Heterogeneous and opportunistic wireless networks

Jordi Perez-Romero (1) , Sergio Palazzo (2) , Laura Galluccio (2) , Giacomo Morabito (2) , Alessandro Leonardi (2) , Carles Anton-Haro (3) , Erdal Arikan (4) , Gerd Asheid (5) , Marc Belleville (6) , Ioannis Dagres (7) , Davide Dardari (8) , Mischa Dohler (3) , Yonina Eldar (9) , Sinan Gezici (4) , Lorenza Giupponi (3) , Christine Guillemot (10) , George Iosifidis (11) , Michel Kieffer (12) , Marios Kountouris (13) , Marco Luise (14) , Guido Masera (15) , Javier Matamoros (3) , Natalia Miliou (7) , Dominique Morche (6) , Christophe Moy (16) , Carles Navarro (17) , Gabriella Olmo (18) , Jacques Palicot (16) , Raffaella Pedone (8) , Venkatesh Ramakrishnana (5) , Shlomo Shamai (9) , Piotr Tyczka (19) , Luc Vandendorpe (20) , Alessandro Vanelli-Coralli (8) , Claudio Weidmann (21) , Andreas Zalonis (7)

1 UPC - Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya = Université polytechnique de Catalogne [Barcelona]
2 DIIT - Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica e delle Telecomunicazioni [University of Catania]
3 CTTC - Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya = Telecommunications Technological Centre of Catalonia
4 Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering [Ankara]
5 ISS - Institute for Integrated Signal Processing Systems
6 CEA-LETI - Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives - Laboratoire d'Electronique et de Technologie de l'Information
7 Wireless Systems Group
8 UNIBO - Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna = University of Bologna
9 EE-Technion - Department of Electrical Engineering - Technion [Haïfa]
10 Sirocco - Analysis representation, compression and communication of visual data
11 Department of Computer and Communications Engineering [Volos]
12 L2S - Laboratoire des signaux et systèmes
13 E3S - Supélec Sciences des Systèmes
14 Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione [Pisa]
15 Polito - Politecnico di Torino = Polytechnic of Turin
16 IETR - Institut d'Électronique et des Technologies du numéRique
17 Department of Electronic Systems - Aalborg University
18 IPL - Image Processing Lab [Torino]
19 PUT - Poznan University of Technology
20 TELE - Laboratoire de Télécommunications et Télédétection [Louvain]
21 ETIS - UMR 8051 - Equipes Traitement de l'Information et Systèmes

Recent years have witnessed the evolution of a large plethora of wireless technologies with different characteristics, as a response of the operators’ and users’ needs in terms of an efficient and ubiquitous delivery of advanced multimedia services. The wireless segment of network infrastructure has penetrated in our lives, and wireless connectivity has now reached a state where it is considered to be an indispensable service as electricity or water supply. Wireless data networks grow increasingly complex as a multiplicity of wireless information terminals with sophisticated capabilities get embedded in the infrastructure.

Mots clés: Wireless Communication Networks; Heterogeneous networks; Long-term vision; Cognitive and cooperative networks

Domaines: Traitement du signal et de l'image [eess.SP]; Traitement du signal et de l'image [eess.SP]

Jordi Perez-Romero, Sergio Palazzo, Laura Galluccio, Giacomo Morabito, Alessandro Leonardi, et al.. Heterogeneous and opportunistic wireless networks. Sergio Benedetto (Editor), Marco Luise (Editor), Luis Correia (Editor). The Newcom++ Vision Book: Perspectives of Research on Wireless Communications in Europe, Springer, pp.41-66, 2012, ⟨10.1007/978-88-470-1983-6_3⟩. ⟨hal-00658239⟩