Heterogeneous Networking: An Enabling Paradigm for Ubiquitous Wireless Communications

Against this background, the authors would like to maintain that in order to achieve the required level of integration, performance and efficiency, the future telecommunications technology may have to infer cues from the structural characteristics of the human society itself. Correspondingly, in this paper, they would like to consider some of the relevant aspects of the societal constitution, which may hold crucial clues to identifying the promising avenues towards further technological advancement. More specifically, in this paper, they explore the principle of heterogeneous wireless networking, constituted by the fusion of classic cellular and ad hoc network topologies.