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Reliable high performance protocols for Wireless Mesh Networks deployed in highly challenging situations.

Due to their rapid deployment capabilities, Wireless Mesh Networks present a promising network for situations where communications infrastructure is not available or has been disrupted. Typical examples of such situations include Emergency Response, Disaster Recovery, and Public Safety scenarios. Other potential application areas include home networking, telecommunications, mining, etc. 

One of the key challenges of these deployment scenarios is that they are highly unpredictable and dynamic. Current Wireless Mesh Network protocols are designed largely with a one-size-fits-all approach, and have limited capabilities to adapt to the wide range potentially very diverse and unplanned deployment scenarios. This results in greatly limited performance and reliability of the network.

The goal of our research is to explore novel, highly adaptive network protocols and protocol mechanisms to address the current shortcomings, and can provide significantly increased performance and reliability in the most challenging situations and for the most demanding applications.