The Office of Naval Research has announced that Dr. Dapeng Wu was chosen as one of the 2008 Young Investigator awardees for his proposal, "Delay-Assured Ad Hoc Networking".

The overall objective of Wu's research is to develop theory and algorithms for delay-assured ad hoc networking, under important physical-layer considerations such as fading channels, channel noise, interference, and power-controlled connectivity. The fundamental challenges of the proposed research lie in time varying channel capacity, channel noise, interference, and fuzzy notion of wireless link connectivity.

To address the research challenges, the PI will focus on three main research thrusts, namely, 1) performance limits in delay-assured ad hoc networking, 2) optimal link scheduling under delay constraints, and 3) QoS routing, congestion control, and resource sharing. The theory and algorithms, once successfully developed, will significantly advance the capability needed by the naval battlespace awareness, and enable a host of real-time applications. Especially, this proposal is aimed at revolutionizing ad hoc networking technology, i.e., providing an unprecedented capability of assuring delay performance under general interference models.

The objectives of the Young Investigator Program (YIP) are to attract to naval research outstanding new faculty members, to support their research, and to encourage their teaching and research careers.   Typically only 10% of the submitted proposals have received YIP awards.  Awardees are selected by the Office of Naval Research for an outstanding research proposal and for possessing an outstanding record of professional accomplishments. 

it is anticipated that two of the 2008 ONR Young Investigator awardees will also be selected to receive a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.