The Newcom++ Vision Book : Perspectives of Research on Wireless Communications in Europe

The Book contains the Vision of the researchers of the European Network of Excellence NEWCOM++ (Network of Excellence on Wireless COMmunication) on the present and future status of Wireless Communication Networks. In its content, the community of NEWCOM++ researchers, shaped under the common ground of a mainly academic network of excellence, have distilled their scientific wisdom in a number of areas characterized by the common denominator of wireless communications, by identifying the medium-long term research tendencies/problems, describing the tools to face them and providing a relatively large number of references for the interested reader. The identified areas and the researchers involved in their redaction reflect the intersection of the major topics in wireless communications with those that are deeply investigated in NEWCOM++; they are preceded by an original description of the main trends in user/society needs and the degree of fulfilment that ongoing and future wireless communications standards will more likely help achieving. The appendix of the Book contains a list of "Millenium Problems", seminal problems in the area of wireless communication networks, characterized by being crucial and still unsolved. The problems have been identified by NEWCOM++ researchers and filtered by the editors of the Vision Book. Front Matter....Pages I-XV Introduction....Pages 1-4 Trends in user/society needs and future wireless standards....Pages 5-40 Heterogeneous and opportunistic wireless networks....Pages 41-66 Cognitive and cooperative wireless networks....Pages 67-83 The ultimate limits of wireless networks....Pages 85-107 Bandwidth and energy efficient radio access....Pages 109-129 Multimedia signal processing for wireless delivery....Pages 131-143 Enabling “hard” technologies for future wireless....Pages 145-167 Green communications....Pages 169-179 Conclusions....Pages 181-184 Back Matter....Pages 185-213 Annotation In this text, researchers from the European Network of Excellence NEWCOM++ (Network of Excellence on Wireless COMmunication) examine wireless communication networks. They identify the medium-long term research problems and describe the tools to face them