DI5.3.- Vision Book (NEWCOM++)

Abstract

This Report constitutes the final version of the NEWCOM++ Vision Book. In it, the community of NEWCOM++ researchers, shaped under the common ground of a mainly academic network of excellence, have tried to distil their scientific wisdom in a number of areas characterised by the common denominator of wireless communications, by identifying the medium-long term research tendencies/problems, describing the tools to face them and providing a relatively large number of references for the interested reader. The identified areas and the researchers involved in their redaction reflect the intersection of the major topics in wireless communications with those that are deeply investigated in NEWCOM++; they are preceded by an original description of the main trends in user/society needs and the degree of fulfilment that ongoing and future wireless communications standards will more likely help achieving. In the Appendix, a list of “Millenium Problems” is listed. They are a selected number of seminal problems in wireless communication networks, characterized by being crucial and still unsolved, as identified by the NEWCOM++ community of researchers.