Grant: Strategic Projects - Group

The overall objective of this project is to improve the throughput and reliability of existing and future wireless communication networks and to enable the sustained growth of these networks. The throughput and reliability of today's wireless communication networks are limited by the interference caused by other wireless devices. The success of wireless communication in the past decade has led to a massive increase in bandwidth-intensive wireless applications and services, which have further aggravated the interference problem. Unless the research community is able to find novel, more efficient approaches to interference management and mitigation, the effects of wireless interference will severely hamper the continued success of wireless communications and the related industry. Due to its tremendous scope and its many implications, it is difficult for any individual researcher to comprehensively and successfully tackle the interference problem. Instead, a multi-faceted research approach is necessary requiring diverse expertise in wireless communication, signal processing, information theory, protocol design, and networking. To this end, we have assembled a team of outstanding researchers from the University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada, and the National Chiao Tung University (NCTU), Taiwan, and several Canadian (Bell Canada, Sierra Wireless, Star Solutions, Kintama Research Corp.) and Taiwanese (Chunghwa Telcom, Media Tek) companies with a keen interest in the results of this project. We will develop novel intelligent and highly scalable interference management and mitigation techniques that enable a sustained growth of high-rate, reliable, heterogeneous wireless communication networks. In particular, we will work on the following research tasks: A. Exploitation of the interference structure for interference mitigation; B. Signal and protocol design for the interference channel; C. Spatial reuse scheduling; D. Multi-cell processing; E. Network coding; F. Cognitive radio. The outcomes of the proposed project will be new paradigms, frameworks, and algorithms for interference management and mitigation in modern wireless communication systems.