Collaborative Research: NEDG: Throughput Optimization in Wireless Mesh Networks

这个合作项目研究了一些对无线网状网络（WMN）吞吐量优化非常关键的基本问题。无线网状网络被认为是最后一英里数据连接到互联网的最有效和最高效的技术。提出的研究目标是解决以下挑战：1)MR-MC WMNs的吞吐量优化：吞吐量优化调度的复杂性、实时逻辑拓扑表征和推理、速率分集和信道分集的联合利用以及基于博弈论的吞吐量优化。2)基于非信息论的多跳mimo WMNs吞吐量优化方法：随机建模网格网络的不同方面，构建网络效用最大化公式，并应用信息几何规划求解全局优化问题。3)基于生物学的WMN吞吐量优化设计。4)实验平台，完成实验任务，验证设计的有效性。这个项目本质上是多学科的。它需要计算机科学、电子工程、数学、统计学和生物学的共同努力，因此有可能激发可应用于许多领域的革命性方法。此外，所提出的研究的新颖性对无线研究具有很强的影响。此外，这个项目的成功能够提升四所大学？有能力通过多学科的研究努力培养未来的科学家和工程师。

This collaborative project investigates a number of fundamental problems that are very critical to wireless mesh network (WMN) throughput optimization. Wireless mesh networking is believed to be the most effective and efficient technology for the last-mile data connection to the Internet. The proposed research targets to solve the following challenges: 1) Throughput optimization in MR-MC WMNs: the complexity of throughput-optimal scheduling, real-time logical topology characterization and inference, the joint exploitation of both rate diversity and channel diversity, and game theory based throughput optimization. 2) Non information theory based approaches to throughput optimization in multi-hop MIMO-enabled WMNs: stochastically modeling different aspects of the mesh network, constructing Network Utility Maximization formulations, and applying Information Geometric Programming to solve global optimization problems. 3) Biologically-inspired WMN design for throughput optimizatio n. 4) A testbed to accomplish experimental tasks to validate the effectiveness of the design. This project is in nature multidisciplinary. It requires the joint effort from computer science, electrical engineering, mathematics, statistics, and biology, and therefore has the potential to inspire revolutionary methodologies that could be applied to many domains. In addition, the novelty of the proposed research has strong impact on wireless research. Furthermore, the success of this project is able to enhance the four universities? ability to educate, through the multi-disciplinary research effort, future scientists and engineers.