TKK | Networking Laboratory

Timo Smura

Research Scientist, M.Sc.(Tech.)

Picture of Timo Smura Postal address:
Helsinki University of Technology
Networking Laboratory
P.O.Box 3000
FIN-02015 TKK
Finland

Tel:+358-9-451 6258
Fax:+358-9-451 2474
Email:firstname.lastname@tkk.fi
Visiting address:
Room SF301
Otakaari 5A
02150 Espoo

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Research interests


Research projects


Journal Papers

  1. T. Smura, A. Kivi and J. Töyli, A Framework for Analysing the Usage of Mobile Services, INFO - The journal of policy, regulation and strategy for telecommunications, information and media, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 53-67, 2009 (link)(bib)(abstract)
  2. J. Harno, D. Katsianis, T. Smura, T. G. Eskedal, R. Venturin, O. P. Pohjola, K. R. Kumar and D. Varoutas, Alternatives for mobile operators in the competitive 3G and beyond business, Telecommunication Systems, vol. 41, no. 1, pp. 77-95, 2009 (link)(bib)
  3. T. Rokkas, D. Varoutas, D. Katsianis, T. Smura, R. Kumar, M. Heikkinen, J. Harno, M. Kind, D. V. Hugo and T. Monath, On the economics of fixed-mobile convergence, INFO - The journal of policy, regulation and strategy for telecommunications, information and media, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 75-86, 2009 (link)(bib)
  4. E. Kivisaari, T. Autio, T. Smura and H. Hämmäinen, Operator Roles in Mobile Broadcast, Nordic and Baltic Journal of Information and Communication Technologies, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 48-60, 2008 (link)(bib)
  5. T. Smura, A. Kiiski and H. Hämmäinen, Virtual operators in the mobile industry: A techno-economic analysis, NETNOMICS: Economic Research and Electronic Networking, vol. 8, 1-2, pp. 25-48, 2007 (link)(bib)(abstract)

Conference Papers

  1. T. Smura and A. Sorri, Future Scenarios for Local Area Access: Industry Structure and Access Fragmentation, in Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Mobile Business (ICMB 2009), Dalian, China, June 27-28, 2009, 2009 (link)(bib)(abstract)
  2. A. Kivi, T. Smura and J. Töyli, Diffusion of Mobile Handset Features in Finland, in Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Mobile Business (ICMB 2009), Dalian, China, June 27-28, 2009, 2009 (link)(bib)(abstract)
  3. T. Smura, Access alternatives to mobile services and content: analysis of handset-based smartphone usage data, in ITS 17th Biennial Conference, Montreal, Canada, June 24-27, 2008, 2008 (pdf)(bib)(abstract)
  4. T. Rokkas, D. Varoutas, M. Kind, D. V. Hugo, J. Harno, T. Smura, M. Heikkinen and K. R. Kumar, Fixed-Mobile Convergence: An Integrated Operator Case Study, in Proceedings of 6th Conference on Telecommunication Techno-Economics (CTTE 2007), pp. 1-6, 2007 (link)(bib)
  5. T. Smura, A. Kiiski and H. Hämmäinen, Techno-Economic Analysis of Mobile Virtual Network Operators: Strategies, Investments, and Revenues, in 5th Conference on Telecommunication Techno-Economics, 8-9 June 2006, Athens, Greece, 2006 (bib)
  6. T. Smura, Competition between Emerging Wireless Network Technologies: Case HSPA vs. WiMAX in Europe, in 17th European Regional ITS Conference, August 22-24, 2006, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2006 (pdf)(bib)(abstract)
  7. J. Harno, D. Katsianis, T. Smura, T. G. Eskedal, R. Venturin, O. P. Pohjola, K. R. Kumar and D. Varoutas, Alternatives for mobile operators in the competitive 3G and beyond business, in Proceedings of NAEC 2005, 2005 (bib)
  8. K. Stordahl, B. Craignou, T. Smura, J. O. Paret, I. Welling, K. Kumar and T. Monath, Potential new broadband revenue streams, in Proceedings of NAEC 2005, 2005 (bib)
  9. T. Smura, Competitive potential of WiMAX in the broadband access market: a techno-economic analysis, in Proceedings of ITS 2005, 2005 (pdf)(bib)(abstract)
  10. T. Smura and H. Hämmäinen, The Role of VoIP: Future Evolution Paths of Voice Communication, in Proceedings of 1st International CICT Conference, , 2004 (pdf)(bib)(abstract)

Theses

  1. T. Smura, Techno-economic analysis of IEEE 802.16a-based fixed wireless access networks, Master's thesis, Helsinki University of Technology, 2004 (pdf)(bib)(abstract)

Book Chapters

  1. T. Smura, H. Hämmäinen, T. Rokkas and D. Katsianis, Techno-economic analysis of fixed WiMAX network deployments, in Mobile WiMAX - Toward Broadband Wireless Metropolitan Area Networks, New York: Auerbach Publications, 2008 (bib)

Invited presentations

Other papers


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