Panel

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.