CISE Research Resources: A Comprehensive Multi-Tier Wireless Network Development Platform

EIA -0224458 Cavallaro，Joseph R.Aazhang，Behnaam Frantz，Jeremy P. Weightly，Edward W.Sabharwal，AshutoshRice University标题：CISE RR：一个综合的多层无线网络开发平台该提案在多媒体通信中心（CMC）内开发一个基础设施，以实现实验室中可重复的现场实验，旨在开发模拟和其他建模之外的集成技术。在仿真中使用实际的现场测量，该基础设施填补了一个空白，在现实条件下通过实验验证了理论结果，有望实现无缝无线内容交付（没有任何服务中断）。该设备主要由两个信道仿真器、一个逻辑分析仪和一个频谱分析仪组成，主要用于三个项目：可重构无线体系结构、高数据速率多天线通信和多层次无线调度。第一个项目涉及新的通信体系结构的设计，该体系结构可以根据网络可用性、信道条件和手机的数据需求进行重新配置。该基础设施将实现一整套高效的原型，这些原型将同时连接到下一代无线局域网、第三代无线蜂窝和蓝牙个人区域网（PAN），从而使单个设备更接近使用任何可用连接无缝保持其与网络的链接的理想能力。第二个项目通过在可重构基带平台上使用多个发射和接收天线的原型新算法开发用于高数据速率无线接入的新通信编码和反馈方法，并在不同的无线配置中对其鲁棒性，性能限制和功率效率进行压力测试。最后一个项目涉及使用多层网络（包括连接骨干基础设施的其他移动的节点）的所有可用资源来调度数据的最佳方法的设计。包转发器的原型是在一个移动的网络处理器平台上开发的，并将在现场试验中使用CMC开发的多层网络接口（mNIC）原型。在教育方面，学生将继续研究这些项目，并为新课程捕捉新的发展。莱斯大学对代表性不足的群体非常活跃。

EIA - 0224458Cavallaro, Joseph R.Aazhang, Behnaam Frantz, Jeremy P.Knightly, Edward W.Sabharwal, AshutoshRice UniversiyTitle: CISE RR: A Comprehensive Multi-tier Wireless Network Development Platform This proposal, developing an infrastructure within the Center for Multimedia Communication (CMC)to enable repeatable fields' experiments in the laboratory, aims to develop integration techniques beyond simulations and other modeling. Using actual field measurement in its emulation, the infrastructure fills a gap to experimentally validate theoretical results under real-world conditions promising seamless wireless content delivery (without any service disruptions). The equipment, mainly consisting of two channel emulators, a logic analyzer, and a spectrum analyzer, benefits three major projects.Reconfigurable Wireless Architectures,High Data Rate Multiple Antenna Communication, andOpportunistic Multi-Tier Wireless Scheduling.The first project involves the design of new communication architectures that reconfigure based on the network availability, channel conditions, and data requirements of a handset. The infrastructure will enable a complete suite of efficient prototypes, which will simultaneously connect to next generation wireless LANs, third generation wireless cellular, and Bluetooth personal area networks (PANs), bringing closer the ideal ability of a single device to seamlessly maintain its link to the network using whatever connectivity is available. The second project develops new communications coding and feedback methods for high data rate wireless access by prototyping new algorithms with multiple transmit and receive antennae on reconfigurable baseband platform and stress tested in different wireless configurations for their robustness, performance limits, and power efficiency. The last project involves the design of optimal methods for scheduling data using all the resources available by a multi-tier network, including other mobile nodes connecting the backbone infrastructure. The packet schedulers are being prototyped on a mobile network processor platform and will use the multi-tier network interface (mNIC) prototype developed within CMC in its field trials.On the educational side, students will continue their research on these projects, and new developments captured for new courses. Rice University is quite active with under-represented groups..