EAGER: An Integrated Fiber Sensing and Communication Living Lab in the Research Triangle

EAGER：研究三角区的集成光纤传感和通信生活实验室

• 批准号: 2330333
• 负责人: Tingjun Chen
• 金额: $ 30万
• 依托单位: Duke University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-10-01 至 2025-09-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2330333&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAGER; Integrated; Fiber; Sensing; Communication

Fiber optical networks have been widely deployed at different scales to form the core infrastructure of today's Internet backbone, telecommunication networks, and smart connected communities. In addition to delivering high bandwidth data services at deterministic low latency, each fiber-optic cable can also serve as a high-resolution sensor since it is sensitive to different environmental effects such as vibration, strain, and temperature, due to linear and nonlinear light scattering. As a result, fiber optical networks can be naturally transformed into a large-scale distributed sensor network with the fiber footprint being a continuous sensing medium. The goal of the proposed project is to leverage an existing extensive testbed in Duke-Durham Research Triangle Park in Raleigh, NC, augmented with sensing and measurement capabilities, to investigate fiber sensing-based heterogeneous traffic monitoring as well as its co-existence with data communication networks at scale. At the societal level, this project will enable more efficient optical spectrum utilization and network operation, as well as more sustainable cities and communities.Using the deployed testbed equipped with advanced fiber sensing and communication equipment, this project targets two pilot experiments leveraging the unique large-scale fiber footprint (i) Fiber sensing-based heterogeneous traffic detection and monitoring in extremely noisy measurements for smart city applications, and (ii) Integrated fiber sensing and communication for improved optical spectrum utilization and efficiency in practical enterprise-level networks. Overall, the testbed can be used to conduct unprecedented fine-grained and long-term fiber sensing and communication experiments and measurements, and to serve as a platform for research in the area of integrated fiber sensing and communication.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.

光纤网络已被广泛部署在不同的尺度上，以形成当今的Internet主干，电信网络和智能连接社区的核心基础架构。除了在确定性的低潜伏期下提供高带宽数据服务外，由于线性和非线性光散射引起的振动，应变和温度，每个光纤电缆还可以作为高分辨率传感器。结果，光纤网络可以自然转化为大型分布式传感器网络，而光纤足迹是连续的传感介质。拟议项目的目的是利用北卡罗来纳州罗利市杜克 - 杜勒姆研究三角公园的现有大量测试床，具有感应和测量能力，以调查基于纤维传感的异质交通监测以及与数据通信网络的共同存在。在社会层面，该项目将启用更有效的光谱利用和网络操作，以及更可持续的城市和社区。使用配备高级纤维感应和通信设备的已部署测试床位，该项目的目标是两个飞行员实验，利用了基于唯一的大型纤维量表（I）基于机构的近距离探测器（I），以实现唯一的大规模射击（I），以实现基于型号的范围，并以极高的范围进行了测量，并以极高的范围进行了高度衡量，并以极高的范围进行了高度测量，并具有极高的范围，以实现高度的范围，并具有极其差异的范围。 （ii）集成的纤维传感和通信，以改善实用企业级网络的光谱利用率和效率。总体而言，测试床可用于进行前所未有的细粒度和长期纤维感应和沟通实验和测量，并作为整合纤维感应和通信领域进行研究的平台。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过使用该基金会的知识优点和广泛影响来评估NSF的法定任务。