The scientific objectives of the OPNEX project leading to its work plan aim at the following key challenges:
1. Radically rethink the protocol stack by designing advanced systems optimization and control theory-driven algorithms for multi-hop wireless networks.
2. Deliver a concrete plan for converting the algorithms termed in abstract models to protocols and architectures that extract the full transport capacity in real dynamic multihop wireless environments while being amenable to decentralized low-complexity and low-overhead implementation.
3. Implement the theory-driven protocols and experimentally demonstrate performance improvement in realistic wireless testbeds over currently used techniques. Two different platforms, an 802.11-based and a sensor-based one will be used to assess the appropriateness of the methods in different application domains.
1. Radically rethink the protocol stack by designing advanced systems optimization and control theory-driven algorithms for multi-hop wireless networks.
2. Deliver a concrete plan for converting the algorithms termed in abstract models to protocols and architectures that extract the full transport capacity in real dynamic multihop wireless environments while being amenable to decentralized low-complexity and low-overhead implementation.
3. Implement the theory-driven protocols and experimentally demonstrate performance improvement in realistic wireless testbeds over currently used techniques. Two different platforms, an 802.11-based and a sensor-based one will be used to assess the appropriateness of the methods in different application domains.