CAREER: Reconfigurable Architectures for Highly Adaptive and Energy Efficient Wireless Networked Computing Nodes

时变的环境和有限的电池能量是实现具有无线网络链接的分布式多媒体系统的两个关键障碍。该项目正在探索架构、协议和算法，以克服移动用户的这些障碍。特别是，这项研究正在探索利用无线节点的可重构性来允许算法和协议适应不断变化的环境。可重新配置的无线节点产生了有趣的系统级概念，如硬件小程序，其中硬件数据路径可以按需从网络服务器下载和实例化。该项目的教育部分是基于将拟议的研究与新的研究生和本科课程紧密结合起来。研究主题将在以项目为导向的移动多媒体信息系统和无线终端设计研究生课程中进行探索。选定的原型任务将作为本科设计课程的项目。

Time varying environments and limited battery energy are two key hurdles on the route to distributed multimedia systems with wireless network links. This project is exploring architectures, protocols, and algorithms to overcome these hurdles for mobile users. In particular, the research is exploring the use reconfigurability in wireless nodes to allow algorithms and protocols to adapt to evolving environments. The reconfigurable wireless node leads to interesting system-level concepts such as hardware applets, in which hardware datapaths can be downloaded and instantiated on demand from network servers. The educational component of the project is based on tightly integrating the proposed research with new graduate and undergraduate courses. The research topics will be explored in project-oriented graduate courses on mobile multimedia information systems and wireless terminal design. Selected prototyping tasks will be used as projects in undergraduate design courses.