SOPRANO (Self-Organizing Packet Radio Ad hoc Networks with Overlay) involves a novel adaptive and scalable wireless network architecture utilizing a mixture of cellular and packet radio network topologies for wireless Internet and multimedia communications. The architecture enables rapid adaptability to traffic, channel and interference conditions and results in significant reductions in transmit power and potential throughput improvements. Coordination among physical, data link, and network layers enable significant improvements in capacity and quality of service relative to the current state-of-the-art.

• The main research thrust:

• Capacity enhancement
• Self-organization
• Resource allocation
• Adaptive routing

• Sponsors

This project has been funded by the National Science Foundation.

• People

• Faculty:

• Prof. Bijan Jabbari (GMU)
• Prof. Raymond Pickholtz (GWU)
• Prof. Branimir Vojcic (GWU)

• PhD Students:

• Ali Nabi Zadeh
• Christopher St. Jean
• Marek Hejmo

• Publications

• Journals and Magazines

• A. Nabi Zadeh and B. Jabbari, " Performance analysis of multihop packet CDMA cellular networks ," IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (Cat. No.01CH37270), 2001, pp. 2875-2879 vol.5, doi: 10.1109/GLOCOM.2001.965954.
• A. N. Zadeh, B. Jabbari, R. Pickholtz and B. Vojcic, " Self-organizing packet radio ad hoc networks with overlay (SOPRANO)," in IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 149-157, June 2002, doi: 10.1109/MCOM.2002.1007421.
• Ali Nabi Zadeh and Bijan Jabbari. 2001. A high capacity multihop packet CDMA wireless network. In Proceedings of the first workshop on Wireless mobile internet (WMI '01). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 83–88. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/381472.381587.



• Conferences

• C. A. St Jean, A. N. Zadeh and B. Jabbari, "Combined routing, channel scheduling, and power control in packet radio ad hoc networks with cellular overlay," in Proceedings of IEEE 55th Vehicular Technology Conference. VTC Spring 2002 (Cat. No.02CH37367), 2002, pp. 1960-1964 vol.4, doi: 10.1109/VTC.2002.1002965.
• A. N. Zadeh and B. Jabbari, ""On the capacity modeling of multi-hop cellular packet CDMA networks," MILCOM Proceedings Communications for Network-Centric Operations: Creating the Information Force (Cat. No.01CH37277), 2001, pp. 600-604 vol.1, doi: 10.1109/MILCOM.2001.985870.
• A. Nabi Zadeh and B. Jabbari, "Performance analysis of multihop packet CDMA cellular networks," in Proceedings of IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (Cat. No.01CH37270), 2001, pp. 2875-2879 vol.5, doi: 10.1109/GLOCOM.2001.965954.
• Ali Nabi Zadeh and Bijan Jabbari. 2003. A high capacity multihop packet CDMA wireless network. Wireless Networks 9, 4 (July 2003), 365–372. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1023651411960.
• A. N. Zadeh and B. Jabbari, "Throughput of a multihop packet CDMA network with power control," in Proceedings of IEEE 51st Vehicular Technology Conference Proceedings (Cat. No.00CH37026), 2000, pp. 31-35 vol.1, doi: 10.1109/VETECS.2000.851412.



• Talks

• On the Capacity Modeling of Multihop Cellular Packet CDMA Networks
• Performance Analysis of Multihop Packet CDMA Cellular Networks

• Seminars

November 11, 2002, 1:30-4:30 pm at George Mason University

EW2002 Tutorial in Italy

January 9, 2002, 2:00-5:30 pm at George Washington University - Academic Building, 6th floor

June 15, 2001, 1:30-4:30 pm at George Mason University - ST-II, Room 320

May 4, 2000, 3:00-4:30 pm at George Washington University