Electrical & Computer Engineering, Department of

 

First Advisor

Professor Yi Qian

Date of this Version

Summer 7-25-2017

Document Type

Article

Citation

T. T. Evans, “Application-aware Cognitive Multi-hop Wireless Networking Testbed and Experiments,” thesis, 2017.

Comments

A THESIS Presented to the Faculty of The Graduate College at the University of Nebraska In Partial Fulfilment of Requirements For the Degree of Master of Science, Major: Telecommunications Engineering, Under the Supervision of Professor Yi Qian. Lincoln, Nebraska May, 2017

Copyright 2017 Trenton T. Evans

Abstract

In this thesis, we present a new architecture for application-aware cognitive multihop wireless networks (AC-MWN) with testbed implementations and experiments. Cognitive radio is a technique to adaptively use the spectrum so that the resource can be used more efficiently in a low cost way. Multihop wireless networks can be deployed quickly and flexibly without a fixed infrastructure. In presented new architecture, we study backbone routing schemes with network cognition, routing scheme with network coding and spectrum adaptation. A testbed is implemented to test the schemes for AC-MWN. In addition to basic measurements, we implement a video streaming application based on the AC-MWN architecture using cognitive radios. The Testbed consists of three cognitive radios and three Linux laptops equipped with GNU Radio and GStreamer, open source software development toolkit and multimedia framework respectively. Resulting experiments include a range from basic half duplex data to full duplex voice communications and audio/video streaming with spectrum sensing. This testbed is a foundation for a scalable multipurpose testbed that can be used to test such networks as AC-MWN, adhoc, MANET, VANET, and wireless sensor networks. Experiment results demonstrate that the AC-MWN is applicable and valuable for future low-cost and flexible communication networks.

Adviser: Yi Qian

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