Future trends in radio resource management for wireless communications

Recent growth in wirelessly connected devices shows no signs of slowing, and indeed with new services and new technologies waiting in the wings, usage of wireless terminals looks set to continue increasing rapidly. However, radio spectrum is finite and in a wirelessly connected future, new approaches to ensuring connectivity and quality of service are going to be needed. Radio resource management has an important part to play in ensuring that the very best is obtained from the finite resources available for radio communications in the future. This paper considers the characteristics of current end emerging wireless networks, and aspects of radio resource management that may offer the performance gains needed to ensure end-to-end quality of service is met.