Keynote Speakers: Where optical and wireless networks meet computing

Summary form only given. The increase of capacity to support orders of magnitude increase in data rates of a wireless network in a heavily user congested area with little available spectrum is one of the toughest problems facing the network community. Traditional information and communication theory methods provide only modest gains and no such techniques suggest any prospect of substantial increase in user rates. This talk describes a novel architecture that is enabled by broadband fiber networks in the local area, multiple antenna techniques and the availability of massive computing capability at low costs for processing. We propose a novel wireless processing center (WPC) and novel network techniques that combines the functions performed by base stations and switching centers in current wireless system architectures. We believe this WPC architecture will provides orders of magnitude increase in user data rate over current designs of micro and nano cells.