PROJECT AIMS AND OUR RESPONSIBILITIES

The overall aims of MESSAGE are:

• To harness the potential of diverse, low cost and ubiquitous environmental sensors to provide data to address key scientific challenges in the field of transport and environmental monitoring and modelling and analysis.

• To develop a flexible and reusable e-Science infrastructure to support a wide range of scientific, policy-related and commercial uses and applications for the resultant data and to demonstrate the operation and utility of this infrastructure in diverse case study applications.
  

Responsibilities at Electricial Engineering, Imperial College

The above figure shows the research framework for analyzing the impact of mobility on the performance of communication protocols. By investigating the relationship between mobility and connectivity, we aim to provide a strengthened foundation for the future development of the communication protocols for Vehicular Ad hoc NETworks (VANET). In general, our responsibilities include the joint transport and communication modelling and the design of reliable protocol for data transfer.

1. Joint Transport and Communication Models

Objectives of Joint Models:
- Understand and exploit dynamics between vehicle movement and wireless communication capability
- Enable efficient design of vehicular ad-hoc network for transport systems control/management

Issues for Investigation:
- Develop joint mobility and communication models
- Communication connectivity among vehicles
- Identify strengths and weaknesses of vehicular networks

2. Protocol Designs for Vehicular Ad hoc Networks

Issues for Investigation:
- Reliable protocols for data transfer
- Routing for disconnected bus ad-hoc network
- Optimal locations of road-side access points
- Cross-layer protocol and system optimisation

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This project is funded by the Department for Transport and EPSRC