satisfy their needs.******My long-term goal is to address the energy and throughput problems of today's wireless networks by re-examining the computer network stack from the physical layer all the way to the application layer. My approach is to develop software-hardware architectures for wireless networks in which algorithms, protocols, and underlying hardware are jointly designed. In support of this long-term goal, my short-term research objectives are developing a mmWave-based high-throughput wireless network; and developing a backscatter-based battery-free wireless network. The proposed research program signifies innovation on a global scale as these breakthroughs will create new wireless networks with much higher capability than today's standard networks. New wireless networks are an immediate and growing need as the world demand for higher capability continues to expand in many areas such as autonomous vehicles, virtual reality, smart homes and smart cities.******The proposed research is interdisciplinary in nature, bridging computer networking with hardware and radio design. Hence, it will open up new avenues for research and a toolkit of techniques that are not possible without the integration of both areas. As a result, this research program not only enables world-class research in the area of IoT, but also it creates a great opportunity to train students in designing cutting-edge software-hardware systems. The area is an emerging research area which is needed by both top Canadian research institutes and high-tech companies.

随着物联网（IoT）的出现，数十亿个新的连接设备将上线，从而在非常不同的领域实现新的应用。虽然令人兴奋，但这将为现有无线网络无法满足的节能和高吞吐量无线互联网连接带来前所未有的需求。这种限制是由于当今应用的需求和限制存在巨大的多样性。一些应用使用小型传感器，需要使用最小的能量和带宽进行操作，而另一些应用使用高数据速率多媒体系统，这需要每秒几千兆位的吞吐量。这两个极端都对这些互联设备可用的通信和能源资源造成压力，并且它们需要不同的解决方案来满足其需求。*我的长期目标是通过重新检查从物理层一直到应用层的计算机网络堆栈来解决当今无线网络的能源和吞吐量问题。我的方法是为无线网络开发软件-硬件架构，其中算法、协议和底层硬件是联合设计的。为了支持这一长期目标，我的短期研究目标是开发一个基于毫米波的高吞吐量无线网络;并开发一个基于后向散射的无电池无线网络。拟议的研究计划标志着全球范围内的创新，因为这些突破将创造出比当今标准网络性能更高的新无线网络。随着世界对自动驾驶汽车、虚拟现实、智能家居和智能城市等许多领域的更高能力需求不断扩大，新的无线网络成为一种迫切且不断增长的需求。拟议的研究是跨学科的性质，桥接计算机网络与硬件和无线电设计。因此，它将开辟新的研究途径和技术工具包，如果没有这两个领域的整合，这是不可能的。因此，该研究计划不仅能够在物联网领域进行世界级的研究，而且还为培养学生设计尖端软硬件系统创造了很好的机会。该领域是一个新兴的研究领域，是加拿大顶级研究机构和高科技公司所需要的。