GigaMobile: Gigabit Mobile Networking using Incentivised Operator Controlled Device-to-Device Communications

智能手机和其他移动设备越来越受欢迎，最终用户可以访问大量丰富的多媒体功能，这意味着当前的移动网络架构难以满足激增的数据需求。仅在英国，智能手机拥有量就从2010年初的38%上升到2013年的60%，英国国家统计局报告称，超过32%的成年人现在每天都使用智能手机上网。这一数字预计将在未来几年大幅增长，思科预测，到2017年，全球移动数据流量需求将超过固定数据，达到每月11.2艾字节。尽管4G网络的全球铺设进展顺利，但仅靠4G不太可能满足移动用户日益增长的数据需求。此外，虽然语音、数据和压缩流媒体现在是标准，但未来的社交网络应用无疑将给移动网络设计师和运营商带来最大的挑战。谷歌和三星分别通过基于谷歌眼镜和Galaxy Gear的概念，让我们一窥一些令人兴奋的新普及技术，这些技术将突破移动网络上数据通信的最大速率界限。例如，使用谷歌眼镜，用户将不再只是购物和下载压缩的音频和视频，相反，他们将沉浸在一个全新的增强现实中，在其中他们可以在云中与朋友和同事分享他们的即时感知和感官。虽然这项技术将给社交网络带来革命性的变化，但它将给本已不堪重负的移动网络带来进一步的压力。为了避免这种巨大的数据涌入造成的未来拥堵，需要对移动网络的设置和运营方式进行重大改变。然而，仍然存在相当大的学术、工业和监管挑战，这是拟议的研究计划的重点。为了帮助克服未来移动系统中的“通信瓶颈”，该项目提出了一种新的超大容量移动网络范例，通过同时和联合解决与设备到设备通信相关的带宽问题和动态网络管理问题。结合皇后大学、贝尔法斯特大学和卡迪夫大学研究团队的互补专业知识，该项目将专注于了解和开发激励的多模用户设备，这些设备作为具有实时机会主义自适应路由的超大容量底层网络运行，所有这些都由情景感知的移动网络基础设施监督。

The increasing popularity of smartphones and other mobile devices, where the end user has access to a host of rich multimedia functionality, means that the current mobile network architecture is struggling to meet surging data demands. Smartphone ownership in the UK alone has risen from 38% of the population in early 2010 to 60% in 2013 with the ONS reporting that over 32% of adults now access the Internet using their smartphone every day. This figure is expected to grow significantly in the coming years with Cisco predicting that worldwide demand for mobile data traffic will outstrip fixed data, reaching 11.2 Exabytes per month by 2017. Although the global rollout of 4G networks is well underway, it is unlikely that that 4G alone will be able to service the growing data requirements of mobile users. Furthermore, while voice, data, and compressed streaming media are now the norm, it is future social networking applications which will undoubtedly present mobile network designers and operators with their greatest challenge. Both Google and Samsung, through their Glass and Galaxy Gear based concepts respectively, have given us a glimpse of some of the exciting new pervasive technologies that will push the boundaries on the maximum rate at which data can be communicated over mobile networks. For example, using Google Glass, users will no longer just shop and download compressed audio and video, instead they will be immersed into a completely new augmented reality in which they can share their immediate perception and senses with friends and colleagues in the cloud. While this technology will revolutionise social networking it will add further stress to already overburdened mobile networks. To avoid future congestion caused by this huge influx of data, a major change in the way mobile networks are setup and operated is required. However, considerable academic, industrial and regulatory challenges remain and this is the focus of the proposed research programme.To help overcome the future "communications bottleneck" in mobile systems, this project proposes a new paradigm for ultra-high capacity mobile networks by simultaneously and jointly addressing the bandwidth problem and the dynamic network management issues associated with device-to-device communications. Combining the complementary expertise of research teams in Queens University Belfast and Cardiff University, this project will focus on understanding and exploiting incentivised, multimode user equipment operating as an ultra-high capacity underlay network featuring real-time opportunistic adaptive routing all overseen by a context aware mobile network infrastructure.