CAREER: On-the-fly Protocols for Data Dissemination in Wireless Mesh Networks

随着对实时多媒体服务（例如TV频道广播）的需求的增加，以及应用（例如P2P、视频点播和软件下载）的快速下载要求，接入网络设计需要将点对多点和多点到点业务视为第一类公民以实现高效操作。 这个项目的高层次目标是设计网络协议，在现实的时变信道，支持无线网状网络中的数据传播。 这些网络的特点是无线骨干，而不是占主导地位的有线骨干连接今天的无线接入点。 这项研究是基于新的范例上的飞行计算，其中最近的数据驱动的信道测量被用来利用信道的时间变化，以提高性能。 这项研究将支持新兴的媒体丰富的应用程序，将导致大规模部署的网状网络，提供无处不在的多媒体丰富的服务。 它将对几个活跃的研究领域产生切实的影响，包括网状网络，无线局域网和ad-hoc网络。 为了促进教育、培训和学习，这项工作将积极让本科生、妇女和少数民族学生参与。

With increasing demand for real-time multimedia services such as TV channel broadcasting, and fast download requirements by applications such as P2P, video-on-demand, and software downloads, the access network design needs to treat point-to-multipoint and multipoint-to-point traffic as first class citizens for efficient operation. The high level objective of this project is to design networking protocols over realistic time-varying channels for supporting data dissemination in wireless mesh-networks. These networks are characterized by wireless backbones as opposed to the dominant wired backbones connecting today's wireless access-points. This research is based on the novel paradigm of on-the-fly computation, where recent data-driven channel measurements are used to exploit time-variance of channels for enhanced performance. This research will enable support for emerging media-rich applications that will result in the wide-scale deployment of mesh-networks to provide ubiquitous multi-media enriched services. It will make tangible impacts to several active research areas including mesh-networks, wireless local area networks, and ad-hoc networks. To promote education, training and learning, this effort will actively involve undergraduates, women and minority students.