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Concentrated Ground Plane Booster Antenna Technology for Multiband Operation in Handset Devices
The current demand in the handset antenna field requires multiband antennas due to the existence of multiple communication standards and the emergence of new ones. At the same time, antennas with reduced dimensions are strongly required in order to be easily integrated. In this sense, the paper proposes a compact radiating system that uses two non-resonant elements to properly excite the ground plane to solve the abovementioned shortcomings by minimizing the required Printed Circuit Board (PCB) area while ensuring a multiband performance. These non-resonant elements are called here ground plane boosters since they excite an efficient mode of the ground plane. The proposed radiating system comprises two ground plane boosters of small dimensions of 5 mm x 5 mm x 5 mm. One is in charge of the low frequency region (0.824-0.960 GHz) and the other is in charge of the high frequency region (1.710-2.170 GHz). With the aim of achieving a compact configuration, the two boosters are placed close to each other in a corner of the ground plane of a handset device (concentrated architecture). Several experiments related to the coupling between boosters have been carried out in two different platforms (barphone and smartphone), and the best position and the required matching network are presented. The novel proposal achieves multiband performance at GSM850/900/1800/1900 and UMTS
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The current state of E-commerce in Jordan: Applicability and future prospects
This study aimed at determining the current state of e-commerce in Jordan, as well as its future prospects. The research population consisted of all Jordanian industrial, service and/or trade companies that have a registered website. The population size was 712 companies. A total of 118 questionnaires were distributed to randomly selected companies and 95 were returned. Cronbach alpha measure was used to test the reliability of the organizational questionnaire and was calculated to be 0.80 reflecting stability and
consistency of the scale and indicating the goodness of the measure. Other statistical tests
were used to test the research hypotheses such as One-Sample t-test, Independent-Samples t-test, One-Way ANOVA, Chi-Square and Bivariate Correlations (Pearson). The research indicated that Jordan has adequate and efficient e-commerce requirements in general, but there is no suitable and appropriate Community Culture in order to reach E-commerce Readiness Stage. Some recommendations are then made based on research findings
Optimal pricing strategies for capacity leasing based on time and volume usage in telecommunication networks
In this study, we use a monopoly pricing model to examine the optimal pricing strategies for âpay-per-timeâ, âpay-per-volumeâ and âpay-per both time and volumeâ based leasing of data networks. Traditionally, network capacity distribution includes short/long term bandwidth and/or usage time leasing. Each consumer has a choice to select volume based, connection-time based or both volume and connection-time based pricing. When customers choose connection-time based pricing, their optimal behavior would be utilizing the bandwidth capacity fully, which can cause network to burst. Also, offering the pay-per-volume scheme to the consumer provides the advantage of leasing the excess capacity to other potential customers serving as network providers. However, volume-based strategies are decreasing the consumersâ interest and usage, because the optimal behaviors of the customers who choose the pay-per-volume pricing scheme generally encourages them to send only enough bytes for time-fixed tasks (for real time applications), causing quality of the task to decrease, which in turn creating an opportunity cost. Choosing pay-per time and volume hybridized pricing scheme allows customers to take advantages of both pricing strategies while decreasing (minimizing) the disadvantages of each, because consumers generally have both time-fixed and size-fixed task such as batch data transactions. However, such a complex pricing policy may confuse and frighten consumers. Therefore, in this study we examined the following two issues: (i) what (if any) are the benefits to the network provider of providing the time and volume hybridized pricing scheme? and (ii) would this offering schema make an impact on the market size? The main contribution of this study is to show that pay-per both time and volume pricing is a viable and often preferable alternative to the only time and/or only volume-based offerings for a large number of customers, and that judicious use of such pricing policy is profitable to the network provider
Predicting Fraud in Mobile Phone Usage Using Artificial Neural Networks
Mobile phone usage involves the use of wireless communication devices that can be carried
anywhere, as they require no physical connection to any external wires to work. However, mobile
technology is not without its own problems. Fraud is prevalent in both fixed and mobile networks of all
technologies. Frauds have plagued the telecommunication industries, financial institutions and other
organizations for a long time. The aim of this research work and research publication is to apply 3
different neural network models (Fuzzy, Radial Basis and the Feedforward) to the prediction of fraud in
real-life data of phone usage and also analyze and evaluate their performances with respect to their
predicting capability. From the analysis and model predictability experiment carried out in this scientific
research work, it was discovered that the fuzzy network model had the minimum error generated in its
fraud predicting capability. Thus, its performance in terms of the error generated in this fraud prediction
experiment showed that its NMSE (Normalized mean squared error) for the fraud predicted was
1.98264609. The mean absolute error (M AE = 15.00987244) for its fraud prediction was also the least;
this showed that the fuzzy model fraud predictability was much better than the other two models
Approaches for Future Internet architecture design and Quality of Experience (QoE) Control
Researching a Future Internet capable of overcoming the current Internet limitations is a strategic
investment. In this respect, this paper presents some concepts that can contribute to provide some guidelines to
overcome the above-mentioned limitations. In the authors' vision, a key Future Internet target is to allow
applications to transparently, efficiently and flexibly exploit the available network resources with the aim to
match the users' expectations. Such expectations could be expressed in terms of a properly defined Quality of
Experience (QoE). In this respect, this paper provides some approaches for coping with the QoE provision
problem
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