Introduction to Special Issue "Intelligent Telecommunication Infrastructures and Beyond"

Vladimir Poulkov, Liljana Gavrilovska, Octavian Fratu
2014 Wireless personal communications  
The development of services and applications require increasingly levels of performance, quality of service and sophistication from the telecommunication infrastructures. New types of communications, technologies and services indicate that there will be a need for significant innovation in the telecommunication infrastructures of today. There are signs that a critical level of usage and complexity has been already reached which is putting pressure for changes on the existing infrastructures. We
more » ... witness the development and proposals for new intelligent network solutions, next generation access and overlay networks, virtual infrastructures, cloud technologies, network convergence, etc. All this was a motivation to try to raise a discussion among the research community to highlight the state of the art and future tendencies in the development of intelligent and next generation telecommunication systems and infrastructures. This special issue is mainly composed of the extended versions of selected papers presented at the 1st Center of TeleInFrastructure-South-East Europe (CTIF SEE) Workshop I2B: "Intelligent Infrastructures and Beyond", 16 September 2013, Sofia, Bulgaria (www.ctif. aau.dk). Nevertheless in the issue are also included selected papers from academia, research and industry contributing advances and ideas on this topic. Several papers in this special issue are related to future heterogeneous cellular network deployments and software defined networks where topics such as resource management, design scenarios and deployment solutions are considered. An approach for resource management for Heterogeneous Networks (HetNets) based on dynamic user association and a characteristic model of the servicing properties of a HetNet access point is proposed in the
doi:10.1007/s11277-014-2015-5 fatcat:gnpq4ogv3napbjv6dm55bhy2ha