Near-perfect quality of service in wired and wireless IP networks

该发现授权将探索一种新的调度算法，该算法可以在一般分组交换网络和基于基础设施的无线网状网络（WMN）上实现近乎完美的服务质量（QoS）。在过去的二十年里，互联网对社会产生了前所未有的影响。与无线电、电报、电话、电视和个人电脑等其他颠覆性技术相比，互联网是适应大多数北美家庭最快的技术之一。互联网上新服务的前景是巨大的，其中包括远程医疗、远程机器人系统和智能公路系统。然而，存在有待解决的重大技术问题。2007年，美国国家科学基金会（NSF）启动了一项名为“全球网络创新环境”（GENI）的新计划，旨在解决自互联网诞生以来一直困扰互联网的问题。这些问题包括服务质量、安全性、可靠性和无线技术的无缝集成。这些问题是如此复杂，GENI计划是开放的一个“白板”的方法，其中整个互联网可能会重新设计从地面上。本申请人已经开发了一种新的调度算法。该算法可以实现近乎完美的服务质量的静态提供的多媒体业务流在一般的分组交换网络，如互联网，包括有线IP网络和基于基础设施的无线Mesh网络。要求提供资金，以便更深入地探讨这一算法。

This discovery grant will explore a new scheduling algorithm which can achieve near-perfect Quality of Service (QoS) over general packet-switched networks and infrastructure-based Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs). The Internet has had an unprecedented impact on society over the last two decades. Compared to other disruptive technologies such as radio, telegraph, telephone, television, and the personal computer, the Internet has had one of the fastest adaptation times to reach the majority of the North American households. The outlook for new services over the Internet is tremendous, and these include telemedicine, telerobotic systems and Intelligent Highway System. However, there are significant unsolved technical problems to be addressed. In 2007, the US National Science Foundation (NSF) has embarked in a new program called 'Global Environment for Network Innovations' (GENI), with the goal of addressing the problems that have 'plagued the Internet' since its inception. These problems include Quality of Service, security, reliability, and the seemless integration of wireless technologies. These problems are so complex that the GENI program is open to a 'clean-slate' approach in which the entire Internet may be re-designed from ground up. This applicant has developed a new scheduling algorithm. The algorithm can achieve near-perfect Quality of Service for statically provisioned multimedia traffic flows in general packet-switched networks such as the Internet, including the wired IP networks and infrastructure-based Wireless Mesh Networks. Funds are requested to explore this algorithm in more depth.