Special Issue on Next Generation Wireless Technologies

摘要

The next generation wireless networks are expected to converge into a ubiquitous architecture, which includes high-speed cellular networks, wireless local area networks (WLANs), mobile ad hoc networks, peer-to-peer networks, wireless metropolitan area networks (WMANs), etc. The increasing demand of wireless multimedia services has motivated the development of broad wireless access in the heterogeneous wireless networks. Mobile subscribers can enjoy the high bit rate, low cost, ubiquitous coverage, and secure connection. For the next generation wireless networks, further extensive investigation, experimentation and development are necessary, such as capacity analysis/ enhancement, quality-of-service (QoS) support, power saving, wireless routing, security, and mobility management. This special issue presents recent cutting edge research and state-of-the-art technology. The accepted eight papers are selected from the 2nd International Conference on Broadband Networks (BroadNets'05, held in Boston, MA, Oct. 3-7, 2005), the 2nd International Conference on Quality of Service for Heterogeneous Wired/Wireless Networks (QShine'05, held in Orlando, FL, Aug. 22-24, 2005), and the 11th Mobile Computing Workshop (held in Taiwan, Mar. 31, 2005). These papers are timely and valuable for future analysis, implementation and experiments of heterogeneous broadband wireless networks.