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Strategic Vision on Convergence of Wired and Wireless Networks

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In this paper we provide an overview of how convergence will play an important role in future generation networks. We discuss how the technology today will eventually converge towards an all-IP based platform, while the commonly used layered software structure, will eventually merge into a layer less structure within wireless communication. Furthermore we discuss some of the important aspects in personalisation of future network paradigms with focus on how networks and network services will be able to sense the user's environment and adapt to this. Finally we discuss one of the most important aspect, namely security and privacy issues within future generation networks.

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  1. Center for Teleinfrastruktur (CTIF), Aalborg University, Niels Jernes Vej 12, 9220, Aalborg øst, Denmark

    Ramjee Prasad & Rasmus Løvenstein Olsen

  2. Nokia Research Center, Nokia Corporation, PO Box 407, FIN-00045, Helsinki, Finland

    Juha Saarnio

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Ramjee Prasad was born in Babhnaur (Gaya), Bihar, India, on July 1, 1946. He is now a Dutch Citizen. He received a B.Sc. (Eng) degree from Bihar Institute of Technology, Sindri, India and M.Sc. (Eng) and Ph.D. degrees from Birla Institute of Technology (BIT), Ranchi, India, in 1968, 1970 and 1979, respectively. Since June 1999, Dr. Prasad has been with Aalborg University, where currently he is Director of Center for Teleinfrastruktur (CTIF), and holds the chair of wireless information and multimedia communications. He is coordinator of European Commission Sixth Framework Integrated Project MAGNET (My personal Adaptive Global NET). He was involved in the European ACTS project FRAMES (Future Radio Wideband Multiple Access Systems) as a DUT project leader. He is a project leader of several international, industrially funded projects. He has published over 500 technical papers, contributed to several books, and has authored, coauthored, and edited sixteen books. He has served as a member of advisory and program committees of several IEEE international conferences. In addition, Dr. Prasad is the coordinating editor and editor-in-chief of the Springer International Journal on Wireless Personal Communications and a member of the editorial board of other international journals. Dr. Prasad is also the founding chairman of the European Center of Excellence inTelecommunications, known as HERMES, and he is now Honorary Chair. He has received several international awards; the latest being the “Telenor Nordic 2005 Research Prize'' (website: http://www.telenor.no/om/). He is a fellow of IEE, a fellow of IETE, a senior member of IEEE, a member of The Netherlands Electronics and Radio Society (NERG), and a member of IDA (Engineering Society in Denmark). Dr. Prasad is advisor to several multinational companies.

Rasmus Løvenstein Olsen was born in Aarhus, Denmark on June 12, 1977. He received his M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Aalborg University in 2003 with focus on antenna control for satellite communication. He has during his time on the university worked with the ASAP and PRODEMIS web pages. He has also been very active in the pico-satellite program of Aalborg University called AAU-Cubesat. In 2004 he started in the IST project MAGNET; where he has been working with Context Aware Service Discovery for Personal Networks. He is currently working toward his PhD degree in that area.

Juha Saarnio holds a M.Sc. in Telecommunications Technology from the Helsinki University of Technology. In addition to his telecommunications studies he has completed a minor in International Marketing and Corporate Strategy. Juha Saarnio joined Nokia in 1994 and worked in Nokia Cellular Systems business unit. His tasks included writing support software for testing cellular networks. In the beginning of 1996 he moved to Nokia Research Center where he has worked up until this day. From 1996 until 1999 he worked in the internal project office of the Nokia-led Integrated Multimedia Project (IMMP, ACTS AC023) in administrative and managerial tasks. From 2000 on he was responsible for Nokia Research Center's Communication Systems laboratory's strategic development as a Research Development Manager. In 2002 he was given the responsibility for managing Nokia's participation in the Wireless World Initiative (WWI), a linked set of Integrated Project proposals in the EU's sixth Framework Programme for Research and Development that propose to develop a full end-to-end B3G system. Currently he is a Senior Research Manager and the Technical Leader of IST-MAGNET in FP6.

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Prasad, R., Olsen, R.L. & Saarnio, J. Strategic Vision on Convergence of Wired and Wireless Networks. Wireless Pers Commun 38, 161–166 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-006-9075-0

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