NSF Workshop on Biologically Enabled Wireless Networks

NSF 生物无线网络研讨会

• 批准号: 1057955
• 负责人: Guevara Noubir
• 金额: $ 9.45万
• 依托单位: Northeastern University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-09-15 至 2012-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1057955&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NSF; Workshop; Biologically; Enabled; Wireless

Over the last decade, wireless networks have achieved major successes and emerged as the key technology for enabling ubiquitous access to information. However, several challenges remain, energy-efficiency being one of the most notable. At the same time, bio-organisms are well known for energy efficiency. From the brain that performs outstandingly complex tasks with only few tens of watts, to the ear that carries the equivalent of billion floating-point operations per second, biological systems are orders of magnitude more efficient than state of the art wireless systems. A natural, although challenging, question is if we can build biologically enabled wireless networks. Several research communities have been working on new biologically enabled computation and communication paradigms, the biophysics and biomedical communities have been exploring ways to remotely interact with biological organisms. However, these communities rarely interact with each other. This workshop?s goal is to bring them together, articulate a vision for biologically-enabled wireless networks, and define a clear set of challenges to be solved and recommendations for future inter-disciplinary collaborations in this emerging area. Experts from several communities will present the state of the art in (1) enabling mechanisms for bio-networks, such as electromagnetic energy harvesting and transduction into biological signals, and magnetic control of biological systems, (2) molecular computation and communication networks considering both the fundamental information and computation theoretic issues and system design, and (3) synthetic biology as a way to engineer biologically enabled wireless devices but also how biologically enabled devices can be made less sensitive to their environment.

在过去的十年中，无线网络取得了重大成功，并成为无处不在获取信息的关键技术。但是，仍然存在一些挑战，能源效率是最引人注目的挑战之一。同时，生物有生物以能源效率而闻名。从只有几十瓦的大脑执行出色的复杂任务，到每秒具有相当于十亿个浮点操作的耳朵，生物系统的数量级比艺术无线系统的状态更有效。一个自然的，尽管具有挑战性的问题是我们是否可以建立启用生物学的无线网络。几个研究社区一直在研究新的生物学启用计算和通信范式，生物物理学和生物医学群落一直在探索与生物生物体远程相互作用的方法。但是，这些社区很少相互互动。这个研讨会的目标是将它们汇集在一起​​，表达对生物启用的无线网络的愿景，并定义要解决的明确挑战，并建议在此新兴领域中对未来的跨学科合作提出建议。来自几个社区的专家将在（1）启用生物网络的机制中介绍艺术状况可以使启用生物学的设备对其环境敏感。