Many-to-Many Communication for Scalable Ad Hoc Networks

今天的ad hoc网络的协议和体系结构是过去为Internet开发的协议和体系结构的衍生物，这些协议和体系结构可以追溯到20世纪60年代的ARPANET设计。 对于移动的ad hoc网络（MANET）来说，这是错误的方法，因为它们与有线网络有很大的不同。特别是，多对多通信是固有的移动自组网，因为它们的分散对等性质和无线信道的广播性质。与此相反，今天使用的协议栈的设计，以避免多址干扰（MAI），以支持一对一的communication.This项目提出了一个白板的方法来建模和设计的通信协议的ad hoc网络和移动自组网。该项目将寻求通过多对多通信的架构和协议来提高自组织网络的订单容量，这些通信是通过对此类网络中的无线频谱、处理和存储资源进行统计复用来实现的。 该项目将重新审视普遍持有的概念，即当网络存储和处理负担得起时，应如何完成信道接入和信息传输，从而使多包接收（MPR）成为一种可行的方法。 该项目将提供根本性的进步，以了解（a）的方法，使多对多的通信，通过利用移动的节点的处理和存储的复杂性，在移动自组网;（B）如何建模在移动自组网中运行的通信协议;和（c）什么是更有意义的基本限制，在移动自组网中的信息传播时，多对多的通信是允许的。

The protocols and architectures of today's ad hoc networks are derivatives of those developed in the past for the Internet, which in turn date back to the ARPANET design in the 1960s. This is the wrong approach for mobile ad hoc networks (MANET), because they are very different than wired networks. In particular, many-to-many communication is intrinsic to MANETs, because of their decentralized peer-to-peer nature and the broadcast nature of wireless channels. In contrast, the protocol stacks used today are designed to avoid multiple access interference (MAI) to support one-to-one communication.This project proposes a blank-slate approach to the modeling and design of communication protocols for ad hoc networks and MANETs. The project will seek improvements on the order capacity of ad hoc networks by means of architectures and protocols for many-to-many communication enabled by the statistical multiplexing of wireless spectrum, processing, and storage resources in such networks. The project will re-examine commonly held notions about the way in which channel access and information transport should be accomplished when in-network storage and processing are affordable, thus making multi-packet reception (MPR) a viable approach. This project will provide fundamental advances to the understanding of (a) approaches that enable many-to-many communication in MANETs by exploiting processing and storage complexity in mobile nodes; (b) how to model communication protocols operating in MANETs; and (c) what are more meaningful fundamental limits for the dissemination of information over MANETs when many-to-many communication is allowed.