NSF Young Investigator Award

在这项研究中，通信系统和并行处理中出现的网络问题将在包含几种不同技术的统一框架内进行研究。目标是巩固基本的联网原则和技术，并发展一种系统的方法，从而更深入地了解联网和支持创新技术的结构和分析方面。在网络框架下，考虑了几个相关问题，包括进程调度和资源共享、协调和协议科学、离散事件动力学的结构和分析建模和优化以及异步算法实现。本研究的动力来自于各种现代技术领域，包括高速通信网络和业务集成、无线网络和个人通信、并行和分布式计算、柔性制造系统。的确，这些技术在几个方面有很大的不同，但它们共享与网络和并行性相关的某些关键结构特征。它们也为这项研究提供了自然的应用，在那里有强大的潜力进行重要的技术创新。

In this research, networking issues arising in communications systems and parallel processing will be studied within a unified framework encompassing several diverse technologies. The goal is the consolidation of basic networking principles and techniques, and the development of a systematic methodology, leading to a deeper understanding of the structural and analytical aspects of networking and supporting innovative technologies. Under the networking umbrella, several relevant issues are considered, including process scheduling and resource sharing, coordination and protocol science, structural and analytical modeling and optimization of discrete event dynamics and asynchronous algorithmic implementations. Motivation for this research is drawn from variety of modern technological areas, including high-speed communication networks and service integration, radio networks and personal communications, parallel and distributed computation, flexible manufacturing systems. Quite different in several respects indeed, these technologies share certain key structural features related to networking and parallelism. They also provide the natural applications for this research where there is strong potential for important technological innovations.