Grant: Collaborative Research and Training Experience
Institut national de la recherche scientifique
$119,084.00
NSERC CREATE Training Program in Pervasive and Smart Wireless Applications for the Digital Economy (PERSWADE)
FY 2018-19
Summary
Wireless networks and systems (WNS) lie today at the very heart of many key applications that strongly impact most aspects of our daily-life and promise today fundamental paradigm shifts. These paradigm shifts shall allow communication infrastructure to self-organize seamlessly for optimized spectrum-, cost- and energy-efficiency. They shall also enable communication links to take place not only between persons, but also between machines, devices and vehicles; connections due to reach tens of billions by 2020. These paradigm shifts are poised to enable in the near future truly ""smart communications"". Parallel developments in WNS due to their successful integration with new sensor and radar systems have recently sprang the emergence of new ""smart monitoring"" applications in health, environment, safety, security, manufacturing, metrology, etc. And cross-fertilization between smart communications and monitoring is giving birth to emerging applications in ""smart management"" of power grids, homes, offices, hospitals, cities, vehicles, etc. Due to their increasing pervasiveness, these three smart applications of WNS technologies stand today as some of the key enablers of the 21st-century digital economy. In close collaboration between the applicants and their industrial partners, this program was carefully developed to offer added-value experience to students, but also to supervisors and partners, through the following well thought out program components that provide trainees with invaluable job-readiness skills specifically needed by the wireless sector: more industry-oriented research projects that address interdisciplinary wireless integration challenges in the digital economy, industry-hosted internships that offer hands-on experience to trainees, specialized courses, seminars, panel discussions with industrials, and an annual summer school. The program will fund 108 students and will train 210 in total over 6 years. This program shall make them better prepared and job ready to contribute faster to the growth, innovation and competitiveness of a very broad range of Canadian businesses.*
Program
Collaborative Research and Training Experience
Location
Quebec, Canada
Recipient Type
Academia
Type
Grant
Source
NSERC's Awards Data
As published
Application id
432255-2013
Name nom
Affes, Sofiène
Department département
Énergie Matériaux Télécommunications, Centre - Montréal
Organization id
56
Institution établissement
Institut national de la recherche scientifique
Province en
Québec
Province fr
Québec
Country en
CANADA
Country fr
CANADA
Fiscal year exercice financier
2018
Competition year année de concours
2013
Award amount
119084
Program id
CREAT
Program name en
Collaborative Research and Training Experience
Program name fr
Programme de formation orientée vers la nouveauté, la collaboration et l'expérience en recherche
Group en
Discovery grants programs
Group fr
Programmes de subventions à la découverte
Committee code
1078
Committee name en
CREATE Program
Committee name fr
Programme FONCER
Area of application code
805
Area of application group en
Information and communication services
Area of application group fr
Services d'information et de télécommunications
Area of application en
Communications technologies (satellites, radar, etc.)
Area of application fr
Technologie des télécommunications (satellites, radar,etc.)
Research subject code
2525
Research subject group en
Electrical and electronic engineering
Research subject group fr
Génie électrique et électronique
Research subject en
Wireless communication systems
Research subject fr
Systèmes de télécommunications sans fil
Partie
6
Nb partie
6
Application title
NSERC CREATE Training Program in Pervasive and Smart Wireless Applications for the Digital Economy (PERSWADE)
Keyword
NSERC
Application summary
Wireless networks and systems (WNS) lie today at the very heart of many key applications that strongly impact most aspects of our daily-life and promise today fundamental paradigm shifts. These paradigm shifts shall allow communication infrastructure to self-organize seamlessly for optimized spectrum-, cost- and energy-efficiency. They shall also enable communication links to take place not only between persons, but also between machines, devices and vehicles; connections due to reach tens of billions by 2020. These paradigm shifts are poised to enable in the near future truly ""smart communications"". Parallel developments in WNS due to their successful integration with new sensor and radar systems have recently sprang the emergence of new ""smart monitoring"" applications in health, environment, safety, security, manufacturing, metrology, etc. And cross-fertilization between smart communications and monitoring is giving birth to emerging applications in ""smart management"" of power grids, homes, offices, hospitals, cities, vehicles, etc. Due to their increasing pervasiveness, these three smart applications of WNS technologies stand today as some of the key enablers of the 21st-century digital economy. In close collaboration between the applicants and their industrial partners, this program was carefully developed to offer added-value experience to students, but also to supervisors and partners, through the following well thought out program components that provide trainees with invaluable job-readiness skills specifically needed by the wireless sector: more industry-oriented research projects that address interdisciplinary wireless integration challenges in the digital economy, industry-hosted internships that offer hands-on experience to trainees, specialized courses, seminars, panel discussions with industrials, and an annual summer school. The program will fund 108 students and will train 210 in total over 6 years. This program shall make them better prepared and job ready to contribute faster to the growth, innovation and competitiveness of a very broad range of Canadian businesses.*
