Secure cooperative wireless communications in mobile ad hoc networks

近年来，协作无线通信作为一种未开发的手段受到了极大的关注，它可以改善在日益严峻的无线介质中运行的信息传输的性能。通过利用无线信道的广播特性，协作通信允许单天线无线电共享它们的天线以形成虚拟天线阵列，并在移动自组网(MANET)中提供显著的性能增强，随着越来越多的潜在应用，如军事战场通信、救灾、自主车辆通信、消费者娱乐和紧急医疗，MANET正变得越来越重要。尽管协作无线通信在移动自组网中具有潜在的前景，但在协作无线通信的广泛部署成为现实之前，仍有几个重要的研究挑战需要解决，包括安全方法、跨层设计和资源管理方案。本项目的总体目标是通过开发、评估和展示新的解决方案来应对上述研究挑战，这些解决方案将使MANET中的协作无线通信更加安全、可靠和有效，从而使其广泛部署具有实用性和商业可行性。这些技术将通过学术界、工业界和政府研究实验室之间的跨学科合作来开发。来自卡尔顿大学和加拿大国防研究与发展公司(DRDC)的研究人员将与行业合作伙伴Eion密切合作，推进合作的MANET技术。为了概念验证和技术转让，将开发一个MANET测试床来评估研究产生的新算法。该项目将提供坚实的知识基础，支持加拿大工业界利用合作无线通信开发实用和商业可行的移动自组网的努力。大量高素质人才将在研究生和本科阶段接受培训，以满足加拿大日益增长的信息技术、无线通信和安全行业的需求。

Recently, cooperative wireless communication has received tremendous interest as an untapped means for improving performance of information transmission operating over the ever-challenging wireless medium. By exploiting the broadcast nature of the wireless channel, cooperative communication allows single-antenna radios to share their antennas to form a virtual antenna array, and offers significant performance enhancements in mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs), which are gaining importance with the increasing number of potential applications, such as military battlefield communications, disaster relief, autonomous vehicular communications, consumer entertainment, and emergency medicine. Despite the potential vision of cooperative wireless communications in MANETs, several significant research challenges remain to be addressed before widespread deployment of MANETs with cooperative wireless communications become practical, including security methods, cross-layer designs, and resource management schemes. The overall goal of this project is to address these above research challenges by developing, evaluating, and demonstrating novel solutions that will make cooperative wireless communications in MANETs more secure, reliable, and effective; and thereby make their widespread deployment practical and commercially viable. These technologies will be developed through interdisciplinary collaborations between academia, industry, and government research laboratories. Researchers from Carleton University and Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC) will work closely with industry partner EION to advance cooperative MANET technologies. For proof-of-concept and technology transfer, a MANET testbed will be developed to evaluate the novel algorithms resulting from the research. This project will provide a solid knowledge base to support the efforts of Canadian industry to develop practical and commercially viable MANETs with cooperative wireless communications. A large number of highly qualified personnel will be trained at the postgraduate and undergraduate levels to serve the needs of the growing information technology, wireless communications, and security industry in Canada.