Introduction to the Special Issue on Emergency Telecommunications via Satellites

Access and Mobility Policy Control at the Network Edge

The fifth generation (5G) system architecture is defined as service-based and the core network functions are described as sets of services accessible through application programming interfaces (API). One of the components of 5G is Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) which provides the open access to radio network functions through API. Using the mobile edge API third party analytics applications ...

Introduction to the Special Issue on Immersive Telecommunications

Building Appropriation Advantage: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE SPECIAL ISSUE ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT

In a Copenhagen pizza shop in 1984, the Finnish engineer Matti Makkonen launched the idea of short message service (SMS) messages. Although Makkonen is still reluctant in claiming sole credit for developing SMS technology, he is widely acknowledged as the father of SMS. Whereas the International Telecommunications Union recently estimated that nearly 200,000 text messages are sent every single ...

Introduction: Special Issue on Investment in the Telecommunications Industry Infrastructure

This is the fourth annual special issue of Industrial and Corporate Change devoted to research on telecommunications policy and strategy. The papers in this special issue represent research discussed at the annual conference of the Consortium for Research on Telecommunications Policy and Strategy, held at the University of Michigan Business School in Ann Arbor, during June, 1998. The Consortium...

Introduction special issue on DVB - RCS 1 M GUEST

DVB-RCS is really the first and only broadband satellite communications standard. With work started already in 1998 and the first version approved in the DVB project already in 1999—10 years ago—we are already talking of a mature technical specification. At the time the focus was on ATM to the desktop, Ka-band systems and large low-earth-orbit satellite constellations; or at least a lot of the ...