TY - JOUR
T1 - Frontiers of wireless and mobile communications
AU - Raychaudhuri, Dipankar
AU - Mandayam, Narayan B.
N1 - Funding Information:
Dr. Mandayam is a recipient of the Institute Silver Medal from the Indian Institute of Technology in 1989, the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 1998 and the Fred W. Ellersick Prize from the IEEE Communications Society in 2009. He has served as an Editor for the IEEE COMMUNICATION LETTERS (1999–2002) and the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS (2002–2004), and as a Guest Editor of the IEEE JOURNAL ON SELECTED AREAS IN COMMUNICATIONS Special Issues on Adaptive, Spectrum Agile and Cognitive Radio Networks (2007) and Game Theory in Communication Systems (2008).
Funding Information:
Manuscript received June 1, 2011; revised September 8, 2011; accepted October 20, 2011. Date of publication February 17, 2012; date of current version March 21, 2012. This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under Grants CNS-1040735 and CCF-1016551 and by the U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR) under Grant N00014-11-1-0132. The authors are with WINLAB, Rutgers University, Technology Centre of NJ, North Brunswick, NJ 08902 USA (e-mail: ray@winlab.rutgers.edu; narayan@winlab.rutgers.edu).
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and implementation of next-generation wireless networks covering a number of emerging usage scenarios such as ad hoc mesh, vehicular, cognitive radio, 4G, and mobile Internet. He is the principal investigator for several multi-institutional projects funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) including: BORBIT[ open-access next-generation wireless network testbed, BCogNet[ cognitive radio network, and most recently, the BMobilityFirst[ future Internet architecture (FIA) project. He also helped to initiate the ongoing GENI program for deployment of a global-scale experimental infrastructure for Internet research, and is currently leading the BOpen GENI Base Station[ project aimed at deploying programmable 4G wireless networks at several university campuses across the United States. He has previously held progressively responsible corporate R&D positions in the telecom/ networking industry including: Chief Scientist, Iospan Wireless (2000– 2001); Assistant General Manager & Department Head-Systems Architecture, NEC USA C&C Research Laboratories (1993–1999); and Head, Broadband Communications Research, Sarnoff Corp. (1990–1992).
PY - 2012/4
Y1 - 2012/4
N2 - The field of wireless and mobile communication has a remarkable history that spans over a century of technology innovations from Marconi's first transatlantic transmission in 1899 to the worldwide adoption of cellular mobile services by over four billion people today. Wireless has become one of the most pervasive core technology enablers for a diverse variety of computing and communications applications ranging from third-generation/fourth-generation (3G/4G) cellular devices, broadband access, indoor WiFi networks, vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) systems to embedded sensor and radio-frequency identification (RFID) applications. This has led to an accelerating pace of research and development in the wireless area with the promise of significant new breakthroughs over the next decade and beyond. This paper provides a perspective of some of the research frontiers of wireless and mobile communications, identifying early stage key technologies of strategic importance and the new applications that they will enable. Specific new radio technologies discussed include dynamic spectrum access (DSA), white space, cognitive software-defined radio (SDR), antenna beam steering and multiple-input-multiple- output (MIMO), 60-GHz transmission, and cooperative communications. Taken together, these approaches have the potential for dramatically increasing radio link speeds from current megabit per second rates to gigabit per second, while also improving radio system capacity and spectrum efficiency significantly. The paper also introduces a number of emerging wireless/mobile networking concepts including multihoming, ad hoc and multihop mesh, delay-tolerant routing, and mobile content caching, providing a discussion of the protocol capabilities needed to support each of these usage scenarios. In conclusion, the paper briefly discusses the impact of these wireless technologies and networking techniques on the design of emerging audiovisual and multimedia applications as they migrate to mobile Internet platforms.
AB - The field of wireless and mobile communication has a remarkable history that spans over a century of technology innovations from Marconi's first transatlantic transmission in 1899 to the worldwide adoption of cellular mobile services by over four billion people today. Wireless has become one of the most pervasive core technology enablers for a diverse variety of computing and communications applications ranging from third-generation/fourth-generation (3G/4G) cellular devices, broadband access, indoor WiFi networks, vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) systems to embedded sensor and radio-frequency identification (RFID) applications. This has led to an accelerating pace of research and development in the wireless area with the promise of significant new breakthroughs over the next decade and beyond. This paper provides a perspective of some of the research frontiers of wireless and mobile communications, identifying early stage key technologies of strategic importance and the new applications that they will enable. Specific new radio technologies discussed include dynamic spectrum access (DSA), white space, cognitive software-defined radio (SDR), antenna beam steering and multiple-input-multiple- output (MIMO), 60-GHz transmission, and cooperative communications. Taken together, these approaches have the potential for dramatically increasing radio link speeds from current megabit per second rates to gigabit per second, while also improving radio system capacity and spectrum efficiency significantly. The paper also introduces a number of emerging wireless/mobile networking concepts including multihoming, ad hoc and multihop mesh, delay-tolerant routing, and mobile content caching, providing a discussion of the protocol capabilities needed to support each of these usage scenarios. In conclusion, the paper briefly discusses the impact of these wireless technologies and networking techniques on the design of emerging audiovisual and multimedia applications as they migrate to mobile Internet platforms.
KW - 3G and 4G mobile communication
KW - Ad hoc and mesh networks
KW - MIMO
KW - audiovisual communication
KW - broadband services
KW - cognitive radio
KW - delay-tolerant routing
KW - future Internet
KW - mobile multimedia
KW - radio access networks
KW - software-defined radio
KW - wireless communication
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U2 - 10.1109/JPROC.2011.2182095
DO - 10.1109/JPROC.2011.2182095
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84858996596
VL - 100
SP - 824
EP - 840
JO - Proceedings of the Institute of Radio Engineers
JF - Proceedings of the Institute of Radio Engineers
SN - 0018-9219
IS - 4
M1 - 6155060
ER -