Telecommunication management network (TMN) systems represent diverse telecommunication domains with wideranging functionality which frequently employ different technologies and produce isolated solutions. Yet as telecommunications become more sophisticated, there is a growing need for telecommunication management integration and interoperability. The paper presents a general TMN computing-platf...

THE ECONOMICS OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS This working paper is one of a series of papers and reports on telecommunication economics published by the Institute for Research in Economics and Business Administration (SNF) as a part of its telecommunication economics program. The main focus of the research program is to study the deregulation process of the telecommunication industry, and the economic a...

Content services for mobile phone subscribers compose a new business area based on the constellation of and symbiotic relationship between mobile telecommunication operators and content providers. In this paper we discuss the development and internationalization of the CPA (Content Provider Access) business model and platform by the Norwegian telecommunication operator Telenor. CPA is firmly gr...

As communication networks have evolved towards IP (Internet Protocol) networks, telecommunication operators has expanded its reach to internet multimedia web content services while operating circuit-switch networks in parallel. With the adoption of SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) that enables service capability interfaces to be published and integrated with other service capabilities into n...

Data warehouse is the powerful tool in telecommunications industry for handling the massive amounts of data. It assists telecommunication companies in achieving a competitive advantage and higher profits. Theaim of this paper is to focus on data warehousing in telecommunication companies and why they need advanced data warehouse platforms and new technology. It compares traditional data warehou...

Since the first endocannabinoid anandamide was identified in 1992, extensive research has been conducted to characterize the elements of the tightly controlled endocannabinoid signaling system. While it was established that the activity of endocannabinoids are terminated by a two-step process that includes cellular uptake and degradation, there is still a continuing debate about the mechanistic...

Networks exist to provide services to users. Increasingly, the networks on which the services reside are not the same as the networks from which the services are accessed. This leads to the problem on how to best provide such services transparently when the access protocols differ. We discusses a methodology to make available the existing services residing in a network whose protocols are disti...

A message based comparative study between signaling system #7(SS7) and MFC Signaling is done. Here the limitations of SS7 and MFC signaling are also studied. The reasons for the transition from Multi-frequency Coded (MFC) Signaling to SS7 has been discussed.

A unipolar signaling system transmits using intensity or amplitude in multiple dimensions. Typical examples arise in optical transmission or radio communication using MT-MFSK as both the signaling and the modulation technique. There are v dimensions which represent pulses or tones. Each codeword consists of a selection of k of these tones with unit intensity. Each user is assigned m of these bi...

The International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (SPECTS2012) is an annual international conference acting as forum for professionals involved in performance evaluation of computer and telecommunication systems. Performance evaluation of computer systems and networks has progressed rapidly in the past decade and has begun to approach maturity. Sign...