Increased competition in the telecommunication market has forced network operators and service providers to roll out new services at a much faster rate, taking under consideration user preferences. Therefore, a businessdriven service provisioning, which takes into account business-to-business relationships as well as preferences of targeted user groups, is proposed. It utilizes agent technology...

In this paper, we present an on-going research project in which we are focusing on examining how users of map-based services on-line experience the quality of these services when the traffic load is high, and how the users' experiences of acceptable or not acceptable quality can be related to measurable parameters which can be used to manage network traffic and improve technical solutions. The ...

Telecommunications deregulation has been a fast process in the Nordic countries, inspired by the example of the United States and the U.K. Europe at the moment finds itself in a very polarized state as regards to telecommunications markets. The above mentioned states already have a liberal telecommunications market, some others are on the road towards that end (Germany, Ireland), but many still...

Digital mobile telecommunication systems have become a future trend in personal communications services (PCS) networks. To satisfy the demand for high quality services, security functions, including the authentications of communication parties and the confidentiality of communication channels, must be embedded into mobile communication systems. This work presents an authentication scheme to sup...

The field of telecommunication value-added services provision is undergoing significant changes during the last years. The mobile services value chain is already impacted and more dramatic developments are expected in view of the 4G mobile systems, whose advent is expected in the medium to long term. This contribution presents a non-network operator centric business model for mobile service pro...