Grant: Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Internet users are increasingly demanding massive amounts of data exchange as in multimedia chatting/messaging, social networks, sharing and collaborative applications. The advent of the Internet of Things (IoT) and Cloud Computing (CC) is also gaining popularity and necessitate huge data retrieval and service admission. Simultaneously, Internet is becoming more of a medium for publishing and retrieving information regardless of the publisher location or the networking protocol it runs. Together, these developments are straining current network architectures/paradigms for optimized data delivery in the future Internet. Our long-term goal will be to establish a foundation that will integrate disparate enabling technologies, infrastructure modes and data management platforms in an optimized manner to enable scalable, value-based and application-aware data delivery. Generalized algorithms and techniques that oversee heterogeneous data sources and structural disparities will make the optimized data reachability. From this research we expect to devise enhanced data delivery techniques that can provide the Canadian public and private telecommunications sectors with wireless and mobile networks that enable the realization of the data-oriented Internet in the near future. The research will result in cost-efficient, profitable and capable architectures for data reachability, management and delivery that will ensure data publisher/subscriber satisfaction. Training of highly qualified personnel involved in this program will include experience in mobile wireless networks support, Quality of Information (QoI) support, multi-hop networking, and integrated RFID-Sensor Networks (RSNs). I expect that four PhD and three Master's students will receive training through in this research program. There is a strong demand for these HQP in the information technology and telecommunications sectors and their future employment will accelerate disseminating Next Generation Networks (NGNs) to Canadian industry.