Recent advances in wireless networking and communications

Wireless communications and networking have been receiving a lot of attention from the academic and industrial communities for the past few years. There has been a constant evolution of wireless systems over the years from the first generation to the current third generation wireless networks. Already, there is talk about the next generation networks and their goals and challenges ! Current and future generation wireless technologies will support bandwidth-hungry applications such as mobile multimedia communications for highly mobile users at high data rates. This brings-up various important issues to the forefront such as error-resilience, quality of service (QoS), resource management, security etc.