Panel discussions: Impact on society by fusion and harmony of mobile devices, servers, and networks — Their direction of evolutions and optimal roles

It is now clear that variety of mobile devices around us, such as smartphones and smart-tablets, have started to change our everyday lives. Further, camera or sensor equipped devices will be popular to realize more sophisticated appliances or social environments. Needless to say, such devices are connected to servers in datacenters through networks. A given processing task may either be handled in the devices or servers, or both, where optimal system balance being dependent on application characteristics (such as required response time, data aggregation scheme, etc.) and performance/bandwidth distribution in such total systems. In this panel, experienced panelists will disclose their perspective on potential applications that may prevail in near future. Based on that, they will discuss promising technology direction, that may largely affect optimal system balance mentioned above.