NeTS: Small: Collaborative Research: MatrixNet: Concurrent Transmission and Reception in Wireless Networks

随着越来越多的人通过无线网络接入全球互联网，无线网络的有限容量正成为我们信息化社会面临的主要挑战。围绕点对点架构构建，其中基本传输单元是从单个发射器到单个接收器，当前的无线网络在吞吐量方面受到严重限制，并且随着它们变得庞大和密集而无法很好地扩展。因此，是时候从根本上重新审视和改变无线网络的系统架构，以探索无线网络中的分布式协作和一对多编码/解码。MatrixNet项目使用基于组件的框架来设计可实现的分布式并发算法和协议，涵盖路由、媒体访问控制和物理层。它跨越并超越了信息论中的理论渐近分析，以识别系统并发无线网络这一新兴且日益重要的领域所面临的基本、算法和系统挑战。该项目集成了多个实验平台，包括Sora、GNU无线电和网络化MIMO，并进行了系统的、现实的评估。项目团队由学术界和工业界的研究人员组成，以促进潜在的技术转让和跨机构合作。

As more people access the global Internet through wireless networks, the limited capacity of wireless networks is becoming a major challenge of our information-based society. Building around the point-to-point architecture, where the basic transmission unit is from a single transmitter to a single receiver, current wireless networks are shown to be severely limited in throughput and do not scale well as they become large and dense. Thus, it is time for a fundamental revisit and change to the wireless network system architecture, in order to explore distributed cooperation and one-to-many encoding/decoding in wireless networks. The MatrixNet project uses a component-based framework to design implementable, distributed concurrency algorithms and protocols, spanning routing, media access control, and physical layers. It bridges and goes beyond theoretical asymptotic analysis in information theory in order to identify fundamental, algorithmic and system challenges facing the emerging, increasingly important field of system concurrent wireless networks. The project integrates multiple experimental platforms, including Sora, GNU radio, and networked MIMO, and conducts systematic, realistic evaluations. The project team consists of both academic and industrial researchers to facilitate potential technology transfer and cross-institution collaboration.