GigaMobile: Gigabit Mobile Networking using Incentivised Operator Controlled Device-to-Device Communications

智能手机和其他移动设备的日益普及，最终用户可以访问大量丰富的多媒体功能，这意味着当前的移动网络架构正在努力满足激增的数据需求。仅在英国，智能手机拥有率就从2010年初的38%上升到2013年的60%，英国国家统计局报告称，超过32%的成年人现在每天都使用智能手机上网。这一数字预计在未来几年将显著增长，思科预测全球对移动数据流量的需求将超过固定数据，到2017年将达到每月11.2艾字节。尽管4G网络的全球推广正在顺利进行，但仅靠4G不太可能满足移动用户不断增长的数据需求。此外，虽然语音、数据和压缩流媒体现在是常态，但未来的社交网络应用无疑会给移动网络设计师和运营商带来最大的挑战。b谷歌和三星，分别通过他们的Glass和Galaxy Gear概念，让我们看到了一些令人兴奋的新普及技术，这些技术将推动移动网络上数据通信的最大速率。例如，使用谷歌眼镜，用户将不再只是购买和下载压缩的音频和视频，相反，他们将沉浸在一个全新的增强现实中，他们可以在云端与朋友和同事分享他们的即时感知和感觉。虽然这项技术将给社交网络带来革命性的变化，但也会给已经不堪重负的移动网络带来进一步的压力。为了避免未来由于数据的大量涌入而造成的拥塞，需要对移动网络的设置和运营方式进行重大改变。然而，相当大的学术、工业和监管挑战仍然存在，这是拟议研究计划的重点。为了帮助克服移动系统未来的“通信瓶颈”，本项目提出了一种超高容量移动网络的新范式，同时并共同解决与设备对设备通信相关的带宽问题和动态网络管理问题。结合贝尔法斯特女王大学和卡迪夫大学研究团队的互补专业知识，该项目将专注于理解和利用激励，多模式用户设备作为超高容量底层网络运行，具有实时机会性自适应路由，所有这些都由上下文感知移动网络基础设施监督。

The increasing popularity of smartphones and other mobile devices, where the end user has access to a host of rich multimedia functionality, means that the current mobile network architecture is struggling to meet surging data demands. Smartphone ownership in the UK alone has risen from 38% of the population in early 2010 to 60% in 2013 with the ONS reporting that over 32% of adults now access the Internet using their smartphone every day. This figure is expected to grow significantly in the coming years with Cisco predicting that worldwide demand for mobile data traffic will outstrip fixed data, reaching 11.2 Exabytes per month by 2017. Although the global rollout of 4G networks is well underway, it is unlikely that that 4G alone will be able to service the growing data requirements of mobile users. Furthermore, while voice, data, and compressed streaming media are now the norm, it is future social networking applications which will undoubtedly present mobile network designers and operators with their greatest challenge. Both Google and Samsung, through their Glass and Galaxy Gear based concepts respectively, have given us a glimpse of some of the exciting new pervasive technologies that will push the boundaries on the maximum rate at which data can be communicated over mobile networks. For example, using Google Glass, users will no longer just shop and download compressed audio and video, instead they will be immersed into a completely new augmented reality in which they can share their immediate perception and senses with friends and colleagues in the cloud. While this technology will revolutionise social networking it will add further stress to already overburdened mobile networks. To avoid future congestion caused by this huge influx of data, a major change in the way mobile networks are setup and operated is required. However, considerable academic, industrial and regulatory challenges remain and this is the focus of the proposed research programme.To help overcome the future "communications bottleneck" in mobile systems, this project proposes a new paradigm for ultra-high capacity mobile networks by simultaneously and jointly addressing the bandwidth problem and the dynamic network management issues associated with device-to-device communications. Combining the complementary expertise of research teams in Queens University Belfast and Cardiff University, this project will focus on understanding and exploiting incentivised, multimode user equipment operating as an ultra-high capacity underlay network featuring real-time opportunistic adaptive routing all overseen by a context aware mobile network infrastructure.