Big Challenges: Wireless Networks and Services Sam Samuel April 2009

All Rights Reserved © Alcatel-Lucent 2006, ##### 2 | Presentation Title | Month 2006 The Topology of the Challenges Challenges Business Model Conundrum  New balanced business model  No balance, no infrastructure Mass Instantaneous Bandwidth  The converged network  Mechanisms that promote flexibility  Mechanisms that promote high bandwidth Networks  Inherent mobility  Trust  Security  Virtualisation  Composition Networking  Related to business models  Trust  Extended personalisation  Composition of knowledge Service Infrastructure Reputation

All Rights Reserved © Alcatel-Lucent 2006, ##### 3 | Presentation Title | Month 2006 The Service Infrastructure Challenges Service Infrastructure  The right kind of information  Information highly distributed  Extreme of P2P networking  Quantum computing applied to networking  New classes of database (not just relational) Composition of knowledgeExtended Personalisation  Very granular profiling  Self creation of services  Trends are spotted  service automatically created and deployed Build on Existing Concepts  Trust to Reputation

All Rights Reserved © Alcatel-Lucent 2006, ##### 4 | Presentation Title | Month 2006 The Instantaneous Bandwidth Challenges Instantaneous Bandwidth  Network MIMO  Big diversity effect  Homogenised air interface  May drive industry to single dominant air interface type  (over and above need for commoditisation)  The impact on the network – (delay/bandwidth) High BandwidthFlexibility  Instantaneous infrastructure sharing  Commercial Cognitive Radio  Networks increased situational awareness  “per session/transfer” Instantaneous trading/licensing of spectrum  Inherent flexibility of the air interface to quantise bandwidth  Inherent flexibility of networks to find contiguous blocks of spectrum Build on Existing Concepts  Core networks ability to deliver bandwidth cost effectively

All Rights Reserved © Alcatel-Lucent 2006, ##### 5 | Presentation Title | Month 2006 Network Challenges Networks  Inherent mobility  Trust  Security  Quality Usual StuffNew Concepts  Techniques for cognisant networks  Networks that pass Turing test  Reputation networks  Composition networks  Delay composition  Quality composition  Network Mimo  Network Coding  Self evolution Build on Existing Concepts  Autonomic networking  Virtualisation  Alternative addressing

All Rights Reserved © Alcatel-Lucent 2006, ##### 6 | Presentation Title | Month 2006 The Business Model Conundrum All this high bandwidth infrastructure must be paid for in some way The future flexibility comes at a price At some point we will have to consider new business models This may have to come first before the technology can be practically deployed Perhaps this is the biggest challenge