The traditional mobile industry expresses worries for the future due to converging technologies and new actors. Standards are the foundation for convergence, and have been central in all current subsectors of the mobile industry. However, subsectors have developed different technological...

The conceptual framework for understanding the logical Internet is based on the construction of a horizontal, layered architecture, which differentiates between physical-, data link-, network-, transport-, and application layers (1). This is different from the telecommunication networks model...

The modeling and analysis of system and network performance issues are useful tools in the development and engineering processes. The analytical models have a high value in the early stages to uncover major performance problems which affect the design of the architecture before the cost of...

E-commerce has become an increasingly important source of competitive advantages for business-to-business (B2B) companies. It enables companies not only to decrease transactional costs and offer wide range of additional services, but also to enhance efficiency in collaboration with their...

Once service organisations recognise collaborative e-marketplace as a strategic business approach, they can embrace the ultimate form of competition enabled by the internet. Hence, the collaboration makes it possible to create customer-driven value-chains by harmonising demand and supply...