Telecommunication Union (ITU) Strategy and Policy Unit (SPU). The paper, together with background resources on the topic, have been prepared in the framework of a research project on " mobile overtakes fixed ". The project is part of ITU's New Initiatives Programme and under the project management of Lara Srivastava . Information on all activities carried out under the ...

The mobile telecommunication market has recently been shaken by the arrival of new actors, such as Apple and Google. As a consequence, the relatively well-established mobile network operators (MNO) have to rethink their position in the market if they want to participate in the growth of mobile telecommunication revenues. Mobile applications and services are being seen as great opportunity of ne...

While the history of mobile communications is long [1–3], and the background of mobile networks thereby is also long, in this chapter we focus on the historic evolution in terms of network architecture and services starting with Second Generation (2G) mobile systems. In particular, we consider the development of the architecture of Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM), since it is by f...

Location-Aware applications for supporting the mobile user have proven significant relevance for future telecommunication and computing. Based on the state-of-the-art analysis and the business view, the paper evaluates the outcome of the labs and the requirements of commercial usage. A system architecture is proposed from the technical perspective. The required support of heterogeneous resource...

Introduction In the last ten years the new, very promising, market of multimedia services has been attracting more and more computing, entertainment and communication industries. The incredible rate of growth which characterises the demand for multimedia service is driving the R&D sector towards the definition and implementation of telecommunication systems able to guarantee efficient and simul...

Location-Aware applications for supporting the mobile user have proven significant relevance for future telecommunication and computing. The paper evaluates the outcome of the labs and the requirements of commercial usage. Based on the state-of-the-art analysis and the business view, a system architecture is proposed from the technical perspective. The required support of heterogeneous resource...

The Universal Mobile Telecommunication System (UMTS) is the most powerful technology in the third generation (3G) mobile communication and it is the base for the 4G technology. The Wide band Code Division Multiple Accessing (WCDMA) is the radio access technique for the UMTS system. The Radio Link Control (RLC) Protocol is apart from layer 2 of WCDMA protocol architecture. In this paper, we pres...