Workshop on Bridging the Gap Between Networking Technologies and Advances at the Physical Layer

随着移动和蜂窝通信的普遍部署以及无线局域网技术的普及，当今社会正变得越来越依赖无线网络技术。随着无线网络随着新服务和新应用的不断发展，研究人员对了解当前和未来无线网络的局限性越来越感兴趣。在很大程度上，与无线网络相关的许多性能限制与底层物理层技术密切相关。从研究的角度来看，物理层的技术进步通常会在网络层带来新的问题，而这些问题不是简单地扩展现有理论和算法就能解决的。在许多情况下，由于新物理层技术的颠覆性，网络级别的问题极具挑战性，需要开发新的理论和算法。这种新的理论发展通常需要网络、无线通信、算法和优化方面的跨学科专业知识。本次研讨会的目标是聚集来自多个学科的研究人员，探讨制定全面的未来研究议程所涉及的重要问题，以弥合无线网络技术和物理层进步之间的差距。最后的工作坊记录了为期两天的研讨会的陈述、讨论、总结和建议，将通过一个网站向公众传播。我们的期望是，这些发现将为无线网络研究社区提供及时的输入，并将对未来的研究产生长期影响。

With the universal deployment of mobile and cellular communicationsand the proliferation of wireless LAN technology, today's society is becomingfirmly dependent on wireless networking technologies. As wireless networkingcontinues to advance with new services and applications, researchers have anincreasing interest in understanding the limits of current and future wirelessnetworks. To a large extent, many of the performance limits associated withwireless networks are deeply intertwined with underlying physical layertechnologies. From a research perspective, technology advances at the physicallayer usually introduce new problems at the networking layer that cannot beaddressed by simply extending existing theories and algorithms. In many cases,due to the disruptive nature of new physical layer technologies, problems atthe network level are extremely challenging and call for the development of newtheories and algorithms. Such new theoretical developments usually requireinterdisciplinary expertise in networking, wireless communications, algorithms,and optimization.The objective of this workshop is to gather a group of researchers frommultiple disciplines to explore the important issues involved in developing acomprehensive future research agenda to bridge the gap between wirelessnetworking technologies and advances at the physical layer. A final workshopdocumenting the presentations, discussions, summary, and recommendations of thetwo-day workshop will be made available for public dissemination via a website. Our expectation is that such findings will offer timely input to thewireless networking research community, and will have a long-term impact onfuture research.