Griffiss

5G Enhanced Communication Capabilities (Internship)

Emerging 5G communications and network technologies can be leveraged to enhance military communication capabilities. In particular, 5G-enabling technologies are envisioned to provide higher data rates, lower latency, lower power consumption, security enhancements and ubiquitous access including non-terrestrial links. The three major use case domains of 5G— enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB), ultra-reliable low latency communication (URLLC) and massive machine type communications (mMTC)—provide the opportunity to harness commercial technology for future AF use cases such as smart bases, self-driving vehicles, augmented and virtual reality technologies for training, dynamic spectrum management and sharing technologies to facilitate coexistence of commercial and military spectrum dependent systems (SDSs). The 5G research areas of interests for this topic include but not limited to: • Dynamic spectrum management and sharing with unlicensed and shared bands • Internet of Things (IoT) • Waveform design for enhanced security and high mobility • Small cell mission scenarios • AI and ML enhanced/incorporated spectrum management, dynamic sensing and sharing • Smart base/smart port use cases with small cell, V2X, low power and localization technologies • Advanced physical layer techniques such as carrier aggregation, full-duplex and massive MIMO • Beamforming and adaptive nulling for interference tolerance and spectrum sharing/co- existence • Millimeter-wave and terahertz band communications • The application of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTN) in the next generation of wireless networks and beyond • Leveraging the mobility and 3D positioning of UAVs to enable inherent communications at the physical layer, i.e., Physical Layer Security (PLS) • Channel modeling of air-to-air and air-to-ground channels