Collaborative Research: EARS: Spectrum and Energy Efficient Radio Resource Access in Wireless Networks with Densely Deployed Underlay Devices

预计未来几年无线通信量将大幅增长。维持这一不断增长的趋势将需要高频谱效率。与此同时，能源效率已成为未来无线网络的另一项基本要求。此外，随着无线网络视频内容传输的快速升级，如何在未来的无线网络中支持这些耗能和带宽高、体验质量高的视频应用正成为一个非常具有挑战性的问题。受无线技术的最新进展和挑战的启发，拟议的研究旨在开发具有密集部署的底层设备的下一代无线网络中的感知体验质量、频谱效率和能源效率的无线资源接入方案。拟议的研究项目和活动在改善无线电频谱和无线服务的使用方面具有重大潜力。该项目将研究一种新的无线网络范例，以满足不断增长的新设备、无线流量需求，并满足全球环境保护的需求。这项拟议的研究还将改善无线视频的体验质量，这将是未来几年占主导地位的无线流量。该项目将确定密集部署底层设备的无线网络中独特的技术挑战，并探索研究问题的新解决方案，包括实现高频谱效率的分布式机会频谱接入方案、最佳能效方案以及能源和频谱效率权衡，以及在密集部署底层设备的无线网络中感知频谱效率和能效的体验质量。在密集部署底层设备的无线网络中，对新颖的无线电频谱接入方案进行了理论分析和性能评估。将开发模拟和性能评估工具，并与更广泛的科学研究和工程界共享。拟议的研究将显著促进对无线频谱效率和能源效率以及视频应用体验质量领域的理解，以适应未来无线容量爆炸和能源消耗升级的需要。该项目将为本科生和研究生提供直接的模拟建模体验，以及设计和开发新的无线技术的研究机会。PIS注重将研究与教育、课程发展与改进、多样性与外展相结合，致力于教育和培训学生，特别是女学生和来自代表性不足群体的学生，并使他们为未来的无线电信业和社会的劳动力做好准备。

Wireless traffic volume is expected to expand tremendously in the next few years. Sustaining this growing trend will require high spectrum efficiency. In the meantime, energy efficiency has become another essential requirement for future wireless networks. Furthermore, as video content delivery over wireless networks is expected to escalate fast, how to support these energy and bandwidth consuming video applications with high Quality of Experience is becoming a very challenging issue in future wireless networks. Inspired by recent advances in wireless technologies and challenges, the proposed research aims to develop Quality of Experience aware spectrum efficient and energy efficient radio resource access schemes in next generation wireless networks with densely deployed underlay devices. The proposed research project and activities have significant potentials to enhancing access to the radio spectrum and wireless services. The project will investigate a new wireless network paradigm to meet the ever increasing new devices, wireless traffic demand, and to address the needs on global environmental protection. The proposed research will also improve Quality of Experience for wireless videos, which will be the dominant wireless traffic in the coming years. This project will identify unique technical challenges in wireless networks with densely deployed underlay devices and explore new solutions to research problems, including distributed opportunistic spectrum access schemes to achieve high spectrum efficiency, optimum energy efficiency schemes and energy and spectrum efficiency tradeoffs, and Quality of Experience aware spectrum efficiency and energy efficiency in wireless networks with densely deployed underlay devices. Theoretical analysis and performance evaluation for novel radio spectrum access schemes in wireless networks with densely deployed underlay devices will be obtained. Simulation and performance evaluation tools will be developed and shared with the broader scientific research and engineering community. The proposed research will significantly advance the understanding in the field of radio spectrum efficiency and energy efficiency as well as Quality of Experience for video applications for emerging wireless networks with densely deployed underlay devices, which are expected to play a key role in the modem society to meet the future wireless capacity explosion and energy consumption escalation. The project will give both undergraduate and graduate students direct simulation modeling experience as well as research opportunities in designing and developing new wireless technologies. With an emphasis on integrating research and education, curriculum development and improvement, and diversity and outreach, PIs are committed on the continuous achievement on educating and training students, especially female students and students from under-represented groups, and prepare them for the workforces of future wireless telecommunications industry and society.