PANEL SESSION
Challenges And Solutions For Future Wireless Pervasive Networking
May 8, 2008 (15:20 - 17:00), Main Hall, Nomikos Conference Center
Organizers:
Constantinos Papadias, Athens Information Technology, Greece
Giovanni Giambene, University of Siena, Italy
The goal of pervasive computing is to create ambient intelligence where network devices embedded in the environment provide unobtrusive connectivity and services all the time, thus improving human experience and quality of life without explicit awareness of the underlying communications and computing technologies. In this environment, the world around us (e.g., key chains, coffee mugs, computers, appliances, cars, homes, offices, cities, and the human body) is interconnected as a pervasive network of intelligent devices that cooperatively and autonomously collect, process and transport information, in order to adapt to the associated context and activity. The aim of this panel session is to address different important aspects and related technological approaches in the field of wireless pervasive networking and computing, according to the details provided below.
Challenges:
- Network heterogeneity (co-existence of multiple wireless networks: RFID, sensors, BAN-PAN-LAN-MAN, satellite)
- Device heterogeneity (multi-function devices, co-existence of multiple devices)
- Wireless - wireline convergence (with implications at access & backhaul networks, as well as end-devices).
Solutions:
- Cognitive radio for better environment sensing and spectrum utilization
- Embedded computing for wireless sensor reconfiguration
- Cross-layer optimization for better network performance
- Smart antennas / MIMO technology for higher spectral efficiency & interference mitigation
- Emerging protocols for fixed-mobile convergence: Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA), Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS), etc.
Participants:
Mohamed-Slim Alouini, Texas A&M University at Qatar, Qatar
Maurice Bellanger, Conservatoire National des Arts & Métiers, France
Sajal Das, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Constantinos Papadias, Athens Information Technology, Greece (Panel Chair)
Jorge Pereira, EU Commission
Byung K. Yi, LGE
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