Collaborative Research: MLWiNS: ANN for Interference Limited Wireless Networks

在可预见的未来，对无线数据服务的需求将继续快速增长。 该项目的目标是为无线接入网络开发新的先进解决方案，以提高网络吞吐量和最大限度地提高整体网络效用。 由于跟踪不断变化的无线电和网络环境的延迟以及测量不准确，长期使用的基于模型的解决方案面临严重的限制。 该项目的主要新奇在于带来了基于人工神经网络（ANN）的新工具，以应对这些挑战。 特别是，这个项目将调查何时，如何，以及为什么基于人工神经网络的学习技术可以应用到广泛的无线网络问题与现实的限制。 该项目将寻求旨在使学术界和工业界受益的变革性解决方案。 具体来说，该项目将监督和无监督学习技术与经过时间考验的物理资源，渠道，流量和网络实用程序模型相结合。 一个重要的任务是利用一些子问题的基于人工神经网络的解决方案的共性，为整个无线网络问题开发一套原则性的整体解决方案，寻求可扩展的，计算效率高，适应性强的解决方案。 支持解决方案的相关可学习性和复杂性理论也将得到发展，以提供可推广的设计原则。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Demand for wireless data services will continue to rise rapidly in the foreseeable future. The goal of this project is to develop new advanced solutions for wireless access networks with the objectives of increasing network throughput and maximizing overall network utilities. Long-serving model-based solutions are facing severe limitations due to delays in tracking the ever-changing radio and network environment as well as measurement inaccuracies. The main novelty of this project is to bring new tools based on artificial neural networks (ANN) to meet those challenges. In particular, this project will investigate when, how, and why ANN-based learning techniques can be applied to a wide range of wireless networking problems with realistic constraints. This project will pursue transformative solutions that aim to benefit academia and industry alike. Specifically, this project will marry supervised and unsupervised learning techniques with time-tested models of physical resources, channels, traffic, and network utilities. An important task is to exploit commonalities of ANN-based solutions for a number of subproblems to develop a set of principled, holistic solutions for the overall wireless networking problem, seeking solutions that are scalable, computationally efficient, and highly adaptive. Pertinent learnability and complexity theories backing the solutions will also be developed, in order to offer generalizable design principles. The ANN-based solutions developed are expected to be a major building block of next generation wireless access networks with associated economic benefits.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.