Olli Martikainen - Böcker

Substantial new breakthroughs are going on in telecommunications technology. The introduction of cellular radio networks and mobility is probably the most influential one in the next few years. The broadband transmission and switching technology is also maturing and will provide a cost effective platform for service provision. Interactive business and consumer services based on video and multimedia will become possible, after the broadband customer access is in the market. Common to all these developments will be the computer controlled structure of modern telecommunications, where protocols, application technology and resource management are key factors. This book contains the papers presented in the Workshop on Intelligent Networks, sponsored by IFIP Technical Committee 6 (Communication Systems). The Workshop was organized as part of the Third Summer School on Telecommunications at the Lappeenranta University of Technology, Lappeenranta, Finland on August 8 - 9, 1994. The call for papers was the first in the short history of the Summer School, yet we were able to select 20 high quality papers out of the submitted contributions.One can distinguish three main streams in the topics of the papers, reflecting the trends mentioned above: service creation and management platforms, use of software tools and methods for the IN specification, analysis and database design, and mobility and broadband aspects of future intelligent networks.

The growth of telecommunications has been largely based on mobile and data services in the past 10 years and this growth will continue. For instance, it is forecasted that after 2005, the mobile traffic turnover in Europe will exceed that of fixed telephone traffic, and the penetration of Internet access through mobile will exceed that of fixed access. It is expected that new value-added services will be Internet-based and that IP traffic will outweigh the amount of traditional ISDN based telephone traffic. The transition from existing telecommunications services to mobile and Internet-based services will change the service infrastructure as well as the customer and service management structures. This volume comprises the proceedings of the Working Conference on Personal Wireless Communications (PWC'2001), which was sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) and organized by IFIP Working Group 6.8. It was held in Lappeenranta, Finland in August 2001. The PWC'2001 conference is a forum for tutorials, discussions and presentations of developments in mobile and wireless research.The contributions to this volume have been divided into six categories that vary from voice over IP implementations to quality of service issues; from service aspects to performance and modelling issues; and from modern cellular networks to future wireless systems. This volume should be useful reading for IT students and researchers as well as for theoreticians interested in the current state of the telecommunication systems.

This volume comprises the proceedings of Smartnet'2002, the seventh conference on Intelligence in Networks, which was sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) and organized by Working Group 6.7. The conference series closely reflects the developments in networking. At the beginning of the 21st century we are facing two conflicting trends: the increasing popularity of the Internet and the growth of mobile communications. The traditional Internet approach is to regard a network as a dummy pipe of bits and place all the intelligence in the end-devices. The traditional telecom approach is to regard the end-devices as dummy senders or receivers of bits and to put all the intelligence in the network. For fixed-line access to the Internet using a powerful PC, the Internet approach is plausible. However, for a nomadic user, who sometimes accesses services through a fixed-line Internet connection and, at other times, through a wireless connection using a restricted-capability access device, the situation becomes intolerable. Intelligence needs to be distributed and partially replicated in end-user devices, access networks, and the core network.The presentations in this volume consider these trends and cover three major topics: platform software, services, and protocols. The sessions on platform software address various aspects of software infrastructure in networks including object-orientation, components, agents, and plug-and-play. The session on services includes interactive TV, group communication, and location awareness. The session on protocols discusses bandwidth brokers, authentication, and protocol testing.

Smart Networks comprises the proceedings of Smartnet'2002, the seventh conference on Intelligence in Networks, which was sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) and organized by Working Group 6.7. It was held in Saariselkä, Finland, in April 2002. The conference series closely reflects the developments in networking.

Substantial new breakthroughs are happening in telecommunications technology. This volume presents a state-of-the-art review of the current research activities in intelligent network technology. It contains the proceedings of a workshop on intelligent networks organized by the International Federation of Information Processsing and held as part of the Third Summer School on Telecommunications in Lappeenranta, Finland, August 1994.