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.

在过去十年中，无线网络取得了重大成功，并成为实现无处不在的信息访问的关键技术。然而，仍然存在一些挑战，其中能源效率是最值得注意的挑战之一。与此同时，生物有机体因能源效率而闻名。从仅用几十瓦执行极其复杂的任务的大脑，到每秒进行相当于十亿次浮点运算的耳朵，生物系统的效率比最先进的无线系统高出几个数量级。一个自然但具有挑战性的问题是我们是否可以构建生物支持的无线网络。一些研究团体一直在致力于新的生物计算和通信范例，生物物理学和生物医学团体一直在探索与生物有机体远程交互的方法。然而，这些社区很少相互互动。本次研讨会的目标是将他们聚集在一起，阐明生物无线网络的愿景，并确定一系列需要解决的明确挑战，并为这一新兴领域的未来跨学科合作提出建议。来自多个领域的专家将介绍以下方面的最新技术：(1) 生物网络的启用机制，例如电磁能量收集和生物信号的转换，以及生物系统的磁控制，(2) 考虑两者的分子计算和通信网络基本信息和计算理论问题以及系统设计，以及（3）合成生物学作为设计生物无线设备的一种方法，以及如何使生物设备对其环境不太敏感。