Technologies for the Wireless Future

Contents List of Figures List of Tables List of Contributors Foreword by Dr Atsushi Murase Foreword by Charles Backof Preface Acknowledgements 1 Introduction Edited by Dr Nigel Jefferies (Vodafone Group R&D, UK) and Prof. Dr Klaus David (ComTec, University of Kassel, Germany) 1.1 A Book of Visions 1.2 The Wireless World Research Forum 1.3 Current Situation and Trends 1.4 Overview of the Following Chapters 2 Vision and Stakeholder Requirements for Future Mobile Systems Edited by Dr Nigel Jefferies (Vodafone Group R&D, UK) 2.1 A Vision of 2017 2.2 Stakeholder Requirements 2.3 Acknowledgements 3 User Requirements, Scenarios and Business Models Edited by Lene Sørensen and Knud Erik Skouby (Center for Information and Communication Technologies/IMM, Danish Technical University, Denmark) 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Scenarios 3.3 User Requirements 3.4 A User-centred Approach to Service Development 3.5 Usability 3.6 Business Modeling 3.7 Conclusions and Further Research 3.8 Acknowledgements 4 Service Infrastructures Edited by Prof. Dr Klaus David (ComTec, University of Kassel, Germany) and Dr Mika Klemettinen (Nokia, Finland) 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Semantic Services 4.3 Service Creation 4.4 Service Architecture for the Wireless World 4.5 Acknowledgements 5 The WWI System Architecture for B3G Networks Edited by Andreas Schieder (Ericsson GmbH, Germany), Elias Tragos (National Technical University of Athens, Greece), Andrej Mihailovic (King's College London, UK), Jukka Salo (Nokia Siemens Networks, Finland) and Jan van der Meer (Ericsson Telecommunicati, The Netherlands) 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Heterogeneous Radio Resource Management (HRRM) in the WWI System Architecture 5.3 Mobility 5.4 Context Provisioning 5.5 Network Management in the WWI System Architecture 5.6 Conclusions 6 New Air Interface Technologies Edited by Dr Angeliki Alexiou (Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, UK) and Dr Gerhard Bauch (DoCoMo Euro-Labs, Germany) 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Error Control Coding Options for Next-generation Wireless Systems 6.3 Multi-dimensional Channel Modeling 6.4 Multi-user MIMO Systems 7 Short-range Wireless Communications Edited by Prof. Rolf Kraemer (IHP, Germany) and Marcos Katz (VTT, Finland) 7.1 Introduction 7.2 Integrative and Cooperative Aspects of Short-range Communications: Technologies, Designing Rules and Trends 7.3 Ultra Wideband Radio over Optical Fibre 7.4 Work in Progress 8 Emerging Technologies to Support Reconfigurable Cognitive Wireless Networks Edited by Prof. Panagiotis Demestichas, George Dimitrakopoulos and Yiouli Kritikou (University of Piraeus, Greece) 8.1 Introduction 8.2 Overview of Cognitive Wireless Networks 8.3 Management Mechanisms for Cognitive Wireless Networks 8.4 Supplementary Knowledge Features in Support of Cognition 8.5 Summary 9 Methods for Spectrum Sharing Edited by Sudhir Dixit (Nokia Siemens Networks) 9.1 Introduction 9.2 Spectrum Sharing CategoriesBased on Centralized and Distributed Approaches 9.3 Problems and Issues in Flexible Spectrum Use 9.4 Conclusion 9.5 Acknowledgements 10 Ultra Broadband Home Area Network Edited by Djamal-Eddine Meddour (Orange Labs, France Telecom Group) 10.1 Introduction 10.2 Applications Challenges 10.3 Connectivity 10.4 Access Challenges 10.5 Architecture 10.6 Conclusion 10.7 Acknowledgements 11 Combined View of Future Systems Edited by Mikko A. Uusitalo (Nokia Research Center) 11.1 Introduction 11.2 Applications and Services 11.3 IP-based Communication Subsystem 11.4 Access Network 11.5 Development of Reconfigurability and Cognitive Wireless Networks 11.6 Other End-to-end Aspects 11.7 Summary and Conclusion 11.8 Acknowledgements Appendix: Glossary Index