Grant: Idea to Innovation
University of Western Ontario
$125,000.00
End-to-end Synchronization, Adaptive Link Resource Reservation, and Data Tunnelling
FY 2019-20
Summary
Random and excessive communication latency has become a significant constraint for performance improvement in large scale industrial systems. Robust communications with low and deterministic latency, which directly enable accurate network synchronization, could dramatically improve the overall system coordination and operation efficiency of many emerging applications, including data centre, industry Internet of Things (IoT), and networked control/actuation in smart factories. These applications, which are related to machine to machine communications, encompass many important niche markets with enormous sizes.To protect the intellectual property (IP) from his related research, the applicant has recently filed a patent entitled ""End-to-end Synchronization, Adaptive Link Resource Reservation and Data Tunnelling"" for achieving extremely accurate synchronization while reducing the end-to-end communication latency. This NSERC I2I Phase I project will help the applicant and WORLDiscoveries in finalizing the related technical design, prototype development, and technology demonstration. It will directly accelerate the technology transfer and bolster the commercialization plan for the subject technology.The main objective of the subject technology is to eliminate random communication delay over end-to-end link through reservation of necessary communication resources, and further achieve minimized latency and sub-microsecond level end-to-end synchronization in dynamic wireless networks. Critical technical aspects of the subject technology, including end-to-end synchronization, communication resource reservation, and data tunnelling will be implemented. The performance of the prototype network will be improved with the coordinated synchronization, device grouping and situation-aware adaptation for end-to-end synchronization and latency minimization. Furthermore, the functionalities of the prototype and the compatibility to existing standards will be validated by the IEEE 802.11 based prototype network. The prototype reliability will be evaluated by rigorous lab tests under a realistic environment with severe and dynamic channel conditions.
Program
Idea to Innovation
Recipient
Location
Ontario, Canada
Recipient Type
Academia
Type
Grant
Source
NSERC's Awards Data
As published
Application id
538563-2019
Name nom
Wang, Xianbin
Department département
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Organization id
36
Institution établissement
University of Western Ontario
Province en
Ontario
Province fr
Ontario
Country en
CANADA
Country fr
CANADA
Fiscal year exercice financier
2019
Competition year année de concours
2019
Award amount
125000
Program id
I2IPJ
Program name en
Idea to Innovation
Program name fr
De l'idée à l'innovation
Group en
RESEARCH PARTNERSHIPS
Group fr
PARTENARIATS DE RECHERCHE
Committee code
96
Committee name en
RPP Internal Decision Cttee
Committee name fr
Cté de décision interne - PPR
Area of application code
514
Area of application group en
Manufacturing processes and products
Area of application group fr
Procédés et produits industriels
Area of application en
Communications equipment
Area of application fr
Matériel de télécommunications
Research subject code
2508
Research subject group en
Electrical and electronic engineering
Research subject group fr
Génie électrique et électronique
Research subject en
Communications networks
Research subject fr
Réseaux de télécommunications
Installment
inst:1 - 1
Partie
1
Nb partie
1
Application title
End-to-end Synchronization, Adaptive Link Resource Reservation, and Data Tunnelling
Keyword
NSERC
Application summary
Random and excessive communication latency has become a significant constraint for performance improvement in large scale industrial systems. Robust communications with low and deterministic latency, which directly enable accurate network synchronization, could dramatically improve the overall system coordination and operation efficiency of many emerging applications, including data centre, industry Internet of Things (IoT), and networked control/actuation in smart factories. These applications, which are related to machine to machine communications, encompass many important niche markets with enormous sizes.To protect the intellectual property (IP) from his related research, the applicant has recently filed a patent entitled ""End-to-end Synchronization, Adaptive Link Resource Reservation and Data Tunnelling"" for achieving extremely accurate synchronization while reducing the end-to-end communication latency. This NSERC I2I Phase I project will help the applicant and WORLDiscoveries in finalizing the related technical design, prototype development, and technology demonstration. It will directly accelerate the technology transfer and bolster the commercialization plan for the subject technology.The main objective of the subject technology is to eliminate random communication delay over end-to-end link through reservation of necessary communication resources, and further achieve minimized latency and sub-microsecond level end-to-end synchronization in dynamic wireless networks. Critical technical aspects of the subject technology, including end-to-end synchronization, communication resource reservation, and data tunnelling will be implemented. The performance of the prototype network will be improved with the coordinated synchronization, device grouping and situation-aware adaptation for end-to-end synchronization and latency minimization. Furthermore, the functionalities of the prototype and the compatibility to existing standards will be validated by the IEEE 802.11 based prototype network. The prototype reliability will be evaluated by rigorous lab tests under a realistic environment with severe and dynamic channel conditions.
