Mobile Telecommunication Networks Research Articles

The Use of Licensing to Promote Competition among Telecom Operators and the Growth of Mobile Telecommunication Networks in Nigeria, 2011-2022

Many practitioners and investors have praised the use of licensing to enhance competition in the telecom sector due to its real effects on the Nigerian economy. However, since 2011, subscribers in the industry have had a mixed experience with the license issue due to problems with telecom companies' exploitative tendencies and antics, which make it difficult for customers to acquire reliable and reasonably priced telecoms services. With a focus on the institutional and legal safeguards put in place by the government to ensure that the operators abide by the licensing and regulation powers granted to them by the law, the study essentially examines how licensing affects competition among telecom operators and the expansion of mobile telecom networks in Nigeria. The paper's methodology adopted the documentary approach, and the data were ostensibly gathered from secondary sources and examined in terms of substance. Neo-liberal theory of the state provided a sufficient theoretical foundation for the examination of the study. The paper's findings demonstrate that while the expansion of Nigeria's mobile telecom networks is aided by the use of licensing to promote competition among telecom operators, consumers' access to affordable and high-quality telecommunications services is restricted by the exploitative tendencies and antics of telecom companies. The paper's suggestions were based on these findings, and one of them was that Telecommunications service tariffs must always be cost-oriented and reflect the actual costs borne by operators to provide the services in question.

Effects of Strategic Planning and Innovation on Performance of Mobile Telecommunication Firms in Ghana

The purpose of this study is to assess the effect of strategic planning and constant innovation strategies on the performance of firms in the telecommunication industry. The study used a quantitative method and cross-sectional survey design with a purposive sampling technique to collect data from the offices of Mobile Telecommunication Networks in Ghana (MTN). The findings indicate strategic planning practices of the telecommunication industry had a significant positive relationship with performance. However, the innovation practices were found to have no significant influence on performance. The study findings reveal that the players in the MTN industry who focus more on strategic planning initiatives receive high performance. The outcome of the study findings indicates the need for the telecommunication industry to focus more attention on strategic planning to enhance performance. The paper provides the pathways to policy makers in the telecommunication industry to communicate effectively with their staff about strategic and innovation decisions to ensure efficiency in performance.

Statistical analysis of call setup success rate for 4 g networks in yenagoa-southern Nigeria

This work attempts to effectively compare Call Setup Success Rate CSSR against industry benchmarks and competitor networks to identify areas for improvement and sets performance targets. Four mobile telecommunication networks operational in Yenagoa – Southern Nigeria were considered. Results obtained shows that MTN and Airtel performed above the regulator’s benchmark of 98% in all cases, while Globacom and 9moblie had instances where their performance fell below the benchmark. The maximum values obtained within the period in view was 99.79% and it was gotten from 9mobile while the minimum value obtained was 94.07% and it was from Globacom. In the years 2017, 2019 and 2020 all the networks had values exceeding the NCC’s benchmark, this affirms that it is possible for the networks to perform optimally if adequate measures are put in place for improved QoS.

Customers Reactions on Service Delivery by Major Telecommunications Operators in Nigerian Newspapers

Data from the Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC) stated that MTN lost a record of 667,245 Internet subscribers in one month in 2019.Figure shows that MTN’s total Internet subscribers stood at 52.2 million in July 2019 while the number dropped to 51.6 million in August 2019. It was observed that customers’ reactions bordered on issues ranging from unsolicited calls and short message services (SMS), unsubstantiated deductions of call credit units, poor service connection, network failure, cumbersome SIM swap process among others. This paper, thus, examines two Nigerian national dailies-The Punch and The Nation newspapers coverage of customers’ reaction to mobile telecommunication network services from 2015 to 2017. Using the content analysis research method, the study is anchored on the Social Exchange theory. The findings revealed a significant pattern of more negative than positive reactions by subscribers within the years under study. The negative complaints were high in 2015, dropped significantly in 2016, and rose again in 2017. On this, MTN recorded 15 (or 32%); Airtel 13 (or 28%), Glo10 (or 21%), while Etisalat (now 9Mobile) was 9 (or 19%), as against Etisalat (9 Mobile), 9 (or 19%), Glo 4 (or 8%) and Airtel 3 (or 6%) positive reactions by the customers during the period. Study thus recommends that Nigerian newspapers should once in a while carryout a survey on quality of service delivery by GSM operators and use such stories on the front page of their respective newspapers.

The role of RS and GIS in Mobile Telecommunication Network Planning and Simulation

The role of RS and GIS in Mobile Telecommunication Network Planning and Simulation

Advanced Air Mobility and Evolution of Mobile Networks

Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) is a promising field of services based on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), which aims to provide people and cargo transportation services in underserved areas. The recent advancements in the fields of aviation and mobile telecommunication networks have opened up multiple opportunities for the development of disruptive AAM applications. This paper presents the overview and identifies the major requirements of emerging AAM use cases to confront them with the features provided by the 5G System (5GS), which is commonly considered the key enabler in providing commercial AAM services. The major benefits, gaps, and issues regarding using 5GS to serve AAM operations are identified and discussed. Finally, the future perspectives for AAM services are outlined with a focus on the potential benefit that can be provided as the mobile network evolves towards 6G.

A study on mobile telecommunication systems using OpenAirInterface platform

Significant progress has been made in deploying 5G mobile networks in the last few years, providing rapid connectivity and low-latency communications. This study thoroughly analyzes the deployment of 5G networks utilizing the Open Air Interface (OAI), a free and open-source wireless communication technology. The survey gives a general overview of OAI's various fields and applications. It then looks at numerous uses and industries where OAI-based networks for 5G have been effectively implemented. The paper includes in-depth discussions of OAI's technical features and information on how it supports creating software-defined radio (SDR) platforms for 5G networks. It emphasizes OAI's versatility and flexibility, allowing researchers and developers to test various network setups and protocols. The survey's results show how OAI is becoming increasingly crucial to designing and rolling out 5G networks in various sectors. Researchers and professionals can investigate fresh applications and services that make the most of 5G technology by utilizing the capabilities of OAI. The taxonomy is designed and developed by categorizing the existing proposed solutions using OAI to easily deploy mobile telecommunication networks cost-effectively and flexibly to support various features and functionalities. Each category in the developed taxonomy is discussed and compared regarding multiple parameters.

Semantics of dynamic hiding in mobile UTP-CSP

We present the semantics of the dynamic hiding operator, which allows hiding new channels as they are acquired in a mobile network. However, silent channels cannot be moved out. Using dynamic hiding, we model the behaviour of a mobile telecommunications network Private Branch Exchange (PBX), which allows the network operator to lease some channels for private use.

Analysis of the Influence of External Environmental Factors, Material Factors, Project Specifications and Team Capabilities on H3I Project Performance Installation of BTS Devices in Mobile Telecommunications Networks

Analysis of the Influence of External Environmental Factors, Material Factors, Project Specifications and Team Capabilities on H3I Project Performance Installation of BTS Devices in Mobile Telecommunications Networks

ASSESSMENT OF QUALITY OF SERVICE CHARACTERISTICS OF SIMILAR TRAFFIC IN GSM STANDARD MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS

P/M/1, which models the service processes of self-similar GPRS packet traffic in GSM standard mobile telecommunication networks, including Pareto and limited Pareto distributions, and fBM/D/1/∝ type single-channel mass service system, which takes into account the self-similarity of this traffic, has been viewed. Development of telecommunication networks. has gone through many different stages of development to the current modern networks, which eventually resulted in a large number of different types of mobile telecommunication networks. One of such networks is GSM (Global system for mobile communication) standard mobile telecommunication networks. In these networks, the directions of rapid development of modern service services are observed recently, one of these directions is the GPRS (General packet radio service) superstructure service, which is considered the superstructure of the GSM mobile network and carries out the transmission of data in packets. Analytical models of these systems are developed based on them Analytical methods have been proposed for evaluating relevant quality of service characteristics such as the relative average waiting time of packets in these systems, average queue length, buffer volume, and packet dwell time in the system. As well as the nature of the dependence of the shape parameter of the Pareto distribution on the Herst parameter was determined based on the experiment.

Contesting Infrastructural Futures: 5G Opposition as a Technological Drama

This paper addresses the public contestation of the rollout of the fifth generation of mobile telecommunications networks (5G) in the Netherlands. Drawing on Pfaffenberger’s framework of technological dramas, we analyze the variety of symbolic expressions about 5G made in documents published by “design constituencies” leading the technology’s implementation, “ambivalent intermediaries” reporting on 5G’s implementation and its emerging controversial status in the news, and by “impact constituencies” who organize on Facebook to oppose against 5G. The analysis describes a variety of publicly performed narratives and activities that build on symbolic meanings of a supposed public need for 5G, imaginaries of 5G futures, and scientifically manageable and responsible innovation. The paper demonstrates how the technological drama of 5G is constituted by tensions between different interpretations of these publicly performed meanings. However, amidst the drama, meanings of public need and imaginaries of 5G futures are temporarily suspended, constraining the stage for opposition and enforcing partial closure of the conflict.

Towards Innovative Solutions for Monitoring Precipitation in Poorly Instrumented Regions: Real-Time System for Collecting Power Levels of Microwave Links of Mobile Phone Operators for Rainfall Quantification in Burkina Faso

Since the 1990s, mobile telecommunication networks have gradually become denser around the world. Nowadays, large parts of their backhaul network consist of commercial microwave links (CMLs). Since CML signals are attenuated by rainfall, the exploitation of records of this attenuation is an innovative and an inexpensive solution for precipitation monitoring purposes. Performance data from mobile operators’ networks are crucial for the implementation of this technology. Therefore, a real-time system for collecting and storing CML power levels from the mobile phone operator “Telecel Faso” in Burkina Faso has been implemented. This new acquisition system, which uses the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), can simultaneously record the transmitted and received power levels from all the CMLs to which it has access, with a time resolution of one minute. Installed at “Laboratoire des Matériaux et Environnement de l’Université Joseph KI-ZERBO (Burkina Faso)”, this acquisition system is dynamic and has gradually grown from eight, in 2019, to more than 1000 radio links of Telecel Faso’s network in 2021. The system covers the capital Ouagadougou and the main cities of Burkina Faso (Bobo Dioulasso, Ouahigouya, Koudougou, and Kaya) as well as the axes connecting Ouagadougou to these cities.

E-literary creativity on the dark web: Covid-19 Whatsapp bot’s interactive storytelling in WhatsApperature

Social media affordances prioritize automatic interactive digital narrative about the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic to counteract misinformation and fake news in Nigeria. To engage the public about their health risk, WhatsApp chatbot was launched by Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) in collaboration with UNICEF on the U-Report platform. It is the first Nigerian multilingual SMS-based interactive chatbot to run on all mobile telecommunication networks (the dark web), WhatsApp and Facebook Messengers to address health issues. This essay describes SMS-Chatbot which offers narratives to counter health misinformation in five languages-English, Pidgin, Hausa, Yoruba and Igbo. A techno-discursive analysis is presented to explain the relationship between the technotext and the wreader by employing Pedro Barbosa’s theory of wreader[1] on the extracted English version which is perceived as the digital literary practice on WhatsApp, that is, “WhatsApperature”.
 
 [1] Blend of writer and reader, coined by George Landow (professor) in English. https://www.wordsense.eu/wreader/ consulted 24/10/2021 Wreader it has been used by Pedro Barbosa in Portugal since early late 1970s (Vuillemin 1999).

Using Machine Learning Techniques for Rainfall Estimation Based on Microwave Links of Mobile Telecommunication Networks

Using Machine Learning Techniques for Rainfall Estimation Based on Microwave Links of Mobile Telecommunication Networks

A node trust factor linked privacy preservation model in 5G networks with a multi-stage authentication model

There has been a dramatic expansion in the number and frequency of relationships between entities in mobile telecommunications networks over the last several years. For theseinteractions to be profitable, the parties involved must be able to count on one another. Since mobile networks require trust and reputation models to create feasible communications in 5 G and beyond networks, a collection of entities can create chains of operations between cross-operators with privacy and trustworthiness through mobile telecommunication network models. A major impediment to widespread communication beyond 5 G networks is the absence of automated, efficient, and scalable models for creating security and trust. Multitenancy and active infrastructure sharing will be major facilitators of new business models as 5 G networks expand. New security concerns are emerging due to these new opportunities, which is one of the primary obstacles for the mass implementation of 5 G networks. There are several ways in which attackers might use 5G-enabled situations to undertake lateral moves and disrupt 5 G services and infrastructure resources. Existing trust and security models cannot deal with the dynamic nature of the 5 G infrastructural threats or the multi-tenant security issues. Hence, we propose a Mobile Node Trust Factor Linked Privacy Preservation model for 5 G multi-stage authentication models in this work. A threat model for multi-stage authentication scenarios in an underlying 5 G network infrastructure is used to demonstrate how this model can be used. For secure end-to-end communication, authorization and strong authentication are necessary. A combination of anonymous authentication and authorization is needed to preserve the privacy of mobile devices which share personal information. The proposed model is compared with the traditional models and the proposed model results exhibit better performance.

5G mobile networks: reviewing security control correctness for mischievous activity

A mobile telecommunications network has arguably become a vital part of today’s critical communications infrastructure underpinning society’s interconnectedness. A mobile telecommunications network can be considered a critical communications infrastructure that has been built upon a complex set of network technologies. However, the migration in recent years from pre-5G to 5G network technologies has presented the mobile telecommunications network operators with not only several security-related challenges but also potential unfortunate risk exposure. A new approach called Control-Risk-Correctness (CRC) addresses the need for evaluating a complex mix of network technology and the associated trade-offs between security and risk. CRC simplifies the analysis by examining the mobile telecommunications network from the perspective of security control effectiveness and risk treatments. This article outlines the application of CRC when assessing a mobile telecommunication network and highlights direct risk mitigation treatments in an aim to increase security control effectiveness and decrease risk exposure. CRC usefulness will assist in the evaluation of existing networks and safeguarding new networks over the coming years.

A survey on privacy for B5G/6G: New privacy challenges, and research directions

Massive developments in mobile wireless telecommunication networks have been made during the last few decades. At present, mobile users are getting familiar with the latest 5G networks, and the discussion for the next generation of Beyond 5G (B5G)/6G networks has already been initiated. It is expected that B5G/6G will push the existing network capabilities to the next level, with higher speeds, enhanced reliability and seamless connectivity. To make these expectations a reality, research is progressing on new technologies, architectures, and intelligence-based decision-making processes related to B5G/6G. Privacy considerations are a crucial aspect that requires further attention in such developments, as billions of people and devices will be transmitting data through the upcoming network. However, the main recognition remains biased towards the network security. A discussion focused on privacy of B5G/6G is lacking at the moment. To address the gap, this paper provides a comprehensive survey on privacy-related aspects of B5G/6G networks. First, it discusses a taxonomy of different privacy perspectives. Based on the taxonomy, the paper then conceptualizes a set of challenges that appear as barriers to reach privacy preservation. Next, this work provides a set of solutions applicable to the proposed architecture of B5G/6G networks to mitigate the challenges. It also provides an overview of standardization initiatives for privacy preservation. Finally, the paper concludes with a roadmap of future directions, which will be an arena for new research towards privacy-enhanced B5G/6G networks. This work provides a basis for privacy aspects that will significantly impact peoples’ daily lives when using these future networks.

Short-term rainfall prediction using MLA based on commercial microwave links of mobile telecommunication networks

Short-term rainfall prediction using MLA based on commercial microwave links of mobile telecommunication networks

Influence of Airtel Television Advertising on the Choice of Mobile Telecommunication Network by Students of Institute of Management and Technology, Enugu

Advertising is charged with the responsibilities of promoting goods and services, thereby creating awareness about the product and, persuading target audience and influence patronage from consumers and prospective consumers. Television is one of the most powerful and influential medium of communication around the world. Most of the advertisers rely on television for advertisement of their products and services to attract the viewers across the globe. This study therefore, assessed the influence of Airtel television advertising on the choice of mobile telecommunication network by students of the Institute of Management and Technology, Enugu. Literatures were reviewed to provide empirical support to the study. The study was anchored on the Cultivation theory. The researchers adopted the survey research method for the study. A sample of 387 was drawn from a population of 11,525 respondents using the Taro Yamane formula. The measuring instrument of the study was the questionnaire structured into open-ended and close-ended questions and distributed to the sampled population. The research questions were analysed using simple percentage table. The researchers found that IMT Enugu students use Airtel network and exposed heavily to Airtel television advertisements. The study recommended that advertising messages should both be persuasive and reminder-oriented.

A Study on Scalar Multiplication Parallel Processing for X25519 Decryption of 5G Core Network SIDF Function for mMTC IoT Environment

When 5G telecommunication becomes a standardized and widely used communication medium, it must be implemented in coherence with certain 5G network standards and requirements. One such requirement is a Subscription Concealed Identifier called SUCI. SUCI prevents the exposure of international mobile subscriber identity (IMSI), which was a vulnerability in previous generation mobile telecommunication networks. Unlike IMSI, SUCI is encrypted and transmitted using a symmetric key cryptographic algorithm, to prevent the aforementioned vulnerabilities. However, for the first terminal to be encrypted, it is necessary to exchange a key with the home network, and this key exchange for SUCI encryption is performed through the Elliptic Curve Integrated Encryption Scheme (ECIES) key exchange algorithm, which is a public-key encryption scheme. However, ECIES uses more computing resources compared to a symmetric key cryptographic algorithm. Additionally, for 5G Subscriber Identity Deconcealing Function (SIDF) to satisfy the massive machine-type communication (mMTC) requirements of 5G, it is necessary to decrypt at least a million SUCIs within a short time. This puts a great burden on the 5G home network to provide the mMTC service for IoT. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a method of constructing 5G SIDF in an mMTC IoT environment. A key method of the proposed 5G SIDF configuration is the use of GPUs. This proposal was aimed at reducing the load in the mMTC environment by performing parallel processing of all cryptographic operations performed in the SIDF using a GPU. In particular, we focused on parallelization of public-key encryption algorithms. In addition, we also compared the method proposed in this paper through a survey of various 5G security products.