Vision
We envision ubiquitous data access to end users with bandwidth and connectivity adapting to specific application requirements and dynamically changing network and context conditions.
Key-Challenges
- Coexistence and cooperation of different access technologies
- Self-organization and reconfigurability of communication networks
- Converged optical-wireless systems
- Control and management of service oriented plug and play next generation optical networks
Mission
Our mission is to develop innovative solutions for cooperating wireless and optical communication systems focusing on cognitive and reconfigurable approaches in order to provide ubiquitous broadband access to end-users offering them seamless and adaptive connectivity in a cost-effective manner. Specifically, solutions towards flexible self-x network infrastructure for Future Internet are targeted.
In our view, cognitive and reconfigurable paradigms are enablers towards true heterogeneous cooperating and coexisting communication systems, that eventually will merge the properties of short-range with wide-area, mobile with fixed, wireless with optical into one underlying network infrastructure with only services and applications visible to the end-user. This vision is depicted in Fig.1, where CR stands for cognitive and reconfigurable functionalities.
Figure 1: Convergence of wired/wireless technologies in current heterogeneous network scenarios.
Contact
To contact the group you can use the following address: broadways at create-net.org