Sequences have many applications in digital communications. They played a critical role in avoiding inferences and maintaining synchronization in the air interfaces of the CDMA systems, and also had ingenious applications in cryptography and error-correcting codes that enable secure and reliable communications in an adversarial, error-prone wireless communication environment.
Interference management and multiple access are two of the most fundamental problems in wireless communications. The primary objective of the SETA project is to design sequences with attractive properties for interference management and synchronization, and its secondary projective is to propose secure and spectra-efficient multiple access schemes for the forthcoming 5G networks. The design of sequences and multiple access schemes combines advanced techniques from mathematics, information theory, wireless communications and engineering. The consortium of the SETA project has made significant contributions at an international level to sequence designs, cryptography, and wireless communications, so it has sufficient competence in solving the proposed research problems.
The SETA project will hire one 3-year Ph.D. and one 3-year postdoc. Their major activities will be, in collaboration with other members of the project, researching the design and analysis of sequences, and their applications in improving the performance and security of multiple access schemes for the 5G networks.