Opportunistic communication leverages communication opportunities arising
by chance to provide significant performance benefit and even enable communication
where it would be impossible otherwise. The goal of this dissertation is
to optimize opportunistic communication to achieve good performance in wireless
networks. A key challenge in optimizing opportunistic communication arises from
dynamic and incidental nature of communication. Complicated wireless interference
patterns, high mobility, and frequent fluctuations in wireless medium make
the optimization even harder.
This dissertation proposes a series of optimization frameworks that systematically
optimizes opportunistic communication to achieve good performance in wireless mesh networks and vehicular networks. We make the following three major contributions:
First, we develop novel algorithms, techniques, and protocols that optimize
opportunistic communication of wireless mesh network to achieve good, predictable user performance. Our framework systematically optimizes end-to-end
performance (e.g., total throughput). It yields significant improvement over existing routing schemes. We also show that it is robust against inaccuracy introduced by dynamic network conditions.
Second, we propose a novel overlay framework to exploit inter-flow network
coding in opportunistic routing. In this framework, an overlay network performs
inter-flow coding to effectively reduce traffic imposed on the underlay network, and
an underlay network uses optimized opportunistic routing to provide efficient and
reliable overlay links. We show that inter-flow coding together with opportunistic
routing and rate-limiting brings significant performance benefit.
Finally, we develop a novel optimization framework in vehicular networks
to effectively leverage opportunistic contacts between vehicles and access points
(APs). We develop a new mobility prediction algorithm and an optimization algorithm
to determine an efficient replication scheme that exploit the synergy among
Internet connectivity, local wireless connectivity, mesh network connectivity, and
vehicular relay connectivity. Based on our framework, we develop a practical system
that enables high-bandwidth content distribution and demonstrate the effectiveness
of our approach using simulation, emulation, and testbed experiments. / text
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UTEXAS/oai:repositories.lib.utexas.edu:2152/ETD-UT-2011-08-3876 |
| Date | 17 November 2011 |
| Creators | Han, Mi Kyung |
| Source Sets | University of Texas |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | thesis |
| Format | application/pdf |
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