The network topology has lately proved to be critical to the appearance of traffic congestion, with scale-free networks being the less affected at high volumes of traffic. Here, the congestion dynamics are investigated for a class of networks that has experienced a resurgence of interest, the...

The current regulatory framework in the European NGA market provides the basic principles for the gradual migration from service-based competition over the legacy copper access networks to facilities-based competition over fiber-based Next Generation Access (NGA) networks. This paper initially...

The paper aims to propose a framework for assessing the maturity level of digital industry applications. The conceptual framework is based on two models: the intellectual capital (IC) management and the capability maturity model integration (CMMI). The framework comprises the IC management model...