Welcome to the Wireless Communications and Networking Group Home Page.

 

Our mission is to transform users' experiences with mobile ad hoc and wireless sensor networks through design of advanced protocols and architectures that provide reliability for diverse applications.

 

Ad hoc networks

Multi-rate mutlicasting: protocols that provide simultaneous support for both low-rate and high-rate data multicasting in mobile ad hoc networks

 

TRACE: a family of cross-layer protocols for efficient multicast and broadcast transmission of real-time data in a dynamic ad-hoc network

 

QoS: transport and routing protocols to support Quality of Service (QoS) in mobile ad hoc networks

 

Searching strategy: efficient node/service discovery under different ad hoc network scenarios

 

LLR: a protocol for discovering long lasting routes to provide stable routing performance in ad hoc networks

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sensor networks

Unified Protocol Stack (UPS): a protocol architecture for supporting multiple modules in the same stack layer and a unified information-sharing interface.

 

Sensor Usage Index (SUI): a cost metric for extending sensor network lifetime while supporting application QoS

 

MiX-MAC: an adaptive low-power-listening MAC protocol

 

X-Lisa: a cross-layer information sharing architecture for supporting application-aware and network-aware protocol optimizations

 

Visual Sensor Networks: camera selection for improved coverage of the monitored space over time

 

PHY for WSNs: physical layer support for wireless sensor networks via optimal selection of modulation, transmit power and distance

 

MiLAN: middleware linking applications and networks for supporting wireless sensor network applications

 

UCS: Unequal Clustering Size to prolong network lifetime

 

DAPR: application-aware routing costs for wireless sensor networks

 

TPC: a transmission scheduling scheme and various deployment strategies that help to mitigate the "hot spot" problem in sensor networks

 

ASP: an energy-efficient Bluetooth polling algorithm for sensor networks

 

OPNET supported research