CONN-BRO · Connectivity Brokerage for Collaborative Optimization of Heterogeneous Wireless Networks

Traditional approach to resource allocation is inefficient, and optimal mapping of them to different applications is a promising alternative in order to meet the stringent requirements of some future wireless network applications. Recent developments such as opportunistic spectrum access have brought new resources on the table. Collaborative optimization of heterogeneous technologies is an important direction as well. For the real life implementation of such algorithms, practical considerations such as dynamically varying conditions and the overhead of collaboration also need to be considered. For this purpose, a distributed, scalable, universal, dynamic and extendable software architecture that enables information sharing between different technologies is needed. The strategic objective “Network of the Future” of FP7 ICT puts such technologies as key components of future networks, which fostered many projects. Before returning to Europe, Dr. Ercan had been working on collaborative optimization algorithms for wireless networks and a novel software architecture for their real life implementation with colleagues from UC Berkeley, TU Berlin, and UP Madrid. CONN-BRO project will enable Dr. Ercan to contribute to the European excellence in these topics by transferring the expertise that he gained in USA to Europe. He will design novel implementable collaborative optimization algorithms for heterogeneous wireless networks. He will continue collaboration with UC Berkeley, TU Berlin and UP Madrid on the software architecture development jointly with the optimization algorithm design. At this phase, he will explore and utilize the architectures proposed by the European projects as well. He will setup a test-bed similar to the one in UC Berkeley and implement the designed optimization algorithms and software architectures on the test-bed. A wireless sensor and camera network application will also be demonstrated on the test-bed.