Investing on value-added service (VAS) amplifies users' participation and platform profit.
However, the investing resource is usually limited in practice. This paper investigates VAS …

This paper describes and formalises the service oriented heterogeneous wireless network
environment (SOHWNE), the future service provision and delivery environment that supports …

The last decade of the 20/sup th/century has been witness to remarkable technological
developments in the area of wireless communication technologies. Following the …

In the European Union, the debate about 4G mobile has spawned the vision of a system that
enables an" always best connected"(ABC) mode of communication for the citizen of the …

Today, there is a wide variety of telecom services available provided by a number of
competing stakeholders in the telecom environment. Consequently, consumers in such an …

Advances in network architecture, enhancements in signaling protocols, provisioning of end-
to-end QoS, worldwide seamless mobility, and flexible service provision are among the …

Traditionally, end customers have been offered different categories of communication, data
and media services (eg, fixed/mobile voice, fixed/mobile data, broadcasting) through …

In the case of next generation wireless networks, different users with various multi-homed
personal wireless devices will aim to exploit the full potential of the choice of services and …

We discuss a method for distributing a coupled atmosphere-ocean general circulation model
across high-speed gigabit per second networks. Based on the special characteristics of the …

The evolution of mobile communication systems to 3G and beyond introduces a new era in
advanced multimedia service provision to mobile users. The success of next generation …