Grant: Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Despite the desire to expand the benefits of the tremendous advance in wireless communications, the growth of today wireless technologies and their applications faces an increasingly challenging reality of resource limitations. The limitations mainly concern spectrum and energy availabilities, which are becoming the core issues of future wireless technology evolution. These necessitate a shift of focus on wireless design principles to the resource cognitive paradigm. It will impact the design methodologies of signal processing, communication, and networking for wireless systems. Surrounding the central theme of resource utilization efficiency, new challenges are arising for wireless network and system operation to be control efficient, link adaptive, and nodes collaborative. In response to these challenges, this proposed research program aims at developing the enabling technologies and methodologies to maximize resource utilization efficiency per node and across the network for improved wireless communications and heterogeneous networking. This proposed research will discover the fundamental limitations and trade-offs, as well as develop effective schemes, for link adaptation under feedback exploration, energy-constrained signal processing through distributed and collaborative schemes, and cognitive scheduling policies in resource-limited networks, such as wireless mesh networks and sensor networks. This research will be vital to the future advance of wireless communication technologies that overcome resource limitations and foster the widespread use of infrastructure-less networking in areas of public safety, education, and sensing, across Canada and around the world. In addition, the proposed research will contribute to the training of highly qualified personnel by providing excellent opportunities for students to conduct their advanced study under this program.