NEDG: Contention-Awareness in Mesh Transport: Theory and Practice

Mesh传输中的竞争感知：理论与实践多跳无线Mesh网络正日益成为互联网中边缘网络的重要组成部分。这些静态节点网络提供社区联网、分布式传感和互联网接入。在每种情况下，网状网的主要优势是其易于部署和可升级。尽管有这些优点，网状网还没有被广泛采用。造成这种情况的主要原因是对此类网络的传输性能缺乏关注，这导致终端用户体验不佳。提高网状网络传输性能的主要挑战是使传输协议意识到存在于多跳无线网络中的复杂干扰。智力上的功绩。这项工作将探索网状网络传输协议的设计空间。它将侧重于两类设计：a)易于实施、公平和高效的方案，确保在检测到网络内部拥塞时正确地抑制竞争流量，以及b)近最佳方案估计可用网络容量，并以公平和高效的方式将其分配给流量。影响广泛。这项拟议的工作可以促进网状网络在未来互联网中的采用，并影响其设计中的体系结构选择。网状网络已经成为机场、酒店、会议中心、商场、教育设施和医院等各种地点的首选网络技术。随着它们在经济上的重要性与日俱增，该项目正准备产生影响，寻求改善Mesh网络的性能。

Contention-Awareness in Mesh Transport: Theory and PracticeMulti-hop wireless mesh networks are becoming increasingly important elements of edge networks in the Internet. These networks of static nodes provide community networking, distributed sensing, and Internet access. In each case, the primary advantage of a mesh is its easy deployability and upgradability.Despite these advantages, mesh networks have not seen widespread adoption. The primary reason for this is a lack of attention to the transport performance of such networks, which leads to poor end-user experience. The central challenge to improving transport performance in mesh networks is to make the transport protocol aware of the complex interference that exists in multi-hop wireless networks. Intellectual Merit. This work will explore the design space of transport protocols for mesh networks. It will focus on two classes of designs: a) easy to implement, fair and efficient schemes that ensure that competing traffic is correctly throttled when congestion is detected inside the network, and b) near-optimal schemes estimate available network capacity and apportion it to flows in a fair and efficient manner.Broad Impact. The proposed work can spur the adoption of mesh networks in a future Internet, and influence architectural choices in its design. Mesh networks are already becoming the networking technology of choice in a variety of locations including airports, hotels, convention centers, shopping malls, education facilities, and hospitals. With their increasing economic importance, this project is poised to make impact, seeking as it does to improve the performance of mesh networks.