Distributed Spectrum Access: Protocols and Prototype

In this two-part talk, we will first present techniques for harnessing unused capacity in wireless networks. The key operating concept is that of connectionless protocols, where nodes do not communicate on a link-by-link basis with other contending links, and all coordination is performed via broadcasts. We consider both passive and active connectionless control, which allows us to either achieve the greedy competitive or socially fair equilibrium. In the second part, we will demo the Rice Wireless Open-Access Research Platform (WARP), which is a completely programmable platform to prototype novel physical and network layer protocols (like th...