2015

FAWIN project ("Fast Transmission of Analog Information over WIreless Networks")

• Funding Entity: Office of Naval Research Global (ONR Global).
  
• Beginning: May, 2015.
• End: April, 2017.
• Main Researcher: Luis Castedo.
• Participating Entities: Universidad de A Coruña, Office of Naval Research.
• Description: The design of efficient transmission schemes to reliably communicate information at high rates
  and with very low delay represents an outstanding challenge in wireless communications and multiuser
  scenarios. This topic is of great value for communication systems for Defense because the
  exchange of critical information between the surveillance/attack nodes and the coordination base
  can be vital to save human lives or overtake the enemy in the battlefield. In this context, the
  joint optimization of the encoding operations that transforms the source data into adequate channel
  symbols to be transmitted over wireless channels arises as an useful and effective alternative
  to improve the quality of the communication process. Since most of the typical information of
  interest for Defense purposes -such as parameter values, sounds, images or video- is originally
  described by analog signals, continuous Joint Source Channel Coding (JSCC) mappings can be
  considered to directly transform the analog source symbols into the associated coded symbols that
  are transmitted over a given channel.