ITTC Project

Workshops: Support for Wireless Networking Workshop and PI Meeting

Project Award Date: 09-01-2003

Description

In the past few years the agility of radio systems, in all their aspects, has significantly increased. In today's world, antennas are controllable. There are several options for compression, encryption, and error control. Spread-spectrum (among other techniques) is available to reduce the radio frequency power spectral density, and there are elaborate multi-dimensional modulation techniques. Interference reduction can be advanced by using multiple-user detection and other techniques. New radio architectures that exploit many of these techniques are proposed. It is clear that to achieve maximum utilization of radio capabilities, innovative networks will be involved.
The University of Kansas proposes to continue to support the National Science Foundation in developing a comprehensive research program in innovative and advanced wireless networking systems. This project proposes to extend our initial work in eliciting research problems through the NSF/FCC Workshop on the Future of Spectrum: Technologies and Policies” to

(1) a workshop addressing the issues of radio technology and network protocols and
(2) a Principal Investigator Meeting involving the leading researchers contributing to NSF wireless networking programs.

We anticipate the outcomes of the workshop and PI Meeting to be a set of research questions and researcher defined directions for future investment in radio network research.

Intellectual Merit
There are significant discussions concerning future radio systems and policies. Many of the discussions have focused on the economic, legal, and organizational aspects of radio systems and have assumed a technological capability. The Workshop and PI Meeting will bring together radio engineers and mobile network protocol designers to identify future research problems and elicit a research agenda.

Broader Impact
The proposed workshop and PI Meeting will bring together academic researchers, industry researchers, and government leaders in radio technology and mobile networking technology. The workshop will focus on emerging radio technologies and the necessary network protocols to capture these emerging technologies. The result of the workshop will be a report describing the problem space, identify research directions and timeline. It will also list community needs to accomplish the research and necessary experiments and suggest collaborators/collaborations at the national level. The report should aid the NSF and the federal government in planning future wireless networking research.
The PI meeting will focus on research funded by NSF, facilitate exchange of information between research groups, and provide starting points for collaboration.

Investigators

Faculty Investigator(s): Gary Minden (PI)

Project Sponsors

Primary Sponsor(s): NSF