This fully updated second volume of the highly successful WWRF Book of Visions is a unique and timely book, presenting up-to-the-minute ideas and trends in mobile communications. This is a comprehensive single point of reference, focusing on the specifications and requirements of 4G and identifying potential business models, the research areas and required spectrum and enabling technologies.

Comprising material from White Papers edited within the working expert groups as well as those from the Vision Committee of WWRF, a top-down approach has been adopted starting from perceived users requirements and their expectations in the Future Wireless World.Content:
Chapter 1 Introduction (pages 1–10): Mikko Uusitalo, Sudhir Dixit, George Dimitrakopoulos, Panagiotis Demestichas, Sung Y. Kim, Byung K. Yi and Larry Swanson
Chapter 2 Vision and Requirements of the Wireless World (pages 11–14): Mikko Uusitalo
Chapter 3 User Requirements and Expectations (pages 15–58): Angela Sasse, James Stewart, Andy Aftelak, Hans Nelissen, Jae?Young Ahn, Axel Steinhage, Maria Farrugia and David Pollington
Chapter 4 Service Infrastructures (pages 59–110): Stefan Arbanowski, Wolfgang Kellerer, Stefan Gessler, Mika Kemettinen, Michael Lipka, Kimmo Raatikainen, Olaf Droegehorn, Klaus David, Francois Carrez, Heikki Helin, Sasu Tarkoma, Herma Van Kranenburg, Roch Glitho, Seppo Heikkinen, Miquel Martin, Nicola Blefari Melazzi, Jukka Salo, Vilho Raisanen, Stephan Steglich and Harold Teunissen
Chapter 5 Security and Trust (pages 111–130): Mario Hoffmann, Christos Xenakis, Stauraleni Kontopoulou, Markus Eisenhauer, Seppo Heikkinen, Antonio Pescape and Hu Wang
Chapter 6 New Air?interface Technologies and Deployment Concepts (pages 131–226): David Falconer, Angeliki Alexiou, Stefan Kaiser, Martin Haardt, Tommi Jamsa, Reiner S. Thoma, Marko Milojevic, Bernard H. Fleury, Jorgen Bach Andersen, Patrick C. F. Eggers, Jesper O. Nielsen, Istvan Z. Kovacs, Juha Ylitalo, Pekka Kyosti, Jukka?Pekka Nuutinen, Xiongwen Zhao, Daniel Baum, Azadeh Ettefagh, Moshe Ran, Kimmo Kalliola, Terhi Rautiainen, Dean Kitchener, Mats Bengtsson, Per Zetterberg, Marcos Katz, Matti Hamalainen, Markku Juntti, Tadashi Matsumoto, Juha Ylitalo and Nicolai Czink
Chapter 7 Short?range Wireless Communications (pages 227–312): Gerhard Fettweis, Ernesto Zimmermann, Ben Allen, Dominic C. O'Brien, Pierre Chevillat, Volker Jungnickel, Eduard Jorswiek, Peter Zillmann, Denis Petrovic, Katja Schwieger, Marcus Windisch, Olivier Seller, Pierre Siohan, Frederic Lallemand, Guy Salingue, Jean?Benoit Pierrot, Merouane Debbah, David Gesbert, Raymond Knopp, Liesbet van der Perre, Tony Brown, David Zhang, Wasim Malik, David Edwards, Christopher Stevens, Laurent Ouvry, Dominique Morche, Ian Oppermann, Ulrico Celentano, Marcos Katz, Peter Wang, Kari Kalliojarvi, Shlomi Arnon, Mitsuji Matsumoto, Roger Green, Svetla Jivkova, P. Coronel, W. Schott, T. Zasowski, Mohammad Ghavami, Ru He, Werner Sorgel, Christiane Kuhnert, Werner Wiesbeck, Marco Hernandez, Kazimierz Siwiak, Ben Manny, Lorenzo Mucchi, Simone Morosi and M. Ran
Chapter 8 Reconfigurability (pages 313–421): Panagiotis Demestichas, George Dimitrakopoulos, Klaus Mo?ner, Terence Dodgson, Didier Bourse, Vera Stavroulaki, Flora Malamateniou, Apostolos Katidiotis, Kostas Tsagkaris, Karim El Khazen, David Grandblaise, Christophe Beaujean, Soodesh Buljore, Pierre Roux, Guillame Vivier, Stephen Hope, Jorg Brakensiek, Dominik Lenz, Ulf Lucking, Bernd Steinke, Hamid Aghvami, Nikolas Olaziregi, Oliver Holland, Qi Fan, Nancy Alonistioti, Fotis Foukalas, Kostas Kafounis, Alexandros Kaloxylos, Makis Stamatelatos, Zachos Boufidis, Jim Hoffmeyer, Markus Dillinger, Eiman Mohyeldin, Jijun Luo, Egon Schulz, Rainer Falk, Christian Menzel, Ramon Agusti, Oriol Sallent, Miguel Alvarez, Raquel Garcia?Perez, Luis M. Campoy, Jose Emilio Vila, W. Warzansky, Byron Alex Bakaimis, Lars Berlemann, Jelena Mirkovic, Alexis Bisiaux, Alexandre de Baynast, Michael C. Joseph, R. Cavallaro, Predrag Radosavljevic, Antoine Delautre, J. E. Goubard, Tim Farnham, Shi Zhong, Craig Dolwin, Peter Dornbush, Michael Fahrmair, Stoytcho Gultchev, Mirsad Halimic, Shailen Patel, Syed Naveen, Jorg Vogler, Gerald Pfeiffer, Fernando Berzosa, Thomas Wiebke, Christian Prehofer, Qing Wei, Jacques Pulou, Peter Stuckmann, Pascal Cordier, Delphine Lugara and Gianluca Ravasio
Chapter 9 Self?organization in Communication Networks (pages 423–451): Amardeo Sarma, Christian Bettstetter, Sudhir Dixit, G. Kunzmann, R. Schollmeier, J. Nielsen, P. Santi, R. Schmitz, M. Stiemerling, D. Westhoff and A. Timm?Giel