Nowadays most portable electronic devices have some sort of network capability. However,
due to different power, cost and processing limitations, the choice of networking technology …

Current trends show a growing number of femtocell deployments, this in turn will lead to
increased volumes of voice traffic being transmitted through fixed broadband access …

The focus of new service development continues to move from network services towards
application services. This is driven by many factors, such as converged networks, ambient …

Networks cannot be managed without management plane communications among
geographically distributed network devices and control agents. Unfortunately, the …

A method, computer-readable medium, and apparatus for modeling data of a plurality of
services for providing a new service are disclosed. For example, a method may include a …

This paper presents aframeworkfor self-optimizing next generation mobile networks, such as
3G LTE and WiMAX systems. Concept, architecture, interfaces and functions are described …

The tremendous development of Internet infrastructures as well as communication
technologies has led to an increase in network management complexity. Autonomic control …

We present a policy conflict analysis process that makes use of pre-defined semantic
models of an application to perform effective and efficient conflict analysis. The process is …

Computer networks are infrastructures largely used by our society supporting a broad range
of applications. In effect, computer networks are diverse in terms of their scale, complexity …

The management of Home Area Networks (HANs) is problematic. On the one hand there are
increasing numbers of IP enabled devices that are connecting to the HAN (wired and …