Publicaties

This exploratory paper applies an existing framework for the analysis of platform types in mobile services to the urban context and explores the role(s) cities may take up in the development and deployment of mobile services. It first presents the platform typology that will be used, provides some contextual information on the concept of Smart Cities and then applies several diverging cases to it by means of validation. The paper concludes that ...

This paper explores which roles city governments can take up in the context of the on-going platformisation of the mobile services industry. It takes an experimental approach by applying an existing typology for mobile service platforms to the context of the city, combined with an analysis of real-life examples. The paper identifies four city platform types; an enabler, integrator, neutral and broker city platform, each with different merits. ...

Based on a series of case studies extending to several ICT domains and industries, it
has been convincingly argued that 'platform leadership' strategies are appropriate for
firms aspiring to leadership in unbundled, or modular markets (Gawer, 2000; Gawer
& Cusumano, 2002). While the relationship between technical modularity and market
modularity is not a straightforward one (Ernst, 2005), it is clear that technical
modularity ...

Platformisation and mobile business

In this paper, we present a techno-economic analysis of providing a Cooperative, Connected and Automated Mobility (CCAM) use case, namely Cooperative Lane Merging (CLM), in a cross-border environment. Multiple network deployment scenarios are proposed to provide Vehicle to Infrastructure (V2I) connectivity with respect to PC5 Mode 4 - enabled RSUs, Total cost of Ownership (TCO) model together with four revenue models are developed to assess the ...

In this paper, we present a techno-economic analysis of providing a Cooperative, Connected and Automated Mobility (CCAM) use case, namely Cooperative Lane Merging (CLM), in a cross-border environment. Multiple network deployment scenarios are proposed to provide Vehicle to Infrastructure (V2I) connectivity with respect to PC5 Mode 4 – enabled RSUs. Total cost of Ownership (TCO) model together with four revenue models are developed to assess the ...

The latency requirements of delay-sensitive applications such as cooperative, connected, and automated mobility (CCAM) services challenge the capabilities of traditional vehicular radio access technologies (i.e., IEEE 802.11P and cellular networks). To this end, the 5G cellular network is adopting the multi-access edge computing (MEC) paradigm. However, the use of this technology comes with several challenges. In this article, MEC placement ...

The environments of software development and software provision are shifting to Web-based platforms supported by Platform/Software as a Service (PaaS/SaaS) models. By elaborating on these concepts, their benefits and risks, mobile operators' experiments with these models are analysed and similarities are identified. This paper will argue that mobile operators' mobile web services are shifting from SaaS to PaaS models and there is equally an ...