WiFiUS: Coordinating US-Finland Collaboration on Wireless Research through WiFiUS PI Meetings

物联网(IoT)有望创造新的经济机会，显著提高普通民众的生活质量。拟议的协调项目旨在将来自美国和芬兰的不同领域的专家研究人员和科学家聚集在一起。这一努力将通过利用两国之间的独特技能和能力，确定物联网的最佳实践，并推动最先进的技术。该项目将在联合项目以前的成功基础上促进合作，这些项目在无线网络和通信领域产生了全球创新。该项目致力于组织未来三年计划的会议，其中包括为研究人员举办技术讲习班和为学生举办两个以教育为重点的暑期学校。所有这些会议都将积极吸收代表人数不足的少数群体的成员参加。这一努力将直接与几个国家级目标联系在一起，如加强数据科学和大数据、气候变化、灾害应对、智能城市，这些目标在美国国内被列为优先事项。拟议的项目建立在芬兰和美国无线创新(WiFiUS)计划所取得的过去成功的坚实基础上，旨在建立两个世界领先者在无线网络领域的长期研究和教育合作。该项目的具体重点是解决物联网的无线网络挑战，这在之前的以主题为中心的WiFiUS电话会议中没有得到充分的覆盖。研讨会和暑期学校感兴趣的主题包括物联网架构和协议、具有通信、计算和存储的网络功能，以及物联网中的安全和隐私。它还将使各种相关国际项目的参与者在两国物联网新兴实验平台、标准和无线技术政策方面分享知识和交流经验。

Internet of Things (IoT) is poised to create new economic opportunities and considerably enhance the quality of life of the general population. The proposed coordination project is aimed at bringing together a diverse body of expert researchers and scientists from the U.S. and Finland. This effort will result in identifying the best practices of IoT and push forward the state of the art, by leveraging unique skills and capabilities between the two countries. The project will facilitate collaboration by building on the previous successes of joint projects that have resulted in global innovations in the area of wireless networks and communication. The project is concerned with organizing meetings planned over the next three years that include technical workshops for researchers and two education-focused summer schools for students. Members from under-represented minority groups will be proactively included for all these meetings. This effort will directly link to several national-level objectives like enhancing data science and big data, climate change, disaster response, smart cities that have been prioritized within the U.S.The proposed project builds upon and extends the solid foundation of the past successes achieved within the Wireless Innovation between Finland and U.S. (WiFiUS) program for building long-term research and education collaboration between the two world leaders in the field of wireless networking. The specific thrust of this project is on solving the wireless networking challenges for IoT, which has not been adequately covered in previous topic-focused WiFiUS calls. The topics of interest in the workshops and summer schools include IoT architectures and protocols, network functions with communication, computation, and storage, and security and privacy in IoT. It will also enable sharing of knowledge and cross-fertilization among the participants of various relevant international projects and expertise with respect to emerging experimental platforms, standards and wireless technology policies in the two countries with respect to IoT.