I, Base Station - Cognisant Robots and Future Wireless Access Networks

The idea of a totally independent self-healing, self-deploying and self-optimising communications network is an appealing one. In this paper we outline why financial pressures will drive wireless communications networks towards the use of autonomic systems, with the above characteristics, that will eventually become cognisant, exhibiting some degree of self-awareness. As a step in this direction, we explore the concept of robotic wireless base stations and discuss their behaviour subject to principles inspired by Asimov's Laws of Robotics. Finally, we indicate how such laws would be applicable in present and future scenarios.