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'Two-speed' Scotland : patterns and implications of the digital divide in contemporary Scotland
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Business model requirements and challenges in the mobile telecommunication sector
The telecommunications business is undergoing a critical revolution, driven by innovative technologies, globalization, and deregulation. Cellular networks and telecommunications bring radical changes to the way telecom businesses are conducted. Globalization, on the other hand, is tearing down legacy barriers and forcing monopolistic national carriers to compete internationally. Moreover, the noticeable progress of many countries towards deregulation coupled with liberalization is significantly increasing telecom market power and allowing severe competition. The implications of this transition have changed the business rules of the telecom industry. In addition, entrants into the cellular industry have had severe difficulties due to inexistent or weak Business Models (BMs). Designing a BM for a mobile network operator is complex and requires multiple actors to balance different and often conflicting design requirements. Hence, there is a need to enhance operatorsâ ability in determining what constitutes the most viable business model to meet their strategic objectives within this turbulent environment. In this paper, the authors identify the main mobile BM dimensions along with their interdependencies and further analysis provides mobile network operators with insights to improve their business models in this new âboundary-lessâ landscape
Using Triggers for Emulation of Opportunistic Networking
Opportunistic networks do not require the availability of an end-to-end path, but may instead take advantage of tem- porary connectivity opportunities. Opportunistic networks pose a challenge for network emulation as the traditional em- ulation setup where application/transport endpoints send/ receive packets from the network following a black box approach is no longer applicable. Instead opportunistic networking protocols and applications need to react to the dynamics of the underlying network beyond what is conveyed through the exchange of packets. In order to support emulation evaluations for such challenging applications we in this paper introduce the concept of emulation triggers that can emulate arbitrary cross-layer feedback and that are synchronized with the emulated scenario. The design and implementation of triggers in the KauNet emulator are described. The use of triggers in the context of opportunistic networking is brie y sketched
A User-Focused Reference Model for Wireless Systems Beyond 3G
This whitepaper describes a proposal from Working Group 1, the Human Perspective of the Wireless World, for a user-focused reference model for systems beyond 3G. The general structure of the proposed model involves two "planes": the Value Plane and the Capability Plane. The characteristics of these planes are discussed in detail and an example application of the model to a specific scenario for the wireless world is provided
QoS Based Capacity Enhancement for WCDMA Network with Coding Scheme
The wide-band code division multiple access (WCDMA) based 3G and beyond
cellular mobile wireless networks are expected to provide a diverse range of
multimedia services to mobile users with guaranteed quality of service (QoS).
To serve diverse quality of service requirements of these networks it
necessitates new radio resource management strategies for effective utilization
of network resources with coding schemes. Call admission control (CAC) is a
significant component in wireless networks to guarantee quality of service
requirements and also to enhance the network resilience. In this paper capacity
enhancement for WCDMA network with convolutional coding scheme is discussed and
compared with block code and without coding scheme to achieve a better balance
between resource utilization and quality of service provisioning. The model of
this network is valid for the real-time (RT) and non-real-time (NRT) services
having different data rate. Simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of
the network using convolutional code in terms of capacity enhancement and QoS
of the voice and video services.Comment: 10 Pages, VLSICS Journa
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