Cognitive communications — The intelligent future?

Wireless communications systems today largely rely on fixed rules and limited adaptively, especially when it comes to using the radio spectrum and selecting network path selection. Such methods are increasingly leading to bottlenecks in supply, and in some cases stifling innovation. A new research approach, Cognitive Communications, which encompasses the rapidly expanding fields of cognitive radio and cognitive networking, has the potential to revolutionize future communications systems by collectively applying intelligence, adaptively and flexibility to resource assignment and usage. This talk will discuss how true ‘cognitive’ communications can be realized by combining the disciplines of wireless communications and distributed artificial intelligence, to create wireless communication systems that are capable of learning about their environment and dynamically adapting their behavior through reasoning. The findings of a recently completed large research project, ‘Cognitive Routing for Tactical Ad Hoc Communications’ will be used to support this perspective