Incentive scheme for stimulating service provision in Mobile Ad hoc NETworks (MANET) has been under intensive investigation due to its significance to the operation of MANET. This paper applies distributed algorithmic mechanism design and utilizes Vickrey auction for service allocation in mobile ad hoc networks. We show that our method stimulates service provision and achieves desired system-wi...

As a result of deregulation efforts UMTS envisages the existence of several competing service providers. However, it is very questionable whether the designated concepts of INs will ever provide the required powerful mechanisms needed for service provision, numbering and location management in multi-service-provider environments. The TINA framework addresses problemes like these, but unfortunat...

The convergence of telecommunications industry and the Internet are about to alter the existing business models creating an open market, where a large number of independent application/service providers will offer their services to the users through a limited number of network providers. Furthermore, new concepts such as network reconfigurability and service adaptability require new advanced an...

With the rapid development and integration of the Internet, wireless communication network and the Internet of Things, the Internet faces many challenges as a bearer network: a large volume of information exchange, multi-level QoS and smoothly switching multiple access protocols. The Internet should be able to provide a variety of network capacities in a more dynamic and on-demand way, not just...

Citation: Jakovljevic MM and Varjacic M (2017) Commentary: Do health care workforce, population, and service provision significantly contribute to the total health expenditure? An econometric analysis of Serbia. Front. Pharmacol. 8:33. doi: 10.3389/fphar.2017.00033 Commentary: Do health care workforce, population, and service provision significantly contribute to the total health expenditure? A...

BACKGROUND Wheelchairs allow users to realise basic human rights and improved quality of life. South African and international documents guide rehabilitation service delivery and thus the provision of wheelchairs. Evidence indicates that rehabilitation policy implementation gaps exist in rural South Africa. OBJECTIVES The aim of this article was to explore the extent to which wheelchair servi...

objective: this study proposed a model for provision of an effective universal coverage for mental health services based on global and national experiences, available resources and the nature of primary health care system of iran to reduce the burden of mental health conditions. method: a framework with prioritized mental and social health services was devised through a review of literature and...

Alcohol-related brain damage has a growing impact on service provision. Despite the benefit of therapeutic interventions and a relatively good prognosis in the context of service provision, few services exist. Both national and local initiatives are required in order to provide psychosocial rehabilitation for this marginalised group of patients.

With the emergence of X-as-a-Service (e.g., software as a service, platform as a service, and infrastructure as a service), QoS (quality of service) delivery is becoming increasingly important as users are becoming more and more demanding on good or better services. Traditional service delivery mainly focuses on function or information provisioning, and leaves behind service quality. In this pa...

Martin Powell makes the point that the death of the National Health Service (NHS) is constantly asserted without criteria. This article suggests that the NHS is many things, which makes criteria unstable. The alignment of interests in the structure of the NHS enables both overheated rhetoric and political strength, and that pluralization of provision might actually undermine that alignment over...