Today nearly everyone needs strong and reliable access to the Internet. Usually, such access is provided by Internet-providers. They lay lines of communication and hire specialists. This costs money so customers should pay for the access. Accordingly, ...

In virtualized cloud hosting centers, a virtual machine (VM) is generally allocated a fixed computing capacity. The virtualization system schedules the VMs and guarantees that each VM capacity is provided and respected. However, a significant amount of ...

Both computer and telecommunication networks have developed rapidly and become much more popular recently. On the basis of the characteristics of the two networks, we can see that they are complementary. If we can integrate the most popular technologies ...

Structured data and controlled vocabularies in medical records are common goals, but widespread and eager clinical adoption might require more modest, incremental change. One small step along the path to structured data is a voluntary discipline of ...

Cloud accounting refers to how cloud usage is recorded and charged. We identified four federated cloud platforms which do not include an accounting system. This work presents an accounting mechanism implemented for one of these platforms focused on ...

Cloud service providers (CSP) of today operate multiple data centers, over which they provide resilient infrastructure, data storage and compute services. The links between data centers have very high capacity, and are typically purchased by the CSPs ...

With pay-per-use pricing models, elastic scaling of resources, and the usage of shared virtualized infrastructure, ‘the Cloud' offers more efficient use of capital, great cost reductions, and breakthrough agility. Yet, it turns out that to leverage the ...

Smart grid proposals threaten user privacy by potentially disclosing fine-grained consumption data to utility providers, primarily for time-of-use billing, but also for profiling, settlement, forecasting, tariff and energy efficiency advice. We propose ...

A pay–per–use cloud service should be made available to consumers with an unambiguous resource accounting model that precisely describes all the factors that are taken into account in calculating resource consumption charges. The paper proposes the ...

Coloring Ring Back Tone (CRBT) is one of the most successful Value-added (VAD) services in China telecommunication operators. Under fierce competition conditions, CRBT customer churn has significantly decreased the profits of operators. Thus churn ...

Emerging Cloud computing infrastructures provide computing resources on demand based on postpaid principles. For example, the RESERVOIR project develops an infrastructure capable of delivering elastic capacity that can automatically be increased or ...

UNICORE middleware was chosen for the deployment of the National Grid network of Belarus. For quick and easy UNICORE installation on Grid sites the specialized distribution was developed. It includes not only UNICORE services and clients, but some other ...

Current technological advancement in the field of telecommunication and the popularity of internet causes emergence of a new concept on convergence that enables the modification of existing telecommunication business models and moves to a path of ...

Wireless mesh networks (WMNs) are gaining growing interest as a promising technology for ubiquitous high-speed network access. While much effort has been made to address issues at physical, data link, and network layers, little attention has been paid ...

This article presents an optimized algorithm for long-term electric load forecast in distribution or transmission network by using appropriate pattern curves.

This method is related to the load growth pattern and annual information of planned year on ...

In this paper, a versatile WLAN/cellular networks integrated roaming service framework with billing support is proposed, which can lift off the requirement of peer-to-peer roaming agreements to provide seamless user roaming between WLAN hotspots and ...

This work presents a secure interaction framework for establishing ad-hoc billing paths between untrusted players in a global telecommunications network. User authentication is supported through the introduction of a Billing provider, responsible for ...

In the near future, it is expected that mobile operators will offer their subscribers a plethora of services as well as the ability to access value-added services offered by independent providers. However, until this goal is reached, there are several ...

In recent years, wireless Internet service providers (WISPs) have established thousands of WiFi hot spots in cafes, hotels and airports in order to offer to travelling Internet users access to email, web or other Internet service. However, two major ...

Wireless communications have developed rapidly and have been applied for many services. Cellular (the third-generation) mobile networks and wireless local area network (WLAN) are two important technologies for providing wireless communications. The ...