Journal articles: 'Network providers'

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Cobb, Dorothy J. "Preferred Provider Organizationsʼ Strategies for Sponsors and Network Providers." Journal For Healthcare Quality 13, no. 1 (January 1991): 34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/01445442-199101000-00023.

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Geva, Alon, Karen L. Olson, Chunfu Liu, and Kenneth D. Mandl. "Provider Connectedness to Other Providers Reduces Risk of Readmission After Hospitalization for Heart Failure." Medical Care Research and Review 76, no. 1 (July 8, 2017): 115–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1077558717718626.

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Provider interactions other than explicit care coordination, which is challenging to measure, may influence practice and outcomes. We performed a network analysis using claims data from a commercial payor. Networks were identified based on provider pairs billing outpatient care for the same patient. We compared network variables among patients who had and did not have a 30-day readmission after hospitalization for heart failure. After adjusting for comorbidities, high median provider connectedness—normalized degree, which for each provider is the number of connections to other providers normalized to the number of providers in the region—was the network variable associated with reduced odds of readmission after heart failure hospitalization (odds ratio = 0.55; 95% confidence interval [0.35, 0.86]). We conclude that heart failure patients with high provider connectedness are less likely to require readmission. The structure and importance of provider relationships using claims data merits further study.

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LUBLY, GNES. "NETWORK THEORY AT MOBILE PROVIDERS." International Journal of Management Cases 14, no. 2 (January 1, 2012): 156–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.5848/apbj.2012.00060.

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Ostovari, Mina, Charlotte-Joy Steele-Morris, Paul M. Griffin, and Denny Yu. "Data-driven modeling of diabetes care teams using social network analysis." Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 26, no. 10 (May 2, 2019): 911–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jamia/ocz022.

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Abstract Objective We assess working relationships and collaborations within and between diabetes health care provider teams using social network analysis and a multi-scale community detection. Materials and Methods Retrospective analysis of claims data from a large employer over 2 years was performed. The study cohort contained 827 patients diagnosed with diabetes. The cohort received care from 2567 and 2541 health care providers in the first and second year, respectively. Social network analysis was used to identify networks of health care providers involved in the care of patients with diabetes. A multi-scale community detection was applied to the network to identify groups of health care providers more densely connected. Social network analysis metrics identified influential providers for the overall network and for each community of providers. Results Centrality measures identified medical laboratories and mail-order pharmacies as the central providers for the 2 years. Seventy-six percent of the detected communities included primary care physicians, and 97% of the communities included specialists. Pharmacists were detected as central providers in 24% of the communities. Discussion Social network analysis measures identified the central providers in the network of diabetes health care providers. These providers could be considered as influencers in the network that could enhance the implication of promotion programs through their access to a large number of patients and providers. Conclusion The proposed framework provides multi-scale metrics for assessing care team relationships. These metrics can be used by implementation experts to identify influential providers for care interventions and by health service researchers to determine impact of team relationships on patient outcomes.

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Chen, You, Christoph U. Lehmann, Leon D. Hatch, Emma Schremp, Bradley A. Malin, and Daniel J. France. "Modeling Care Team Structures in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit through Network Analysis of EHR Audit Logs." Methods of Information in Medicine 58, no. 04/05 (November 2019): 109–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0040-1702237.

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Abstract Background In the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), predefined acuity-based team care models are restricted to core roles and neglect interactions with providers outside of the team, such as interactions that transpire via electronic health record (EHR) systems. These unaccounted interactions may be related to the efficiency of resource allocation, information flow, communication, and thus impact patient outcomes. This study applied network analysis methods to EHR audit logs to model the interactions of providers beyond their core roles to better understand the interaction network patterns of acuity-based teams and relationships of the network structures with postsurgical length of stay (PSLOS). Methods The study used the EHR log data of surgical neonates from a large academic medical center. The study included 104 surgical neonates, for whom 9,206 unique actions were performed by 457 providers in their EHRs. We applied network analysis methods to model EHR provider interaction networks of acuity-based teams in NICU postoperative care. We partitioned each EHR network into three subnetworks based on interaction types: (1) interactions between known core providers who were documented in scheduling records (core subnetwork); (2) interactions between core and noncore providers (extended subnetwork); and (3) interactions between noncore providers (extended subnetwork). For each core subnetwork, we assessed its capability to replicate predefined core-provider relations as documented in scheduling records. We further compared each EHR network, as well as its subnetworks, using standard network measures to determine its differences in network topologies. We conducted a case study to learn provider interaction networks taking care of 15 neonates who underwent gastrostomy tube placement surgery from EHR log data and measure the effectiveness of the interaction networks on PSLOS by the proportional-odds model. Results The provider networks of four acuity-based teams (two high and two low acuity), along with their subnetworks, were discovered. We found that beyond capturing the predefined core-provider relations, EHR audit logs can also learn a large number of relations between core and noncore providers or among noncore providers. Providers in the core subnetwork exhibited a greater number of connections with each other than with providers in the extended subnetworks. Many more providers in the core subnetwork serve as a hub than those in the other types of subnetworks. We also found that high-acuity teams exhibited more complex network structures than low-acuity teams, with high-acuity team generating 6,416 interactions between 407 providers compared with 931 interactions between 124 providers, respectively. In addition, we discovered that high-acuity and low-acuity teams shared more than 33 and 25% of providers with each other, respectively, but exhibited different collaborative structures demonstrating that NICU providers shift across different acuity teams and exhibit different network characteristics. Results of case study show that providers, whose patients had lower PSLOS, tended to disperse patient-related information to more colleagues within their network than those who treated higher PSLOS patients (p = 0.03). Conclusion Network analysis can be applied to EHR log data to model acuity-based NICU teams capturing interactions between providers within the predesigned core team as well as those outside of the core team. In the NICU, dissemination of information may be linked to reduced PSLOS. EHR log data provide an efficient, accessible, and research-friendly way to study provider interaction networks. Findings should guide improvements in the EHR system design to facilitate effective interactions between providers.

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Mezhoudi, Mohcene, Mohamed L. El-Sayed, and Paul F. Gagen. "Network service providers: Practical considerations for optical network planning." Bell Labs Technical Journal 11, no. 2 (August 4, 2006): 145–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/bltj.20166.

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Pounder, Chris. "Terrorism laws impact on network providers." Computer Fraud & Security 2002, no. 3 (March 2002): 7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s1361-3723(02)00314-7.

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Foros, Øystein, Hans Jarle Kind, and Jan Yngve Sand. "Entry may increase network providers’ profit." Telecommunications Policy 33, no. 9 (October 2009): 486–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.telpol.2009.06.002.

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Iskandarani, Mahmoud Zaki. "Handover between Vehicular Network Providers Using Bioinspired Attractor Selection Technique." Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering 2022 (March 30, 2022): 1–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/8528313.

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This study looks at how to describe vehicular network connectivity using MATLAB simulation of an E. coli biological system. The model takes advantage of E. coli’s ability to adapt to environmental changes and variations by having stable states, which allows E. coli to continue surviving and developing, and uses this property to improve vehicular network connectivity to network service providers. As a result, an adaptive response to network pattern changes in terms of signal quality and stability can be obtained, as well as acceptable levels of connectivity in a changing environment via a handover mechanism. After applying it to four distinct networks, this probability-based technique was shown to work through simulation. The four networks used successfully completed the handover and maintained connectivity at various threshold levels. The impact of signal threshold variations and network sensitivity in reaction to surroundings on the handover process is also discussed in the study. By introducing two new physiologically based metrics (threshold and sensitivity), the goal of delivering Quality of Service (QoS) is realized. The used adaptive biological model allows for the selection probability λ to change according to the number of participating networks under certain environmental conditions. Noise effect is also discussed in the presented work as it affects network signals but does not affect the adaptive handover process, due to the built intelligence of the bio-inspired model.

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Kwak, Jeongho, Long Bao Le, George Iosifidis, Kyunghan Lee, and Dong In Kim. "Collaboration of Network Operators and Cloud Providers in Software-Controlled Networks." IEEE Network 34, no. 5 (September 2020): 98–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/mnet.001.1800329.

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Dawadi, Babu R., Danda B. Rawat, Shashidhar R. Joshi, and Daya S. Baral. "Affordable Broadband with Software Defined IPv6 Network for Developing Rural Communities." Applied System Innovation 3, no. 1 (December 27, 2019): 4. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/asi3010004.

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The software defined networking (SDN) paradigm with enhanced features of IPv6 offers flexible network management and better network visibility for enhancing overall network performance, network manageability, and security. Thus, along with the IPv6 network deployment worldwide, SDN migration has emerged worldwide, but network service providers suffer from different issues when migrating their existing legacy network into operable SDN and IPv6 enabled networks. In this paper, we investigate the affordability of broadband network services for the rural communities in the context of information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructure deployment throughout Nepal. During the phase of network transformation, it will be more challenging for the service providers of Nepal to have a proper choice of technologies to expand the network while considering the proper policy formulation, affordability, need of skilled human resources, deployment cost, and many other aspects. We also present the service provider affordability via energy optimization in software defined IPv6 network (SoDIP6) implementation that contributes to a reduction in organizational operational expenditure (OpEX). We perform an experimental analysis over an SoDIP6 network testbed and present a comparison of the annual energy and OpEX savings for network service providers. Our empirical analysis shows that an energy saving of 31.50% on switches and 55.44% on links can be achieved with an SoDIP6 network compared to a network with legacy devices and network management. Optimization on service provider network operational cost leads to sustainability and affordable services to both customers and service providers

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Hu, Huining. "Issues on Sentencing of Network Service Providers in Cybercrime." Journal of Education, Humanities and Social Sciences 1 (July 6, 2022): 97–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.54097/ehss.v1i.646.

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With the continuous progress of science and technology, the problem of conviction and sentencing of network service providers in the field of cybercrime has become increasingly prominent. In judicial practice, there are often different judgments in the same case, ambiguous sentences in the judgment, and ambiguous qualitative nature of the subject of the crime, which shows that the path of conviction and sentencing of network service providers needs to be improved. Through analyzing the current laws and regulations concerning network service providers in China, the lack of classification of network service providers and the application of relevant sentencing laws are the main obstacles to the conviction and sentencing of network service providers. It is suggested to solve the practical obstacles of conviction and sentencing of network service providers by classifying network service providers, limiting the crime of helping information network crimes, strictly controlling the information network security management obligations of network service providers, and perfecting the relevant legal provisions on the obligations of network service providers.

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Yasaitis, Laura, Justin E. Bekelman, and Daniel Polsky. "Relation Between Narrow Networks and Providers of Cancer Care." Journal of Clinical Oncology 35, no. 27 (September 20, 2017): 3131–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1200/jco.2017.73.2040.

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Purpose Health insurers offer plans covering a narrow subset of providers in an attempt to lower premiums and compete for consumers. However, narrow networks may limit access to high-quality providers, particularly those caring for patients with cancer. Methods We examined provider networks offered on the 2014 individual health insurance exchanges, assessing oncologist supply and network participation in areas that do and do not contain one of 69 National Cancer Institute (NCI)–Designated Cancer Centers. We characterized a network’s inclusion of oncologists affiliated with NCI-Designated Cancer Centers relative to oncologists excluded from the network within the same region and assessed the relationship between this relative inclusion and each network’s breadth. We repeated these analyses among networks offered in the same regions as the subset of 27 NCI-Designated Cancer Centers identified as National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) Cancer Centers. Results In regions containing NCI-Designated Cancer Centers, there were 13.7 oncologists per 100,000 residents and 4.9 (standard deviation [SD], 2.8) networks covering a mean of 39.4% (SD, 26.2%) of those oncologists, compared with 8.8 oncologists per 100,000 residents and 3.2 (SD, 2.1) networks covering on average 49.9% (SD, 26.8%) of the area’s oncologists ( P < .001 for all comparisons). There was a strongly significant correlation ( r = 0.4; P < .001) between a network’s breadth and its relative inclusion of oncologists associated with NCI-Designated Cancer Centers; this relationship held when considering only affiliation with NCCN Cancer Centers. Conclusion Narrower provider networks are more likely to exclude oncologists affiliated with NCI-Designated or NCCN Cancer Centers. Health insurers, state regulators, and federal lawmakers should offer ways for consumers to learn whether providers of cancer care with particular affiliations are in or out of narrow provider networks.

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Anwar, Yuli, and Dahlar . "ANALISA PERBANDINGAN DALAM RANGKA PEMILIHAN BEBERAPA IP UPSTREAM PROVIDER DI PT. INDOSAT." Jurnal Ilmiah Binaniaga 4, no. 1 (December 12, 2018): 57. http://dx.doi.org/10.33062/jib.v4i1.207.

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Abstract. One of the advances in information technology that now has changed the outlook and human life, business process and business strategy of an institution is the internet. The internet is a very large networks that connected to computers and serves throughout the world in one centralized network. With the internet we can access data and information anytime and anywhere. As one provider of high-speed data communications services and the pioneer of the internet network service provider in Indonesia that provides integrated services, as well as one of the pioneer development of internet services that provide extensive services in the building and apply it throughout Indonesia. Indosat ready to seize opportunities for sustainable growth of business spectrum are still sprawling Indonesia. Therefore, Indosat continues to focus on the development of increased efforts to provide the best service for customers of Indosat. Indosat will continue to develop and expand network coverage and a larger investment that the company will achieve excellence in the field of integrated telecommunications services. Ranking by region of the IP Providers can be seen by grouping IP Providers, and management over IP Providers prefer to choose providers based on where it orginates as an example for the region of the U.S if it will be preferred providers that come from U.S. providers.With the commencement of the internet network optimization start early in 2008 with the selection of the appropriate IP Upstream Provider criteria, it is up to date according to data obtained from Indosat, seen any significant changes to the cost of purchasing capacity of the IP Upstream. Based on the data obtained that until Q3 or September 2008, the number of IP Upstream Providers that previously there were 20 to 10 IP Upstream Provider, IP Transit Price total decrease of 11% to the price of IP Transit Price / Mbps there is a decrease of 78%, while from the capacity bandwith an increase of 301% capacity from 2008.

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Datsika, Eftychia, Angelos Antonopoulos, Nizar Zorba, and Christos Verikoukis. "Software Defined Network Service Chaining for OTT Service Providers in 5G Networks." IEEE Communications Magazine 55, no. 11 (November 2017): 124–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/mcom.2017.1700108.

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Kumar, Vipin. "Consumers Attitude towards Various Internet Service Providers." International Journal of Advance Research and Innovation 3, no. 1 (2015): 324–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.51976/ijari.311550.

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The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP) to serve billions of users worldwide. It is a network of networks that consists of millions of private, public, academic, business, and government networks, of local to global scope, that are linked by a broad array of electronic, wireless and optical networking technologies. The objective of the study is to analyze the consumers' attitude towards various internet service providers. The study is based on the primary data i.e. collected through field survey by well–structured questionnaire. For the study, 100 respondents have been taken from the Sirsa district. The data was analyzed by using various statistical techniques and tools such as Percentages, Frequency and Mean. The present article discusses the findings achieved through the study.

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Ohki, Yu, Yuichi Ikeda, Susumu Kunisawa, and Yuichi Imanaka. "Regional medical inter-institutional cooperation in medical provider network constructed using patient claims data from Japan." PLOS ONE 17, no. 8 (August 24, 2022): e0266211. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0266211.

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The aging world population requires a sustainable and high-quality healthcare system. To examine the efficiency of medical cooperation, medical provider and physician networks were constructed using patient claims data. Previous studies have shown that these networks contain information on medical cooperation. However, the usage patterns of multiple medical providers in a series of medical services have not been considered. In addition, these studies used only general network features to represent medical cooperation, but their expressive ability was low. To overcome these limitations, we analyzed the medical provider network to examine its overall contribution to the quality of healthcare provided by cooperation between medical providers in a series of medical services. This study focused on: i) the method of feature extraction from the network, ii) incorporation of the usage pattern of medical providers, and iii) expressive ability of the statistical model. Femoral neck fractures were selected as the target disease. To build the medical provider networks, we analyzed the patient claims data from a single prefecture in Japan between January 1, 2014 and December 31, 2019. We considered four types of models. Models 1 and 2 use node strength and linear regression, with Model 2 also incorporating patient age as an input. Models 3 and 4 use feature representation by node2vec with linear regression and regression tree ensemble, a machine learning method. The results showed that medical providers with higher levels of cooperation reduce the duration of hospital stay. The overall contribution of the medical cooperation to the duration of hospital stay extracted from the medical provider network using node2vec is approximately 20%, which is approximately 20 times higher than the model using strength.

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Tanutama, Lukas, Gerrard Polla, Raymond Kosala, and Richard Kumaradjaja. "Novel Value Added Services Generated from Corporate Network Data." Advanced Science Letters 21, no. 4 (April 1, 2015): 648–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1166/asl.2015.5922.

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The competitive nature of Internet access service business drives Service Providers to find innovative revenue generators within their core competencies. Internet connection is the essential infrastructure in the current business environment. Service Providers provide the Internet connections to corporate networks. It processes network data to enable the Internet business communications and transactions. Mining the network data of a particular corporate network resulted in its business traffic profile or characteristics. Based on the discovered characteristics, this research proposes novel generic Value Added Services (VAS). The VAS becomes the innovative and competitive revenue generators. The VAS is competitive as only the Service Provider and its customer know the traffic profile. The knowledge becomes the barrier of entry for competitors. To offer the VAS, a Service Provider must build close relationship with its customer for acceptance.

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Campbell, L. H., and J. R. Holmes. "Regulating Service Providers' Access to an FTTN Network." Media International Australia 127, no. 1 (May 2008): 21–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x0812700106.

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To date, the major deployments of FTTN or its fibre-rich cousin, Fibre to the Premises, have been driven by clear government policy (Republic of Korea, Japan) or competitive pressure from cable television companies (US, Netherlands — planned). Without these pressures, the business case for deploying FTTN is uncertain. The additional revenues from higher-speed internet access are likely to be slight, and new revenues from pay television are uncertain and likely to develop only over the medium term. The business case for investing perhaps A$9 billion or more for an extensive FTTN deployment in Australia is therefore weak. National governments, however, see many benefits in widespread deployment of high internet access speeds and may provide incentives for FTTN deployments if competitive pressures are absent. This article explains some of these incentives in the Australian context, especially the steps taken so far to regulate access to the fibre networks proposed by Telstra and the so-called G9 consortium.

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Hoteit, Sahar, Mahmoud El Chamie, Damien Saucez, and Stefano Secci. "On fair network cache allocation to content providers." Computer Networks 103 (July 2016): 129–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.comnet.2016.04.006.

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Gehlen, Guido, Fahad Aijaz, Yi Zhu, and Bernhard Walke. "Mobile P2P Web Services Using SIP." Mobile Information Systems 3, no. 3-4 (2007): 165–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2007/427831.

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Telecommunication networks and the Internet are growing together. Peer-to-Peer (P2P) services which are originally offered by network providers, like telephony and messaging, are provided through VoIP and Instant Messaging (IM) by Internet service providers, too. The IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) is the answer of the telecommunication industry to this trend and aims at providing Internet P2P and multimedia services controlled by the network operators. The IMS provides mobility and session management as well as message routing, security, and billing.

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Leonard, Rosemary, Debbie Horsfall, John Rosenberg, and Kerrie Noonan. "Carer experience of end-of-life service provision: a social network analysis." BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care 10, no. 2 (February 10, 2018): e20-e20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjspcare-2017-001344.

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ObjectiveTo identify the position of formal service providers in the networks of those providing end-of-life care in the home from the perspective of the informal network.MethodsUsing third-generation social network analysis, this study examined the nature and strength of relationships of informal caring networks with formal service providers through individual carer interviews, focus groups of caring networks and outer network interviews.ResultsService providers were usually highly valued for providing services, equipment, pain management and personalised care for the dying person plus support and advice to the principal carer about both caring tasks and negotiating the health system. However, formal service providers were positioned as marginal in the caring network. Analysis of the relative density of relationships within networks showed that whereas relationships among family and friends had similar density, relationships between service providers and family or friends were significantly lower.ConclusionThe results supported the Circles of Care model and mirror the perspective of formal service providers identified in previous research. The research raises questions about how formal and informal networks might be better integrated to increase their effectiveness for supporting in-home care.

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Soulakis, Nicholas D., Matthew B. Carson, Young Ji Lee, Daniel H. Schneider, Connor T. Skeehan, and Denise M. Scholtens. "Visualizing collaborative electronic health record usage for hospitalized patients with heart failure." Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 22, no. 2 (February 20, 2015): 299–311. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jamia/ocu017.

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Abstract Objective To visualize and describe collaborative electronic health record (EHR) usage for hospitalized patients with heart failure. Materials and methods We identified records of patients with heart failure and all associated healthcare provider record usage through queries of the Northwestern Medicine Enterprise Data Warehouse. We constructed a network by equating access and updates of a patient’s EHR to a provider-patient interaction. We then considered shared patient record access as the basis for a second network that we termed the provider collaboration network. We calculated network statistics, the modularity of provider interactions, and provider cliques. Results We identified 548 patient records accessed by 5113 healthcare providers in 2012. The provider collaboration network had 1504 nodes and 83 998 edges. We identified 7 major provider collaboration modules. Average clique size was 87.9 providers. We used a graph database to demonstrate an ad hoc query of our provider-patient network. Discussion Our analysis suggests a large number of healthcare providers across a wide variety of professions access records of patients with heart failure during their hospital stay. This shared record access tends to take place not only in a pairwise manner but also among large groups of providers. Conclusion EHRs encode valuable interactions, implicitly or explicitly, between patients and providers. Network analysis provided strong evidence of multidisciplinary record access of patients with heart failure across teams of 100+ providers. Further investigation may lead to clearer understanding of how record access information can be used to strategically guide care coordination for patients hospitalized for heart failure.

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van Munster, Marlena, Lars Tönges, Kai F. Loewenbrück, Tobias Warnecke, and Carsten Eggers. "Building a Parkinson-Network–Experiences from Germany." Journal of Clinical Medicine 9, no. 9 (August 25, 2020): 2743. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm9092743.

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Parkinson’s disease is a complex neurodegenerative disease that can be best treated with a multi-disciplinary care approach. Building care networks has been shown as a useful tool to facilitate the integration of care services and improve outcomes for patients and care providers. However, experiences and practices relating to building a network are very limited in the field of Parkinson’s disease. This paper portrays existing Parkinson networks in Germany. With the help of a standardized template, description of networks and their building-blocks, so-called modules, were collected from all over Germany. Modules were rated in terms of their expected benefit and the required effort when implementing them, with the help of an expert survey. The rating showed that some modules were perceived as more important than others, but all modules were recognized as beneficial for patients and care providers. Overall, the German experience shows that building a Parkinson network facilitates the integration of care and provides a benefit to all stakeholders involved.

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Marjancik, Natalie. "Risky Business: Proposed Reform of the Antitrust Laws As Applied to Health Care Provider Networks." American Journal of Law & Medicine 24, no. 1 (1998): 59–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0098858800011850.

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Because the health care industry comprises over thirteen percent of the American economy, law enforcers increasingly apply antitrust law to all aspects of health care delivery and financing. Through antitrust enforcement, consumers receive the benefits of lower health care costs and improved health care services. To achieve further cost savings, health care providers are forming, as well as joining, many different types of provider network joint ventures. Providers form networks, expect ing “them to generate efficiencies, reduce excess capacity, improve utilization, permit greater specialization and enhance quality.” However, because they organize competing physicians and enable them to collaborate on prices and set fee schedules, provider networks raise serious antitrust concerns. Consequently, the federal government and courts are increasingly focusing their antitrust enforcement efforts on the formation and anticompetitive activities of provider networks.In Part I, this Note addresses the degree to which network providers must be economically and financially integrated to legally collaborate and set prices. Part II briefly explains the procedures one may use to enforce the federal antitrust laws. Following this explanation of antitrust enforcement procedures, Part III discusses the relevant statutory and case law applicable to health care provider networks.

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Haeder, Simon F., David L. Weimer, and Dana B. Mukamel. "Going the Extra Mile? How Provider Network Design Increases Consumer Travel Distance, Particularly for Rural Consumers." Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 45, no. 6 (August 24, 2020): 1107–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/03616878-8641591.

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Abstract Context: The practical accessibility to medical care facilitated by health insurance plans depends not just on the number of providers within their networks but also on distances consumers must travel to reach the providers. Long travel distances inconvenience almost all consumers and may substantially reduce choice and access to providers for some. Methods: The authors assess mean and median travel distances to cardiac surgeons and pediatricians for participants in (1) plans offered through Covered California, (2) comparable commercial plans, and (3) unrestricted open-network plans. The authors repeat the analysis for higher-quality providers. Findings: The authors find that in all areas, but especially in rural areas, Covered California plan subscribers must travel longer than subscribers in the comparable commercial plan; subscribers to either plan must travel substantially longer than consumers in open networks. Analysis of access to higher-quality providers show somewhat larger travel distances. Differences between ACA and commercial plans are generally substantively small. Conclusions: While network design adds travel distance for all consumers, this may be particularly challenging for transportation-disadvantaged populations. As distance is relevant to both health outcomes and the cost of obtaining care, this analysis provides the basis for more appropriate measures of network adequacy than those currently in use.

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Lamm, Kevan, Alexa Lamm, Kristin Davis, Jyothi Swaroop, and Leslie Edgar. "Identifying Capacities an Extension Network May Need to Effectively Support the Professionalization of Extension Providers." Journal of International Agricultural and Extension Education 27, no. 2 (April 15, 2020): 91–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.5191/jiaee.2020.27291.

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Professionalization is a critical component of organizational capacity and productivity. Yet, rural advisory service (RAS) providers who are charged with disseminating research-driven techniques and ideas that enhance agricultural production and addressing local stakeholder needs are often overlooked in this area. One of the critical disconnects is the lack of consistent capacities for RAS networks to effectively support the professionalization of RAS providers. Based on a framework analyzing the typical milestones associated with professionalization efforts, capacity building, and social capital the study provides insights into the support mechanism needed for professionalization. Specifically, a Delphi a panel of 31 experts from 24 countries arrived at consensus on 33 specific capacities a RAS network may need to effectively support the professionalization of RAS providers. The results of the research provide a practical framework for RAS networks to consider from a professionalization and capacity building perspective. Keywords: professionalization, delphi, evaluation, capacity assessment, extension, network

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McGhee Hassrick, Elizabeth, Jessica Suhrheinrich, Patricia Schetter, Allison Nahmias, Melina Melgarejo, Jennica Li, Jonas Ventimiglia, Yue Yu, and Aubyn Stahmer. "Producing Child-Centered Interventions: Social Network Factors Related to the Quality of Professional Development for Teachers of Autistic Students." Social Sciences 10, no. 12 (November 25, 2021): 453. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/socsci10120453.

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Autistic students benefit from child-centered goals that align with evidence-based practices (EBPs) that meet their individualized needs, however, most teachers are not trained in how to implement autism-specific EBPs. The challenges do not lie with teachers alone. Professional development (PD) providers, such as district or regional autism experts who train and coach teachers on how to implement autism-specific EBPs, face barriers accessing the needed supports to conduct high-quality PD and lack experience with individualizing their methods for training and coaching teachers. When PD providers have networks of professional support, they can potentially gain access to resources to provide successful individualized coaching for teachers. No research has measured the impact of the social networks of PD providers on their performance as coaches in classrooms for teachers of autistic students. To test the hypothesis that social network resources can impact the performance of PD providers who coach teachers how to use EBPs for their autistic students, we conducted social network analysis with PD providers. Findings suggest that network factors were associated with the self-reported performance for PD providers. PD providers who have more people in their networks who were autism EBP experts, as well as more people in their networks who supported them with how to individualize their PD efforts to specific teachers or districts, had higher performance as teacher coaches. We discuss future research about how to support network development for PD providers and policy implications.

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Kubal, Timothy Edward, Douglas D. Letson, Karen K. Fields, Richard M. Levine, Charles F. Andrews, John Turner Hamm, Diana Lachica, Riti Shimkhada, and John W. Peabody. "Building a provider network based on quality: The Moffitt Oncology Network initiative." Journal of Clinical Oncology 32, no. 30_suppl (October 20, 2014): 49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1200/jco.2014.32.30_suppl.49.

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49 Background: Before entering into risk bearing contracts with payors, ACOs are challenged to find a basis for forming partnerships. Specialty ACO networks, in particular, must find ways to provide a common, high standard of care among a typically varied set of partners. The Moffitt Oncology Network (MON) Initiative demonstrates a possible solution to forming a value based ACO network across a broad geographical area that is based upon using clinical pathways. Methods: Moffitt Cancer Center (MCC) has developed more than 24 different disease specific pathways. The MCC pathways translate evidence-based guidelines into personalized cancer care throughout the continuum of care from evaluation to treatment. MCC is using these pathways with other hospital systems and physician groups throughout the MON. To enhance the use of pathways in the MON, MCC uses Clinical Performance and Value (CPV) Vignettes. CPV’s, are virtual patient cases related to the specific clinical pathways. The report herein is on pathway implementation in several disease areas (breast, lung and gastrointestinal (GI) cancers) across multiple sites: Lehigh Valley Hospital (Pennsylvania), Norton Cancer Institute (Kentucky), and Space Coast Cancer Center (Florida). Results: Pathway based clinical care was measured at baseline using CPVs across disease and site (Table). A total of 67 breast cancer providers took 131 breast cancer vignettes; 35 lung cancer providers took 104 lung cancer vignettes; and to date 27 GI cancer providers have taken 54 GI vignettes. There is statistically significant variation in performance among providers and between sites. This is manifest in pathway-specified areas of work-up, diagnosis, and treatment. Conclusions: Fostering adoption of clinical pathways is a practical objective that can help guide the formation of an ACO oncology network. This may be useful for forming specialty ACOs that establish a standard of care and set the stage for adopting new payment models with payors. [Table: see text]

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Garmani, Hamid, Driss Ait Omar, Mohamed El Amrani, Mohamed Baslam, and Mostafa Jourhmane. "The Effect of Caching on CP and ISP Policies in Information-Centric Networks." Mobile Information Systems 2020 (October 30, 2020): 1–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/8895271.

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Internet traffic volume is increasing, and this causes scalability issues in content delivery. Information-centric network has been introduced to support this increase in Internet traffic through caching. While collaborative caching in information-centric network is a crucial feature to improve network performance and reduce delivery costs in content distribution, the current pricing strategies on the Internet are not incentive compatible with information-centric network interconnection. In this paper, we focus on the economic incentive interactions in caching deployment between several types of information-centric network providers (content provider and Internet service provider). In particular, we develop game-theoretic models to study the interaction between providers in an information-centric network model where the providers are motivated to cache and share content. We use a generalized Zipf distribution to model content popularity. We formulate the interactions between the Internet service providers and between the content providers as a noncooperative game. We use a Stackelberg game model to capture the interactions between the content provider and Internet service providers. Through mathematical analysis, we prove the existence and uniqueness of the Nash equilibrium under some conditions. An iterative and distributed algorithm based on best response dynamics is proposed to achieve the equilibrium point. The numerical simulations illustrate that our proposed game models result in a win-win solution.

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Zha, Yanfang. "Key Technologies of Cache and Computing in 5G Mobile Communication Network." Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing 2021 (September 26, 2021): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/3099272.

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The deployment of cache and computing resources in 5G mobile communication networks is considered as an important way to reduce network transmission delay and redundant content transmission and improve the efficiency of content distribution and network computing processing capacity, which has been widely concerned and recognized by academia and industry. Aiming at the development trend of cache and computing resource allocation in 5G mobile communication networks, in order to improve the efficiency of content cache and reduce network energy consumption, a 5G network cache optimization strategy based on Stackelberg game was proposed, which modeled network operators and content providers as multimaster and multislave Stackelberg game model. Providers buy base station storage space from network operators to cache popular content. In this paper, we construct the strategy space and profit function of the two sides of the game and prove the existence of Nash equilibrium solution among content providers given a set of base station rental prices of network operators. In this paper, distributed iterative algorithm is used to solve the game model, and the optimal base station pricing of network operators and the optimal base station occupancy rate of content providers are obtained.

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Chen, Long, Liusheng Huang, Zehao Sun, Hansong Guo, and Hongli Xu. "Spectrum combinatorial double auction for cognitive radio network with ubiquitous network resource providers." IET Communications 9, no. 17 (November 26, 2015): 2085–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1049/iet-com.2015.0315.

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Chandler, Ariel E., R. Kannan Mutharasan, Lia Amelia, Matthew B. Carson, Denise M. Scholtens, and Nicholas D. Soulakis. "Risk Adjusting Health Care Provider Collaboration Networks." Methods of Information in Medicine 58, no. 02/03 (September 2019): 071–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0039-1694990.

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Abstract Objectives The quality of hospital discharge care and patient factors (health and sociodemographic) impact the rates of unplanned readmissions. This study aims to measure the effects of controlling for the patient factors when using readmission rates to quantify the weighted edges between health care providers in a collaboration network. This improved understanding may inform strategies to reduce hospital readmissions, and facilitate quality-improvement initiatives. Methods We extracted 4 years of patient, provider, and activity data related to cardiology discharge workflow. A Weibull model was developed to predict the risk of unplanned 30-day readmission. A provider–patient bipartite network was used to connect providers by shared patient encounters. We built collaboration networks and calculated the Shared Positive Outcome Ratio (SPOR) to quantify the relationship between providers by the relative rate of patient outcomes, using both risk-adjusted readmission rates and unadjusted readmission rates. The effect of risk adjustment on the calculation of the SPOR metric was quantified using a permutation test and descriptive statistics. Results Comparing the collaboration networks consisting of 2,359 provider pairs, we found that SPOR values with risk-adjusted outcomes are significantly different than unadjusted readmission as an outcome measure (p-value = 0.025). The two networks classified the same provider pairs as high-scoring 51.5% of the time, and the same low scoring provider pairs 85.6% of the time. The observed differences in patient demographics and disease characteristics between high-scoring and low-scoring provider pairs were reduced by applying the risk-adjusted model. The risk-adjusted model reduced the average variation across each individual's SPOR scored provider connections. Conclusions Risk adjusting unplanned readmission in a collaboration network has an effect on SPOR-weighted edges, especially on classifying high-scoring SPOR provider pairs. The risk-adjusted model reduces the variance of providers' connections and balances shared patient characteristics between low- and high-scoring provider pairs. This indicates that the risk-adjusted SPOR edges better measure the impact of collaboration on readmissions by accounting for patients' risk of readmission.

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Haripriya, K. "IP/MPLS based Transport Network for Telecom Service Providers." Indian Journal of Science and Technology 9, no. 1 (January 20, 2016): 1–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.17485/ijst/2016/v9is(1)/108437.

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Delmelle, Eric M., Derek M. Marsh, C. Dony, and Paul L. Delamater. "Travel impedance agreement among online road network data providers." International Journal of Geographical Information Science 33, no. 6 (December 21, 2018): 1251–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13658816.2018.1557662.

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Zickler, Patrick. "Network Therapy Expands Treatment Capabilities Of Small Practice Providers." NIDA NOTES 18, no. 2 (2003): 5. http://dx.doi.org/10.1151/v18i2ntetcospp.

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Vincenzi, Matteo, Elena Lopez-Aguilera, and Eduard Garcia-Villegas. "Maximizing Infrastructure Providers’ Revenue Through Network Slicing in 5G." IEEE Access 7 (2019): 128283–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/access.2019.2939935.

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Conoscenti, Marco, Antonio Vetro, and Juan Carlos De Martin. "Hubs, Rebalancing and Service Providers in the Lightning Network." IEEE Access 7 (2019): 132828–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/access.2019.2941448.

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Haeder, Simon F. "Quality Regulation? Access to High-Quality Specialists for Medicare Advantage Beneficiaries in California." Health Services Research and Managerial Epidemiology 6 (January 1, 2019): 233339281882447. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2333392818824472.

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Medicare Advantage enrollment has seen tremendous growth over the past decade. However, we know comparatively little about the experience of beneficiaries in the program. Our knowledge of Medicare Advantage provider networks is particularly limited. This article is one of the first major assessments of the issue. It seeks to answer 3 important questions. First, are Medicare Advantage plan networks made up of higher quality providers? Second, how significant are the network restrictions imposed by Medicare Advantage plans with regard to access to higher quality providers? And finally, how much provider choice are Medicare Advantage beneficiaries left with? To assess these questions, I utilize geospatial data and individual provider quality measures for cardiologists, endocrinologists, and obstetricians and gynecologists from California. I find that Medicare Advantage beneficiaries generally do well in large metropolitan areas compared to traditional Medicare. However, there are concerns for those in micropolitan and rural areas, and even those in standard metropolitan areas, at times. Crucially, the connection between provider quality and networks can only be fully understood when connected to assessments of provider access. These findings also raise questions about how we think about provider networks and the adequacy of current approaches to network regulation.

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Abayomi-Alli, A., P. I. Ezomo, D. J. Etuk, I. Oghogho, and F. Izilein. "Performance Evaluation of GSM Service Providers around Igbinedion University Campuses." Advanced Materials Research 367 (October 2011): 177–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.367.177.

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A performance evaluation of GSM service providers (Globacom, MTN and Zain) was conducted in Okada, Edo State; home of Igbinedion University. The main research objective was ascertaining the Quality of Service (QoS) provision level and fulfillment of minimum industry QoS standards of GSM operators. The GSM Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and technical parameters measured included: percentages of call set-up success rate, call set-up failure rate, post dialing delay (intra/inter-network), call drop rate, call retention rate and call completion rate; credit balance inquiry success and failure; SMS delivery failures, incorrect feedback and multiple billing; recharge cards loading success, loading error and loading incorrect feedback. The measurements were carried out at different geographical positions of the town at varying time intervals. Observations were also made on some other performance issues like network availability, voice quality, call setup phase, post dialing delay-elongation, weather influence and signaling/ feedback. The study revealed several levels of KPI achievements by the different networks with Globacom performing best, coming tops in twenty-three (23) indicators out of the thirty-seven (37) considered followed by Zain and then MTN. It also revealed that the networks achieved some NCC QoS benchmarks and failed in some other notable ones.

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Wang, Yu, Xinle Liang, Rui Xu, Chuang Liu, and Huaping Chen. "Bertrand Oligopoly Competition in Composite Web Service Network." International Journal of Web Services Research 15, no. 2 (April 2018): 67–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijwsr.2018040104.

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Because of its heterogeneous nature, a web service can be composed of multiple composite web services. To improve profitability in the software-component economy, software as a service (SaaS) service providers compete more at the composite-service level than at the single-service level. Moreover, because of the collaborative environment, composite web service networks determine both the applicability of the web service and its expected economic behavior. Based on the traditional linear demand model, this article presents a congestion-aware demand model that makes several assumptions regarding the SaaS service marketplace. Then, it formulates the SaaS service providers' pricing behaviors as a network Bertrand oligopoly competition. Key game-theoretic analysis includes the existence and uniqueness of the pure strategy Nash equilibrium. Moreover, this article provides one sufficient condition, where if all SaaS service providers follow the best response strategy, the strategy profile converges to the unique pure strategy Nash equilibrium.

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Militano, Leonardo, Antonella Molinaro, Antonio Iera, and Ármin Petkovics. "A Game Theoretic Approach to Guarantee Fairness in Cooperation Among Green Mobile Network Operators." International Journal of Business Data Communications and Networking 9, no. 3 (July 2013): 1–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/jbdcn.2013070101.

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Energy efficiency is one of leading design principles for the current deployment of cellular mobile networks. A first driving reason for this is that half of the operating costs for the network providers comes from the energy spent to power the network, with almost 80% of it being consumed at the base stations. A second reason is related to the high environmental pollution, which makes the green cellular networks deployment mandatory. Cooperation between mobile network providers can be an effective way to reduce the CO2 emissions and, simultaneously, reduce the operating expenditures. In this paper, a game theoretic approach is proposed to introduce fairness and stability into an optimal algorithm for switching off the cooperating base stations. This aims at making such a solution more attractive in real implementation scenarios where profit-driven network providers act as rational players.

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Patharia, Ishani, Anjana Pandey, and Sanjay Gupta. "Prioritizing the influencing factors of utaut-2 model toward mobile network service providers." Competition and Regulation in Network Industries 22, no. 3-4 (September 2021): 212–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/17835917211055377.

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Technological developments have a major impact on user behavior. The rapidly evolving communication system and technology have provided numerous choices for people. The ever-shifting changes in the generation of communication networks have posed challenges for mobile network service providers to attract and retain customers. This study aims to prioritize the determinants of the adoption of mobile network service providers using the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT-2). In this study, data were collected from 660 mobile phone users in Haryana, India. A fuzzy analytical hierarchy process (F-AHP) was applied to arrange the priority or rank the factors based on the significance of the factors in explaining the adoption of mobile network service providers. Results of the study reveal that efforts expectancy is the highest-ranked and prioritized factor for the adoption of mobile network service providers followed by performance expectancy and facilitating conditions. However, social influence emerged as the least important factor. The present study provides theoretical implications for future researchers by synthesizing and prioritizing the important factors affecting technology acceptance. The practical implications offer a clearer insight to marketers for developing focused pragmatic strategies to retain customer loyalty. The study has considered only UTAUT-2 model constructs and used the F-AHP technique. Other factors may be considered in future studies. Other priority analysis techniques can also be used such as ISM and MICMAC analysis for further study. The research has been conducted in Haryana, India, and therefore, it needs to be tested in other areas/countries for generalizability. JEL Classification: O1, O2, O4

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Ambrus, Attila, and Rossella Argenziano. "Asymmetric Networks in Two-Sided Markets." American Economic Journal: Microeconomics 1, no. 1 (January 1, 2009): 17–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/mic.1.1.17.

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This paper investigates pricing decisions and network choices in two-sided markets with network externalities. Consumers are heterogeneous in how much they value the externality. Imposing restrictions on the extent of coordination failure among consumers generates clear qualitative conclusions about equilibrium market configurations. Multiple asymmetric networks can coexist in equilibrium, both in the case of a monopolist network provider and in the case of competing providers. These equilibria have the property that one network is cheaper and larger on one side, while the other network is cheaper and larger on the other side. Product differentiation is endogenized by consumers' network choices. (JEL D85, L12, L13, L14, D42, D43)

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Nielsen, Ole Stender. "Digital TV Production and New Network Technologies: Challenging Opportunities for Broadcasters and Network Providers." SMPTE Journal 105, no. 3 (March 1996): 130–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.5594/j04647.

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Schapker, Lauren. "National Ground Water Monitoring Network Data Providers Meet to Discuss Network Status and Plans." Groundwater Monitoring & Remediation 37, no. 1 (February 2017): 15–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gwmr.12202.

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Simakovic, Milan, Zoran Cica, and Dejan Drajic. "Big-Data Platform for Performance Monitoring of Telecom-Service-Provider Networks." Electronics 11, no. 14 (July 16, 2022): 2224. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/electronics11142224.

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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 is collected and processed during performance monitoring to obtain information that gives insights into the current network performance. Using the obtained information, providers can efficiently detect, locate, and troubleshoot weak spots in the network and improve the overall network performance. Furthermore, the extracted information can be used for planning future network expansions and to support the determination of business-strategy decisions. However, traditional methods for processing and storing data are not applicable because of the enormous amount of collected data. Thus, big-data technologies must be used. In this paper, a big-data platform for the performance monitoring of telecom-service-provider networks is proposed. The proposed platform is capable of collecting, storing, and processing data from millions of devices. Typical challenges and problems in the development and deployment process of the platform, as well as the solutions to overcome them, are presented. The proposed platform is adjusted to HFC (Hybrid Fiber-Coaxial) network and currently operates in the real HFC network, comprising millions of users and devices.

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Chen, Hsing-Chung, Marsha Violetta, Chien-Erh Weng, and Tzu-Liang Kung. "Cognitive RBAC in mobile heterogeneous networks." Computer Science and Information Systems 10, no. 2 (2013): 779–806. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/csis121110034c.

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In communication networks, a cognitive network (CN) is a new type of data network which is used to solve some of the problems that face current networks. Cognitive radio (CR) is part of a cognitive network and a smart wireless communication system. CR is conscious of its surrounding environment, and learns from the environment. It adapts its internal states by making corresponding real-time changes in certain operating parameters. In this paper, we propose a novel Cognitive RBAC (Role-Based Access Control) scheme which can be applied to Mobile Heterogeneous Networks (MHNs). The MHNs consist of mobile communication systems and Wi-Fi systems. The required new definitions for the RBAC model are proposed in this paper. They can improve the ability of conventional RBAC model to meet new challenges. In our scheme, we assume that a Cognitive Server (CS) provides and manages the permissions of services, and Network Providers support and manage a variety CRs and CNs, individually. For more efficiently managing CR and CN and meeting the large scale heterogeneous networks, we let mobile user can perceive network candidate actively to access services, in which the permissions are depending to the contract made by CS with each Network Provider. In this paper, the new generalized cognitive RBAC model and their definitions are proposed, and could be applied to new applications in a MHNs environment.

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Shah, Neha Parikh, Rob Cross, and Daniel Z. Levin. "Performance Benefits From Providing Assistance in Networks: Relationships That Generate Learning." Journal of Management 44, no. 2 (May 4, 2015): 412–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0149206315584822.

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Social network scholarship emphasizes that receiving resources from others in a network can benefit an individual’s job performance. Yet this paradigm rarely considers the effects on the provider of assistance. Outside the networks literature, scholars have been increasingly attentive to factors that affect motivations to provide help (i.e., prosocial motivation). However, the performance effects associated with providing help have been mixed. We concentrate specifically upon assistance that has the potential to enhance the providers’ learning and knowledge base and, hence, their performance. Using a bounded-network survey in a large consulting firm, we show that providing problem-solving assistance to many others on task-related matters increases the provider’s own work performance. We then consider how this learning may be affected by other relational and contextual factors. In so doing, we shift the predominant network perspective that people accrue performance advantages from receiving assistance to show that such advantages also occur—under the right circumstances—from providing it.

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Hoang, Doan. "Software Defined Networking – Shaping up for the next disruptive step?" Australian Journal of Telecommunications and the Digital Economy 3, no. 4 (December 29, 2015): 48. http://dx.doi.org/10.18080/ajtde.v3n4.28.

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Software-Defined Networking (SDN) has emerged as a networking paradigm that can remove the limitations of current network infrastructures by separating the control plane from the data forwarding plane. As an immediate result, networks can be managed cost effectively and autonomously through centralising the decision-making capability at the control plane and the programmability of network devices on the data plane. This allows the two planes to evolve independently and open up separate horizontal markets on simplified network devices and programmable controllers. More importantly, it opens up markets for infrastructure providers to provision and offer network resources on-demand to multiple tenants and for service providers to develop and deploy their services on shared infrastructure resources cost-effectively. This paper provides an essential understanding of the SDN concept and architecture. It discusses the important implications of the control/data plane separation on network devices, management and applications beyond the scope of the original SDN. It also discusses two major issues that may help to bring the disruptive technology forward: the intent northbound interface and the cost-effective SDN approaches for the industry.

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