This case involves two proceedings, one pending in state court, the other in federal court. Each seeks review of an Iowa Utilities Board (IUB or Board) order. And each presents the question whether Windstream Iowa Communications, Inc. (Windstream), a local telecommunications carrier, may impose on Sprint Communications, Inc. (Sprint), intrastate access charges for telephone calls transported vi...

Several respected experts recently declared victory in the deregulation of telecommunications, favorably comparing changes in the industry to the 1970s, when Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter eliminated regulations on transportation and oil and gas industries. Compared to that wave of deregulation, however, declaring victory in telecommunications is premature. Regulatory reform in communications has...

Nowadays operational research (OR) claims to be known as the science of better by the scientific community and by the industry. OR provides a set of techniques and tools for thinking, analysing and solving, which leads to taking decisions in a structured and focused way towards efficiency and optimality. Due to these aspects, the advance of telecommunications research has been strongly linked t...

The concept of site selection has received extensive attention throughout history. Although plant location decision issues have always been important to US manufacturing firms, the impact of global competition has increased recognition of their importance. To successfully compete globally, manufacturers must have an effective global supply chain infrastructure, which requires effective communic...

Since their inception, mobile communications have become sophisticated and ubiquitous. However, as the popularity of mobile communications surged in the 1990s, Second Generation (2G) mobile cellular systems such as IS-95 and Global System for Mobile (GSM) were unable to meet the growing demand for more network capacity. At the same time, thanks to the Internet boom, users demanded better and fa...

Gl computer networks promise to make the circulation of information easier, cheaper and faster than ever before; new digital technologies are transforming the production and distribution of media of all kinds. The social and economic consequences of the emerging digital communications technologies are, however, not yet clear. While commercial and legal systems designed to manage analogue commun...

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency has developed the LOw-level Turbulence Advisory System (LOTAS) together with Osaka University. LOTAS introduces new features such as low-cost Doppler radar/lidar, landing difficulty estimation, short-term prediction of radar echo distribution and text message uplink using ACARS to resolve issues related to existing low-level windshear detection and warning...

1 Institute of Telecommunications 1 This report is to give an overview over the recent activities in teaching and research at the Institute of Telecommunications at Vienna University of Technology. The reporting period 2009—2013 was one of profound changes: after I became head of institute in 2010, we implemented the merger with the former Institute of Broadband Communications – because of the ...

Networks protocols are the heart of communication networks. An efficient network protocol does maximum utilization of the underlying network capabilities. Network Protocol synthesis is the process of synthesizing or deriving network specific protocols from the requirements of a given specific network. In this report, we present a step-by-step approach for the automated synthesis of network prot...