Subventions et des contributions :

Subvention ou bourse octroyée s'appliquant à plus d'un exercice financier (2017-2018 à 2018-2019).

The increasing demand for improving the quality of residential wireless services in recent years, driven by thex000D
arrival of the Internet of Things (IoT) and real-time applications, has resulted in new edge-based provisioningx000D
models. WiFi is at the central of this movement as it is dominating indoor wireless connectivity. However,x000D
WiFi has been designed as a best-effort and fair-share service, which is no longer appropriate for QoS (Qualityx000D
of Service) -driven edge computing services. XCellAir Inc. is developing WiFi SON (Self-Organizingx000D
Network), an award-wining product, to provide carrier-grade WiFi service for a variety of applications, fromx000D
residential usage to smart city. Unfortunately, lacking QoE (Quality of Experience) measurements and usagex000D
pattern characterization might result in sub-optimal decisions and under-utilization of network resources, asx000D
observed in the testbed implemented at the residential campus of the Ecole de technologie superieure (ETS).x000D
This project is therefore aimed to add traffic analytics and prediction to XCellAir's WiFi SON platform, at bothx000D
data and control planes, to capture traffic, monitor resource utilization, construct usage patterns, and forecastx000D
evolution trends of several system metrics. Leveraging on cloud computing technology, the platform willx000D
improve the performance and reliability of carrier-grade WiFi networks, in view of achieving the efficiency ofx000D
edge-based services, minimizing resource consumption, and guaranteeing QoE/QoS. The outcome of thisx000D
project will contribute substantially to the successful achievement of the product, as well as to Canadianx000D
telecommunication industry as the product is being exploited by major carriers in this country. This technologyx000D
will enable the creation of a new class of smart city services which are deployed at the last-mile close to endx000D
users, thus providing unprecedented QoS. The project will also significantly contribute to the establishment ofx000D
the first smart city project in Quebec - the Montreal Innovation District, and to the development of a digital andx000D
sustainable economy of Quebec and Canada.