NeTS: Small: Collaborative Research: Exploring the 60 GHz Spectral Frontier for Multi-Gigabit Wireless Networks

无线数据业务的指数增长导致频谱耗尽，并显著地增加现有和未来无线网络的容量。60 GHz频段的大量非授权带宽为满足激增的无线数据需求提供了巨大潜力。该项目的目标是深入了解60 GHz传播和信道特性，并开发有效的60 GHz网络协议。该项目福尔斯分为四个相互作用的推力：（i）60 GHz的3-D信道传播测量和建模;（ii）在60 GHz的网络中的MAC调度;（iii）60 GHz的网状网络协议;和（iv）在60 GHz的网络中实现丰富的多媒体通信。各种方法，包括现场测试和测量，数学建模，网络协议设计，分布式控制和跨层优化，以解决研究的挑战。 该项目是一项广泛而雄心勃勃的全球努力的一部分，该努力旨在开发新技术，以利用60 GHz频段的巨大免许可频谱，以应对无线数据的指数增长。它有可能加速部署更强大、带宽密集、无处不在和更便宜的无线应用和服务，并支持更通用、更强大和更丰富的多媒体无线网络。作为对研究议程的补充，该项目还开展了广泛的教育和推广活动，包括将研究成果融入无线工程课程，教科书开发，促进代表性不足和本科生群体，与HBCU合作，以及参与PI机构的现有计划，以推广K-12学生和教师。

The exponential growth of wireless data traffic causes spectrum depletion and significantly stresses the capacity of existing and future wireless networks. The massive unlicensed bandwidth in the 60 GHz band provides great potential to meet the surging wireless data demand. The goal of this project is to gain a deep understanding of the 60 GHz propagation and channel characteristics, and to develop effective 60 GHz network protocols. This project falls into four interacted thrusts: (i) 60 GHz 3-D channel propagation measurement and modeling; (ii) MAC scheduling in 60 GHz networks; (iii) 60 GHz mesh network protocols; and (iv) enabling rich multimedia communications in 60 GHz networks. Various methods including field testing and measurements, mathematical modeling, network protocol design, distributed control, and cross-layer optimization are adopted to address the research challenges. This project is part of a broad and ambitious global effort to develop novel techniques to exploit the huge license-free spectrum in the 60 GHz band in face of the exponential wireless data growth. It has the potential to accelerate the deployment of more powerful, bandwidth intensive, ubiquitous and cheaper wireless applications and services, and the support of more versatile, robust and rich-multimedia wireless networks. Complementary to the research agenda, the project also carries out a broad range of education and outreach activities, including integration of research findings into wireless engineering courses, textbook development, promoting underrepresented and undergraduate populations, collaboration with an HBCU, and participating in existing programs at the PIs' institutions for outreach to K-12 students and teachers.