Panel
New Architectures and Disruptive Technologies for the Future Wireless Networks
Moderator: Qian Zhang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology| Panelist: | Bin Chen, Huawei Corp., China; E.K. Park, NSF Director; Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa; Liang Ying Chang, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore; Lixin Gao, University of Massachusetts, Amherst |
Abstract
With the universal deployment of mobile and wireless communications, and the
the rapid proliferation of mobile and wireless devices, today's society is
becoming firmly dependent on wireless networking technologies. The
interactions between mobile users, wireless devices (such as sensors, RFID,
etc.) and their supporting communication and computing infrastructure will
have significant impact to the architecture of future wireless networks.
In recent years, we can see many new exciting progress align the directions
including cognitive radio networks, cooperative communication and networking,
opportunistic networking, delay tolerant networks, as well as sensor/RFID
networks. Due to the disruptive nature of those new communications
technologies, problems at the network layer are usually extremely challenging
and call for new theories and algorithms.
In this panel, we would like to discuss the impact of those technologies to
the overall network architecture design and more interestingly, do we really
need those technologies and what is the possible roadmap to fully leverage
those technologies.