08/09, Dr. Tzeng Receives NSF Grant for Research on Wireless Grids

Dr. Nian-Feng Tzeng, a Professor at CACS, has received an NSF grant of $364,000 to conduct research on wireless grids. This project, entitled "Reliability Enhancement via Adaptive Checkpoingint in Wireless Grids", aims to turn existing wireless mesh networks (WMNs) into productive and reliable computing platforms, made possible innovatively by reliability enhancement via adaptive checkpointing (REACT) to yield wireless Grids (WiGs). WiGs can expand immensely the wired Grid in support of rapidly growing cloud applications, besides serving as their original role of ubiquitous communications. It is extremely challenging and yet interesting to realize effective checkpointing in WiGs, due to their unique characteristics. This REACT project deals with three technical challenges, which together constitute the basis of our Checkpoint Manager, able to render WMNs into productive WiGs for enhancing and complementing wired Grids. The project holds great promise to advance technical understanding and scientific frontiers of effective checkpointing in WiGs. It will also improve the research and educational activities on Grid computing and wireless systems strongly in the University of Louisiana.