Satellite communications is the most prominent solution for covering remote areas for broadband Internet access where long and expensive cables are not feasible to be deployed. The Australia’s National Broadband Network (NBN) initiation ’delivering superfast broadband to Australian homes and workplaces’ currently face the problem of deploying long fibres to cover regional blackspots considering...

Nowadays, the broadband residential access infrastructure remains one of the major research areas for NGN (next generation network). Apart from popular ADSL (asymmetrical digital subscriber loop), HFC (hybrid fiber-coax) and APON (ATM passive optical network), academic communities and industry are increasingly showing great concern about Ethernet technique in the subscriber access network. This...

We describe a prototype implementation of a broadband kernel, an open programming environment that facilitates the easy creation of network services and provides mechanisms for efficient resource allocation. We present a service creation methodology and show how scalable multimedia network services can be constructed from a set of broadband kernel services. As a proof of concept, we built a mul...

This study examines the impact of telecommunications regulatory policy on broadband service deployment. Using U.S. data covering all forms of access technology (chiefly DSL and cable modem) and all areas served by major carriers, we investigate the impact of state and federal regulation on broadband availability. Alternative regulation increases the probability of broadband availability, partic...

This paper critically assesses wireless broadband internet infrastructure, in the rural and remote communities of WDR in terms of supply, demand and utilisation. Only 8 of 20 towns have ADSL/ADSL2+, and only 3 towns have 4G mobile network coverage. Conversely all of the towns have 2G/3G mobile network coverage but have problems with speed, reliability of service and capacity to handle data traf...

⎯This paper proposes a bandwidth allocation process for a single broadband network traffic source. In recent years, broadband traffic source has been proved that it has self-similarity and self-similar model that is well fit to the broadband network traffic sources. The bandwidth allocation problem is very important in network planning. The network planning problems such as call admission contr...

Broadband infrastructure is a key component of the knowledge economy. Employing a secondary data set, this study examines adoption factors of fixed broadband among OECD countries. The result of the regression analysis suggests platform competition, income, and education positively influence fixed broadband diffusion. Light form of Local Loop Unbundling (LLU) was positively associated with high ...