Abstract

Mobile wireless networking and communication has become one of the most promising areas in Computer Science and Engineering and a major focus of both industrial and academic research. This equipment grant will enable the PIs at the Center for Advanced Computer Studies (CACS) at University of Louisiana (UL) at Lafayette to purchase research equipment for establishing the Wireless and Mobile Networking and Communication (WMNC) Laboratory and supporting their research on the Integrated Cellular and Ad Hoc Relaying (iCAR) System and a novel QoS-aware Multipath Routing protocols with Packet-level Redundancy (QMR/PR). The central idea of iCAR is to use Ad hoc Relay Stations (ARSs) to relay traffic from one (possibly congested) cell to another (non-congested) cell, and consequently reduce the connection request blocking and dropping probability. The basic idea of QMR/PR is to utilize multiple paths between a given source-destination pair and a limited number of redundant packets in such a way as to maximize the probability of delivering a block of data packets from a source to a specified destination.