Internet of Moving Things using Full Duplex Mesh Networks

Through years of research, true full duplex communication systems (transmission and reception in the same band at the same time) have been developed using novel off the shelf components. Such radios are unique in their ability to listen while transmitting at the same frequency at the same time. Although other full duplex technologies exist (from work conducted at Stanford, Rice and Columbia), these technologies are typically antenna or custom-chip based. The project team's solution is unique in that it is based on off-the-shelf discrete components together with software. This ability to build a software-centric full duplex solution has many advantages, including low-cost, rapid reconfigurability, and agility. Full duplex radios are able to listen and talk simultaneously, making them ideally suited for mesh networking applications. Conventional mesh networking is highly prone to poor performance due to massive overheads and rigidity. Full duplex radios are much more flexible and adaptable, and can perform tasks such as handoff and scheduling in a low-overhead, rapid manner. This makes them ideally suited to be the basis for the Internet of Moving Things (IoMT). IoMT aims to connect all moving (and static) objects with one another—buses, cars, people, even their pets—without using a cellular or satellite backbone. It enables vehicle to vehicle (V2V) and vehicle to infrastructure (V2I) connectivity in a much more seamless fashion than currently thought possible. Full duplex based IoMT will provide low-cost connectivity between people, while helping us understand how people and vehicles move.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Final report pending

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Completed
• Sponsor Organizations:

  Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology

  University Transportation Centers Program
  Department of Transportation
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Project Managers:

  Bhat, Chandra

• Performing Organizations:

  Data-Supported Transportation Operations and Planning Center

  University of Texas at Austin
  Austin, TX  United States  78701
• Principal Investigators:

  Vishwanath, Sriram

• Start Date: 20160501
• Expected Completion Date: 20181231
• Actual Completion Date: 0
• Source Data: 132

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Connectivity; Costs; Data communications; Mobile communication systems; Transmission; Vehicle to infrastructure communications; Vehicle to vehicle communications
• Identifier Terms: Internet of Moving Things
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01611907
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Data-Supported Transportation Operations and Planning Center
• Files: UTC, RIP
• Created Date: Sep 23 2016 4:23PM