Editorial: Special Issue on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications

Abstract

The evolution of wireless communications is bringing the world to a different way of experiencing and producingmultimedia content. As a result, users are having an increasingly active role in the definition of networks. The chosen topic for the conference that was at the basis of this special issue was thus the pursuit of a really autonomous network infrastructure that will allow the efficient use of the spectrum and reduce energy requirements, exploring new possibilities like cognition and cooperation between users and systems. These developments bring excellent opportunities for the mobile community since new paradigms are needed to support the enormous surge of mobile data in present and future networks. The series of international symposia on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications (WPMC) have always been a place where people from all over the world can bring their experiences together to develop knowledge about all aspects related to wireless networks