[ecrea] papers for special issue of Telematics and Informatics on the future ICT infrastructure

Call for papers for special issue of the journal Telematics and Informatics:



Developing the future ICT infrastructure - technologies, markets, and 
policies



http://www.journals.elsevier.com/telematics-and-informatics/call-for-papers/developing-the-future-ict-infrastructure/



Deadline is extended to 1 May 2014.



The special issue addresses the challenges of developing a future ICT 
infrastructure capable of delivering the services and applications 
needed by residential and professional users and public institutions.

Drivers of these challenges are at different levels: The competitive 
situation in the ICT markets, the direction of the processes of 
convergence of IT, telecoms and the media, and the development of social 
and business applications of ICT in all areas of society with increasing 
requirements on the ICT infrastructures.

An increasingly stronger discussion has arisen in the past few years 
regarding the effectiveness and specification of the competition 
policies instituted in the 1990s with respect to the development of ICT 
infrastructures especially in rural areas and the involvement of 
alternative stakeholders on the network provision side and service 
provision side.

With respect to the convergence of IT, telecoms and the media, it has 
become increasingly clear that IT is gaining a dominant position 
illustrated by the growing importance of services and applications. This 
structural change in the position of technologies has changed the mobile 
ecosystems with the new business models introduced by Apple and Google, 
and it can be witnessed in media/broadcasting markets by the entrance of 
the OTT services.

Regarding social and business applications, health care, education, 
traffic management, etc. all require a high level of network services 
which cannot necessarily be met by best effort an unmanaged services. 
The requirement of these different domains will put new demand on the 
ICT infrastructures concerning quality of service, stability and 
adaptability.

The ICT area will thus face a range of serious challenges in the coming 
years that will necessitate radical changes in technology and deep 
structural changes economically, and politically.

Topics will include – but are not limited to:

· New bandwidth requiring services and applications

· Potentials of network technologies

· Regulatory challenges including net neutrality and infrastructure sharing

· Investment developments including PPP

· Convergence directions

· Content vs. transport centric networks

· Rural connectivity

· Infrastructure sharing

Special issue editors:
Reza Tadayoni, center for Communications, Media and Information 
technologies (CMI), AAU, Denmark
Anders Henten, center for Communications, Media and Information 
technologies (CMI), AAU, Denmark







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