NSERC / Ultra Electronics TCS Industrial Research Chair in High Performance Wireless Emergency and Tactical Communications

NSERC / Ultra Electronics TCS 高性能无线应急和战术通信工业研究主席

• 批准号: 386908-2014
• 负责人: Gagnon, François
• 金额: $ 10.55万
• 依托单位: École de technologie supérieure
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Industrial Research Chairs
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2017-01-01 至 2018-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=619368
• 关键词: NSERC; Ultra; Electronics; TCS; Industrial

Wireless communications are not only a fundamental part of modern society, they are key to modern publicsafety and humanitarian missions. Whether it is a video feed monitoring a collapsing infrastructure, a satelliteimage for up-coming local weather conditions or thousands of voice links to coordinate interventions,communications improves situational awareness and permits to save more lives. In many emergency situations,the communication infrastructure is overloaded, or completely out of order. Ultra Electronics TCS and ÉTShave developed, over more than 18 years, a best in class wireless technology enabling the efficient deploymentof a reliable broadband infrastructure. The first worldwide software defined radio as a product, introduced byUltra Electronics in 1999, became the market leader, a leadership maintained by continuous improvements andresearch.Such systems are required in disaster response, which, by nature, involves deployment in unpredictedsituations. Since the ÉTS-Ultra Electronics collaboration's inception, Ultra's wireless systems evolved byhundred-fold factors in data rate and flexibility, but also in terms of functionality. They are highly adaptable,cognitive schemes enabled, MIMO, OFDMA and, in their latest incarnation, capable of Ad-Hoc HetNets forterrestrial, overwater or airborne broadband communications. In the chair program, students are involved in thecreation of leading edge knowledge as a foundation to next generation wireless systems. The research programaddresses 4 strategic objectives: 1) Stability and convergence analysis of heterogeneous networks in mostlyunpredictable situations, 2) Wireless signal analysis for spectrum awareness, 3) Development of performanceimprovement strategies for unconventional scenarios, and 4) Development of security and link availabilityenhancement mechanisms under harsh conditions. This new proposed research program capitalizes on theprevious Chair program to maximize full reach of the results' potential.

无线通信不仅是现代社会的基本组成部分，而且是现代公共安全和人道主义任务的关键，无论是监控崩溃的基础设施的视频、用于预测当地即将发生的天气状况的卫星图像，还是用于协调干预措施的数千个语音链接。在许多紧急情况下，通信基础设施超载或完全失灵，通信可提高态势感知能力，并可挽救更多生命。Ultra Electronics TCS 和 ÉTS 经过 18 年多的发展，开发出了一流的无线技术。 Ultra Electronics 于 1999 年推出了第一个全球范围内的软件定义无线电产品，并通过不断的改进和研究保持了领先地位。灾难响应本质上需要这种系统。自从 ETS-Ultra Electronics 合作开始以来，Ultra 的无线系统在数据速率和灵活性方面以及功能方面都取得了数百倍的进步。具有高度适应性的认知方案、MIMO、OFDMA，以及最新版本的 Ad-Hoc HetNets 陆地、水上或机载宽带通信。该研究计划涉及 4 个战略目标：1) 在大多数不可预测的情况下异构网络的稳定性和收敛分析，2) 用于频谱感知的无线信号分析， 3) 制定针对非常规场景的性能改进策略，以及 4) 制定恶劣条件下的安全性和链路可用性增强机制。 这项新提出的研究计划利用了前任主席计划，以最大限度地发挥结果的潜力。