Grant: Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Internet users are increasingly using interactive services such as multimedia messaging, social networks, sharing and collaborative applications. Emerging services like telemedicine or telepresence are also gaining popularity. Simultaneously, Internet users have an interest in maintaining full access to their services mix while mobile. Together, these developments are straining current architectures for service delivery in wireless and mobile networks. Our long-term goal will be to establish a foundation that will integrate disparate access technologies, infrastructure modes and service management platforms in a seamless and transparent manner to enable seamless and ubiquitous quality of service (QoS) based communication. Generalized algorithms and techniques that oversee heterogeneous access and structural disparities will make the integration seamless. From this research we expect to devise enhanced service delivery techniques that can provide the Canadian public and private telecommunications sectors with wireless and mobile networks that enable the realization of the mobile Internet of the future. The research will result in cost-efficient, profitable and capable architectures for service deployment, management and delivery that will ensure consumer satisfaction. Training of highly qualified personnel involved in this program will include experience in broadband multimedia support, QoS support and resource management, software-defined radios, multi-hop networking and heterogeneous networks. I expect that seven PhD and seven 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 communications technology to Canadian industry.