移动互联网商业生态系统的结构变革与监管政策建议（英文）

The mobile Internet industry has experienced dramatic changes as plenty of new applications and business models emerged.This study conducts a qualitative review on the changes through adopting business ecosystem approaches.An analytical framework is established for reviewing the structure of mobile Internet business ecosystem.Then the core value,key actors,and inter-firm relationships of the mobile Internet ecosystem in the past and in the present are compared.It is found that the ecosystem structure has shifted from an MNO-centric model to a polycentric one with highly expanded value sources and diversified keystone players.Accordingly some suggestions for regulatory policy makers are provided in terms of the roles of mobile Internet in social welfare improvement,the call for a convergent regulatory system,and challenges for information security regulation.     

A Role-Based Service Level NFC Ecosystem Model

Near Field Communication (NFC) is a short range wireless communication technology allowing to communicate mobile devices within close proximity. It provides opportunity for service providers to offer various value added services to customers. NFC technology allows the usage of wide range of applications and eliminates the obligation to carry additional components other than the mobile device such as credit or payment cards, tickets, identification cards or keys. Despite its technological advantages over alternative ones, the NFC business ecosystems and services are yet to take off. The problems mainly arise with the business issues triggered by different and mostly conflicting needs of many actors in the ecosystem and several additional technical issues. In this study, by adopting a role-based service ecosystem modeling, we propose an NFC ecosystem model which perfectly specifies the roles in the ecosystem, and defines set of activities for each role, and communication structure. We analyzed NFC ecosystem in three phases as pre-installation, installation, and service usage. We have defined the activities and communication structure in the first two phases, and finally investigated the service usage phase in three different operating modes of NFC. After giving the details of the proposed ecosystem model, two use cases are given to validate the developed ecosystem model. We complete our study by discussing the requirement satisfaction.     

物联网与标准

物联网本质是 ICT 与国民生产中更多行业的联姻。标准是促进物联网应用形成规模经济效应和避免碎片化的重要手段,在涉及重大基础设施建设的项目中标准更是客户采购的前提条件。通信行业达成共识成立全球性的物联网标准组织迈出了重要的一步,以业务层和终端管理的标准化作为起点是合理的步骤,也符合整个 ICT 行业的利益。     

Why do firms adopt cloud computing? A comparative analysis based on South and North Europe firm data

In this paper we empirically investigate and compare to what extent Northern and Southern European firms view cloud computing (CC) as a means of: (a) ICT investment reduction; (b) supporting and facilitating product/service innovation and process innovation; (c) experimenting with and exploiting new ICT; and (d) supporting and facilitating electronic innovation collaboration. This is done by estimating econometrically a model of CC adoption propensity containing measures of the four main adoption motives mentioned above besides further variables that are associated with technology adoption and a series of controls for firm size, sector and country affiliation. Our study is based on a dataset collected through the e-Business W@tch Survey of the European Commission from 556 European firms from the glass, ceramic and cement sectors. These findings indicate that Southern European firms are mainly oriented towards ‘first-level’ cost (and especially investment) reduction related benefits from CC as well as from new emerging ICT, while on the contrary Northern European firms are mainly oriented towards ‘second-level’ transformation related benefits from CC, which are associated with support and facilitation of innovation and external collaboration.     

大数据分析在移动通信网络优化中的应用

如今各行业都在积极应用大数据技术来实现集约化和自动化生产.将其应用在移动通信网络中,能够实现网络优化升级,保障通信可靠性.基于此,围绕移动通信网络中大数据分析技术的应用进行探究.     

Characteristics of ICT‐Based Converging Technologies

The rising pace of technological change in information and communications technology (ICT) has provoked technological convergence by providing a new mode of diversification. This paper investigates the nature of ICT‐based converging technologies by examining comparative empirical evidence on converging versus nonconverging technologies in relation to the following issues: patent application trends, concentration across technologies, the concentration of patenting activity across firms, R&D efforts, and a technology impact index. For this study, a new operational definition of ICT‐based converging technology is derived, and a massive quantity of patents, up to around 600,000, is analyzed. This study follows the International Patent Classification as well as the modified European Commission's industry classification system for the classification of technologies and industries, respectively.     

The contribution of electronic communication media to the design process: communicative and cultural implications

Innovation in a company's design process is increasingly a matter of cooperation between the company and its customers. New information and communication technology (ICT) possibilities such as electronic communication (EC) media generate even more opportunities for companies to collaborate with customers during the early stages of research and development. This exploratory study examined the design process of five Dutch firms and the cultural and communicative implications of cooperation in the design process between the supplier and the customer using EC media. We found that the selected use of EC media for communication between R&D and customers has a positive effect on the design process. We also discovered that the characteristics of the most suitable EC media depend on the design activity and that the corporate and professional cultures of both the company and its customers involved in the cooperation seem to affect the communication media used. Finally, the future use of new ICT in the design area is discussed.     

Next Generation Wireless Infrastructure

Given the commercial success of wireless technologies that has already taken place over the last couple of decades, with a global mobile communication penetration beyond 3 billion subscribers as well as the enormous success of wireless data communication through IEEE 802.11x and Bluetooth, people could think the wireless revolution is over. However, future connectivity will be wireless and ubiquitous. Therefore the future of wireless infrastructures seems to be in front of a remarkable evolution as this paper will describe. With a vision of creating continuous seamless user connectivity as well as having physical devices/things connected through the wide spread usage of sensor and RFID near field communication technologies the network will increase in size with a order of magnitude compared to today. Additionally having the widespread Internet protocol technologies as a fundamental building block the wireless vision is additionally to create a future wireless ICT environment that can help reduce energy consumption, handle local and global disasters etc. By offering this it is envisioned that wireless ICT can create a base for tackling some of the worlds largest problems using wireless ICT. This paper describes a focused number of research issues to solve in order for this to happen. Completely new disruptive ways of building the architecture is necessary. New ways of thinking where the next level of network intelligence is fundamental, where much more network and device cooperation should be used. New efficient ways of optimizing the spectrum usage are necessary. The extent of IP-based sensor networks with explode due to the rapid evolution in the relationship between processing power, cost, power consumption and physical size.     

Testing the Interactivity Principle: Effects of Mediation, Propinquity, and Verbal and Nonverbal Modalities in Interpersonal Interaction

Early channel reliance research compared different modes of communication to assess relationships among nonverbal and verbal cues. Emerging communication technologies represent a new venue for gaining insights into the same relationships. In this article, the authors advance a principle of interactivity as a framework for decomposing some of those relationships and report an experiment in which physical proximity—whether actors are in the same place ("co-located") or interacting at a distance ("distributed")—and the availability of other nonverbal environmental, auditory, and visual information in distributed modes is varied. Results indicate that both proximity and availability of nonverbal cues affect communication processes, social judgments participants make about each other, and task performance. The authors discuss implications about gains and losses due to presence of nonverbal features.     

The challenges of building mobile underwater wireless networks for aquatic applications

The large-scale mobile underwater wireless sensor network (UWSN) is a novel networking paradigm to explore aqueous environments. However, the characteristics of mobile UWSNs, such as low communication bandwidth, large propagation delay, floating node mobility, and high error probability, are significantly different from ground-based wireless sensor networks. The novel networking paradigm poses interdisciplinary challenges that will require new technological solutions. In particular, in this article we adopt a top-down approach to explore the research challenges in mobile UWSN design. Along the layered protocol stack, we proceed roughly from the top application layer to the bottom physical layer. At each layer, a set of new design intricacies is studied. The conclusion is that building scalable mobile UWSNs is a challenge that must be answered by interdisciplinary efforts of acoustic communications, signal processing, and mobile acoustic network protocol design.     

开发绿色ICT推动节能减排

 本文首先说明ICT对节能减排的直接和间接作用。ICT产业的单位GDP能耗优于其他工业,ICT在工业设计、制造、管理、物流、销售和服务等环节的应用有助于工业和交通运输业节能减排。但随着ICT产品大量使用,其自身的节能和环保问题也不容忽视。本文介绍了通信产品近年来在节能方面的进展,以一些例子说明合理使用ICT产品可实现节能降耗,最后讨论了ICT产品的电磁辐射影响和电子垃圾的回收利用问题。     

Blockchain Energy: Blockchain in Future Energy Systems

The ongoing, in-depth transformation of the electricity sector towards increased use of alternative, renewable energy sources extends beyond a simple decentralisation drive in the electricity market. The transformation process is characterised by the interplay of old and new technologies from the energy sector as well as structural coupling with other sectors, such as the information and communications technology (ICT), enabling the technology transfer as well as market entry by information technology (IT) actors. Blockchain-based technologies have the potential to play a key role in this transition by offering decentralised interfaces and systems as well as an alternative approach to the current organisation form of the energy market. This paper discusses the applicability and prospects for blockchain-based technologies in the energy sector, which are described using the term “blockchain energy”. For the purposes of this study, blockchain energy encompasses all socio-technical and organisational configurations in the energy sector based on the utilisation of the blockchain principle for energy trading, information storage, and/or increased transparency of energy flows and energy services. In the following chapters, the authors present and discuss the current transformation in the electricity market, followed by a review of the different utilisation possibilities for blockchain technologies in the energy sector and a discussion of the barriers and potential for blockchain energy using a transition studies perspective. Finally, the opportunities and risks of blockchain energy are discussed.     

Analyzing competitive and collaborative differences among mobile ecosystems using abstracted strategy networks

During the last 5 years, we have witnessed extraordinary development in the mobile market. Apple’s launch of the iOS platform and associated App Store marketplace turned the market around, and Apple became the leading company in the business. This development caused existing players, such as Nokia, to renew their business and attracted new players, such as Google and Microsoft, to enter the market and introduce their own mobile platforms. To understand this development, we suggest that a generic abstracted model of the ecosystem around mobile platforms should be developed describing how the actors, including users, individual app developers, companies, and digital services, are connected and interact. In this work, we propose that competition and collaboration in this kind of abstracted ecosystem can be modeled and analyzed using network analysis. In our research, we derived weighted competition and collaboration networks for each mobile platform from an expert survey, and by calculating companies’ degree centrality in their networks at different times we were able to illustrate how companies’ strategies to build and maintain an ecosystem differ and develop over time. We believe that this kind of analysis is useful both for companies that build ecosystems and also for companies that plan to do business in them. The former can use it to compare their strategy with existing competitors and also evaluate emerging new ecosystems and the latter to compare and choose between possible ecosystems with which to do business.     

Impact of Cooperative R&D Projects on ICT‐Based Technology Convergence

This study examines how the characteristics of cooperative research and development (R&D) projects in the public domain impact information and communication technology (ICT) convergence. Based on the analysis of 416 cooperative R&D projects under the ICT‐based industry convergence R&D program in Korea, the study finds that the characteristics of cooperative R&D projects significantly impact ICT convergence. Moreover, the participation of public research institutes and universities is critical for ICT convergence compared with that of firms. However, in firm‐to‐firm cooperation, the participation of small and medium enterprises contributes to cross‐sectional convergence, while the participation of large firms leads to overall and longitudinal convergence. R&D inputs such as the number of partners and government subsidies exhibit an inverted U‐shaped relationship (negative quadratic effect) with technology convergence. Project duration and homogeneous partners are also critical factors for ICT convergence. The results indicate several implications and guidelines on how to effectively organize cooperative R&D projects to facilitate technology convergence.     

Handling Mobility in Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks

In Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks (WSANs), the collaborative operation of sensors enables the distributed sensing of a physical phenomenon, while actors collect and process sensor data and perform appropriate actions. WSANs can be thought of as a distributed control system that needs to timely react to sensor information with an effective action. In this paper, coordination and communication problems in WSANs with mobile actors are studied. First, a new location management scheme is proposed to handle the mobility of actors with minimal energy expenditure for the sensors, based on a hybrid strategy that includes location updating and location prediction. Actors broadcast location updates limiting their scope based on Voronoi diagrams, while sensors predict the movement of actors based on Kalman filtering of previously received updates. The location management scheme enables efficient geographical routing, and based on this, an optimal energy-aware forwarding rule is derived for sensor-actor communication. Consequently, algorithms are proposed that allow controlling the delay of the data-delivery process based on power control, and deal with network congestion by forcing multiple actors to be recipients for traffic generated in the event area. Finally, a model is proposed to optimally assign tasks to actors and control their motion in a coordinated way to accomplish the tasks based on the characteristics of the events. Performance evaluation shows the effectiveness of the proposed solution.     

新一代移动通信综合业务信息服务系统

无线应用协议 (WAP)融合了因特网技术与移动通信技术的优势 ,成为事实上的业界标准。基于WAP技术提供无线信息服务已成为目前移动通信与信息行业新的业务增长点。文章通过对WAP技术及其应用现状的分析 ,提出新一代移动通信综合业务信息服务系统解决方案。该系统将运营商优势与WAP技术充分结合 ,实现符合当前无线应用需求的运营模式和体系结构。     

海外移动医疗信息化进展

3G业务的普及以及医疗与信息通信技术的融合,为移动医疗提供了机会。当前美国是移动医疗服务部署应用最多。而在各种应用中,以信息/通信类和监测类应用部署最多I。T厂商和移动运营商积极参与医疗信息化工作,AT＆T、Voda-fone等针对医疗机构、相关企业和个人提供了解决方案和服务。未来远程监测系统将有巨大的需求空间。     

新一代智能终端系统平台Moblin发展探讨

本文结合移动终端系统平台及其应用的发展趋势,介绍新一代智能终端系统平台Moblin的体系架构以及其集成Linux开源开发思想所提供的特点,并分析其发展潜力。     

A Living Lab research approach for mobile TV

More and more, a user-centered approach is adopted for information and communication technologies (ICT) innovation research. One of the recently emerging concepts within this research tradition is the so-called ‘Living Lab’. Within this paper, we argue that the Living Lab-concept is closely linked to the notion of ‘open innovation’, the ‘interactionist’ stance regarding user research and concepts from the social shaping of technology such as ‘social learning’ and ‘innofusion’. We explore the origin and roots of this concept, explain the different visions and review a bottom-up approach of Living Lab-characteristics. We then present a concrete application of Living Lab-research into the possibilities of mobile TV, a notable example of ICT-innovations that incorporates the convergence of mobile telephones and television. This research was carried out within Flanders’ mobile TV trial ‘MADUF’ and echoes a long tradition of interactive and digital TV trials. We describe the different research steps and the most notable results they yielded, and relate these to the characteristics of the Living Lab-concept in the first part of the paper. We also propose an analysis of the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of Living Lab-research based on this case study. This way, we contend that a Living Lab-approach might serve as a way to meet the challenges posed to companies when developing ICT-innovations in general and seems suited for innovation research into television technologies in particular, but that certain issues remain to be tackled in order to optimize this kind of research.     

毫米波无线通信半导体器件技术发展趋势

随着通信产业尤其是移动通信的高速发展,无线电频谱的低端频率已趋饱和。采用各种调制方法或多址技术扩大通信系统的容量,提高频谱的利用率,也无法满足未来通信发展的需求,因而实现高速、宽带的无线通信势必向微波高频段开发新的频谱资源。毫米波由于其波长短、频带宽,可以有效地解决高速宽带无线接入面临的许多问题,因而在短距离无线通信中有着广泛的应用前景。各种半导体器件是信息和通信技术(ICT)的硬件基础,创造性研发满足毫米波无线通信应用的新兴半导体技术和电路,是提升通信系统容量、解决构建新一代通信系统关键问题的主要技术推手。文章沿着毫米波半导体器件技术创新发展脉络,从相控阵等关键技术的系统架构、半导体材料和工艺、器件设计和封装测试入手,分析总结了第五代(5G)、第六代(6G)移动通信技术毫米波系统和器件技术发展趋势。以美国DARPA的MIDAS计划为例,阐释了军用毫米波器件技术的研究前沿和进展。