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

认知无线电作为一种新兴的新技术，能够动态地利用无线电资源来提高频谱效率，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，在日益具有挑战性的无线媒体上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着的性能增强，包括移动自组织网络（manet），随着军事战场通信、救灾、自动驾驶车辆通信、消费者娱乐和紧急医疗等潜在应用的增加，manet的重要性越来越大。尽管认知和协作通信在manet中具有潜在的前景，但在广泛部署具有认知和协作通信的manet成为现实之前，仍有几个重大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。该项目的总体目标是通过开发、评估和展示新颖的解决方案来解决上述研究挑战，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；从而使它们的广泛应用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。卡尔顿大学和加拿大国防研究与发展部（DRDC）的研究人员将与行业合作伙伴RemoteTronic密切合作，推进认知和协作式MANET技术。该项目将提供一个坚实的知识基础，以支持加拿大工业开发实用和实用的技术

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.