Value Added Services VAS in Mobile-Phone-Networks, found its way to TV & Radio stations through the benefits from the huge audience or followers they got. Also the traditional media decides to get advantages of VAS services and consider it as a new revenue source. The traditional TV & Radio stations and the mobile phone network based on 3G technologies and beyond, both get dramatic changes by t...

Revenue Assurance describes a methodology to increase a company’s income by determining where revenue gets lost, and to maximize their profits by eliminating revenue leakage and lowering operating costs. Especially in times of increasing data volume and more and more complex business and operational systems infrastructure, it is a challenge to find methods for detecting revenue leakage and its ...

Abstract This thesis examines the congestion control issues that arise in Intelligent Networks, when it is necessary to support multiple service types with different load requirements and priorities. The area of Intelligent Network (IN) congestion control has been under investigation for over a decade, but in general, the models used in this research were over-simplified and all service types w...

In this paper we present the design and analysis of revenue sharing schemes for viral marketing over social networks. The increasing need for monetizing social networks more effectively is causing social network platforms to look for alternatives to online behavioral targeting. Specifically, we turn to cooperative game theory and the Shapley value to design revenue sharing schemes to incentiviz...

Quality of Service (QoS) management is an important issue in today’s high-speed distributed systems supporting multimedia applications. Most existing QoS management schemes usually just cope with technical issues of resource reservations and QoS guarantees, often completely neglecting revenue issues which are especially important for service providers in order to maximize their profit. The reve...

We introduce a notion of fairness in the models for sponsored search auctions that provides a chance to new advertisers, as well as, lower budget advertisers to obtain better slots. This enables the search engines (i.e., auctioneers) to estimate the quality or relevance scores for new advertisers, and to better cater to the advertisers in the tail, and thereby encourage more advertisers to part...

This paper evaluates the Reliability of Onitsha power distribution network using analytical technique and the level of improvement achievable through application of photovoltaic (PV) system at injection substations. ETAP simulation software was used to run the power flow and reliability assessment of the Network. The investigation revealed that before the PV installations the total revenue lost...