With the universal deployment of mobile and cellular communications and the proliferation of wireless LAN technology, today's society is becoming firmly dependent on wireless networking technologies. As wireless networking continues to advance with new services and applications, researchers have an increasing interest in understanding the limits of current and future wireless networks. To a large extent, many of the performance limits associated with wireless networks are deeply intertwined with underlying physical layer technologies. From a research perspective, technology advances at the physical layer usually introduce new problems at the networking layer that cannot be addressed by simply extending existing theories and algorithms. In many cases, due to the disruptive nature of new physical layer technologies, problems at the network level are extremely challenging and call for the development of new theories and algorithms. Such new theoretical developments usually require interdisciplinary expertise in networking, wireless communications, algorithms, and optimization.
The objective of this workshop is to gather a group of researchers from multiple disciplines to explore the important issues involved in developing a comprehensive future research agenda to bridge the gap between wireless networking technologies and advances at the physical layer. A final workshop documenting the presentations, discussions, summary, and recommendations of the two-day workshop will be made available for public dissemination via a web site. Our expectation is that such findings will offer timely input to the wireless networking research community, and will have a long-term impact on future research.
