Next generation telecommunications
Information and communication technologies are rapidly evolving, which is primarily due to rapid changes in the functional requirements imposed on them. Thus, a quarter of a century ago, only wired information networks connecting stationary computers were sufficient to solve most of the urgent tasks of the time. At the turn of the millennium in connection with the need for people to have Internet Access Anytime and Anywhere, wireless networks were developed. Today we are witnessing the rapid development of the Internet of Things (IoT), an ecosystem of billions (and, according to some estimates, trillions) of autonomous devices interacting with each other: sensors, controllers, robots, appliances, cars, machines, etc. Thus, the future Internet will connect people and “things,” becoming the Internet of Everything.
The practical development of this concept is largely determined by the development of wireless network technologies, which are already facing a number of problems: exponential growth in traffic volume; growth in the number of devices and density of wireless networks; the rapid development of a new type of communication between autonomous systems, involving physical objects and production processes in network interaction. The development of these technologies, in turn, is impossible without significant advances in coding theory, the creation of new signal-code structures, multiple access methods, theory and practice of reliable data delivery in multi-step wireless networks (mesh-networks), methods of mathematical modeling and performance evaluation of wireless networks and their protocols.
Platform topics
- Next generation networks and their architectures,
- Internet of Things and Machine-to-Machine communications,
- Cross-layer design and optimization,
- QoS and resource management,
- Network modeling, performance evaluation, testbeds,
- Codes for Next-generation communication.