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Hybrid Digital-Analog Networking under Extreme Energy and Latency Constraints
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Project "BEACON" data sheet
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| Coordinator |
IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE
Organization address contact info |
| Coordinator Country | United Kingdom [UK] |
| Project website | http://www.imperial.ac.uk/information-processing-and-communications-lab |
| Total cost | 1˙496˙350 € |
| EC max contribution | 1˙496˙350 € (100%) |
| Programme |
1. H2020-EU.1.1. (EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)) |
| Code Call | ERC-2015-STG |
| Funding Scheme | ERC-STG |
| Starting year | 2016 |
| Duration (year-month-day) | from 2016-10-01 to 2021-09-30 |
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| 1 | IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE | UK (LONDON) | coordinator | 1˙496˙350.00 |
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Project objective
The objective of the BEACON project is to (re-)introduce analog communications into the design of modern wireless networks. We argue that the extreme energy and latency constraints imposed by the emerging Internet of Everything (IoE) paradigm can only be met within a hybrid digital-analog communications framework. Current network architectures separate source and channel coding, orthogonalize users, and employ long block-length digital source and channel codes, which are either suboptimal or not applicable under the aforementioned constraints. BEACON questions these well-established design principles, and proposes to replace them with a hybrid digital-analog communications framework, which will meet the required energy and latency constraints while simplifying the encoding and decoding processes. BEACON pushes the performance of the IoE to its theoretical limits by i) exploiting signal correlations that are abundant in IoE applications, given the foreseen density of deployed sensing devices, ii) taking into account the limited and stochastic nature of energy availability due to, for example, energy harvesting capabilities, iii) using feedback resources to improve the end-to-end signal distortion, and iv) deriving novel converse results to identify fundamental performance benchmarks.
The results of BEACON will not only shed light on the fundamental limits on the performance any coding scheme can achieve, but will also lead to the development of unconventional codes and communication protocols that can approach these limits, combining digital and analog communication techniques. The ultimate challenge for this project is to exploit the developed hybrid digital-analog networking theory for a complete overhaul of the physical layer design for emerging IoE applications, such as smart grids, tele-robotics and smart homes. For this purpose, a proof-of-concept implementation test-bed will also be built using software defined radios and sensor nodes.
Publications
| year | authors and title | journal | last update |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 |
Elif Tugce Ceran, Deniz Gunduz, Andras Gyorgy Average Age of Information With Hybrid ARQ Under a Resource Constraint published pages: 1900-1913, ISSN: 1536-1276, DOI: 10.1109/twc.2019.2899303 |
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications 18/3 | 2019-09-02 |
| 2018 |
Tze-Yang Tung, Deniz Gunduz SparseCast: Hybrid Digital-Analog Wireless Image Transmission Exploiting Frequency-Domain Sparsity published pages: 2451-2454, ISSN: 1089-7798, DOI: 10.1109/LCOMM.2018.2877316 |
IEEE Communications Letters 22/12 | 2019-09-02 |
| 2018 |
Basak Guler, Deniz Gunduz, Aylin Yener Lossy Coding of Correlated Sources Over a Multiple Access Channel: Necessary Conditions and Separation Results published pages: 6081-6097, ISSN: 0018-9448, DOI: 10.1109/tit.2018.2844833 |
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 64/9 | 2019-09-02 |
| 2018 |
B. N. Bharath, K. G. Nagananda, D. Gunduz, H. Vincent Poor Caching With Time-Varying Popularity Profiles: A Learning-Theoretic Perspective published pages: 3837-3847, ISSN: 0090-6778, DOI: 10.1109/tcomm.2018.2835479 |
IEEE Transactions on Communications 66/9 | 2019-09-02 |
| 2018 |
Samuel O. Somuyiwa, Andras Gyorgy, Deniz Gunduz A Reinforcement-Learning Approach to Proactive Caching in Wireless Networks published pages: 1331-1344, ISSN: 0733-8716, DOI: 10.1109/jsac.2018.2844985 |
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications 36/6 | 2019-09-02 |
| 2018 |
Qianqian Yang, Deniz Gunduz Coded Caching and Content Delivery With Heterogeneous Distortion Requirements published pages: 4347-4364, ISSN: 0018-9448, DOI: 10.1109/tit.2018.2805331 |
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 64/6 | 2019-07-30 |
| 2018 |
Jinwen Shi, Ling Liu, Deniz Gunduz, Cong Ling Polar Codes and Polar Lattices for the Heegard–Berger Problem published pages: 3760-3771, ISSN: 0090-6778, DOI: 10.1109/tcomm.2018.2832618 |
IEEE Transactions on Communications 66/9 | 2019-07-30 |
| 2018 |
Mohammad Mohammadi Amiri, Deniz Gunduz Caching and Coded Delivery Over Gaussian Broadcast Channels for Energy Efficiency published pages: 1706-1720, ISSN: 0733-8716, DOI: 10.1109/jsac.2018.2844623 |
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications 36/8 | 2019-09-02 |
| 2018 |
Qianqian Yang, Deniz Gunduz Coded Caching and Content Delivery With Heterogeneous Distortion Requirements published pages: 4347-4364, ISSN: 0018-9448, DOI: 10.1109/tit.2018.2805331 |
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 64/6 | 2019-09-02 |
| 2017 |
Mohammad Mohammadi Amiri, Deniz Gunduz Fundamental Limits of Coded Caching: Improved Delivery Rate-Cache Capacity Tradeoff published pages: 806-815, ISSN: 0090-6778, DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2016.2638841 |
IEEE Transactions on Communications 65/2 | 2019-06-19 |
| 2017 |
Yonathan Murin, Yonatan Kaspi, Ron Dabora, Deniz Gunduz Finite-Length Linear Schemes for Joint Source-Channel Coding over Gaussian Broadcast Channels with Feedback published pages: 1-1, ISSN: 0018-9448, DOI: 10.1109/TIT.2017.2678988 |
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory | 2019-06-19 |
| 2018 |
Emre Ozfatura, Deniz Gunduz Mobility and Popularity-Aware Coded Small-Cell Caching published pages: 288-291, ISSN: 1089-7798, DOI: 10.1109/LCOMM.2017.2774799 |
IEEE Communications Letters 22/2 | 2019-06-19 |
| 2018 |
Morteza Varasteh, Borzoo Rassouli, Osvaldo Simeone, Deniz Gunduz Zero-Delay Source-Channel Coding With a Low-Resolution ADC Front End published pages: 1241-1261, ISSN: 0018-9448, DOI: 10.1109/TIT.2017.2719708 |
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 64/2 | 2019-06-19 |
| 2018 |
Mohammad Mohammadi Amiri, Deniz Gunduz Cache-Aided Content Delivery Over Erasure Broadcast Channels published pages: 370-381, ISSN: 0090-6778, DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2017.2751608 |
IEEE Transactions on Communications 66/1 | 2019-06-19 |
| 2017 |
Erman Koken, Deniz Gunduz, Ertem Tuncel Energy-Distortion Exponents in Lossy Transmission of Gaussian Sources Over Gaussian Channels published pages: 1227-1236, ISSN: 0018-9448, DOI: 10.1109/TIT.2016.2634578 |
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 63/2 | 2019-06-19 |
| 2017 |
Morteza Varasteh, Borzoo Rassouli, Osvaldo Simeone, Deniz Gunduz Zero-Delay Source-Channel Coding With a 1-Bit ADC Front End and Correlated Receiver Side Information published pages: 5429-5444, ISSN: 0090-6778, DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2017.2747541 |
IEEE Transactions on Communications 65/12 | 2019-06-19 |
| 2018 |
Giulio Giaconi, Deniz Gunduz, H. Vincent Poor Smart Meter Privacy With Renewable Energy and an Energy Storage Device published pages: 129-142, ISSN: 1556-6013, DOI: 10.1109/TIFS.2017.2744601 |
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security 13/1 | 2019-06-19 |
| 2018 |
Mehdi Salehi Heydar Abad, Ozgur Ercetin, Deniz Gunduz Channel Sensing and Communication Over a Time-Correlated Channel With an Energy Harvesting Transmitter published pages: 114-126, ISSN: 2473-2400, DOI: 10.1109/TGCN.2017.2766173 |
IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking 2/1 | 2019-06-19 |
| 2017 |
Mohammad Mohammadi Amiri, Qianqian Yang, Deniz Gunduz Decentralized Caching and Coded Delivery With Distinct Cache Capacities published pages: 4657-4669, ISSN: 0090-6778, DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2017.2734767 |
IEEE Transactions on Communications 65/11 | 2019-06-19 |
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