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Telecommunications Modeling, Policy, and Technology (Operations Research/Computer Science Interfaces Series)March 2008
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  • Springer Publishing Company, Incorporated
ISBN:978-0-387-77779-5
Published:07 March 2008
Pages:
388
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Telecommunications Modeling, Policy, and Technology Examines the newer and emerging models of telecommunications technology that play instrumental roles in providing international economic and societal interconnectivity. Advancing technology in the field imposes the need to develop new models to solve complex planning and decision making problems. The global, national, and local societal impact of the technology necessitates careful analysis of telecommunications policy at all of these levels. The book explores natural output of the new technical developments and applications with selective chapter treatment on novel business models to fill the emerging technical and business needs.

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  • Robert H. Smith School of Business
  • Kogod School of Business

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David Bruce Henderson

The Technical Section on Telecommunications of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) regularly holds conferences to discuss advances in telecommunications modeling, policy, and technology. Over 90 papers were presented at the three-day Ninth Conference, held in College Park, Maryland in March 2008. The three co-chairs of the conference have selected and edited 17 of the papers presented at the conference to produce this book, an overview of the major advances in telecommunications technology presented at the conference. Each chapter of the book is a paper from the conference. These cover a variety of topics. There are several chapters that discuss aspects of spanning trees, one chapter that details a method for detecting spoofed denial of service attacks, and several others discussing various aspects of routing protocols. Other chapters cover topics such as optimizing communications between mobile nodes on multi-channel wireless networks, minimizing installation costs for multi-layer networks, and the use of beam-forming to optimize multi-hop wireless networks. In addition to the technical perspective, several chapters cover business and management topics such as the pricing of Internet bandwidth, regulation of mobile network termination charges, and business issues for organizations collaborating on the provision of mobile data services. The editors have done a good job of combining the original papers into a book with a consistent and professional style. Chapters are supported by clear figures, and are well referenced. The book covers a broad spectrum of mostly technical topics; some management aspects of telecommunications technology are also included. The only drawback is the lack of an index, the inclusion of which would have improved the book's ease of use. Online Computing Reviews Service

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