ERC PERFUME

PERFUME envisions a new approach to designing the communication networks, which taps into devices' new capabilities. Our approach recasts devices as distributed computational nodes solving together multi-agent problems, allowing to maximize the network performance by exploiting local measurement and information exchange capabilities. The success of the project relies on the understanding of new information theory limits for systems with decentralized information, the development of novel device communication methods, jointly with advanced team-based statistical signal processing algorithms. PERFUME will evidence the potential gains associated with exploiting the devices' collective, network friendly intelligence, in pushing the frontiers of mobile Internet performance.