With increasing energy consumption of the Internet, it is now imperative to design and develop energy-efficient next-generation network architectures and protocols. This dissertation presents novel and innovative techniques and methods for developing energy-efficient next generation telecom networks, both in core and access networking domains. This dissertation begins with an introduction to en...

INTRODUCTION................................................................................... 380 I. AVOIDING GRIDLOCK: A FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEM FOR THE TELECOM INDUSTRY IS A GRIDLOCKED REGULATORY PROCESS........................................................... 381 A. General Reasons for Regulatory Gridlock.......................... 384 B. Telecom Act As a Specific Cause of Gridlock .............

Mobile phone users are demanding an efficient convergent communication approach for efficient communication and information sharing with their real life social circles. Unfortunately, the existing telecom services and the popular Internet services are not organically integrated to provide convenient convergent services. To overcome this issue, one of the promising convergent communication servi...

Telecom in the real sense means the transfer of information between two distant points in space. The popular meaning of telecom always involves electrical signals and as a result, people often exclude postal or any other raw telecommunication methods from its meaning. Therefore, the history of Indian telecom can be started with the introduction of telegraph. The government of India possesses a ...

Internet has been permeating into every corner of the world and every aspect of our lives, empowering us with anywhere, anytime remote access and control over information, personal communications (e.g., through smart-phones), and our environment (e.g., through the use of sensors, actuators, and RFIDs). While enabling interoperation with the Internet brings tremendous opportunities in service cr...

For quantum information processing (QIP), it is important to have a long-lived quantum memory (QM), coupled to other QMs and quantum processors (QP). However, QM and QP systems demonstrated so far suffer from many limitations, and in the near future a single platform will not have the optimal version of all the components needed for QIP. Thus, it is also important to be able to couple quantum b...

Modeling and Formal Verification of a Telecom System Block Using MDGs