The rapid growth of telecommunication technology has led to the development of many smart devices. In particular, the smartphone market has been growing rapidly following the development of third-generation telecommunication technology. As a result, most people are expected to use a smartphone within a few years. Furthermore, the market for smart devices such as tablets and smart TVs are growin...

This paper introduces the Telecommunication Outside Plant Markup Language (TOPML), an OpenGis GML (Geographic Markup Language) application schema designed to describe telecommunication outside plant data in which geographical information is an important issue. TOPML uses the standard OpenGis GML schema to include geographic properties to georeferenced telecom network elements. The use of TOPML ...

Telecooperation means to fulfill different tasks within distributed (study-) groups with the help of multimedia communication services and systems, so-called Telecooperation Systems (Tcoop system) The immense progress in the underlying information and telecommunication technology increases the functionality, variability, and complexity of such Tcoop systems. In addition there is a great demand ...

Aeronautical Telecommunication Network (ATN) has been developed by the International Civil Aviation Organization to integrate Air-Ground and Ground-Ground data communication for aeronautical applications into a single network serving Air Traffic Control and Aeronautical Operational Communications [1]. To carry time critical information required for aeronautical applications, ATN provides differ...

AbstractIn this paper, we propose an architecture for hybrid services, i.e., services that span many network technologies, especially the PSTN and the Internet. These services will play an important role in the future, because they leverage on the existing infrastructures, rather than requiring brand-new and sophisticated mechanisms to be deployed. We explore a few issues related to hybrid serv...

Mobile phone adoption and usage is increasingly gaining in importance among users at the bottom of the economic pyramid (BOP). This paper investigates the phenomenon of information obtained through voice services and SMS via mobile phones, among users at the BOP to examine the impact of the two services in the intention to continue using mobile telecommunication. This investigation brings toget...

The enormous success of the Internet results to a large extent from the flexible and easy to use platform it provides to create innovative services and applications that quickly find acceptance and customers. In parallel to the Internet, mobile communications also has evolved to an integral component in our everyday life providing a growing variety of services. Industry is pushing new standards...

The universal mobile telecommunication system (UMTS) (3rd Generation Partnership Project [3GPP] TS 23.002, 2002) is a realization of third generation (3G) networks, which intend to establish a single integrated system that supports a wide spectrum of operating environments. Users have seamless access to a wide range of new telecommunication services, such as high data rate transmission for high...

Telecommunication services are widespread and subject today to tensions on a competitive market. Telecommunication service design is more and more software oriented. To reduce time to market and cost of services, a service designer better need to simulate and evaluate his design earlier. The approach proposed in this paper is to reduce the abstraction gap between modeling and simulation phases ...