NSERC CREATE Training Program in Pervasive and Smart Wireless Applications for the Digital Economy (PERSWADE)

无线网络和系统（WNS）如今处于许多关键应用的核心，这些应用对我们日常生活的大多数方面产生了重大影响，并有望在今天实现根本性的范式转变。这些范式转变将使通信基础设施能够无缝地自组织，以优化频谱、成本和能源效率。它们还应使通信联系不仅发生在人与人之间，而且发生在机器、设备和车辆之间；到2020年，连接人数将达到数百亿。这些模式的转变将在不久的将来实现真正的“智能通信”。由于WNS与新型传感器和雷达系统的成功集成，它们的并行发展最近在健康、环境、安全、安保、制造、计量等领域出现了新的“智能监控”应用。智能通信与监控的交叉融合，催生了电网、家庭、办公室、医院、城市、车辆等“智能管理”领域的新兴应用。由于其日益普及，WNS技术的这三种智能应用今天成为21世纪数字经济的一些关键推动因素。在申请者和他们的工业合作伙伴之间的密切合作下，这个项目经过精心设计，为学生、主管和合作伙伴提供了增值经验，通过以下精心设计的项目组成部分，为学员提供无线行业特别需要的宝贵的就业准备技能：更多面向行业的研究项目，解决数字经济中跨学科无线集成的挑战，为学员提供实践经验的行业实习，专业课程，研讨会，与行业的小组讨论，以及年度暑期学校。该项目将资助108名学生，并在6年内培训210名学生。该计划将使他们更好地做好准备和工作准备，更快地为加拿大企业的增长、创新和竞争力做出贡献。****

Wireless networks and systems (WNS) lie today at the very heart of many key applications that strongly impact most aspects of our daily-life and promise today fundamental paradigm shifts. These paradigm shifts shall allow communication infrastructure to self-organize seamlessly for optimized spectrum-, cost- and energy-efficiency. They shall also enable communication links to take place not only between persons, but also between machines, devices and vehicles; connections due to reach tens of billions by 2020. These paradigm shifts are poised to enable in the near future truly "smart communications". Parallel developments in WNS due to their successful integration with new sensor and radar systems have recently sprang the emergence of new "smart monitoring" applications in health, environment, safety, security, manufacturing, metrology, etc. And cross-fertilization between smart communications and monitoring is giving birth to emerging applications in "smart management" of power grids, homes, offices, hospitals, cities, vehicles, etc. Due to their increasing pervasiveness, these three smart applications of WNS technologies stand today as some of the key enablers of the 21st-century digital economy. In close collaboration between the applicants and their industrial partners, this program was carefully developed to offer added-value experience to students, but also to supervisors and partners, through the following well thought out program components that provide trainees with invaluable job-readiness skills specifically needed by the wireless sector: more industry-oriented research projects that address interdisciplinary wireless integration challenges in the digital economy, industry-hosted internships that offer hands-on experience to trainees, specialized courses, seminars, panel discussions with industrials, and an annual summer school. The program will fund 108 students and will train 210 in total over 6 years. This program shall make them better prepared and job ready to contribute faster to the growth, innovation and competitiveness of a very broad range of Canadian businesses.****