FUTURE NETWORKS AND TECHNOLOGIES SUPPORTING INNOVATIVE COMMUNICATIONS

Within a fully interconnected world, the distinct relationship between end users, consumers and providers rapidly changes towards a scenario of collaboration and competition of multiple parties within one system. 'Convergence', 'ubiquitous' and 'smart' are key words describing future networks and applications. This paper focuses on the technological aspects of ubiquitous networking and communication technologies, including challenges related to green communications, and security, privacy and trust. The paper proposes a novel concept for a Wireless Innovative System for Dynamically Operating Mega-communications (WISDOM) that combines the aspects of personal- and cognitive radio- networks to let seamlessly bridge the virtual and physical worlds offering a constant level of all-senses, context-based, rich communication experience over fixed and wireless networks for the end users while realizing a new generation of ubiquitous communications with a speed of more than 1Tbps.