We focus our wireless networking research activities around advanced home networking. More specifically, we consider self-organization and optimization of wireless networks aimed at service delivery and content distribution in residential areas.
Different services and contents have different network performance requirements, such as bandwidth, delay, jitter, and packet loss. These requirements depend on the type of service (e.g., video, voice, data) as well as on the type of device on which the service/content is to be consumed (e.g., TV, computer, PDA, cell phone). Our goal is to design novel algorithms and network protocols that enable to meet the requirements of high-quality service delivery and content distribution over wireless networks. These protocols are expected to operate over a heterogeneous set of radio technologies and network architectures, e.g., single-hop wireless access point based infrastructures, multi-hop network architectures, as well as peer-to-peer networks for direct communication between end-user devices. We strive to design our algorithms and protocols such that these can operate in a self-organized manner and reduce network management complexity.
We generally adopt a research approach that spans analysis, simulation, and experimentation. We cover both theoretical and systems aspects in our design of algorithms and network protocols, and then implement these on a real system to validate their operation and performance using our wireless testbed.
Contact: Henrik Lundgren, Theodoros Salonidis
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