The interaction between a complex socio-economic environment and the extremely fast pace of development of new telecommunication technologies and services justifies the interest in using multicriteria evaluation in decision making processes associated with several phases of network planning and design. Based on an overview of current and foreseen evolutions in telecommunication network technolo...

In this paper, we propose a single hidden layered fuzzy neural algorithm, which is able to provide a better quality of service constraints in a multi-cell scenario with three different radio access technologies (RATs) namely the Universal Mobile Telecommunication Systems (UMTS), the Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) and the Global System for Mobile Telecommunication (GSM) / Enhanced Data rate ...

Connectivity provided by telecommunication infrastructure provides a dominant platform and plays a vital role in realization of a smart city. Objective of this paper is to identify telecommunication indicators that will form the foundation and bridge the gap towards realization of smart cities in India. Smart Cities Council has broadly prepared the Smart Cities Framework which identifies variou...

network effects, increase in the value of consuming a product if many other consumers use the same product, is a feature of many markets of high-technology products. frequently cited examples of products exhibiting network effects are telecommunication or software products. this research explores the role of network effects in the consumer´s choice of mobile operator in tehran. for our empirica...

The digital revolution holds great promise for prosperity and progress. However, the Information Society evolution is supported through the telecommunication networks deployment. The high cost of such infrastructures forces the companies to focus their efforts in the profitable society sectors. For that, the promotion of performances to bridge the digital divide between rural and urban areas ap...

HLP (hub location problem) tries to find locations of hub facilities and assignment of nodes to extended facilities. Hubs are facilities to collect, arrange, and distribute commodities in telecommunication networks, cargo delivery systems, etc. Hubs are very crucial and their inaccessibility impresses on network whole levels. In this paper, first, total reliability of the network is defined bas...

Traditional mechanisms for " moving " network management solutions from producers to consumers require sophisticated human intelligence and expertise, high costs in installation and maintenance , or impose high traffic load/availability requirement on the global networks. To address these problems, this paper proposes a new framework for developing, marketing and deploying management solutions ...

This paper presents a Quality of Security Service (QoSS) costing framework and demonstration. A method for quantifying costs related to the security service and for storing and retrieving security information is illustrated. We describe a security model for tasks, which incorporates the ideas of variant security services invoked by the task, dynamic network modes, abstract security level choice...

In this paper we present an environment for evaluating self-healing mechanisms in survivable networks. The work is based on the thesis that system level requirements of integrity and availability can be inherently conflicting, and that the type and level of defence in each particular network should be determined in relation to the particular network’s characteristics. The study shows that defin...

Telecommunication networks are growing very fast. The user’s needs, in regards to new services and applications that have a higher bandwidth requirement, are becoming bigger every day. A telecommunication network requires early design, planning, maintenance, continuous development and updating, as demand increases. In that respect we are forced to incessantly evaluate the telecommunication netw...