A scalable wireless computing platform for wireless mesh networks

无线网状网络（WMN）在城域的扩散预计将对我们的社区和市政当局产生重大影响。WMN将成为在公共安全、商业和娱乐领域实现新型增值应用的基础设施。在WMN基础设施之上启用新颖的应用程序预计将对人们如何沟通、交互和开展业务产生重大影响。本研究探讨了一种基于系统的方法来构建基于wmn的无线计算平台。该平台将使用无线自治和面向服务的体系结构等技术。有了这个平台，网格节点——彼此事先不知道——可以共享它们的资源，以促进给定应用程序任务的执行。资源是包含功能和非功能行为规范的自主独立元素。该平台将配备自适应能力，以处理高速公路、消费者广播和新闻服务、消防和社交网络等运营地铁环境的动态特性。这将提高加拿大城市市政无线网络的可维护性和性能。

The proliferation of wireless mesh networks (WMN) in metro-areas is expected to have a large impact on our communities and municipalities. WMN is poised to be the infrastructure that enables new types of value-added applications in public safety, business, and entertainment. Enabling novel applications on top of a WMN infrastructure is expected to have a large effect on how people communicate, interact and do business. This research investigates a systems-based approach for building a WMN-based wireless computing platform. The platform will use technologies such as wireless autonomic and service-oriented architectures. With the platform, mesh nodes- with no prior knowledge of each other- can share their resources to facilitate the execution of a given application task. Resources are autonomic individual elements that incorporate specifications of functional and non-functional behaviors. The platform will be equipped with self-* capabilities in order to handle the dynamic characteristics of operating metro-environments such as highways, consumer radio and news services, firefighting and social networking. This will improve the serviceability and performance of municipal wireless network of Canadian cities.