By its nature, the satellite sector is the most “pan-European” of all communications infrastructures and services. Unlike any terrestrial network, satellite networks can provide coverage to all parts of Europe. This strength of satellite networks, nonetheless, creates a great regulatory challenge. Due to wide satellite coverage, operators depend on harmonized spectrum allocations. The services ...

The successful adaptation of telephone networks to data transmission has fostered two decades of rapid growth in data processing systems using telecommunications facilities. To augment the telephony base, new public networks are now being designed specifically for data communications. The international scope and technological aspects of these new services have been described elsewhere in this i...

Environment-aware Applications and Mobile Communications have proven significant relevance for future telecommunications and computing. This poster describes an approach to integrate heterogeneous off-the-shelf technology to fulfill the demands of environment-aware applications. The integration has been done employing a CORBA based middleware. That gave us the opportunity to define open interfa...

• The progressive liberalization of the UK telecommunications sector has necessitated a strategic repositioning by its incumbent operators, British Telecommunications (BT) and Kingston Communications (KC), as they face up to increased competition within their traditional market places. • This repositioning has stimulated a process of strategic breakout, a framework derived from the author’s on-...

0163-6804/99/$10.00 © 1999 IEEE e are in the midst of a global information revolution brought about by the evolution of digital technology. The enormous strides in digital technology and its applications have fundamentally changed the way in which information is generated, processed, stored, and transported. The resulting information infrastructure will produce profound changes in all aspects o...

The period between the middle of the nineteenth and the middle of the twentieth century represents a remarkable period in the history of science and technology. During this epoch, several discoveries and inventions removed many practical limitations of what individuals and societies could achieve. Especially in the field of communications, revolutionary developments took place such as high spee...

German Aerospace Center (DLR), Inst. for Communications and Navigation, 82234 Wessling, Germany, phone: +49 8153 28 2119 ∗ Inst. for Circuit Theory & Signal Processing, Munich University of Technology (TUM), Germany Dept. of Telecommunications & Systems Engineering, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB), Spain Dept. of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, The University of California, I...

1 Chongqing Key Lab of Mobile Communications Technology, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing 400065, China; [email protected] (M.Z.); [email protected] (Z.T.); [email protected] (Q.Z.); [email protected] (W.H.) 2 China Internet Research Lab, Computer Network Information Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China; [email protected] * Corresp...

1Department of Signal Processing, Blekinge Institute of Technology, 372 25 Ronneby, Sweden 2Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, 84105 Beer-Shiva, Israel 3Department of Electronics, The University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK 4Dipartimento di Elettronica, Politecnico di Torino, 10129 Torino, Italy 5Adaptive Communications Research laboratories, Ad...

ISTI-CNR (National Research Council), Area della Ricerca del C.N.R., Via Moruzzi 1, I-56124 Pisa, Italy [email protected], [email protected] Department of Communications, Computer and Systems Science (DIST) University of Genova, Via Opera Pia 13, 16145 Genova, Italy [email protected] CNIT (Italian National Consortium for Telecommunications) – University of Genova Research U...