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This paper presents a network architecture for provisioning communal Internet access services to residential customers. The advantages of adopting the proposed architecture are enumerated both for Internet Service Providers (ISP) and residential clients. The paper presents also the CommGate, a gateway specially developed for managing the network traffic through multiple communal accesses,. Tests were carried out simulating several community scenarios with different number of customers and generating different traffic loads. The results allow us to conclude about the performance of the CommGate and the benefits of the proposed architecture.

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The residential networking market is evolving and new operating paradigms are emerging. The ubiquitous use of Small Office/Home Office (SOHO) networks is increasing the demands on SOHO routers. These economical network elements, however, are too simple to deal with the high demands of their users, especially in residential settings where P2P, video and VoIP traffic is becoming predominant. This paper presents a communal gateway CommGate - that enables individuals in a building to share multiple communal Internet links and service facilities. The paper presents also some tests simulating several user communities with different number of customers characterized by different profiles (cf. Gold, Silver and Bronze) and generating different traffic loads. These tests illustrate the benefits of using the CommGate and the usefulness of the proposed communal architecture.

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This article describes a process for identifying the most interesting business exploitation cases (BECs) for the implementation of the Daidalos Integrated Project architecture. Starting from the characterization of the telecommunication service provision market and from the project business model framework (BMF), we analyze the main enabling players that are in the position to occupy the main roles in the info-communication value chain. From this analysis, we reason which are the most probable scenarios for establishing business relations between these players, in the present and in the near future telecommunications context. © 2008 ACM.

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The current heterogeneous world of networks and terminals combined with the generalized mobility of users pose telecommunications operators and service providers the challenge of dynamically adapt the services they provide. This paper presents a proposal to solve the problem of the adaptation of multimedia services in mobile contexts. The paper combines context-awareness techniques with user interface modeling and description to dynamically adapt telecommunications services to user resources, in terms of terminal and network conditions. The solution is mainly characterized by the approach used for resolving the existing dependencies among user interface variables, which is based on the constraints theory, and by the mechanism for acquiring the user context information, which uses the Parlay/OSA interfaces. The experiments and tests carried out with these techniques demonstrate a general Improvement of the adaptation of multimedia services in mobile environments, in comparison to systems that do not dynamically integrate the user context information in the adaptation process. © 2008 Academy Publisher.