NeTS: Small: Collaborative Research: Transparent Cross-technology Communication in Wireless Networks

NeTS：小型：协作研究：无线网络中透明的跨技术通信

• 批准号: 1717059
• 负责人: Parth Pathak
• 金额: $ 25万
• 依托单位: George Mason University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-10-01 至 2021-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1717059&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NeTS; Small; Collaborative; Research; Transparent

Successful proliferation of wireless technologies in the past decade was led by multiple and heterogeneous technologies (e.g., WiFi, Bluetooth, and ZigBee) to accommodate diverse application requirements including system reliability, timeliness, and energy usage. However, wireless devices and their non-cooperative behavior lead to critically inefficient utilization of scarce wireless spectrum. This project develops a collaboration framework taking a clean-slate approach called Cross-technology Communication (CTC) - enabling message exchange between heterogeneous wireless technologies (e.g., Bluetooth and WiFi). The project aims to achieve two goals: (i) address resource under-utilization to bring significant cost reduction in network operation, and (ii) enable unique and advanced network functions via collaboration among heterogeneous entities with different capabilities. The impacts of this project will be further amplified by 1) embedding the technology on massive off-the-shelf systems via collaborations with major industry players; 2) improving curriculum development with enhanced course projects; 3) disseminating research results through high-profile tutorials and open-source sites; 4) raising interest in technology among K-12 students and under-represented minority groups through outreach activities including open houses; and 5) supporting talented female and minority PhD students. The project departs from the extensive studies in literature that commonly take implicit spectrum sharing approaches, to uniquely propose an explicit approach by enabling CTC. It enables cross-technology collaboration to bring advanced services, essentially exploring the bright side of coexistence. To achieve the goal, the project includes in-depth systematic study on CTC, contributing novel designs across multiple domains including: 1) extensive studies on empirical measurement and simulation to reveal the practical and theoretical limits of CTC capacity; 2) exploration of CTC design space to achieve gains in throughput, Quality of Service, and compatibility; 3) building scalable and reliable heterogeneous networks via CTC; and 4) CTC-enabled services benefiting from collaboration between cross-technology channel coordination, time synchronization, localization, and energy management.

在过去十年中，无线技术的成功扩散是由多种异构技术（例如WiFi、蓝牙和ZigBee）引领的，以适应各种应用需求，包括系统可靠性、及时性和能源使用。然而，无线设备及其非合作行为导致稀缺无线频谱的利用效率极低。该项目开发了一个协作框架，采用一种全新的方法，称为跨技术通信（CTC），使异构无线技术（例如蓝牙和WiFi）之间的消息交换成为可能。该项目旨在实现两个目标：(i)解决资源利用不足的问题，大幅降低网络运营成本；（ii）通过具有不同能力的异构实体之间的协作，实现独特而先进的网络功能。该项目的影响将进一步扩大：1)通过与主要行业参与者合作，将该技术嵌入大量现成的系统；2)加强课程项目，完善课程开发；3)通过高知名度的教程和开源网站传播研究成果；4)通过开放参观等外展活动，提高K-12学生和代表性不足的少数群体对技术的兴趣；5)支持优秀的女性和少数民族博士生。该项目脱离了文献中通常采用隐式频谱共享方法的广泛研究，通过启用CTC独特地提出了一种明确的方法。它使跨技术协作能够带来先进的服务，从本质上探索共存的光明面。为了实现这一目标，本项目对CTC进行了深入的系统研究，在多个领域提供了新颖的设计，包括：1)广泛的实证测量和模拟研究，以揭示CTC容量的实际和理论极限；2)探索CTC设计空间，实现吞吐量、服务质量和兼容性的提升；3)通过CTC构建可扩展、可靠的异构网络；4)支持ctc的服务受益于跨技术渠道协调、时间同步、本地化和能源管理之间的协作。

项目成果

Concurrent Transmission Aware Routing in Wireless Networks

• DOI: 10.1109/tcomm.2018.2859927
• 发表时间: 2018-12
• 期刊: IEEE Transactions on Communications
• 影响因子: 8.3
• 作者: Shuai Wang;S. Kim;L. Kong;T. He

Exploiting WiFi Guard Band for Safeguarded ZigBee

• DOI: 10.1145/3274783.3274835
• 发表时间: 2018-11
• 期刊: Proceedings of the 16th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems
• 作者: Yoon Chae;Shuai Wang;S. Kim

BlueBee: a 10,000x Faster Cross-Technology Communication via PHY Emulation

• DOI: 10.1145/3131672.3131678
• 发表时间: 2017-11
• 期刊: Proceedings of the 15th ACM Conference on Embedded Network Sensor Systems
• 作者: Wenchao Jiang;Zhimeng Yin;Ruofeng Liu;Zhijun Li;S. Kim;T. He

X-MIMO: cross-technology multi-user MIMO

• DOI: 10.1145/3384419.3430723
• 发表时间: 2020-11
• 期刊: Proceedings of the 18th Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems
• 作者: Shuai Wang;Woojae Jeong;Jinhwan Jung;S. Kim

Exploiting Spatiotemporal Correlation for Wireless Networks Under Interference

• DOI: 10.1109/tnet.2017.2732238
• 发表时间: 2017-10
• 期刊: IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
• 作者: S. Kim;Shuai Wang;T. He