Grant: Discovery Grants Program - Individual

The proliferation of wireless mesh networks (WMN) in metro-areas is expected to have a large impact on our communities and municipalities. WMN is poised to be the infrastructure that enables new types of value-added applications in public safety, business, and entertainment. Enabling novel applications on top of a WMN infrastructure is expected to have a large effect on how people communicate, interact and do business. This research investigates a systems-based approach for building a WMN-based wireless computing platform. The platform will use technologies such as wireless autonomic and service-oriented architectures. With the platform, mesh nodes- with no prior knowledge of each other- can share their resources to facilitate the execution of a given application task. Resources are autonomic individual elements that incorporate specifications of functional and non-functional behaviors. The platform will be equipped with self-* capabilities in order to handle the dynamic characteristics of operating metro-environments such as highways, consumer radio and news services, firefighting and social networking. This will improve the serviceability and performance of municipal wireless network of Canadian cities.