A framework for standardization in telecommunications and information technology

Sherif, Mostafa Hashem

doi:10.1109/35.917510

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“…This means promoting anticipatory standardisation. Sherif [5] linked standards timing with the technology lifecycle, and derived three classes of standards. Figure 1 shows the technology Scurve depicting the trajectory of technology, from idea to mature technology, and transition to a new technology.…”

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Standards as enablers for innovation in education - the breakdown of European pre-standardisation

Hoel

2014

Proceedings of the 2014 ITU Kaleidoscope Academic Conference: Living in a Converged World - Impossible Without Standards?

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Content industries go through a demanding time adjusting to the digital age, revamping their business processes when sales of paper documents are not an option any more. Formal standardisation is facing the same challenges as organisations like ISO and CEN see sales of publications as their core business. This paper presents a case study from European pre-standardisation. CEN Workshop on Learning Technologies was in 2013 put on hold due to the threat the European standardisation body CEN sees to its business model. The conflict is centred on open work processes, and open and freely available documents. Standardisation experts in education claim that stakeholder engagement, input from research, and willingness to implement the developed standards will be harmed by following CEN's strict interpretation of their rules. Open Research, Open innovation, Open Data and a series of other open policies are now values that make up the foundation for driving the Innovation cycle underlying standardisation activities. Barriers to openness could hamper participation from research and restrict implementations and user engagement.

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Standards as enablers for innovation in education - the breakdown of European pre-standardisation

Hoel

2014

Proceedings of the 2014 ITU Kaleidoscope Academic Conference: Living in a Converged World - Impossible Without Standards?

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“…2 We refer to these instances as problems of integrity -that is, a specific subset of compatibility problems. If the integrity of a standard is harmed, fragmentation of the market looms.…”

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A standard's integrity: can it be safeguarded?

Egyedi

Hudson

2005

IEEE Commun. Mag.

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When a compatibility standard is adapted, extended, or selectively implemented, its purpose is likely to be undermined. Its value declines sharply because interoperability between standard-compliant implementations becomes uncertain. The integrity of the standard is at stake. This article discusses strategies intended to safeguard standards' integrity. The examples are set in the context of the development of Java, a de facto standard. In what manner and to what degree can the integrity of standards be protected?

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“…The methodology is illustrated through a hands-on case study conducted on an existing wireless communication system. The development and standardization of new telecommunication and information technologies is a rather complex process which requires a comprehensive framework (Sherif, 2001). The result of such a process is a new agreement that should satisfy all of the involved parties, such as: vendors, providers, and most importantly service users.…”

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Engineering of Communication Systems and Protocols

Latkoski¹,

Popovski²

2012

Wireless Communications and Networks - Recent Advances

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The complexity of the communication systems and protocols is increasing constantly, while the communication products' time-to-market is becoming shorter. Afterthoughts communication system redesign due to lack of performance is financially and time expensive, and it is unacceptable. This book chapter proposes a method for improving the telecommunication systems, by means of enhancement the performance of the protocols they rely on. The proposed engineering of communication systems is based on a formal method and it provides an early-phase performance evaluation of the underlying communication protocols. The methodology is illustrated through a hands-on case study conducted on an existing wireless communication system. The development and standardization of new telecommunication and information technologies is a rather complex process which requires a comprehensive framework (Sherif, 2001). The result of such a process is a new agreement that should satisfy all of the involved parties, such as: vendors, providers, and most importantly service users. To create a comprehensive communication standard and consequently a reliable communication system, many strategic and tactical issues need to be considered. The missing question is how to produce a standard that specifies a protocol or a system with high performance. The lack of performance issue might be a major cause for pitfall of entire communication systems. Most of the problems result from poor protocol specifications or from its enormous complexity. Furthermore, the design errors caused by the short and intensive creation period usually remain hidden until the testing and implementation phases of the communication product development. Fixing the problems after product's delivery for communication software and hardware increases the cost of the product by factor of 100 to 1000 compared to the fixing of the problem in the analysis phase.High performance communication protocols which are untainted of functional errors are crucial in the telecommunications sector where product expectation cycle is denominated in decades instead of years. In order to develop such a protocol, two aspects should be fulfilled: introduction of formal methods during the specification process and integration of the performance-related activities in the early phases of the communication system specification and development. The former one is already taking place as a result of the need www.intechopen.com Wireless Communications and Networks -Recent Advances

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A framework for standardization in telecommunications and information technology

Cited by 39 publications

References 4 publications

Standards as enablers for innovation in education - the breakdown of European pre-standardisation

Standards as enablers for innovation in education - the breakdown of European pre-standardisation

A standard's integrity: can it be safeguarded?

Engineering of Communication Systems and Protocols

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