AVALON

AVALON envisions the design of reliable and flexible, secure and private, scalable wireless system that supports high-speed communication (in the order of 10 Gbps to 100 Gbps) in beyond optical line of sight transmission distances that even reach 100 m, with almost zero-delay by taking advantage of the optical spectrum, pioneering technological advancements, such as metasurfaces for ensuring uninterrupted communication in obstacle riddled environments, and ML based design of medium access, resource allocation and network management techniques. For the realization of this vision, a novel system model will be developed and analyzed that will contain physical, medium access control (MAC) and resource management (RM) layer design considering the particularities of the optical band, a pioneering beyond Shannon theoretical framework will be extracted, and network ML methodologies that allow integrated and accurate communication and sensing will be proposed. These results are expected to “open the door” for the realization of novel highly capable underwater optical wireless networks for military applications.