Security and quality of service (QoS) enhancements for cognitive and cooperative mobile ad hoc networks

认知无线电作为一种能够动态利用无线电资源来提高频谱效率的新兴技术，受到了极大的关注。另一方面，协作无线通信作为一种尚未开发的手段，在不断挑战的无线介质中提高信息传输的性能，受到了极大的关注。认知和协作通信可以在各种无线网络中提供显著的性能提升，包括移动自组织网络(MANET)，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。尽管认知和协作通信在移动自组网中具有潜在的前景，但在广泛部署认知和协作通信的移动自组网变得实用之前，仍有一些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中的认知和协作通信更加安全、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RemoteTronic密切合作，推动认知和合作MANET技术的发展。该项目将提供坚实的知识基础，以支持加拿大工业界开发实用和 具有商业可行性的具有认知和协作通信的移动自组网。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。

Cognitive radio has received tremendous interest as an emerging new technology that enables dynamic use of radio resources to increase spectrum efficiency. On the other hand, cooperative wireless communication has received tremendous interests as an untapped means for improving performance of information transmission operating over the ever-challenging wireless medium. Cognitive and cooperative communications can offer significant performance enhancements in various wireless networks, including 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 cognitive and cooperative communications in MANETs, several significant research challenges remain to be addressed before widespread deployment of MANETs with cognitive and cooperative 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 cognitive and cooperative 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 RemoteTronic to advance cognitive and cooperative MANET technologies. This project will provide a solid knowledge base to support the efforts of Canadian industry to develop practical and commercially viable MANETs with cognitive and cooperative 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.