Big Challenges: Wireless Networks and Services

Sam Samuel

April 2009

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The Topology of the Challenges

Challenges

Business Model Conundrum

New balanced business model

No balance, no infrastructure

Mass Instantaneous Bandwidth

The converged networkMechanisms that promote flexibility

Mechanisms that promote high bandwidth

NetworksInherent mobilityTrustSecurityVirtualisation

Composition Networking

Related to business models

Trust

Extended personalisation

Composition of knowledge

Service Infrastructure

Reputation

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The Service Infrastructure Challenges

Service Infrastructure

The right kind of informationInformation highly distributed

Extreme of P2P networking

Quantum computing applied to networkingNew classes of database (not just relational)

Composition of knowledge

Extended Personalisation

Very granular profilingSelf creation of services

Trends are spottedservice automatically created and deployed

Build on Existing ConceptsTrust to Reputation

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The Instantaneous Bandwidth Challenges

Instantaneous Bandwidth

Network MIMOBig diversity effect Homogenised air interface

May drive industry to single dominant air interface type (over and above need for commoditisation)

The impact on the network – (delay/bandwidth)

High Bandwidth

FlexibilityInstantaneous infrastructure sharingCommercial Cognitive Radio

Networks increased situational awareness“per session/transfer” Instantaneous trading/licensing of spectrumInherent flexibility of the air interface to quantise bandwidthInherent flexibility of networks to find contiguous blocks of spectrum

Build on Existing ConceptsCore networks ability to deliver bandwidth cost effectively

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Network Challenges

Networks

Inherent mobilityTrustSecurityQuality

Usual Stuff

New Concepts

Techniques for cognisant networksNetworks that pass Turing test

Reputation networksComposition networks

Delay compositionQuality composition

Network MimoNetwork Coding

Self evolution

Build on Existing ConceptsAutonomic networkingVirtualisationAlternative addressing

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The Business Model Conundrum

All this high bandwidth infrastructure must be paid for in some way

The future flexibility comes at a price

At some point we will have to consider new business models

This may have to come first before the technology can be practically deployed

Perhaps this is the biggest challenge