Panel Organizer:
| Prof. Giuseppe Bianchi School of Engineering of the University of Tor Vergata |
| | Title: The role of cross layer in the future wireless Internet Panelists: Abstract: Our research community is today sharing the feeling that, in the near future, significant and fundamental changes may occur in the way we design, run, and exploit networks. Indeed, extensive debates and paradigm-breaking research initiatives have been recently launched, with the extremely ambitious goal to pave the road towards the so-called Internet of the future.
While it appears clear, and agreed by virtually all, that wireless will have a prominent role in re-shaping the future Internet, to date there is not yet nearly an even basic consensus on "how" (i.e. through which specific approaches, technologies and solutions) wireless will play such a major role. We believe that a comprehensive debate on what the future wireless Internet may look like, cannot avoid to critically and straightly tackle the role (or non-role, or even irrelevance!), of layers, interfaces, and cross-layer approaches. This is especially important in sight of the fact that even if cross-layer approaches have been largely promoted and addressed in the past years, and proven successful in providing optimized performance, many researchers do severely question their limited ability in providing a comprehensive and extensible framework, and see them as a further impediment when facing the already tough problem of managing the significant complexity/scale increase expected in The future wireless Internet. To discuss these issues, and try to foresee where the future wireless Internet may head towards, this panel will assemble scientists with different expertise and, possibly, even quite different positions. We expect a lively and exciting discussion involving either panelists as well as the whole audience. |
