Novel Approaches to Service Virtualization in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

A clean-slate approach is needed for the design and implementation of wireless networks that self organize and can scale with the number of users, devices, and information objects and services that network users wish to share. This project will develop a new architecture and protocols for wireless networks in which naming, addressing, routing, and channel access are redefined to take into account: (a) the multihop nature of channel access over wireless links, (b) the inherent interoperation between transmission scheduling and routing, (c) the dynamic nature of wireless networks, and (d) the need to transport multimedia traffic over such networks.