Introduction to the Special Issue on Inventive Network Structures for Next Generation Wireless Personal Systems

Welcome to the Special Issue of the Wireless Personal Communication Journal on Inventive Network Structures for Next Generation Wireless Personal Systems. We have received a large number of wireless personal communication-related submissions to the journal. Wireless personal communication needs are extending beyond its limitations by gradually incorporating a wide range of challenging services and applications. The tremendous growth of wireless personal communication devices and heterogeneous access technologies provides uninterrupted services to both mobile and static users. The integration of localized interoperability network structure with seamless access between various vendors still poses significant technical challenges. Most of existing network architectures follow the neighbor aware architecture information exchange, but current wireless technology need new dynamic architecture/routing techniques to scalable in small geographical areas and rely on different metrics. This special issue addresses the applicability of various technologies with emphasis on wireless applications. These integrated network environments require innovative computing strategies to exploit the communication opportunity. The contributions of this special issue covered the high-quality theoretical as well as practical works on a wide range of wireless issues. The contributed papers mainly focus on performance improvements of wireless networks. The contributed papers have been divided into three categories. The first category contains papers that deal with the performance improvements of wireless networks. The second group of papers in this issue deals with mobility in wireless systems.