NSERC / Ultra Electronics TCS Industrial Research Chair in High Performance Wireless Emergency and Tactical Communications

无线通信不仅是现代社会的基本组成部分，也是现代公共安全和人道主义任务的关键。无论是监测正在倒塌的基础设施的视频资料、即将出现的当地天气状况的卫星图像，还是协调干预措施的数千条语音链接，通信都能提高对情况的认识，并使更多的人能够获救。在许多紧急情况下，通信基础设施超负荷，或完全失灵。Ultra Electronics TCS和ETS在超过18年的时间里开发出了一流的无线技术，能够有效部署可靠的宽带基础设施。1999年，Ultra Electronics推出了全球第一个软件无线电产品，并成为市场领导者，这种领导地位是通过不断的改进和研究来保持的。灾难响应需要这样的系统，而灾难响应的本质是在不可预测的情况下进行部署。自ETS与Ultra Electronics合作成立以来，Ultra的无线系统在数据速率和灵活性以及功能方面都有了百倍的发展。它们具有高度适应性，支持认知方案，MIMO，OFDMA，并且在其最新的化身中，能够用于地面，水上或机载宽带通信的Ad-Hoc HetNet。在椅子程序中，学生参与前沿知识的创造，作为下一代无线系统的基础。该研究提出了4个战略目标：1）在大多数不可预测的情况下异构网络的稳定性和收敛性分析，2）用于频谱感知的无线信号分析，3）非常规场景的性能改进策略的开发，以及4）在恶劣条件下的安全和链路可用性增强机制的开发。这个新提出的研究计划利用了以前的主席计划，以最大限度地充分发挥成果的潜力。

Wireless communications are not only a fundamental part of modern society, they are key to modern publicsafety and humanitarian missions. Whether it is a video feed monitoring a collapsing infrastructure, a satelliteimage for up-coming local weather conditions or thousands of voice links to coordinate interventions,communications improves situational awareness and permits to save more lives. In many emergency situations,the communication infrastructure is overloaded, or completely out of order. Ultra Electronics TCS and ÉTShave developed, over more than 18 years, a best in class wireless technology enabling the efficient deploymentof a reliable broadband infrastructure. The first worldwide software defined radio as a product, introduced byUltra Electronics in 1999, became the market leader, a leadership maintained by continuous improvements andresearch.Such systems are required in disaster response, which, by nature, involves deployment in unpredictedsituations. Since the ÉTS-Ultra Electronics collaboration's inception, Ultra's wireless systems evolved byhundred-fold factors in data rate and flexibility, but also in terms of functionality. They are highly adaptable,cognitive schemes enabled, MIMO, OFDMA and, in their latest incarnation, capable of Ad-Hoc HetNets forterrestrial, overwater or airborne broadband communications. In the chair program, students are involved in thecreation of leading edge knowledge as a foundation to next generation wireless systems. The research programaddresses 4 strategic objectives: 1) Stability and convergence analysis of heterogeneous networks in mostlyunpredictable situations, 2) Wireless signal analysis for spectrum awareness, 3) Development of performanceimprovement strategies for unconventional scenarios, and 4) Development of security and link availabilityenhancement mechanisms under harsh conditions. This new proposed research program capitalizes on theprevious Chair program to maximize full reach of the results' potential.