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The convergence at the IP level and the use of enhanced IP networking technologies within both access and core networks paves the way to the integration of hybrid systems (current and new systems) as a unified network, overcoming the 3G picture of a monolithic system. The delivery of the same services through different access networks and the reduction of costs will represent further advantages that boost the solutions of the open issues of this vision.

The current challenge for the technical community consists in extending this approach also to the mobile environment for providing any kind of services (voice, data, multimedia, interactive …) anytime, anywhere and anyhow without the strong constraints to be connected to fixed means.

• The technical sessions addressed within this VTC 2004 - Spring Subject Area aims at highlighting all the most challenging research topics of the mobile and nomadic networks with a particular focus on the here under listed issues.
• Mobile Cellular Systems, WLAN, PLAN, BAN, Mobile data networks, Public utility networks, Indoor and Outdoor Ultra-Wideband, Digital broadcasting networks, Multi Hop Ad-hoc networks and Networks of sensors
  • Traffic modelling
  • Network Planning and Design
  • Mobility Management
  • Resource Management
  • Cross layering approach
  • QoS architecture
  • Micro and Macro-Mobility
  • Mobile IPv6
  • Routing Protocols optimization
  • Power aware protocols
  • AAA
  • Network Performance
  • Security
  • TCP Performance
  • Multicast transmission
• 3G evolution, emerging mobile and nomadic broadband Technologies and 4G scenarios
  • New system architecture
  • Adaptivity, scalability, reliability and self-configuring systems
  • Performance/cost efficiency
  • end-to-end QoS provisioning
  • Secure interoperability
  • Requirements for global connectivity
• Comparison of results of different network simulation tools
• Business models for mobile and nomadic networks

Mobile Networks Chair

Gianni Redaelli CEFRIEL - Politecnico di Milano Advanced Mobile and Wireline Transmission Systems Tel: +39-0223954.217 Fax: +39-0223954.417 E-mail: redaelli@cefriel.it

Members
Sunghyun Choi	Seoul National University	Korea
Luigi Fratta	Politecnico di Milano	Italy
Davide Grillo	Alcatel	Italy
Hong-Yon Lach	Motorola	France
Franco Mazzenga	Università di Roma Tor Vergata	Italy
Werner Mohr	Siemens	Germany
Andy Molisch	Mitsubishi Electric and Lund University	USA
Mohamed Moustafa	Ain Shams University	Egypt
Giorgio Pala	WIND	Italy
Giovanni Pau	UCLA	USA
Fotini-Niovi Pavlidou	Aristotle University of Thessaloniki	Greece
Domenico Porcino	Philips	UK
Gianni Redaelli	CEFRIEL	Italy
Guido Riva Fondazione	Fondazione Ugo Bordoni	Italy
Giovanni Santella	Autorità per le Garanzie nelle Comunicazioni	Italy
Luca Simoncini	University of Pisa	Italy
Rahim Tafazolli	University of Surrey	UK