PCC— A Strategic Research Program in Personal Computing and Communication
The evolution of information systems
No. of thousand Web sites Source: Network Wizards Internet Domain Survey (http://www.nw.com/zone/WWW/top.html)
No. of million cellular subscribers Source: U.S. Department of Commerce (http://infoserv2.ita.doc.gov/ot/home.nsf)
Wireless communication – yesterday
Wireless Communication – today and tomorrow ?
Evolution path for radio systems: from voice via data to multimedia
What is a 4th-generation system ?
Trends in Telecom “society”
The bandwidth dilemma
What is PCC?
The PCC university network
About SSF
PCC research focus: Converging technologies
Converging networks
Converging industries
Ongoing PCC projects
Ubiquitous Computing and Communications (Prof. Carl Gustaf Jansson: calle@dsv.su.se)
Overall design of 4th-generation wireless infrastructures (Prof. Jens Zander: 4GW-PCC@s3.kth.se)
Adaptive Antennas in Wideband Radio Access Networks (Prof. Björn Ottersten: otterste@s3.kth.se)
Wireless IP (Dr. Mikael Sternad: Mikael.Sternad@signal.uu.se)
Algorithm/Hardware Co-Design for Mobile Communications Systems (Prof. John B. Anderson: John_B.Anderson@it.lth.se)
Mobile Wireless Access to Fixed Networks (Dr. Johan Karlsson: johan@tts.lth.se)
Generic Technologies
Discussions and preliminary results from some PCC projects
Scenarios for future computing and communication environments
Scenarios— a tool for future research
Anything Goes
The Anything Goes World
Big Brother
The Big Brother World
Pocket Computing
The Pocket Computing World
Scenario Summary
Technology background assumptions
Tele-presence
Ubiquitous information access
Increased inter-machine communication
Focus on security
Heterogeneous infrastructure
Overlay network architecture
Improved wireless resource utilization
Improved access ports and terminals
Conclusions
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