Subject: [nemo] About scheduling of NEMO

From: "Wang Yaning" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 10:14:17 -0000

Hi all, 
I am a PhD student researching scheduling of NEMO. I have some ideas but need some comments from you experts. Could you please spend some time to have a look and tell me if it is a significant problem or if there are any related references. Thank you all very much!

A scheduler is needed in MR, to schedule packets going out of NEMO subnet. I find that current scheduling algorithms for wireless network cannot be applied to NEMO directly because they assume that there are constant network resources to be distributed. MR connects to the BS with wireless link, which is time-varying and location-dependent, so the available network resources to MR is varying fast. Therefore, we need a scheduler that can adapt to the varying network resources. Specifically, when the network resources, e.g. bandwidth is not enough for all the flows of the NEMO, MR scheduler should hold some low priority flows temporarily to keep guarantee the QoS of high priority flows. So an adaptive scheduling algorithm needs to be designed for MR in NEMO. 

I will appreciate to all comments and suggestions. 

Regards,
Mr Yaning Wang
Centre for Communication Systems Research
University of Surrey
Guildford
Surrey GU2 7XH
United Kingdom

Tel: +44-1483682292