Mobile adventure - towards 4generation mobile systems

Summary form only given. The future systems that are targeted at solutions towards 4th generation mobile systems are expected to provide advances in a much broader sense. In particular they are aiming at two goals: firstly seamless end-to-end connectivity with high capacity and predictable quality of service parameters and secondly a multitude of substantially enhanced new services that are tailored to customer needs. Seamless connectivity can be achieved through composition of networks, including VAN, PAN, BAN etc. as well as sensor networks and others in a wireless ad-hoc manner. This new mobile-ubiquitous environment will be the foundation for providing services to users (corporate as well as individual end-users) that are unprecedented in scale and intensity and need careful filtering and considerations of consumer preferences in order to be manageable by and meaningful for the customer.