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.