CISE Research Infrastructure: Infrastructure to Support Research on Mixed Wired/Wireless Information Systems

towsley, Donald f .马萨诸塞大学scise研究基础设施：支持混合有线/无线信息研究的基础设施该项目的目标是研究和开发在混合有线/无线网络上执行的应用程序套件所需的控制策略和服务。网络的未来将引入一种设置，在这种设置中，个人和嵌入式进程将通过由各种网络技术组成的网络相互通信，并与多媒体信息服务器通信，包括自组织和基于蜂窝的无线和有线部分。这个网络将无缝地提供各种各样的基于信息的服务。这反映了未来用户计算和通信方式的根本转变，从今天的基于有线的网络（用户不移动，知道从哪里获得服务）转变为用户移动的环境，可以通过无线连接，甚至可能以特别的方式连接，并以透明的方式请求和接收服务。该项目将在编码和调制、访问协议、路由、服务质量、操作系统（OS）、数据库系统、安全性和性能评估等领域取得必要的基本进展，这些将是生产下一代网络所需要的。这些进步将是马萨诸塞大学计算机科学和电子工程领域广泛学科的综合、协作和多学科努力的结果。

EIA-0080119Towsley, Donald F.University of MassachusettsCISE Research Infrastructure: Infrastructure to Support Research on Mixed Wired/Wireless InformationThe goal of this project is research and development of control strategies, and services required by application suites executing over mixed wired/wireless networks. The future of networking will introduce a setting where individuals and embedded processes will communicate among themselves and with multimedia information servers over a network made up of diverse network technologies, including ad-hoc and cell-based wireless, and wired segments. This network will seamlessly provide a diverse range of information-based services. This reflects a fundamental shift in the way users will compute and communicate in the future, moving from today's wire-based network where users are immobile and know where to obtain services to an environment in which users are mobile, may be connected through wireless, perhaps even in an ad-hoc manner, and request and receive services in a transparent manner. The project will produce the fundamental advances required in the areas of coding and modulation, access protocols, routing, quality of service, operating systems (OS), database systems, security, and performance evaluation, that will be needed to produce this next generation network. These advances will occur as the result of an integrated, collaborative, and multidisciplinary effort spanning a wide range of disciplines in computer science and electrical engineering at the University of Massachusetts.