Cross-layer Paradigms in the Convergence of computing, communication and control (C3)

A closer insight into the design of existing embedded systems suggests that computation, communication and control (C³) are indivisible research fields. C³ convergence is broadly considered as the research agenda in information technology for the next decades. The paper review preliminary results and future perspectives on new ways of thinking C³ convergence. The starting point of the analysis is the wireless technology. The technology is seen as the communication infrastructure of a team of artificial agents cooperating to realize specific tasks in tactical environments. The term tactical defines a family of applications related to hazardous and challenging scenarios as in military and civil protection worlds. The envisaged research issues provide effective technological improvements for tactical teams and, more ambitiously, attractive theoretical insights into the foundation of C³ convergence.