Multi-Scale Wireless Access Virtualization Schemes for the Sustainable Development of the New Digital Societies and Shared Economies

面向新数字社会和共享经济可持续发展的多尺度无线接入虚拟化方案

• 批准号: RGPIN-2018-06900
• 负责人: Affes, Sofiène
• 金额: $ 2.04万
• 依托单位: Institut national de la recherche scientifique
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2018-01-01 至 2019-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=643511
• 关键词: Multi; Scale; Wireless; Access; Virtualization

It was only 10 years ago when Steve Jobs introduced the Apple iPhone to the world. Few people at the time could predict the impact smartphones, and other connected devices, would have on the way we communicate with each other. But these significant advances in wireless devices, along with future 5G (5th generation) wireless communications standards, converge to thrust the world into the always-on always-connected era that we already live in today. And with the rise of the Internet of Things (IoT) in commercial, industrial, and residential applications, device-to-device (D2D) communications will take off as well. All of these devices already combine to create every single day an astonishing amount of fixed or mobile data worth of over 2.5 quintillion bytes. As the drive for more devices and more data pushes ever forward, more so with the advent of virtual or augmented reality and the tactile Internet, boundaries have to be pushed faraway to enable paradigm-shifting “smart communications” and make this data-driven device-powered world of digital societies and shared economies a reality. The short-term objective of this research program is to tackle the transformative challenges smart communications will shortly face at the radio access level in its current shift from installation (“coms for coms”) to deployment (“coms” to the service of new applications). In order to meet the expected data crunch, we seek to devise novel radio access strategies that enable truly smart communications by rethinking some of the key technical drivers foreseen today within a novel context called multi-scale wireless access virtualization (MS-WAV) we apply here at both PHY (physical) and MAC (medium access control) layers. Virtualization is a fundamental paradigm shift already poised to push these strategies to a full-fledged scale of flexibility, manageability and efficiency in cost, spectrum and power. It is, however, envisioned today for the “big or less so big” infrastructure side, i.e., Cloud or Fog RANs (Radio Access Networks). “Call it cooperation between giants or the strong”. We push farther the WAV concept to a new multi-scale level whereby direct collaboration between “small” or "tiny" devices of any type for cooperative consumption of any resources they are willing to share (bandwidth, processing, power, memory, etc.) becomes possible without the middlemen, “the giants or the strong in resources”. “Call it democratization in the shared economy”. By achieving this immediate goal, the long-term objective of this program is to enable the sustainable development of pervasive and smart applications of wireless in the 21st-century digital societies and shared economies.

就在 10 年前，史蒂夫·乔布斯 (Steve Jobs) 向世界推出了苹果 iPhone，当时很少有人能预测到智能手机和其他联网设备会对我们相互沟通的方式产生怎样的影响，但无线领域的这些重大进步。设备以及未来的 5G（第五代）无线通信标准将共同推动世界进入我们今天已经生活的永远在线的时代。随着物联网 (IoT) 在商业领域的兴起，工业和住宅应用，设备到设备 (D2D) 通信也将蓬勃发展，所有这些设备每天都会产生超过 2.5 万亿字节的惊人数量的固定或移动数据，从而驱动更多设备和更多数据。随着虚拟现实或增强现实以及触觉互联网的出现，边界必须被远远推开，以实现范式转变的“智能通信”，并使这个由数据驱动的设备驱动的数字社会和共享经济世界不断向前发展该研究计划的短期目标是解决智能通信在当前从安装（“coms for coms”）到部署（“coms”到服务）的转变过程中将很快面临的变革性挑战。为了满足预期的数据紧缩，我们寻求设计新颖的无线接入策略，通过重新思考当今在称为多尺度无线接入虚拟化（MS）的新环境中预见的一些关键技术驱动因素，实现真正的智能通信。 -WAV）我们在这里申请在 PHY（物理）和 MAC（介质访问控制）层，虚拟化是一种根本性的范式转变，已经准备好将这些策略推向全面的灵活性、可管理性和成本、频谱和功率效率。 ，今天针对“大或不太大”的基础设施方面的设想，即云或雾 RAN（无线电接入网络）“称之为巨头或强者之间的合作”，我们将 WAV 概念进一步推向新的水平。因此，任何类型的“小型”或“微型”设备之间的直接协作，以协作消耗它们愿意共享的任何资源（带宽、处理能力、功率、内存等），无需中间商就成为可能。 “称之为共享经济的民主化”。通过实现这一近期目标，该计划的长期目标是实现 21 世纪数字社会中无线和共享的普及和智能应用的可持续发展。经济体。