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  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,488 Views
27 Pages

Combining Telecom Data with Heterogeneous Data Sources for Traffic and Emission Assessments—An Agent-Based Approach

  • Nastasija Grujić,
  • Sanja Brdar,
  • Sjoukje Osinga,
  • Gert Jan Hofstede and ,
  • Ioannis N. Athanasiadis,
  • Miloš Pljakić,
  • Nikola Obrenović,
  • Miro Govedarica and
  • Vladimir Crnojević
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

To create quality decision-making tools that would contribute to transport sustainability, we need to build models relying on accurate, timely, and sufficiently disaggregated data. In spite of today’s ubiquity of big data, practical application...

  • Article
  • Open Access
57 Citations
15,995 Views
19 Pages

Numerous valuable clients can be lost to competitors in the telecommunication industry, leading to profit loss. Thus, understanding the reasons for client churn is vital for telecommunication companies. This study aimed to develop a churn prediction...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Big Data Analytics, Privacy and Visualization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,041 Views
27 Pages

Large telecom-service-provider networks are typically based on complex communications infrastructures comprising millions of network devices. The performance monitoring of such networks is a very demanding and challenging task. A large amount of data...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Big Data Technologies: Explorations and Analytics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
16,068 Views
19 Pages

Impact of Capital Structure on Profitability: Panel Data Evidence of the Telecom Industry in the United States

  • Houshang Habibniya,
  • Suzan Dsouza,
  • Mustafa Raza Rabbani,
  • Nishad Nawaz and
  • Rezart Demiraj

2 August 2022

Debt finance, when considered a source of finance, always leads to financial risk; however, it is also considered a source of increased profitability in the normal business scenario. It has always been challenging to find the correct debt equity comb...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,292 Views
46 Pages

Wangiri Fraud Detection: A Comprehensive Approach to Unlabeled Telecom Data

  • Amirreza Balouchi,
  • Meisam Abdollahi,
  • Ali Eskandarian,
  • Kianoush Karimi Pour Kerman and ,
  • Elham Majd,
  • Neda Azouji and
  • Amirali Baniasadi
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

27 December 2025

Wangiri fraud is a pervasive telecommunications scam that exploits missed calls to lure victims into dialing premium-rate numbers, resulting in significant financial losses for operators and consumers. This paper presents a comprehensive machine lear...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cybersecurity in the Age of AI, IoT, and Edge Computing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
6,478 Views
13 Pages

Optimizing Customer Retention in the Telecom Industry: A Fuzzy-Based Churn Modeling with Usage Data

  • Tomasz Zdziebko,
  • Piotr Sulikowski,
  • Wojciech Sałabun,
  • Małgorzata Przybyła-Kasperek and
  • Iwona Bąk

Churn is a serious challenge for the telecommunications industry because of the much higher costs of gaining new customers than maintaining existing ones. Therefore, efforts to increase loyalty and decrease customer churn are the focus of telecom&rsq...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Research in Technology and Information Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,919 Views
22 Pages

2 June 2023

In the construction of a telecom-fraud risk warning and intervention-effect prediction model, how to apply multivariate heterogeneous data to the front-end prevention and management of telecommunication network fraud has become one of the focuses of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information Security and Privacy: From IoT to IoV)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,262 Views
23 Pages

Due to the limitations of mobile phone positioning technology in the past, it is difficult for an advertising system to obtain users’ locations. Although there are many advertising delivery ideas in the market, time and location-based advertising del...

(This article belongs to the Section Big Data and Augmented Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,495 Views
26 Pages

5 February 2025

Predicting customer churn is essential for telecommunications companies to maintain profitability. However, training models on historical models leads to performance degradation when they are applied to future conditions—a phenomenon known as c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,284 Views
28 Pages

Development of Methodology for Defining a Pattern of Drivers Mobile Phone Usage While Driving

  • Petar Čolić,
  • Marijan Jakovljević,
  • Krešimir Vidović and
  • Marko Šoštarić

1 February 2022

Mobile phone usage during driving causes driver distraction, which negatively affects road traffic safety and is becoming an increasingly common cause of traffic accidents. This paper proposes a new methodology, based on anonymized datasets from tele...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Traffic Flow, Road Safety, and Sustainable Transportation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
13,298 Views
36 Pages

The Value of Big Data Analytics Pillars in Telecommunication Industry

  • Hassan Keshavarz,
  • Akbariah Mohd Mahdzir,
  • Hosna Talebian,
  • Neda Jalaliyoon and
  • Naoki Ohshima

25 June 2021

In the Big Data age, businesses in every industry must deal with vast volumes of data. Several experts and practitioners have lately emphasized the need of understanding how, why, and when Big Data Analytics (BDA) applications may be a valuable resou...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
423 Views
13 Pages

The telecommunications sector continues to experience exponential growth in demand, accompanied by a corresponding increase in customer complaints regarding service quality. To effectively address these challenges, many telecom companies rely on cust...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The 15th International Scientific Conference TechSys 2026—Engineering, Technologies and Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
8,734 Views
24 Pages

Impact of 3G and 4G Technology Performance on Customer Satisfaction in the Telecommunication Industry

  • Inayatul Haq,
  • Jahangeer Ahmed Soomro,
  • Tehseen Mazhar,
  • Ikram Ullah and ,
  • Tamara Al Shloul,
  • Yazeed Yasin Ghadi,
  • Inam Ullah,
  • Aldosary Saad and
  • Amr Tolba
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

This study investigates the impact of factors (network coverage, customer service, video calls, and downloading Speed) of 3G and 4G telecommunication services performance on customer satisfaction in the Punjab region of Pakistan. This research indica...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Big Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence in Electronics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
9,322 Views
16 Pages

12 December 2024

Telecom fraud has emerged as one of the most pressing challenges in the criminal field. With advancements in artificial intelligence, telecom fraud texts have become increasingly covert and deceptive. Existing prevention methods, such as mobile numbe...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,018 Views
57 Pages

21 October 2022

Modern telecom operators will have to change their business approach, organization, products development and services development, customer approach and many other important issues if they want to be competitive on the telecom markets in the followin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
9,546 Views
19 Pages

With the rising growth of the telecommunication industry, the customer churn problem has grown in significance as well. One of the most critical challenges in the data and voice telecommunication service industry is retaining customers, thus reducing...

(This article belongs to the Section Big Data and Augmented Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
9,662 Views
21 Pages

20 December 2021

The telecommunication sector is one of the most rapidly growing sectors in the world. The COVID-19 pandemic has created an increased dependence of customers on telecommunications to continue their work and studies. The increased usage of internet and...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
10,196 Views
14 Pages

An Investigation into the Effect of Knowledge Management on Employee Retention in the Telecom Sector

  • Nurul Mohammad Zayed,
  • Friday Ogbu Edeh,
  • Khan Mohammad Anwarul Islam,
  • Vitalii Nitsenko and ,
  • Tetiana Dubovyk and
  • Hanna Doroshuk
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

17 October 2022

Employees in the telecom sector are knowledge workers and, thus, managers, HR professionals, and policymakers in the industry need to retain them through knowledge management policies. It is against this premise that this study investigated the effec...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainability and Human Resources Management: Evaluating Challenges and Impacts for the Employee-Organization Relation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,281 Views
16 Pages

25 April 2021

As the number of single-person households grows worldwide, the need to monitor their safety is gradually increasing. Among several approaches developed previously, analyzing the daily lifelog data generated unwittingly, such as electricity consumptio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI-Enabled Advanced Sensing for Human Action and Activity Recognition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
10,621 Views
19 Pages

A Channel Allocation Mechanism for Cellular Networks

  • Chi-Hua Chen,
  • Bon-Yeh Lin,
  • Che-Hao Lei and
  • Chi-Chun Lo

In cellular networks, call blocking causes lower customer satisfaction and economic loss. Therefore, the channel allocation for call block avoidance is an important issue. This study proposes a mechanism that considers the real-time traffic informati...

(This article belongs to the Section Inventions and Innovation in Design, Modeling and Computing Methods)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,439 Views
10 Pages

QPSK MMW Wireless Communication System Based On p-i-n InGaAs Photomixer

  • Asemahegn Wudu,
  • Daniel Rozban and
  • Amir Abramovich

Millimeter-wave (MMW) frequencies (30–300 GHz), located between the microwave and infrared (IR), are promising solutions for the increasing demand of high data rate applications, UHD multimedia, HD gaming, security, surveillance, and the emerge...

(This article belongs to the Collection Millimeter and Terahertz Wireless Communications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,981 Views
11 Pages

A Recommendation Model for Selling Rules in the Telecom Retail Industry

  • Tsung-Ying Ou,
  • Wen-Lung Tsai,
  • Yi-Chen Lee,
  • Tien-Hsiang Chang and ,
  • Shih-Hsiung Lee and
  • Fen-Fen Huang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

1 June 2022

The recommendation of the optimal selling rules for any product or service is challenging, owing to the complexity of the customer’s behavior and the competitiveness existing in the telecom retail industry. This study proposes a recommendation...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue A Hybrid Analysis of Information Technology and Decision Making)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,468 Views
15 Pages

The hierarchical-based structure is recognized as a favorable structure for wireless local area network (WLAN) positioning. It is comprised of two positioning phases: the coarse localization phase and the fine localization phase. In the coarse locali...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,829 Views
23 Pages

1 February 2021

Background: This paper highlights the effects of internal factors on restructuring state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and investigates how these factors have positive or negative effects on applying a new structure in SOEs companies. Yemen Telecom (YT) i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainability in Public Administrations: Evaluation of Performance and Financial Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,264 Views
27 Pages

Urban Science Meets Cyber Risk: Quantifying Smart City Downtime with CTMC and H3 Geospatial Data

  • Enrico Barbierato,
  • Serena Curzel,
  • Alice Gatti and
  • Marco Gribaudo

17 September 2025

This work quantifies downtime caused by cyberattacks for eight critical urban services in Milan by coupling sectoral Continuous-Time Markov Chains (CTMCs) with an approximately equal-area H3 hexagonal grid of the city. The pipeline ingests OpenStreet...

  • Article
  • Open Access
781 Views
19 Pages

17 February 2026

Frugal innovation is an important area of academic research for organizations seeking to create value with limited resources. However, one important theoretical issue remains unclear: the available literature does not clarify how environmental orient...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
18,260 Views
27 Pages

Electricity Consumption and Operational Carbon Emissions of European Telecom Network Operators

  • Dag Lundén,
  • Jens Malmodin,
  • Pernilla Bergmark and
  • Nina Lövehagen

24 February 2022

This study presents operational electricity consumption and greenhouse gas emissions for named European telecom network operators during 2015–2018. These results are also compared to data for 2010–2015. The study provides an extensive pri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,870 Views
19 Pages

9 October 2025

This study investigates the impact of servant leadership on employee performance in mobile telecommunications providers, emphasizing the mediating role of organizational trust and its implications for organizational sustainability. Leadership effecti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
7,475 Views
17 Pages

An Intelligent Hybrid Scheme for Customer Churn Prediction Integrating Clustering and Classification Algorithms

  • Rencheng Liu,
  • Saqib Ali,
  • Syed Fakhar Bilal,
  • Zareen Sakhawat and ,
  • Azhar Imran,
  • Abdullah Almuhaimeed,
  • Abdulkareem Alzahrani and
  • Guangmin Sun
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

18 September 2022

Nowadays, customer churn has been reflected as one of the main concerns in the processes of the telecom sector, as it affects the revenue directly. Telecom companies are looking to design novel methods to identify the potential customer to churn. Hen...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Data Clustering: Algorithms and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
321 Views
19 Pages

The Contribution of DAS to the Routine Monitoring of Seismicity in Oceanic Islands: The Case for Faial (Azores)

  • Luis Matias,
  • Carlos Corela,
  • Afonso Loureiro,
  • Susana Gonçalves and ,
  • Susana Silva,
  • Hugo F. Martins,
  • Orlando Frazão,
  • Fernando Carrilho and
  • Manfred Niehus
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

24 September 2026

Distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) deployed on submarine telecom cables is bound to revolutionize the earthquake monitoring routine currently performed by seismic network operators, particularly in domains where most seismic activity originates offsh...

(This article belongs to the Section Geophysics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
5,020 Views
21 Pages

Since the United States, the European Union, China, and other countries put forward the development strategy of Internet of Things (IoT), it has been growing rapidly, leading to industrial restructuring and the sustainable development of various indu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Internet of Things (IoT): Challenges and Opportunities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
47 Citations
8,406 Views
16 Pages

Citywide Cellular Traffic Prediction Based on a Hybrid Spatiotemporal Network

  • Dehai Zhang,
  • Linan Liu,
  • Cheng Xie,
  • Bing Yang and
  • Qing Liu

8 January 2020

With the arrival of 5G networks, cellular networks are moving in the direction of diversified, broadband, integrated, and intelligent networks. At the same time, the popularity of various smart terminals has led to an explosive growth in cellular tra...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Networks, Communication, and Computing Vol. 2)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
7,551 Views
36 Pages

6 April 2020

Understanding the mechanism underlying the mobile telecommunications technologies (MTTs) diffusion in a country is crucial for telecom planners to know how to accelerate their diffusion by designing appropriate scenarios. Considering the technology d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,574 Views
20 Pages

25 September 2025

This study investigated how perceived authenticity influences consumers’ revisit intention to time-honored restaurants and explored the moderating role of place attachment in this relationship. Data were collected from 319 consumers with prior...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Exploring the Relationship Between Authenticity and Wellbeing in Heritage Tourism)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,548 Views
29 Pages

A Framework for the Attack Tolerance of Cloud Applications Based on Web Services

  • Georges Ouffoué,
  • Fatiha Zaïdi,
  • Ana R. Cavalli and
  • Huu Nghia Nguyen

Information systems of companies and organizations are increasingly designed using web services that allow different applications written in different programming languages to communicate. These systems or some parts of them are often outsourced on t...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
11,184 Views
22 Pages

10 September 2024

In the rapidly evolving telecommunications industry, organizations in Bangladesh are facing the challenge of improving their performance to stay competitive. However, there is limited research on how big data analytics (BDA) impacts organizational pe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,327 Views
23 Pages

Uncovering the Relationship between Human Connectivity Dynamics and Land Use

  • Olivera Novović,
  • Sanja Brdar,
  • Minučer Mesaroš,
  • Vladimir Crnojević and
  • Apostolos N. Papadopoulos

CDR (Call Detail Record) data are one type of mobile phone data collected by operators each time a user initiates/receives a phone call or sends/receives an sms. CDR data are a rich geo-referenced source of user behaviour information. In this work, w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,235 Views
12 Pages

9 March 2023

In 2019, China introduced a policy on Number Portability Management, which has resulted in a rapid increase in the number of lost users among telecom companies. Telecom companies must urgently distinguish those with a tendency toward number portabili...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Graph-Based Methods in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
8,104 Views
21 Pages

The Development of Cloud Energy Management

  • Chin-Chi Cheng,
  • Dasheng Lee,
  • Ching Hung Wang,
  • Shu Fen Lin and ,
  • Hung-Peng Chang and
  • Shang-Te Fang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

14 May 2015

The energy management service (EMS) has been utilized for saving energy since 1982 by managing the energy usage of site or facilities through the microprocessor, computer, Ethernet, internet, and wireless sensor network. The development and represen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
10,587 Views
33 Pages

7 December 2022

The many success stories of reinforcement learning (RL) and deep learning (DL) techniques have raised interest in their use for detecting patterns and generating constant profits from financial markets. In this paper, we combine deep reinforcement le...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,895 Views
18 Pages

26 July 2024

Telecommunications firms face intense competition driven by rapid innovation and shifting consumer expectations. To remain competitive, companies are adopting Total Quality Management (TQM) to enhance customer satisfaction, corporate stability, and s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,983 Views
31 Pages

A Traffic Forecasting Framework for Cellular Networks Based on a Dynamic Component Management Mechanism

  • Xiangyu Liu,
  • Yuxuan Li,
  • Shibing Zhu,
  • Qi Su and ,
  • Jianmei Dai,
  • Changqing Li,
  • Jiao Zhu and
  • Jingyu Zhang
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

13 October 2025

Accurate forecasting of cellular traffic in non-stationary environments remains a formidable challenge, as real-world traffic patterns dynamically evolve, emerge, and vanish over time. To tackle this, we propose a novel meta-learning framework, GMM-S...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
766 Views
14 Pages

Cross-Gen: An Efficient Generator Network for Adversarial Attacks on Cross-Modal Hashing Retrieval

  • Chao Hu,
  • Li Chen,
  • Sisheng Li,
  • Yin Yi and ,
  • Yu Zhan,
  • Chengguang Liu,
  • Jianling Liu and
  • Ronghua Shi
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

13 December 2025

Research on deep neural network (DNN)-based multi-dimensional data visualization has thoroughly explored cross-modal hash retrieval (CMHR) systems, yet their vulnerability to malicious adversarial examples remains evident. Recent work improves the ro...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Adversarial Attacks and Cyber Security)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
16,023 Views
21 Pages

12 April 2023

Total quality management (TQM) has become a reliable quality and customer satisfaction approach that can meet or exceed customer satisfaction. Previous studies have not really tied total quality management in the aspects of SERVQUAL as the major infl...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Inclusive and Innovative Businesses and Sustainability: New Trends in Challenging Times and the Path to Performance and Excellence)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,787 Views
14 Pages

Emulating Software-Defined Disaggregated Optical Networks in a Containerized Framework

  • Francisco-Javier Moreno-Muro,
  • Miquel Garrich,
  • Ignacio Iglesias-Castreño,
  • Safaa Zahir and
  • Pablo Pavón-Mariño

26 February 2021

Telecom operators’ infrastructure is undergoing high pressure to keep the pace with the traffic demand generated by the societal need of remote communications, bandwidth-hungry applications, and the fulfilment of 5G requirements. Software-defined net...

(This article belongs to the Collection New Trends in Optical Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,603 Views
12 Pages

Designing Multi-Modal Embedding Fusion-Based Recommender

  • Anna Wróblewska,
  • Jacek Dąbrowski,
  • Michał Pastuszak,
  • Andrzej Michałowski and ,
  • Michał Daniluk,
  • Barbara Rychalska,
  • Mikołaj Wieczorek and
  • Sylwia Sysko-Romańczuk
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

Recommendation systems have lately been popularised globally. However, often they need to be adapted to particular data and the use case. We have developed a machine learning-based recommendation system, which can be easily applied to almost any item...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recommender Systems: Approaches, Challenges and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,176 Views
18 Pages

Modified Recurrence Plot for Robust Condition Monitoring of Electrode Tips in a Resistance Spot Welding System

  • Wonho Jung,
  • Hyunseok Oh,
  • Dong Ho Yun,
  • Young Gon Kim and ,
  • Jong Pil Youn and
  • Jae Hong Park
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

24 August 2020

Degraded electrodes in a resistance spot welding system should be replaced to ensure that weld quality is maintained. Welding electrodes are subjected to different environmental and operational loading conditions during use. When they are replaced wi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Reliability of Materials and the Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,109 Views
24 Pages

TFD-IIS-CRMCB: Telecom Fraud Detection for Incomplete Information Systems Based on Correlated Relation and Maximal Consistent Block

  • Ran Li,
  • Hongchang Chen,
  • Shuxin Liu,
  • Kai Wang and ,
  • Biao Wang and
  • Xinxin Hu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

5 January 2023

Telecom fraud detection is of great significance in online social networks. Yet the massive, redundant, incomplete, and uncertain network information makes it a challenging task to handle. Hence, this paper mainly uses the correlation of attributes b...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Data Science: Measuring Uncertainties II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,088 Views
21 Pages

Intelligent Approach to Network Device Migration Planning towards Software-Defined IPv6 Networks

  • Babu R. Dawadi,
  • Danda B. Rawat,
  • Shashidhar R. Joshi and
  • Pietro Manzoni

26 December 2021

Internet and telecom service providers worldwide are facing financial sustainability issues in migrating their existing legacy IPv4 networking system due to backward compatibility issues with the latest generation networking paradigms viz. Internet p...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,789 Views
17 Pages

Archimedes Optimization Algorithm-Based Feature Selection with Hybrid Deep-Learning-Based Churn Prediction in Telecom Industries

  • Hanan Abdullah Mengash,
  • Nuha Alruwais,
  • Fadoua Kouki,
  • Chinu Singla and ,
  • Elmouez Samir Abd Elhameed and
  • Ahmed Mahmud
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Customer churn prediction (CCP) implies the deployment of data analytics and machine learning (ML) tools to forecast the churning customers, i.e., probable customers who may remove their subscriptions, thus allowing the companies to apply targeted cu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Bio-Inspired Optimization Algorithms and Designs for Engineering Applications)

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