ABSTRACT
Faculty of Sciences, Technology and Communication, University of Luxembourg, L-1359 Luxembourg, Luxembourg Software Engineering Institute, East China Normal University, 200062 Shanghai, P.R. China Email: jianguo.ding@ieee.org
Ilangko Balasingham
Interventional Center, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), N-7491 Trondheim, Norway
Pascal Bouvry
Faculty of Sciences, Technology and Communication, University of Luxembourg, L-1359 Luxembourg, Luxembourg
4 Emerging Wireless Networks: Concepts, Techniques, and Applications
With the growth of emerging wireless networks in size, heterogeneity, pervasiveness, complexity of applications, network services, and the combination of rapidly evolving technologies and increased requirements from users, the emerging wireless networks are characterized by mobility, diffusion of heterogeneous nodes and devices, mass digitization, resource constraints, multifederated operations, scalability, dependability, context awareness, security, probability, new forms of user-centered content provisioning, new models of service, and the interaction with improved security and privacy. The wireless network management has to face the challenges in mobility management, resource management, security management, scalability management, reliability management, integrated management, and service management. Therefore, new management standard, architectures, theory, and technologies should be investigated to match the current requirements to manage emerging wireless networks. Furthermore, a set of enabling technologies is recognized as potential candidates for network management and can be based on policybased management, probabilistic management, bio-inspired management, selfmanagement, and context-aware and autonomic-management. This chapter presents a survey of management challenges for emerging wireless networks.
Network management for emerging wireless networks (EWN) is facing new challenges with increased requirements from corporate customers and personal users. Wireless networking technology is ideal for many environments, including homes, airports, shopping malls, and personal telecommunications because it is inexpensive, easy to install (no wires), and supports mobile users. As a result, we have seen a sharp increase in the use of wireless in the form of WLANs, city wide meshes, sensor networks, and wireless home automation networks over the past few years. However, in using wireless technology effectively we encounter the emerging difficulties in networks management.
