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SUMMARY
Wireless networks face two important challenges in their practical deployment. First, they must operate in a highly dynamic, constantly changing environment. Second, they can in general only resort to lightweight protocols to optimise the use of the available resources required for their operation.
This project aims to design new resource allocation algorithms for wireless networks, taking specifically into account these two important challenges. In its application, the project will consider two important categories of networks: indoor home networks and outdoor sensor networks.
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SOLUTIONS
- Designing distributed solutions for the formulation of allocation decisions while network traffic is in flow
- Developing self-organizing algorithms to optimise the choice of channel frequency, spectrum and powers in order to maximize a given set of utility functions
- Deploying multiple base stations with only one active subset at a given moment to minimise energy consumption and the risk of network failure in communication between data extractor and data-centre
- Using stochastic tools to analyse the convergence properties of resource allocation algorithms, in particular where the network topology and channel conditions change
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LINK: http://p3.snf.ch/project-146423
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