Objectives - Bring papers on new developments, innovations and standards to the readers - Cover pre-development, including technologies with potential of becoming a standard, as well as developed / deployed standards - Publish on-going work including work with potential of becoming a standard technology - Publish papers giving explanation of standardization and innovation process and the link between standardization and innovation. - Publish tutorial type papers giving new comers a understanding of standardization and innovation Aims & Scope Aims: - The aims of this journal is to publish standardized as well as related work making "standards" accessible to a wide public - from practitioners to new comers. The journal aims at publishing in-depth as well as overview work including papers discussing standardization process and those helping new comers to understand how standards work. Scope: - Bring up-to-date information regarding standardization in the field of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) covering all protocol layers and technologies in the field Background - Standardization is essential for our society as well as economy from usage to communication between different devices, including interoperability - Standardization gives choice and reduces cost of the products - Standards make technology or create path for technologies to be available globally - As standards / standardization is essential part of human society, it is essential for people to understand standards and all aspects related to it

Objectives: Bring papers on de-jure as well as de-facto standards to the readers Cover pre-development, including technologies with potential of becoming a standard, as well as developed / deployed standards Publish on-going work with potential of becoming a standard technology Publish papers giving explanation of standardization process Publish tutorial type papers giving new comers a understanding of standardization Aim: - The aim of this journal is to publish standardized as well as related work making "standards" accessible to a wide public - from practitioners to new comers. - The journal aims at publishing in-depth as well as overview work including papers discussing standardization process and those helping new comers to understand how standards work. Scope: - Bring up-to-date information regarding standardization in the field of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) covering all protocol layers and technologies in the field

Objectives: Bring papers on de-jure as well as de-facto standards to the readers Cover pre-development, including technologies with potential of becoming a standard, as well as developed / deployed standards Publish on-going work with potential of becoming a standard technology Publish papers giving explanation of standardization process Publish tutorial type papers giving new comers a understanding of standardization Aim: - The aim of this journal is to publish standardized as well as related work making "standards" accessible to a wide public - from practitioners to new comers. - The journal aims at publishing in-depth as well as overview work including papers discussing standardization process and those helping new comers to understand how standards work. Scope: - Bring up-to-date information regarding standardization in the field of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) covering all protocol layers and technologies in the field

Special Issuse on GISFI Standardization Activities In this special issue we bring forth papers reporting the guiding thoughts and key contributions from each of the work groups authored by the leading contributors. Major contributions are from the following work groups. Spectrum Issues Security and Privacy Cloud and Service Oriented Networks (CSeON) Internet of Things (IoT) Green ICT (GICT) Future Radio Networks Special Interest Group

To advance education about ICT standardization, comprehensive and up-to-date teaching materials must be available. With the support of the European Commission, ETSI has developed this textbook to facilitate education on ICT standardization, and to raise the knowledge level of ICT standardization-related topics among lecturers and students in higher education, in particular in the fields of engineering, business administration and law. Readers of this book are not required to have any previous knowledge about standardization. They are introduced firstly to the key concepts of standards and standardization, different elements of the ecosystem and how they interact, as well as the procedures required for the production of standardization documents. Then, readers are taken to the next level by addressing aspects related to standardization such as innovation, strategy, business, and economics. This textbook is an attempt to make ICT standardization accessible and understandable to students. It covers the essentials that are required to get a good overview of the field. The book is organized in chapters that are self-contained, although it would be advantageous to read the book from cover to cover. Each chapter begins with a list of learning objectives and key messages. The text is enriched with examples and case studies from real standardization practice to illustrate the key theoretical concepts. Each chapter also includes a quiz to be used as a self-assessment learning activity. Furthermore, each book chapter includes a glossary and lists of abbreviations and references. Alongside the textbook, we have produced a set of slides that are intended to serve as complementary teaching materials in face-to-face teaching sessions. For all interested parties there is also an electronic version of the textbook as well as the accompanying slides that can be downloaded for free from the ETSI website (www.etsi.org/standardization-education).

Future Trends and Challenges for ICT Standardization identifies the importance of ICT standardization for strengthening the Indian industrial and business sector through Global ICT Standardization Forum for India (GISFI-www.gisfi.org). It outlines the major challenges and trends in the ICT development worldwide while mapping the Indian efforts on the background of the overall progress. The technological areas covered are: - the need, importance, and management of radio spectrum, - the development of future radio access technologies, - the convergence of telecommunications and broadcasting, - the possibilities and challenges brought by the Internet of Things (IoT), - the environment sustainability through the use of Green ICT The motivation behind this book is to provide a more informed context to ensure sustainable scientific and economic growth. It puts forward the best research roadmaps, strategies, and challenges contributed by engineers from the industry, academia, and government, and it addresses the benefits to the entire society resulting from standardization.

ITU Kaleidoscope 2014: QoS and Network Crawling This is the third in a series of three special issues to showcase extended versions of selected Kaleidoscope papers. The first addressed the theme "Towards 5G" and was published in November 2014 (Volume 2, No. 2). The second, published in March 2015 (Volume 2, No. 3), covered"Assessments, Models and Evaluation" to monitor the quality of ICT services.

The industry has been experiencing the deployment of cloud computing models varying from Private Cloud, Hybrid Cloud to an evolution of InterCloud. There are cloud security implications for each model; and within InterCloud a notion of federation may be implied. How do we define cloud bursting and cloud brokering functions and the security requirements therein? What are the use cases? What is the impact of cloud and virtualization on mobile networks and its services? What is the status of standards activities related to cloud security and these scenarios? Authors were inviteded to submit papers, on these topics for the special issue. Today's Cloud services are deployed by Cloud Service Providers (CSP) via tech- nologies and business architectures at various places in the network and consumed by customers ranging from large enterprises to consumers. Implicit is the notion of federation amongst CSPs to solve use cases such as disaster recovery, burst demands and geographical coverage, as well as federation between provider and customer, also known as hybrid cloud. Current hybrid-cloud offerings are based on static configura- tions and static business relationships between a network and a provider or a series of providers. Intercloud will add flexibility to these relationships so that cloud providers could discover services across multiple providers, agree on a common Service Level agreement or create an auction between CSPs to get the lowest price. Intercloud defines the inter-provider interface (or NNI) between CSPs. In this sense, it is complementary to OpenStack, which focuses on the user-provider in- terface (or UNI). In order to enable cloud interconnection, a complete architecture is under study, which includes a set of available technologies that will be re-used and some new technologies that are under development. The main enablers for a viable inter-cloud architecture are: the development of a service discovery mechanism amongst multiple providers and customers, enabling multiple cloud provider meta- data instantiation, an identity management mechanism between CSPs and real time billing exchange mechanisms. For the industry, as the constructs evolve to hybid and intercloud implementattions, security AND privacy capabilities will contine to be strategic. Concerns articllated in the industry include loss of control and visibility; ser- vice disruption; data security; enterprise isolation and compliance. Cryptography is a fundamental underpinning of nearly all cloud security implementations e.g. emerging homomorphic encryption. Certainly identity management across multiple clouds will also be piovotal. Various standards bodies have been focusing efforts in the development of cloud security architecture e.g NIST, http: //csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-144/SP800-144.pdf; ITU-T, http: //www.itu.int/ITU-T/newslog/New+ITU+Standards+On+Cloud+ Computing+Security+And+Digital+Object+Architecture.aspx; IEEE, http: //cloudcomputing.ieee.org; and so on. It is with great pleasure that we feature two articles in this special edition: 1. Proposed Identity and Access Management in Future Internet (IAMFI): A Be- havioral Modeling Approach by Nancy Ambritta P., Poonam Railkar, Parik- shit N. Mahalle, Department of Computer Engineering, Smt. Kashibai Navale College of Engineering, Pune, India 2. Traffic Offload Guideline and Required Year of the 50% Traffic Offloading, by Shozo Komaki, Naoki Ohshima and Hassan Keshavartz. Malaysia-Japan Inter- national Institute of Technology, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, that addresses wireless cloud and implicit security implications. One can conclude that there is quite a bit of work to do in the cloud security space We will certainly re-visit this topic with best practice guidelines.

A comprehensive discussion of the findings of the PICASSO initiative on ICT policy ICT Policy, Research, and Innovation: Perspectives and Prospects for EU-US Collaboration provides a clearly readable overview of selected information and communication technology (ICT) and policy topics. Rather than deluge the reader with technical details, the distinguished authors provide just enough technical background to make sense of the underlying policy discussions. The book covers policy, research, and innovation topics on technologies as wide-ranging as: Internet of Things Cyber physical systems 5G Big data ICT Policy, Research, and Innovation compares and contrasts the policy approaches taken by the EU and the US in a variety of areas. The potential for future cooperation is outlined as well. Later chapters provide policy perspectives about some major issues affecting EU/US development cooperation, while the book closes with a discussion of how the development of these new technologies is changing our conceptions of fundamental aspects of society.

This book presents a first comprehensive effort to explore the mechanics and fundamentals of global ICT standardization. It offers a comprehensive study of legal rules governing ICT standardization; systematically analyses governance and institutional features of some most prominent Standards Development Organizations; and presents qualitative empirical evidence on implementation of these rules in practice. By evaluating legal and procedural rules in light of current practices and tendencies in the industry, the book explores various options available for disciplining ICT standardization from the viewpoint of the applicable legislation, judiciary, and internal governance rules of Standards Development Organizations and offers practical solutions on how to increase the legitimacy of ICT standards. Adding to the previous theoretical approach to the field of standardization from historical, legal and political science perspective, this book applies theoretical considerations to unexplored scenarios, offering a holistic picture of ICT standardization and providing a novel contribution to the field.