NeTS: Small: Collaborative Research: Mobile Content Distribution in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks

This collaborative project is funded by the National Science Foundation Awards # 1156318

PI: Ing-Ray Chen, Former PI: Wenjing Lou

Award Amount: $272,109

Project Duration: September 1, 2011 ~ July 31, 2016

Mobile content distribution (MCD) is an important emerging application in vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs). Its high and stable data rate requirement puts significant stress on the severely bandwidth-limited and highly mobile VANETs. Symbol level network coding (SLNC) provides better error-resilience and in turn higher spatial reusability for wireless transmission. It thus is a promising approach for the very bandwidth-hungry MCD networks. This project focuses on two main fundamental problems related to exploiting SLNC for MCD in VANETs. First, a theoretic study on the network capacity and performance bounds achievable by SLNC in mobile wireless networks is carried out. A new model is proposed to characterize the SLNC operation in a flow network setting. Key factors that impact the achievable throughput are identified. Methods to derive accumulated throughput for a mobile receiver following certain mobility pattern are investigated. The second research focus is on the design of distributed and localized algorithms and protocols for MCD networks using SLNC. A suite of new network protocols for SLNC-based MCD network are proposed in order to maximize the throughput of the MCD network.

Publications

  • Yantian Hou, Ming Li, Xu Yuan, Y.T. Hou, W. Lou, ``Cooperative Interference Mitigation for Heterogeneous Multi-hop Networks Coexistence,'' IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol.15, issue 8, pp. 5328--5340, August 2016.

  • H. Zeng, F. Tian, Y.T. Hou, W. Lou, and S.F. Midkiff, "Interference alignment for multi-hop wireless networks: Challenges and research directions," IEEE Network. vol. 30, issue 2, pp. 74-80, March/April 2016

  • H. Zeng, Y. Shi, Y.T. Hou, W. Lou, R. Zhu, S.F. Midkiff, "A Scheduling Algorithm for MIMO DoF Allocation in Multi-hop Networks," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 15, issue 2, pp. 264-277, Feb 2016. 

  • H. Zeng, Y. Shi, Y.T. Hou, W. Lou, S. Kompella, and S.F. Midkiff, "An anlytical model for interference alignment in multi-hop MIMO networks," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 15, issue 1, pp. 17-31, Jan 2016

  • H. Zeng, X. Yuan, X. Qin, Y. Shi, Y.T. Hou, W. Lou, "Nullification in the Air: Interference Neutralization in Multi-Hop Wireless Networks," IEEE INFOCOM 2016, April 10-14, 2016, San Francisco, CA. 

  • C. Du, R. Zhang, W. Lou, Y.T. Hou, "MobTrack: Locating Indoor Interfering Radios With A Single Device," IEEE INFOCOM 2016, April 10-14, 2016, San Francisco, CA.

  • Q. Yan, M. Li, Z. Yang, W. Lou, and H. Zhai. "Throughput analysis of cooperative mobile content distribution in vehicular networks using symbol level network coding," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, v.30, 2012.
  • Z. Yang, M. Li, and W. Lou. "CodePlay: Live multimedia streaming in VANETs using symbol-level network coding," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, v.11, 2012, p. 3006-3013.
  • L. Xiao, Q. Yan, W. Lou, G. Chen, and Y.T. Hou. "Proximity-based security techniques for mobile users in wireless networks," IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security (TIFS), v.8, 2013, p. 2089.
  • M. Li, S. Yu, Y. Zheng, K. Ren and W. Lou. "Proximity-based security techniques for mobile users in wireless networks," IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), v.24, 2013, p. 131.
  • C. Jiang, Y. Shi, Y. Hou, and W. Lou. "Cherish every joule: Maximizing throughput with an eye on network-wide energy consumption", IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM 2012), Orlando, FL, USA.
  • L. Xie, Y. Shi, Y. Hou, W. Lou, H. Sherali, and S. Midki ff. "On renewable sensor networks with wireless energy transfer: The multi-node case", IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication and Networking (IEEE SECON 2012), Seoul, South Korea.
  • L. Xie, Y. Shi, Y.T. Hou, and W. Lou. "Wireless Power Transfer and Applications to Sensor Networks," IEEE Wireless Communications, v.20, 2013, p. 140.
  • A. Nabil, Y.T. Hou, R. Zhu, W. Lou, S.F. Midkiff (2015). Recent Advances in Interference Management for Wireless Networks. IEEE Networks. 29 (5), 83-89.
  • L. Xie, Y. Shi, Y.T. Hou, W. Lou, H. Sherali, and S. Midkiff (2015). Multi-node Wireless Energy Charging in Sensor Networks. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. 23 (2), 437-450.
  • B. Jalaeian, Y. Shi, X. Yuan, Y. T. Hou, W. Lou, S. F Midkiff, (2015). Harmonizing SIC and MIMO DoF Interference Cancellation for Efficient Network-wide Resource Allocation. IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad hoc and Sensor Systems (IEEE MASS 2015), Dallas, TX, USA.