SCOPE & OBJECTIVE

With diversification of wireless access technologies and their application fields, the role of wireless access is no longer the last hop terminal access, but also for repeating functionality such as mesh/multi-hop/adhoc/sensor networking. Thereby more complicated wireless networking, especially radio resource management is required to well organize whole the networks. In such cases, it is almost impossible to optimally conduct wireless resource management based on a centralized control policy. Rather, distributed and/or cooperative control techniques should be introduced in necessary parts in any layer, such as distributed antenna, cognitive radio, distributed MAC, and dynamic heterogeneous networking. Even in a cellular system, a distributed control strategy becomes a key technology for realizing cooperative MIMO, BS cooperation and multi-hop cellular networks. The main purpose of this workshop is to systematize an academic basis over the various topics in wireless distributed networks as listed below, and to discuss the adaptability of these new technologies to enhance the performance of wireless distributed networks.