Index to MWCN'97: 1st International Workshop on Mobile and Wireless Communications Networks, 14 May 1997, talk by G. Q. Maguire Jr.

• Glimpses of the Future of Computer Networks
• Absract
• Important Trends
• What is the short term time line?
• Evolution of new varieties of networks
• Location Dependent service(s)
• Situational awareness and Adaptability
• DumbBadge, SmartBadge, and Intelligent Badge
• How to field a new telecom infrastructure
• Attaching base stations to LANs
• Attach base stations in place of telephones
• Coupling the PSTN and the Internet telephony worlds
• A new data+voice infrastructure
• Voice Gateway
• Future data+voice infrastructure
• Don't waste! Help stamp out analog phones.
• Local access point
• A new infrastructure- How do we implement it and pay for it?
• Future home/office/... network access points
• Near Future systems
• How many radios should a mobile user have?
• Bottlenecks