CAREER: Leveraging Smart Antennas for WiMAX-based Mesh Networking

职业：利用智能天线实现基于 WiMAX 的网状网络

• 批准号: 1113398
• 负责人: Jian Tang
• 金额: $ 31.13万
• 依托单位: Syracuse University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-12-01 至 2015-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1113398&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Leveraging; Smart; Antennas; WiMAX

The WiMAX technology (IEEE 802.16) can provide high-speed and long-range wireless communications for a large variety of applications. Smart antennas, such as Digital Adaptive Array (DAA) and Multiple Input and Multiple Output (MIMO) antennas, can offer a long transmission range and improve network capacity via interference suppression and spatial multiplexing. The objective of this project is to provide a comprehensive networking solution for a WiMAX mesh network with smart antennas by investigating the fundamental problems, including scheduling, routing and relay station placement. Specifically, their computational complexities will be investigated, and efficient and standard-compliant algorithms and protocols will be proposed to solve them. The PI will also develop a relay station model in the OPNET Modeler, and a DAA antenna based testbed to evaluate and validate the proposed solutions.The algorithms and protocols proposed in this project can be applied in the WiMAX product development and are expected to impact the standardization activities in IEEE and IETF. The relay station model and the testbed can be used by other researchers for evaluation and validation. Moreover, the proposed research activities will complement and enrich the curriculum on wireless communications and networking.

WIMAX技术（IEEE 802.16）可以为多种应用提供高速和远程无线通信。智能天线，例如数字自适应阵列（DAA），多个输入和多重输出（MIMO）天线，可以通过干扰抑制和空间多路复用来提供较长的传输范围，并提高网络容量。该项目的目的是通过研究基本问题，包括调度，路由和继电器站点，为WIMAX网络网络提供全面的网络解决方案。具体而言，将研究它们的计算复杂性，并提出有效且符合标准的算法和协议来解决它们。 PI还将在OPNET建模器中开发继电器站模型，并进行基于DAA天线的测试台以评估和验证所提出的解决方案。该项目中提出的算法和协议可以应用于WIMAX产品开发中，并有望影响IEEE和IETF中的标准化活动。继电器站模型和测试台可以由其他研究人员使用进行评估和验证。此外，拟议的研究活动将补充和丰富无线通信和网络的课程。