Description:
Topology discovery for linear wireless networks with application to train backbone inauguration
NJIT Docket # 15-006
Inventors: Alexander Haimovich, Osvaldo Simeone, Mengchu Zhou, Yu Liu, Jianghua Feng, Jun Tang, Zheng Wen
Intellectual Property & Development status: US Patent Protection is pending.
NJIT is currently seeking commercial partners for the further development and commercialization of this opportunity.
Technology Brief:
Researchers at New Jersey Institute of Technology in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering have proposed a novel wireless topology discovery protocol that overcomes wireless impairments imposed by the broadcast nature of the wireless medium, and by fading and interference.
Topology discovery in wireless linear networks is a key enabling protocol for application such as wireless train backbone communication. The implementation of topology discovery over wireless channels is made difficult by the broadcast nature of the wireless medium, and by fading and interference. The invention for wireless topology discovery is on a physical implementation of the system that leverages directional antennas and frequency planning and overcomes wireless impairments. Additionally, the invented wireless topology discovery protocol requires minor modification to the current wired topology discovery protocol standard.
Applications
• Wireless train backbone communication
• Inter-vehicle communication systems
Advantages
• Overcomes wireless impairments such as broadcasting, interference and fading.
• Robust performance
• Easy implementation
Inventors Bio:
Alexander Haimovich is a Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Ying Wu endowed chair at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He serves as the Director of the Elisha Bar-Ness Center for Wireless Communications and Signal Processing Research. He has joined NJIT as an Associate Professor in 1992. From 2003-2005 he has served as Director of the New Jersey Center for Wireless Telecommunications, a state funded consortium in which participated NJIT, Princeton University, Rutgers University and Stevens Institute of Technology. Prior to joining NJIT, he served as Chief Scientist of JJM Systems from 1990 until 1992. From 1983-1990 he worked in a variety of capacities, up to senior staff consultant, for AEL Industries. Alex received the Ph.D. degree in systems from the University of Pennsylvania in 1989, the M. Sc. degree in electrical engineering from Drexel University in 1983, and the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the Technion, Haifa, Israel in 1977. His research interests include wireless communication LTE, WiMax, MIMO; 4G-5G wireless communication systems; geolocation in multipath, multi-sensor radar; compressive sensing; signal characterization and identification in multiple antenna systems; cloud radar – joint design of sensing and communication in distributed radar systems; antenna arrays. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.
Osvaldo Simeone received the M.Sc. degree (with honors) and the Ph.D. degree in information engineering from Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy, in 2001 and 2005, respectively. He is a Professor at the Center for Wireless Communications and Signal Processing Research (CWCSPR), New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Newark. His research interests concern wireless communications, information theory, optimization and machine learning. Dr. Simeone is a co-recipient of the 2015 IEEE Communication Society Best Tutorial Paper Award and of the Best Paper Awards at IEEE SPAWC 2007 and IEEE WRECOM 2007. He currently serves as an Editor for IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.