The initiative “Grand Challenges der Informatik” of the Gesellschaft für Informatik in Germany shall try to look into the future and discover: what are the big challenges ahead of us, whose solution will provide a significant advancement of our lifes in economical, social or societal aspects?
For the initiative: https://gi.de/grand-challenges
One of the five selected challenges addresses future communication networks: Internet of Everything: resilient und effizient
The advancement and the future of the Internet up to an Internet of Everything come along new requirements and huge challenges for communication networks. A deteiled description of this challenge can be found here (in German): https://gi.de/grand-challenges/internet-of-everything
Authors of this challenge: Prof. Tobias Hossfeld, Universität Würzburg, Prof. Wolfgang Kellerer, technische Universität München