Dark Optical Fiber Models for Broadband Networked Cities

2010 ◽  
pp. 157-166
Author(s):  
Ioannis Chochliouros ◽  
Anastasia S. Spiliopoulou ◽  
George K. Lalopoulos ◽  
Stergios P. Chochliouros
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Communications ◽  
Information Society ◽  
High Performance ◽  
High Capacity ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Digital Information ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Dynamic Factors ◽  
Critical Issues

The world economy is currently moving in transition from the industrial age to a new set of rules, that of the so-called “Information Society,” which is rapidly taking shape in different multiple aspects of the everyday life. In fact, the exponential growth of the Internet, the penetration of mobile communications, the rapid emergence of electronic commerce, the restructuring of various forms of businesses in all sectors of the economic activity, the contribution of digital industries to growth and employment, and so forth, are among the current features of the new global reality, and they are all considered significant dynamic factors for further evolution and development (Commission of the European Communities, 2005). Changes are usually underpinned by technological progress and globalization, while the combination of worldwide competition and digital technologies is having a crucial sweeping effect. Digital technologies facilitate transmission and storing of information, while they offer multiple access facilities, in most cases without implying subsequent extra costs. As digital information may be easily transformed into economic and social value, this can offer huge opportunities for the development of new products-offerings, services, or applications. Thus, information becomes the “keyresource” and the prime “engine” of the new e-economy (Crandall, Jackson, & Singer, 2003). Companies in different sectors have already started to adapt to the new economic situation in order to become e-businesses (Commission of the European Communities, 2001c). In addition, the full competitiveness of the state in the current high-tech digitally converging environment is strongly related to the existence of modern digital infrastructures of high capacity and of high performance, rationally deployed and properly priced, capable of providing easy, cost-effective, secure, and uninterrupted access to the international “digital web” of knowledge and commerce without imposing any artificial barriers and/or restrictions (Wallsten, 2005). Broadband development is nowadays an essential strategic priority (Chochliouros & Spiliopoulou, 2005), not only for the European Union (EU) but for the global environment. More specifically, broadband can be considered an “absolutely necessary prerequisite” in order to materialize all potential benefits from information society facilities and so to improve living standards (Commission of the European Communities, 2001b). The availability, access, and ultimate use of broadband in both business and residential settings are critical issues. Both businesses and consumers can derive increased benefits from the availability of broadband connection to the Internet, as the technology speeds up some applications and creates entirely new possibilities (Hu & Prieger, 2007).

Dark Optical Fiber Models for Broadband Networked Cities

2009 ◽  
pp. 324-331
Author(s):  
Ioannis Chochliouros ◽  
Anastasia S. Spiliopoulou ◽  
George K. Lalopoulos ◽  
Stergios P. Chochliouros
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Communications ◽  
Information Society ◽  
High Performance ◽  
High Capacity ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Digital Information ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Dynamic Factors ◽  
Critical Issues

The world economy is currently moving in transition from the industrial age to a new set of rules, that of the so-called “Information Society,” which is rapidly taking shape in different multiple aspects of the everyday life. In fact, the exponential growth of the Internet, the penetration of mobile communications, the rapid emergence of electronic commerce, the restructuring of various forms of businesses in all sectors of the economic activity, the contribution of digital industries to growth and employment, and so forth, are among the current features of the new global reality, and they are all considered significant dynamic factors for further evolution and development (Commission of the European Communities, 2005). Changes are usually underpinned by technological progress and globalization, while the combination of worldwide competition and digital technologies is having a crucial sweeping effect. Digital technologies facilitate transmission and storing of information, while they offer multiple access facilities, in most cases without implying subsequent extra costs. As digital information may be easily transformed into economic and social value, this can offer huge opportunities for the development of new products-offerings, services, or applications. Thus, information becomes the “keyresource” and the prime “engine” of the new e-economy (Crandall, Jackson, & Singer, 2003). Companies in different sectors have already started to adapt to the new economic situation in order to become e-businesses (Commission of the European Communities, 2001c). In addition, the full competitiveness of the state in the current high-tech digitally converging environment is strongly related to the existence of modern digital infrastructures of high capacity and of high performance, rationally deployed and properly priced, capable of providing easy, cost-effective, secure, and uninterrupted access to the international “digital web” of knowledge and commerce without imposing any artificial barriers and/or restrictions (Wallsten, 2005). Broadband development is nowadays an essential strategic priority (Chochliouros & Spiliopoulou, 2005), not only for the European Union (EU) but for the global environment. More specifically, broadband can be considered an “absolutely necessary prerequisite” in order to materialize all potential benefits from information society facilities and so to improve living standards (Commission of the European Communities, 2001b). The availability, access, and ultimate use of broadband in both business and residential settings are critical issues. Both businesses and consumers can derive increased benefits from the availability of broadband connection to the Internet, as the technology speeds up some applications and creates entirely new possibilities (Hu & Prieger, 2007).

Dark Optical Fibre as a Modern Solution for Broadband Networked Cities

2011 ◽  
pp. 158-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ioannis P. Chochliouros ◽  
Anastasia S. Spiliopoulou-Chochliourou ◽  
George K. Lalopoulos
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Communications ◽  
High Performance ◽  
High Capacity ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Digital Information ◽  
Industrial Age ◽  
Sweeping Effect ◽  
Rapid Emergence

The world economy is moving in transition from the industrial age to a new set of rules—that of the so-called information society—which is rapidly taking shape in different multiple aspects of everyday life: The exponential growth of the Internet, the explosion of mobile communications, the rapid emergence of electronic commerce, the restructuring of various forms of businesses in all sectors of the modern economy, the contribution of digital industries to growth and employment, and so forth are some amongst the current features of the new global reality. Changes are usually underpinned by technological progress and globalisation, while the combination of global competition and digital technologies is having a crucial sweeping effect. Digital technologies facilitate the transmission and storing of information while providing multiple access facilities, in most cases, without significant costs. As digital information may be easily transformed into economic and social value, it offers huge opportunities for the development of new products, services, and applications. Information becomes the key resource and the engine of the new e-economy. Companies in different sectors have started to adapt to the new economic situation in order to become e-businesses (European Commission, 2001c). The full competitiveness of a state in the current high-tech, digitally converging environment is strongly related to the existence of a modern digital infrastructure of high capacity and high performance that is rationally deployed, properly priced, and capable of providing easy, cost-effective, secure, and uninterrupted access to the international “digital web” of knowledge and commerce without imposing any artificial barriers and/or restrictions.

scholarly journals Performance Evaluation of the M2M Communication in the 4G Network (LTE/LTE-A) With Real Background Traffics: تقييم أداء نظم الاتصال M2M ضمن شبكات الجيل الرابع LTE/LTE-A المتضمنة حمل الشبكة الفعلي

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hala Adnan Fadel, Yasser Emleh, Ali Diab
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Communications ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
High Capacity ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Work Place ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Average Delay ◽  
Machine To Machine ◽  
Self Driving Cars

The applications of the fifth generation in 5G communications depend on the Internet Of Things (IOT), meaning that every person and everything will be connected to the Internet, so any tool or device in the house or in the street or any work place will be connected to the internet, and this leads us to the term Smart cities, i.e. data is formed everywhere by any person or any machine and is analyzed in a short time to obtain useful information in a timely manner such as monitoring the health status of patients and the elderly, and monitoring devices and tools at home and determining whether there is a malfunction or a lack of a substance, As well as analyzing the traffic situation in the streets and assisting and warning drivers Non-visual risks, which pave the way towards self-driving cars. Here, machine-to-machine (M2M) mobile communications play a pivotal role in enabling the effective and safe transfer of this information from machine to machine without human intervention at full speed and with minimal delay. This poses more challenges for the future network that must accommodate mobile data and the huge number of devices and sensors deployed everywhere in order to be a large-scale network with high capacity and efficiency [16, RODRIGUEZ.J]. In this article, several scenarios have been tested to evaluate the performance of M2M technology within 4Generation LTE / LTE-A networks by adding an external simulated network load. The results showed that the amount of data sent by the MMS sensors is fully received by the remote host, so we get 100% productivity. As for other applications, the productivity is around 99% and the average delay is relatively small as long as the network operates within the available transfer rates. In addition, the process of exchanging packages takes place almost completely (a small amount of losses).

scholarly journals Public Health as a Social Issue: The Role of Digital Technologies Originating from the Internet & Big Data Era

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beinish Landa ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Education ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Digital Information ◽  
Level Of Evidence ◽  
Complex Development ◽  
Health Promoting ◽  
Modern Level ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Individual

Digitalisation is gradually penetrating all spheres of society The rationale for this study is the unprecedented measures taken by the President and the Government of the Russian Federation to encourage the population to engage in physical education and sport in order to preserve and improve health and increase the life expectancy of Russians. Federal targeted programmes have made it possible to build and commission thousands of modern sports complexes. The study was primarily aimed at the elaboration and implementation of a technique of digital information and diagnostic support of mass health surveillance. The research methodology developed at our University contains three process phases: measurement, calculations, and appraisal. The implementation of these procedures allows both the individual trajectory of the complex development of each subject and the processing of unlimited amounts of information concerning normative test takers. At each stage, digital technologies are used to generate the database, to store it, to process the results obtained and to pass them on to other organisations upon demand, making the achievements of the methodology transparent and open. The scientific novelty of the research lies in the fact that the methodology, by monitoring the dynamics of individual and collective achievements, handles information on all groups of the population in a prompt, reliable and valid manner and is used by us not only to modernise the process of physical education, but also to assess the health-promoting activities of any organisation. Digitisation originated from the Internet and BigData era, entails raising the level of evidence-based decision-making in physical education and sport to a new, modern level.

The Internet Experience and Authors Rights

1996 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-136
Author(s):  
Jane Schurtz-Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Information Society ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Digital Information ◽  
Careful Observation ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Law

What is the future of copyright and authors’ rights in the light of what is being called “the digital information society?”It is generally recognised that the law responds to a given situation: if the legal fraternity doesn't take the time to observe and understand what is actually happening, it will be almost impossible to ascertain where and what the problems are. Only by careful observation can the lawmakers suggest possible solutions and appreciate their value.

A Simulation Framework for the Evaluation of Frequency Reuse in LTE-A Systems

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 56-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dimitrios Bilios ◽  
Christos Bouras ◽  
Georgios Diles ◽  
Vasileios Kokkinos ◽  
Andreas Papazois ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Communications ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Interference Mitigation ◽  
High Capacity ◽  
Frequency Reuse ◽  
Fractional Frequency Reuse ◽  
Simulation Framework ◽  
Power Efficient ◽  
Enhance Efficiency ◽  
Inter Cell Interference

Long Term Evolution Advanced (LTE-A) technology is considered as the most possible candidate for next generation mobile communications. LTE-A networks offer high capacity and are specified and designed to accommodate small, high performance, power-efficient end-user devices. Similarly to its predecessor LTE, LTE-A incorporates inter-cell interference mitigation methods in order to mitigate interference and to enhance efficiency in bandwidth usage. These methods include power and frequency allocation schemes that allow neighbouring cells and femtocells in heterogeneous networks to co-ordinately share and reuse available spectral resources, in order to avoid performance degradation for interference suffering cell-edge users. In this paper, the authors study the LTE-A multi-cell systems' performance using a simulation framework, which integrates several frequency reuse techniques and provides a user-friendly graphical presentation of the evaluation results. The optimal Fractional Frequency Reuse (FFR) configuration for the user-defined network instance is also determined, based on overall performance and fairness index metrics. Finally, the authors examine FFR techniques in two-tier femtocell/macrocell environments and evaluate them based on the optimization of different metrics, depending on the network operator's needs.

scholarly journals STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES OF THE EU INFOSOC DIRECTIVE WITH AN EMPHASIS ON THE PROVISIONS OF COPYRIGHT EXCEPTIONS AND LIMITATIONS

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (6) ◽  
pp. 2167-2170
Author(s):  
Ivona Sekulovska
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Digital Environment ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Copyright Laws ◽  
Exceptions And Limitations ◽  
Copyright Directive ◽  
The Eu

Directive 2001/29/EC on the harmonization of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society also known as the InfoSoc Directive, entered into force on 22 June 2001.625 In the language of the European Union “information society” means the internet. In order to respond to the new forms of exploitation of the copyright works, the law on copyright and related right needed to be adapted. These economic challenges require a new and flexible Community legal framework, so that the information society could be maintained and developed. However, the objectives of the Copyright Directive resulted in providing measures that concern both the analog and the digital environment, and is further questioned whether the objective of harmonizing the copyright laws has been met. So in this paper the strengths and the weaknesses of certain provisions of the Directive will be briefly summarized.

scholarly journals Przedsiębiorczość, innowacyjność – społeczeństwo informacyjne czy: społeczeństwo informacyjne – przedsiębiorczość i innowacyjność?

2009 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 83-85
Author(s):  
Krystian Sowislok
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
European Union ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Computer Lab ◽  
Know How ◽  
Internet Resources

The development of information society has become one of the main tasks undertaken by bothnational and local authorities as well as by institutions responsible for the development of entrepreneurship. Relevant projects are financed by the European Union. Prime Minister DonaldTusk mentioned this subject in his expose and emphasized the importance of knowledge andinformation society in the economic development of Poland. For us, teachers, it is important to know how can we help to increase the entrepreneurshipof young people, and encourage them and provide with opportunities to use moderntechnologies. Information technology in the education should not be limited to IT classes inthe computer lab. The Internet resources can be used for all classes, especially entrepreneurshipclasses. More attention should be paid to skills essential when our students looking for a joband when they decide to start their own businesses. This paper comprises reflections on implementation of information technology in the task of developing the youth’s entrepreneurshipand an attempt on answering the question from the title.

scholarly journals Formation of Digital Society and Geopolitical Competition

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 25-43
Author(s):  
D. V. Efremenko
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Mobile Communications ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
The United States ◽  
Great Powers ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Processing Technologies ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Internet Of Things

The article discusses the growing interdependence between the geopolitical competition of great powers and the development of digital technologies. Throughout the 2010s, the contradictions of the leading states regarding the control and regulation of the Internet have noticeably intensified. In the absence of universal rules for information security, the Internet is evolving towards a kind of “gray zone” in which various actors can use the wide range of available tools to achieve their political or other goals without fear of being drawn into a full-scale conflict.Nowadays, the geopolitical rivalry, primarily between the United States and China, covers a wide range of digital technologies, including artificial intelligence. It is highly likely that during the 2020s, China and the United States will create two competing and increasingly less compatible global ecosystems for the development of the Internet of things, big data processing technologies, 5 G mobile communications, additive technologies, robotics, etc. The choice of one of the ecosystems will at the same time become a geopolitical choice, which, obviously, during the next decade all state actors in the system of international relations will have to make.

scholarly journals LOGISTICS OF ONLINE TRADE IN THE CONTEXT OF GLOBALIZATION OF THE DIGITAL ECONOMY

2019 ◽  
pp. 62-77
Author(s):  
Nadiya POTAPOVA
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Digital Economy ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Global Changes ◽  
Digital Information ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The Impact

The article highlights the issues of organization and functioning of logistics of online trade in the context of globalization of economic relations based on the introduction of modern digital information and communication technologies. The influence of digital economy on the changes in the forms of trade operations and the peculiarities of their organization in the Internet is studied. The differences between online and offline trading are estimated, as a result of which there is a propensity and loyalty of consumers to online purchases. The essence of logistics of online trade and features of its formation with the use of elements of virtual relationships with customers and suppliers are revealed. The article uses statistical data on the development of information and communication technologies in enterprises of Ukraine and open data of EU statistics for the period 2014-2018. The economic analysis of indicators of access to the Internet, e-Commerce operations and logistics for the service of electronic orders at the enterprises of Ukraine and the European Union allowed to determine the main trends that have developed in the digitalization of logistics of online trade and to assess the impact of digital platforms on global changes in trade.

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