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EPSRC Reference:	EP/D502950/1
Title:	Realizing high throughput and quality-of-service in adhoc wireless networks
Principal Investigator:	Constantinides, Professor AG
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Department:	Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Organisation:	Imperial College London
Scheme:	First Grant Scheme Pre-FEC
Starts:	01 October 2005	Ends:	30 September 2007	Value (£):	104,082
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:	Digital Signal Processing Mobile Computing Networks & Distributed Systems
EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:	No relevance to Underpinning Sectors
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High-speed, high-quality wireless communications faces great challenges. These include the limited availability of radio frequency spectrum and a complex time-varying communications medium. Meeting the increasing demand for higher data rates and quality, fewer dropped calls, high network capacity, and user coverage calls for innovative techniques that improve spectral efficiency and link reliability.Wireless networks can be divided into two different categories based on their architecture: In a cellular network, all terminals communicate directly with a base-station, which controls all transmissions and forwards data to the intended users. In an adhoc network, all terminals are on an equal footing, having the same capabilities and responsibilities, and communication takes place in a decentralized fashion.While extensive academic and industrial (including deployment) work has been carried out on cellular networks over the past decades, little is known about the performance limits of adhoc networks and their deployment for commercial use. Yet, with increasing demand for high data rates and quality, next generation wireless systems will comprise of adhoc networks. Industrial interest has increased with the advent of mesh networks for Wi-Fi, a standard for low-power devices that establishes wireless local area networks within short ranges. Academic interest has also been gaining momentum rapidly in recent years. The field, however, is very much in its infancy with tremendous scope for fundamental research of significant practical relevance.This proposal seeks to further the theoretical understanding of the performance limits of adhoc wireless networks and their deployment for commercial use.
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