2. Title: 
Cross Layer Decentralization.

Abstract:
Today's networks are suffering from capacity constraints, not necessarily in the core, but sometimes in
backhaul. However, who suffers most are users, and their quality of experience with wireless access
performance (sometimes impacted by backhaul limits) being highly variable, patchy, and more crucially
for many users and applications, latency and availability.

Its the hypothesis of this talk that the solution to this problem is not "more bandwidth everywhere
soonest". The solution is massive decentralisation of networking, processing and storage. The idea of
direct device to device comms (LTE direct, or WiFi Direct) and cooperative relaying, the ideas of
personal cloud, and peer-to-peer storage, are not new. The point is that they have to become mainstream,
engineered for (more) predictable performace, and to avoid systemic (e.g. emergent) failure modes.

The challenge is to embed this thinking in transfering research results into future systems designs, and
associated standards.