Topics

We welcome submissions covering different aspects of techno-economic analysis including but not restricted to:

Customer Behaviour
user adoption and service demand forecasting
service usage patterns
pricing strategies for current/new services
Telecom Market Analysis
regulatory impacts on industry structure and competition
new business models and value networks
Cost Optimization
top-down versus bottom-up approaches
fractional and cost-driver based models, dimensioning studies
OPEX and CAPEX models for network and service providers as well as for regulators
Investment Analysis
investment decision techniques
quantitative value network analysis
sensitivity studies, risk analysis and real options
Multi-actor Analysis
game theoretic analysis, competition opportunities
institutional and policy supporting implications
Techno-economic Tooling and Concepts
Over The Top (OTT) vs. traditional services

Application areas

Application areas include but are not limited to:

Telecommunication networks
Optical, wireless, mobile networks
Core, metro and access networks
ad hoc networks/sensor networks
in-building networks
converged access networks
services and applications
telecom as a utility
Distributed architectures
Data centers; content delivery networks
Grid and cloud computing
Software Defined Networks (SDN)
Network Functions Virtualization (NFV)
New media and content applications
Internet of things
Green ICT

The conference content will be submitted to IEEE Xplore.