Secure cooperative wireless communications in mobile ad hoc networks

近来，协作无线通信作为用于改善在不断挑战的无线介质上操作的信息传输的性能的未开发的手段已经受到极大的关注。协作通信利用无线信道的广播特性，允许单天线无线电共享其天线以形成虚拟天线阵列，并在移动的ad hoc网络（MANNETWORK）中提供显著的性能增强，随着军事战场通信、救灾、自主车辆通信、消费者娱乐等潜在应用的增加，MANNETWORK越来越重要。急诊医学尽管合作无线通信在移动自组网的潜在愿景，一些重大的研究挑战仍然有待解决广泛部署的移动自组网与合作无线通信成为现实，包括安全方法，跨层设计，和资源管理方案之前。该项目的总体目标是通过开发，评估和展示新的解决方案，使合作的无线通信在移动自组网更安全，可靠和有效，从而使他们的广泛部署的实际和商业可行性，以解决上述研究挑战。这些技术将通过学术界、工业界和政府研究实验室之间的跨学科合作来开发。来自卡尔顿大学和加拿大国防研究与发展部（DRDC）的研究人员将与行业合作伙伴EION密切合作，推进合作式MANET技术。为了验证概念和技术转让，将开发一个MANET测试平台，以评估研究产生的新算法。这一项目将提供一个坚实的知识基础，支持加拿大工业界努力开发具有合作无线通信功能的实用和商业上可行的人地一体化系统。大量高素质的人才将在研究生和本科水平的培训，以满足不断增长的信息技术，无线通信和安全行业在加拿大的需求。

Recently, cooperative wireless communication has received tremendous interest as an untapped means for improving performance of information transmission operating over the ever-challenging wireless medium. By exploiting the broadcast nature of the wireless channel, cooperative communication allows single-antenna radios to share their antennas to form a virtual antenna array, and offers significant performance enhancements in mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs), which are gaining importance with the increasing number of potential applications, such as military battlefield communications, disaster relief, autonomous vehicular communications, consumer entertainment, and emergency medicine. Despite the potential vision of cooperative wireless communications in MANETs, several significant research challenges remain to be addressed before widespread deployment of MANETs with cooperative wireless communications become practical, including security methods, cross-layer designs, and resource management schemes. The overall goal of this project is to address these above research challenges by developing, evaluating, and demonstrating novel solutions that will make cooperative wireless communications in MANETs more secure, reliable, and effective; and thereby make their widespread deployment practical and commercially viable. These technologies will be developed through interdisciplinary collaborations between academia, industry, and government research laboratories. Researchers from Carleton University and Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC) will work closely with industry partner EION to advance cooperative MANET technologies. For proof-of-concept and technology transfer, a MANET testbed will be developed to evaluate the novel algorithms resulting from the research. This project will provide a solid knowledge base to support the efforts of Canadian industry to develop practical and commercially viable MANETs with cooperative wireless communications. A large number of highly qualified personnel will be trained at the postgraduate and undergraduate levels to serve the needs of the growing information technology, wireless communications, and security industry in Canada.