RINGS: LARA: Layering for Active Resiliency and Awareness in Next-generation Wireless Networks

无线网络是必不可少的社会基础设施，就像电力、水和交通系统一样。随着自然和人为中断事件的发生，网络服务对不可预见的中断事件的弹性变得至关重要。无线网络设计的最新技术并不能直接提供大规模的破坏性事件，如天气事件使基站无法工作。换句话说，今天的无线网络在确保其自身弹性方面发挥的作用很小。我们的研究通过为下一代网络提供新的弹性范例来推进国家基础设施，繁荣和福利。特别是，本研究的具体目标是设计新一代无线网络，通过感知内部系统状态和外部环境来保持警惕。将传感技术纳入未来物理层将是实现下一代（如6G）无线网络的基石。联合传感和通信将使有限资源的高性能分配成为可能，并为网络创造对自身及其环境进行推理的能力。我们断言，这样的范例需要采用以下设计原则：首先，弹性系统假设不可预见的中断可能并且将会发生。其次，系统通过积极管理资源，形成一种世界观，使其能够积极准备和恢复能力，从而保持警惕。第三，具有积极警惕性的弹性系统处于持续的准备状态，通过对系统未来的反事实推理，不断调整它们对世界的看法。该项目将通过与工业界在未来网络设计上的积极和持续的接触，促进学术研究的翻译。拟议的工作将产生软件、开放数据共享和利用pi广泛的开源实验记录的研究。这些pi将扩大现有的教育和推广计划，以增加他们所在机构中未被充分代表的电气和计算机工程群体的参与。这些项目的重点是各级教育和参与，从教师到博士后研究人员，研究生和本科生。特别是，我们将采取数据驱动的方法，扩大代表性不足的群体参与该领域的旗舰会议以及每年在加州大学圣地亚哥分校举行的年度信息理论与应用讲习班。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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。

Wireless networks are an essential societal infrastructure, much like power, water, and transportation systems. With the growing incidence of natural and human-induced disruptions, it has become critical that network service is resilient to unforeseen disruptive events. The state of the art in wireless network design does not directly provision for large-scale disruptive events such as a weather event disabling base-stations. In other words, the wireless networks of today play a small role in ensuring its own resiliency. Our research advances the national infrastructure, prosperity and welfare by providing a novel resiliency paradigm for Next Generation networks. In particular, the specific aim of this research is to design a new generation of wireless networks that stay vigilant by sensing both the internal system state and the external environment. The inclusion of sensing into a future physical layer will be a cornerstone of realizing next generation (such as 6G) wireless networks. Joint sensing and communication will enable high performance allocation of limited resources and create the ability for the network to reason about itself and its environment. We assert that such a paradigm needs to adopt the following design principles: First and foremost, resilient systems assume that unforeseen disruptions can and will occur. Second, the systems are smart in their vigilance by actively managing the resources to form a world-view that enables active preparedness and resilience. Third, armed with active vigilance, resilient systems are in a constant state of preparedness, continually adapting their view of the world by counterfactually reasoning about the system’s future. This project will facilitate the translation of academic research through an active and sustained engagement with industry on this future network design. The proposed work will yield software, open data sharing and research leveraging the PIs’ extensive track-record of open-source experiments. The PIs will expand the existing educational and outreach programs to increase participation from under-represented groups in Electrical & Computer Engineering at their institutions. These programs focus on all levels of education and engagement, from faculty to post-doctoral researchers, graduate students and undergraduates. In particular, we will take a data-driven approach to widening participation of underrepresented groups in flagship conferences of the field as well as the annual Information Theory and Applications workshop which is held annually at University of California San Diego.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.