Fujitsu is promoting a new vision: "Use information and communications technology (ICT) to create a human-centric intelligent society that brings prosperity and security to peoples' lives." This paper first presents some characteristics of networking functions that are key to realizing such a human-centric ICT society, including "easing constraints on use," "providing smooth responses," and "eliminating cumbersome procedures." It then examines the use of wireless local area network (WLAN), Mobile Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (Mobile WiMAX), and Long Term Evolution (LTE) technologies for providing broadband wireless access, which is the key to providing smooth responses, and summarizes their characteristics.Examination in light of the increasing volume of information flow revealed that LTE is the most promising.Achieving more human-centric networking functions requires a mechanism able to understand the state of wireless resources available to the user and to control the timing and execution of user requests accordingly.An approach is presented to developing such a mechanism, one that virtualizes the wireless access link and that controls it in accordance with changes in the wireless resources available as the user changes location.The effects that can be expected from this approach are discussed.
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