Workshop: Developing a Common Wireless Networking Infrastructure

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The rapidly expanding information superhighway allows the storage and retrieval ofinformation in a highly distributed information infrastructure. Yet this infrastructurerequires users to maintain a fixed and universally known position in the network,which restricts user mobility and portability, so users can not access data fromanywhere and at any time. Now the next step is to make the information superhighwayavailable to mobile users. But this requires fundamental research that takes mobility,variable communication conditions, energy limitations and high frequency of disconnectioninto account when providing access to this distributed information infrastructure. Toreach this goal, intensive cooperation of researchers from a number of differentcommunitiesincluding the different wireless, distributed systems and information systems communitiesis necessary. Such collaboration currently appears at a risk. In view of this, ourobjective is todefine and establish a common infrastructure of the discipline and to develop a consensusbased document that will provide a foundation for implementation and standardization aswell as further research. This infrastructure will foster collaboration between thesedifferent communities. Such collaboration is necessitated by teh current needs ofwirelesstechnologies, if new horizons of research and development are to be achieved in the nextmillennium.