Wireless Communications
Wireless is a rapidly growing segment of the communications industry, with the potential to provide high-speed high-quality information exchange between portable devices located anywhere in the world. Potential applications enabled by this technology include multimedia Internet-enabled cell phones, smart homes and appliances, automated highway systems, video teleconferencing and distance learning, and autonomous sensor networks, to name just a few. However, supporting these applications using wireless techniques poses a significant technical challenge.
Other uses for wireless communication;
- Personal portable telephones, multimedia devices, digital assistants, and communicating palmtop computers.
- Location-independent numbering plans for mobile personal services.
- Personal profiles, personalized traffic filtering, and other database-driven aspects of wireless/mobile communications.
- Messaging, communications and computing requirements.
- Security, privacy, reliability and robustness.
- Mobility and resource management.
- End-to-end quality of service and provisioning.
- Routing protocols and congestion control.
- Network control and management for protocols associated with networking and tracking of mobile users.
- Link adaptive access technologies and protocols.
- Cognitive radios
- Medium access control protocols.
- Emerging physical layer wireless technologies
- Cooperative communications and networking
- Radio and infrared channel characterization and other microcell-based wireless communication systems.
- Cross-layer design methodologies
- Heterogeneous wireless communications technologies and architectures
- Traffic engineering (management and performance issues).
- Policy issues in spectrum allocation, industry structure, and technology evolution.
- Intelligent vehicle highway systems and networking services.
- Applications, case studies, and field experience.
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