EAGER: WideSpot: Enabling Predictable Wide-Area Coverage over Scattered Hotspots

当前的蜂窝技术不能提供具有接近于在典型无线局域网（WLAN）上可用的速度的数据速率的服务。 WLAN的大规模部署具有提供无处不在的高数据速率覆盖的潜力，但是用于提供完全覆盖的大量WLAN接入点的部署和管理的成本过高。 另一方面，分散部署的WLAN热点是有用的，但他们不能提供任何级别的服务保证移动的users.This项目的目的是开发一个系统，将提供有保证的数据服务在一个广泛的区域数据密集型应用程序的移动的用户使用一个经济的可扩展的基础设施组成的异构技术的基础，并证明它与原型实现。 该项目涉及以下研究目标：1）开发热点部署解决方案，通过有限数量的热点为移动的用户提供最佳服务;并且，在本发明中，2）设计解决方案，以满足延迟容忍应用程序使用动态资源控制的需求。拟议的研究是变革性的，因为它将建立基础，使高，通过分散的热点为移动的用户提供高速数据服务，它有可能沿着有保证但可中断的服务路线开辟新的研究途径。 许多涵盖娱乐、工业和商业领域的应用程序将受到这项研究的影响。 将特别努力为该项目招收妇女和少数民族学生。

Current cellular technologies fail to provide services with data rates that are anywhere close to the speeds available over typical Wireless LANs (WLANs). Large-scale deployments of WLANs have the potential to provide ubiquitous high data rate coverage, but the cost of deployment and management of a large number of WLAN access-points for providing full coverage is prohibitive. On the other hand, scattered deployments of WLAN hotspots are useful but they fail to provide any level of service assurance to mobile users.This project aims at developing the foundations for a system that will provide assured data services over a wide-area to data-intensive applications for mobile users using an economically scalable infrastructure consisting of heterogeneous technologies, and to demonstrate it with a prototype implementation. The project involves the following research objectives: 1) to develop solutions for hotspot deployment that enable the best possible services for mobile users through a limited number of hotspots; and, 2) to design solutions for meeting the needs of delay tolerant applications using dynamic resource control.The proposed research is transformative as it will build the foundations for bringing high-speed data services to mobile users through scattered hotspots and it has the potential to open up new research avenues along the lines of assured but interruptible services. A number of applications covering the entertainment, industrial and commercial sectors will get impacted by this research. Special efforts will be made to recruit women and minority students for this project.