Trends in resource management future wireless networks

Comparing market estimates for wireless personal communication and considering recent proposals for wide band multimedia services with the existing spectrum allocations for these types of systems show that spectrum resource management remains an important topic in the near and distant future. Future wireless access system will have features and requirements that are quite distinct form current systems, mostly designed for telephony. Such features include higher bandwidth, mixed, packet oriented and strongly asymmetric traffic patterns as well inhomogeneous network architectures. In this paper we give an outlook over some of the key problems in resource management in future wireless multimedia systems and some potential solutions.