Future Wireless Cities Workshop Report Workshop chairs : Suman Banerjee

This is a report summarizing the major findings and recommendations from the NSFsponsored “Future Wireless Cities” Workshop held on Feb 2-3, 2016. Emerging wireless network services are expected to pervade domains such as healthcare, transportation, civic services, public safety, education and entertainment, and can thus be considered essential infrastructure much like water, electricity or sewage. A future wireless city is envisioned as a dense deployment of programmable/heterogeneous wireless access technologies backed up by software-defined infrastructure networks, novel network architectures and edge-cloud services. While the above objectives are being addressed to some extent in industry and standards forums such as “5G”, “IMT-2020” and “MEC”, rapidly changing core technologies (such as SDR, SDN, virtualization, cloud) have created the right conditions for disruptive breakthroughs in the design of future wireless systems. The “wireless city” is viewed as an “in-situ” testbed that provides sufficient density, scale and realism to explore and validate new concepts. To meet the ever increasing demands of higher, better, and faster connectivity, the next major research initiative in the domain of wireless systems, networking, and communication for the next decade, needs to be conducted such that researchers can evaluate techniques, technologies, and systems at scale --spanning across an entire city.