Some potential research areas have been initially identified (see here), including long-term and related socio-economic research, in emerging areas such as: Autonomic Communications, Bio-inspired communication systems, Meaningful Communication, Integrated Socio-economic and technological research, Open telecoms.

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Rationale:
Developments in communication technologies hold a key and constantly growing importance for the economic and social development of Europe. In this respect it is crucial for FET to identify possible areas for long-term, foundational, high risk and visionary research in the domain of communications.

Impact:
The implementation of new communication paradigms may require developing technologies and systems that are radically different from those currently adopted or under investigation (e.g. 3G or 4G wireless systems, high-speed WLANs, etc.), therefore with a potentially wide impact, at the level of IST technologies and standards. New communication paradigms may also have an impact on security, content management aspects and social behaviour.

Communities addressed, other related initiatives New communication paradigms may emerge from a combination of areas such as: ad-hoc networks, chaotic communications, parasitic networks, dynamically or self-reconfigurable distributed peer-to-peer networking, scalable / active networks, passive radio, no-power devices, flexible spectrum occupation, etc. They may also stem from inter-disciplinary approaches taking into account some recent developments in physics (e.g. quantum communication and teleportation, etc.) or other relevant areas of research (such as embedded software/hardware, etc.)