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

RINGS：LARA：下一代无线网络中的主动弹性和感知分层

• 批准号: 2148313
• 负责人: Tara Javidi
• 金额: $ 100万
• 依托单位: University of California-San Diego
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-05-01 至 2025-04-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2148313&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RINGS; LARA; Layering; Active; Resiliency

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.

无线网络是重要的社会基础设施，就像电力、水和交通系统一样，随着自然和人为干扰的发生率不断增加，网络服务能够适应不可预见的破坏性事件变得至关重要。无线网络设计并不直接应对大规模破坏性事件，例如导致基站瘫痪的天气事件。换句话说，当今的无线网络在确保其自身的弹性方面发挥着很小的作用。我们的研究促进了国家基础设施的繁荣。和福利通过提供小说特别是，这项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，将感知纳入未来的物理层。联合感知和通信将成为实现下一代（例如 6G）无线网络的基石，将实现有限资源的高性能分配，并为网络创造推理自身及其环境的能力。采用以下设计原则：首先，弹性系统其次，系统通过积极管理资源来形成一种能够实现积极准备和恢复能力的世界观，从而保持警惕。第三，具有积极的警惕性，弹性系统处于持续状态。通过对系统未来的反事实推理，不断调整他们的世界观。该项目将通过与业界积极、持续地参与未来网络设计，促进学术研究的转化。拟议的工作将产生软件和开放数据。分享与研究利用 PI 的开源实验记录，PI 将扩大现有的教育和推广计划，以增加其机构中电气和计算机工程领域代表性不足的群体的参与。从教师到博士后研究人员、研究生和本科生的参与特别是，我们将采取数据驱动的方法来扩大代表性不足的群体参与该领域的旗舰会议以及年度信息理论和应用研讨会的机会。每年举行于加州大学圣地亚哥分校。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。