2 1 The innovative transport systems and the CityMobil project 10 1.1 The research questions 10 2 The state of art in the field of automatic transport systems 12 2.1 Case studies and demand studies for innovative transport systems 12 3 The design and implementation of surveys 14 3.1 Definition of experimental design 14 3.2 Questionnaire design and delivery 16 3.3 First analyses on the collected sample 18 4 Calibration of Logit Multionomial demand models 21 4.1 Methodology 21 4.2 Calibration of the “full” model. 22 4.3 Calibration of the “final” model 24 4.4 The demand analysis through the final Multinomial Logit model 25 5 The analysis of interaction between the demand and socioeconomic attributes 31 5.1 Methodology 31 5.2 Application of Mixed Logit models to the demand 31 5.3 Analysis of the interactions between demand and socioeconomic attributes through Mixed Logit models 32 5.4 Mixed Logit model and interaction between age and the demand for the CTS 38 5.5 Demand analysis with Mixed Logit model 39 6 Final analyses and conclusions 45 6.1 Comparison between the results of the analyses 45 6.2 Conclusions 48 6.3 Answers to the research questions and future developments 52

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Multi-access edge computing (MEC) is an emerging ecosystem, which aims at converging telecommunication and IT services, providing a cloud computing platform at the edge of the radio access network MEC offers storage and computational resources at the edge, reducing latency for mobile end users and utilizing more efficiently the mobile backhaul and core networks This paper introduces a survey on MEC and focuses on the fundamental key enabling technologies It elaborates MEC orchestration considering both individual services and a network of MEC platforms supporting mobility, bringing light into the different orchestration deployment options In addition, this paper analyzes the MEC reference architecture and main deployment scenarios, which offer multi-tenancy support for application developers, content providers, and third parties Finally, this paper overviews the current standardization activities and elaborates further on open research challenges

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On Multi-Access Edge Computing: A Survey of the Emerging 5G Network Edge Cloud Architecture and Orchestration

The technologies, architectures, and methodologies traditionally used to develop distributed applications exhibit a variety of limitations and drawbacks when applied to large scale distributed settings (e.g., the Internet). In particular, they fail in providing the desired degree of configurability, scalability, and customizability. To address these issues, researchers are investigating a variety of innovative approaches. The most promising and intriguing ones are those based on the ability of moving code across the nodes of a network, exploiting the notion of mobile code. As an emerging research field, code mobility is generating a growing body of scientific literature and industrial developments. Nevertheless, the field is still characterized by the lack of a sound and comprehensive body of concepts and terms. As a consequence, it is rather difficult to understand, assess, and compare the existing approaches. In turn, this limits our ability to fully exploit them in practice, and to further promote the research work on mobile code. Indeed, a significant symptom of this situation is the lack of a commonly accepted and sound definition of the term mobile code itself. This paper presents a conceptual framework for understanding code mobility. The framework is centered around a classification that introduces three dimensions: technologies, design paradigms, and applications. The contribution of the paper is two-fold. First, it provides a set of terms and concepts to understand and compare the approaches based on the notion of mobile code. Second, it introduces criteria and guidelines that support the developer in the identification of the classes of applications that can leverage off of mobile code, in the design of these applications, and, finally, in the selection of the most appropriate implementation technologies. The presentation of the classification is intertwined with a review of state-of-the-art in the field. Finally, the use of the classification is exemplified in a case study.

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Understanding code mobility

The evolution of the telecommunications environment toward an open distributed processing system, influenced by the recent developments in the framework of open distributed processing (ODP) and intelligent networks (INs), is addressed. The trader is a component for solving autonomy issues, since entities/objects which register for cooperation with other entities at the trader are limiting their autonomy to a specific degree. In contrast to manual negotiations between importers and exporters the trader represents a trusted third party automating these negotiations. The possible mapping of IN and ODP concepts and the application of the ODP trader in INs to support different autonomy issues in the provision of IN services are discussed. >

Using traders for autonomous service provision in intelligent networks

Converged media and communication services (COMCO) is the conceptual approach of integrating telecommunication, Web 2.0 and Media/IPTV in one architectural approach. Current available service delivery platform (SDP) concepts are silo approaches, which belong more or less to one of the three groups: (mobile/fix) telecommunication SDP, IPTV SDP and pure Web SDP. The groups have in common the integration of OSS/BSS and identity management. A main concept of a SDP is beside the service delivery also easy service creation and thus reduced time-to-market. Such a concept of service creation is covered in the business process model and its view of service dependency and service definition. Service oriented architecture (SOA) is the conceptual framework within such a business process model, as it sees every service as loose coupled functional unit. The recombination of new services can be reduced to the recombination of existing services. So, it is reasonable to apply SOA concepts within a SDP, which also consist of a set of components as 1) telecommunication services (presence, messaging, VoIP call control), 2) Media/IPTV services (media control of VoD and Linear TV) and 3) Web 2.0 services (SOAP access to commercial deployed web services). When it comes to IMS, we speak about a NGN in terms of QoS and gateway to legacy networks (GSM, ISDN, POTS), but also about a SDP in terms of application server and AAA. Speaking strictly, we may use the application server in the context of SDP as abstraction layer towards the NGN. Such application servers poses a service enabler layer which is widely usable towards the trinity of telecommunication, Web 2.0 and IPTV combined in one single SDP concept. This paper addresses the orchestration of these application servers within a SOA inspired process model.

Converged Media and Communication Services

Existing telecommunication networks and classical roles of operators are subject to fundamental change. Many network operators are currently seeking for new sources to generate revenue by exposing network capabilities to 3rd party service providers. At the same time we can observe that services on the World Wide Web (WWW) are becoming mature in terms of the definition of APIs that are offered towards other services. The combinations of those services are commonly referred to as Web 2.0 mash-ups. Rapid service design and creation becomes therefore important to meet the requirements in a changing technology and competitive market environment. This report describes our approach to enable a service creation environment based on model driven design paradigm for complex (orchestrated) real-time communications services through a service broker on top of Next Generation Networks (NGN) to combine the emerging Web/telecommunications service space.

Rapid service creation using eXtreme Model Driven Design for real-time communications services on top of Next Generation Networks

With the emergence of smart home environments, services are constantly subject to changes, seeking the customer's full satisfaction. Enriching these services with innovative approaches such as context-aware, mobile, adaptable and interactive mechanisms, enables users to experience a variety of personalised services seamlessly across different platforms and technologies. Moreover, considering advertising as the enabler for next generation services, it is important to explore its integration into new domains. This paper, therefore presents a framework approach to address advertising solutions focusing on smart home environments, enriching the overall user quality of experience. In addition, by over viewing the current smart homes market scenario, it provides the vision to overcome the established advertising paradigms focusing on key points like user privacy protection, online social networks and reality mining technologies.

Smart advertising in the home of the future

Effective content distribution, which is safe against denial of service attacks, is one of the greatest challenges for the content and service providers. Peer-to-peer technologies are known to be unaffected by such attacks, but lack any control by content owners or copyright holders. The work presented in this Paper combines the effective and reliable content availability, known from P2P, with the capabilities of IMS, which is used for access control, charging and service discovery. Commercial use cases are discussed for content consumption

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Using traders for autonomous service provision in intelligent networks

Converged Media and Communication Services

Rapid service creation using eXtreme Model Driven Design for real-time communications services on top of Next Generation Networks

Smart advertising in the home of the future

Ims secured content delivery over peer-to-peer networks