Workshop: Developing a Common Wireless Networking Infrastructure

迅速扩张的信息高速公路允许在高度分布式的信息基础设施中存储和检索信息。然而，这种基础设施要求用户在网络中保持一个固定的、众所周知的位置，这限制了用户的移动性和便携性，因此用户不能随时随地访问数据。现在，下一步是让移动用户可以使用信息高速公路。但这需要基础研究，在提供对这一分布式信息基础设施的访问时，要考虑到移动性、可变的通信条件、能源限制和频繁的断开连接。为了实现这一目标，来自不同社区的研究人员的密集合作是必要的，包括不同的无线、分布式系统和信息系统社区。目前，这种合作似乎面临风险。有鉴于此，我们的目标是界定和建立该学科的共同基础设施，并制定一份以协商一致为基础的文件，为实施和标准化以及进一步研究奠定基础。这一基础设施将促进这些不同社区之间的合作。如果要在下一个千年实现研究和开发的新领域，这种合作是有必要的，因为目前对无线技术的需求。

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.