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2007 Program 

    

Sunday, September 30, 2007

8:30 AM - 10:10 AM Sessions

  

 

Regulating Next Generation Networks
    

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Papers:

Communications Demand in Next Generation Networks
James Alleman, University of Colorado
Paul Rappoport, Temple University
    
Regulatory Approachs to Next Generation Networks (NGNs): An International Comparison
J. Scott Marcus, wik-Consult GmbH
Dieter Elixmann, wik-Consult GmbH
     
  On the Regulation of Quality of Service Provisioning for Next Generation Networks in Spain and the European Union
    Juan Rendón, Department of Information and Communication Technologies, Pompeu Fabra University
    Johan Zuidweg, Department of Information and Communication Technologies, Pompeu Fabra University
     
  Next Generation of Information Infrastructure: A Comparative Case Study of Korea vs. the U.S.
    Dong-Hee Shin, Pennsylvania State University Berks
    

Broadband Access

    

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The Economic Impact of Broadband Deployment in Kentucky
David Shideler, Murray State University
Narine Badasyan, Murray State University
Laura Taylor, Connected Nation
    
Encouraging Broadband Internet Access in the TV White Space: The Licensed Option
Charles L. Jackson, JTC, LLC
Dorothy Robyn, The Brattle Group
  
Consumer Sovereignty: Redrawing the Boundaries between Industry-Specific and General Business Legal Regimes for Telecommunications and Broadband Access Services
Barbara A. Cherry, Department of Telecommunications, Indiana University
    

WiFi and WiMax as Broadband

    

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To Be or Not to Be: A Comparative Study of City-wide Municipal WiFi in the US
Martin B.H. Weiss, School of Information Science, University of Pittsburgh
KuangChiu Huang, RSchool of Information Science, University of Pittsburgh
  
A Spectrum Trading Architecture for WiMax
Carlos E. Caicedo, School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh
Martin B. H. Weiss, School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh
  
Wireless Broadband from Backhaul to Community Service: Cooperative Provision and Related Models of Local Signal Access
M. Wong
  
The Art of Spectrum Lobbying: America's $480 Billion Spectrum Giveaway, How it Happened, and How to Prevent it from Recurring
J.H. Snider, Columbia Institute for Tele-Information
 

Economics and Technology of IP Networks

    

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Papers: Complexity of Internet Interconnections: Technology, Incentives and Implications for Policy
    Peyman Faratin
    David D. Clark, MIT CSAIL
    Patrick Gilmore
    Steve Bauer
    A. Berger
    William Lehr
    
Cooperative Measurement and Modeling of Open Networked Systems
S. Meinrath
    
Papers: The Economics of Next Generation Access Networks and Regulatory Governance in Europe: One Size Does not Fit All
Giovanni Battista Amendola, Telecom Italia, Public Affairs,
Lorenzo Maria Pupillo, Telecom Italia, Public Affairs and Columbia Institute for Tele Information
    
The Evolving Internet - Traffic, Engineering, and Roles
Joseph D. Houle, AT & T
K. K. Ramakrishnan, AT & T
Rita Sadhvani, AT & T
Murat Yuksel, University of Nevada-Reno
Shiv Kalyanaraman, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
    
 

The Human Side of Policy

    

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Papers: The Lack of Racial and Gender Diversity in Broadcast Ownership & the Effects of FCC Policy: An Empirical Analysis
    S. Derek Turner, Free Press
    Mark N. Cooper
    
The Formation and Implementation of Closed Captioning Policy in the United States
John L. Sullivan, Muhlenberg College
Amy B. Jordan, Annenberg Public Policy Center
    
Mergers, Jobs and Wages in the US Telecommunications Industry
Sumit Majumdar, University of Texas at Dallas
    
Mobile Phone as Scaffolding Technology: How Low Literacy Groups Might Learn Computing
Andrea Kavanaugh, Virginia Tech
Debbie Denise Reese, Virginia Tech
Manuel Perez-Quinones, Virginia Tech
    

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