Yield management has been successfully applied in the context of airline companies. However, so far, application to telecommunication industry have been scarce. Using Yield management principles, this paper investigates the new problem of maximizing revenue of telecommunications operator by setting prices on voice services. This pricing is based on available resource i.e. network load. We first...

This paper defines an end-to-end Billing Process Model. The processes in this model are mapped to the Telecommunication Management Network (TMN) Model. Usage Metering Interface (UMI) in the process model is defined for between Network Providers (NP) and Equipment Providers (EP). And it is designed for the BICI (Broadband ISDN Inter-Carrier Interface) environment where multiple carriers using AT...

The paper addresses a situation, when universal mobile telecommunication system (UMTS) network gets congested as a result of a catastrophe or an accident involving many people. The scenario of the situation and objectives for the network during the congestion are defined. Finally, two simple resource management algorithms useful in this case are compared. Their performance, when used separately...

In the context of Long-Term Evolution (LTE), the next generation mobile telecommunication network, femtocells are lowpower base stations that efficiently provide coverage and capacity indoors. This paper presents a computationally efficient dynamic system-level LTE simulator for enterprise femtocell scenarios. The simulator includes specific mobility and traffic and propagation models for indoo...

The growth of emerging multimedia applications with different quality requirements has made the objective network QoS (NQoS) to be commonly considered as an inadequate metric for quality assessment in telecommunication services, being the quality of experience (QoE) concept the most predominant alternative. However, most QoE-related research studies are service-specific, not easily expandable t...

The recommendation architecture has been proposed as a system architecture which can enable a system to learn to perform a complex combination of interrelated functions. The capability of a system with the recommendation architecture to learn to manage complex telecommunication backbone networks has been investigated. A network model with a number of nodes and links and carrying realistic but r...

The hierarchical hub location problem is encountered three-level network that is applied in production-distribution system, education system, emergency medical services, telecommunication network, etc. This paper addresses the hierarchical hub covering problem with single assignment accounting for mandatory dispersion of central hubs restriction as a special case. This formulation with incorpor...

As the telecommunication world moves towards a data-only network environment, signaling, voice and other data are similarly transported as Internet Protocol packets. New requirements, challenges and opportunities are bound to this transition and in uence telecommunication architectures accordingly. In this time in which the Internet in general, and telecommunication networks in particular, have...

Network operation and management is a primary role of network operations center (NOC) which provides critical services for telecommunication networks, enterprise networks, campus networks, etc. Regarding hybrid research networks based on traditional IP production network and dedicated lightpath provisioning network, additional functionalities to traditional NOC facilities are required to provid...

This contribution deals with routing of Multipoint connections in telecommunication networks using Eugenic algorithm. Telecommunication network is represented by undirected graph. Proposed algorithm uses matrix bit representation of individual.