Abstract
Commencing with the advancements that may be expected in 3G during the first decade of this century, we move on to anticipate subsequent developments based on what society might need and the technologies that may be required. The near demise of mobile satellite networks and removal of radio broadcasting from potential mobile radio bands will provide the necessary bandwidth for high capacity, high quality multimedia mobile services utilising a dense concentration of fibre networks coupled to radio cells of all sizes. The integration of many factors from high aerial platforms (haps) (that are located in the stratosphere and from terrestrial cells that can be adjusted in size and moved instantly to suit teletraffic changes) to picocells, body-LANs to the fixed network, software agents to soft telecommunications, will be discussed. Finally the possibility of our networks metamorphosing into a global brain, and how man-kind might adapt to this supra-intelligence will be addressed.
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Partant des progrès attendus de la 3G durant la première décennie de ce siècle, nous continuons en anticipant les développements ultérieurs fondés sur ce dont aurait besoin la société et les technologies qui seraient nécessaires. La fin proche des réseaux de mobiles par satellite et la disparition de la radiodiffusion des bandes potentielles pour les mobiles fournira la largeur de bande nécessaire pour une grande capacité, une qualité supérieure des services mobiles multimédias utilisant une forte concentration de réseaux optiques couplés avec des cellules radio de toutes tailles. Ľintroduction de multiples facteurs est discutée, des plates-formes à haute altitude (situées dans la stratosphère), et des cellules terrestres configurables en taille et déplaçables instantanément pour s’adapter aux changements du trafic aux picocellules, des réseaux locaux corporels au réseau fixe, des agents logiciels intelligents aux télécommunications intelligentes. Enfin, la possibilité pour nos réseaux de se métamorphoser en un cerveau global et la façon dont ľhumanité pourra s’adapter à cette super intelligence sont abordées.
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Steele, R. Wireless communications + + +. Ann. Télécommun. 56, 344–352 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03001336
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