The advent of the cooperating IP-enabled heterogeneous radio networks will offer, under the “Beyond 3G” vision, ubiquitous services. In this new challenging context, a novel a...
Karim El-Khazen, Fabienne Lefevre, David Garrec, M...
Telecommunications network management has attracted a lot of attention in terms of research and standardisation in the last decade. TMN and TINA architectural frameworks try to add...
Service providers have been motivated to develop and offer new services to their customers. The key question is what kind of futuristic and practical services customers need. This...
The Internet and corporate intranets provide far more information than anybody can absorb. People use search engines to find the information they require. However, these systems t...
—Federated computing environments offer requestors the ability to dynamically invoke services offered by collaborating providers in the virtual service network. Without an effici...