ITR: Collaborative Research: Efficient Resource Management for Controlled-Mobility Wireless Networks

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Today's embedded computers are increasingly mobile and ubiquitous, arecapable of interacting with the environment, and can communicate withone another over possibly vast and pervasive networks. While most ofthe wireless networks are not expected to be capable of controllingtheir own motion, new technological possibilities are emerging toprovide small embedded devices with the means to propel themselves,with an energy expenditure that is comparable to the energy budget ofcommunication and computation.A Controlled-Mobility Wireless Network (CMWN) is defined as a networkof embedded devices endowed with computation, communication and motioncapabilities. The purpose of this project is the development of a newconceptual framework for the design, development and operation ofefficient and reliable networks with such characteristics.The overall objectives of the basic research proposed in this projectare:1. The development of a conceptually sound, consistent and completeframework for the analysis of the interactions between competingcomputation, communication, and motion control requirements, arisingin the design of CMWNs.2. The design, analysis, and performance characterization ofdistributed algorithms and communication protocols for provablyefficient and adaptive CMWNs.3. The specification, implementation and verification of software,middleware and networking services for the deployment ofrepresentative CMWNs.