User requirements for telecommunication systems are difficult to understand because they are obscured by a long history of ad hoc feature development and technological limitations. The presence of a viable modular architecture for telecommunication features gives us a fresh start. Working within this framework, we can discover desirable properties that ought to be requirements for all telecommu...

As long as there have been databases there has been a large interest in measuring their performance. Therefore, several different benchmarks have been proposed. However, previous proposals do not consider timely response and other telecommunication application requirements. This paper shortly reviews telecommunication requirements and previous work on real-time databases. These requirements are...

The restructuring of telecommunication in Central and Eastern Europe occurs at a time when the classical structures of telecommunication are falling apart worldwide. Coming from the socialist system in which telecommunication did not exist as an independent economic activity, the Eastern European countries have created specific “post-socialist“ modes of reform, often outdoing Western countries ...

Telecommunication companies generate a tremendous amount of data. These data include call detail data, which describes the calls that traverse the telecommunication networks, network data, which describes the state of the hardware and software components in the network, and customer data, which describes the telecommunication customers. This chapter describes how data mining can be used to unco...

Fixed–mobile convergence (FMC) is a radical innovation for telecommunication companies because it requires them to move into unknown territories that are beyond traditional business lines and underlying technologies. In the meantime, understanding what types of telecommunication companies are better at doing business through the early adoption of FMC has become increasingly important in the con...

We present an overview of our approach to managing security as a dimension of Quality of Service. Relative to traditional QoS attributes (e.g., jitter, deadline, latency) security has been handled rather statically and indirectly. We have developed a theory of Quality of Security Service and a related security-costing framework that supports extension of QoSS functionality to embrace existing a...

The canonical IT security properties are geared towards infrastructure security. The task of an infrastructure security service is completed once data has been delivered to the application. When false data is submitted to the infrastructure, false data will be delivered securely. To secure an application, one thus may have to go beyond securing the infrastructure and in addition provide mechani...

The issue of trust and risk in outsourced relationships was extended beyond traditional outsourcing models with the introduction of Application Service Providers (ASPs). As ASPs evolve, Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs) have emerged as external providers of security for firms facing increasing information assurance threats. This research-in-progress paper develops a conceptual model of...

All over the world we have been assisting to a significant increase of the telecommunication systems usage. People are faced day after day with strong marketing campaigns seeking their attention to new telecommunication products and services. Telecommunication companies struggle in a high competitive business arena. It seems that their efforts were well done, because customers are strongly adop...

The rapid technological change and uncertain future evolutions have a large impact on investment projects in the telecommunication sector. When new infrastructure networks are rolled out, the initial assumptions can prove to be untrue in the future, severely impacting the payoff. It is therefore extremely important that projects offer flexibility to allow the management to react to unforeseen c...