Toni Janevski

• Professor
• Professor (Full) at Saints Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje

With the overload and complexity of IP connectivity and the variety of protocols that each technology and application has been introducing in order to keep human beings connected to the modern Internet, it is a priority for Service Providers to seek a simplification of their infrastructures to make them more efficient, scalable, simpler and profita...

Delivery of fundamental processing, network and storage resources to users has never been easierthrough IaaS, a cloud computing model that utilizes the internet in order to provide users with scalable infrastructureon-demand. However, the technology is constantly being developed in order to provide better QoS to the end consum-ers, so efforts are b...

This paper presents a novel overview in intelligent multi-access QoS mobile edge computing (MEC) for beyond 5G networks and services. There are many challenges faced by the expansion of Cloud networks and Mobile networks, which can be solved by providing connectivity at the edge of the network, i.e. with Mobile Edge Computing networks. The MEC impr...

With the introduction of 5G mobile and wireless networks, significant improvements have been achieved in terms of latency, data speeds, spectral efficiency, mobility, as well as, the number of connected devices. This makes the emergence of a true digital society a reality. However, although 5G networks offer a wide range of applications and service...

As a primary protection of high voltage (HV) and extra high voltage (EHV) transmission line, distance protection needs to operate as fast as possible for faults inside its protection zone, whilst it also must be able to discriminate between internal and external faults to prevent unnecessary disconnection of the healthy lines. The operational perfo...

In the proposed paper scenarios for expansion of the Macedonian electricity generation system are investigated. In order to determine the optimal electricity generation technology mix sufficiently enough to feed the country electricity demand MESSAGE tool is used. The planning period for the case study is from 2020 (base year) to 2050. The environm...

Since the standardization of 5G mobile networks has been completed, the deployments of 5G network has started all over the world. 5G mobile and wireless networks have achieved significant improvements in terms of latency, data rates, spectral efficiency, mobility and number of connected smart mobile devices. Therefore, they have marked the beginnin...

This paper presents a novel research in intelligent multi-access QoS mobile edge computing (MEC) for beyond 5G services. Also, the improved advanced QoS model and architecture for beyond 5G systems and services are proposed. The proposed model combines the most powerful features of both Cloud and Edge computing, independent from any existing and fu...

5G, as well as, the future wireless broadband networks and services should collect data in a reliable way, in order to provide valuable data to the cloud computing data centers, so they can perform analysis of big data. Therefore, advanced mechanisms for machine learning, advanced machine-to-machine communications, and intelligent mobile edge compu...

Because of the increased computing and intelligent networking demands in 5G network, cloud computing alone encounters too many limitations, such as requirements for reduced latency, high mobility, high scalability, and real-time execution. A new paradigm called fog computing has emerged to resolve these issues. Fog computing distributes computing,...

Pushing computing, control, data storage, and processing into the cloud has been a key trend in the past decade. However, the cloud alone encounters growing limitations, such as reduced latency, high mobility, high scalability, and real-time execution in order to meet the upcoming computing and intelligent networking demands. A new paradigm called...

Because of the increased computing and intelligent networking demands in 5G network, cloud computing alone encounters too many limitations, such as requirements for reduced latency, high mobility, high scalability, and real-time execution. A new paradigm called fog computing has emerged to resolve these issues. Fog computing distributes computing,...

Since the standardization of 5G mobile networks has been completed, the deployments of 5G network has started all over the world. 5G mobile and wireless networks have achieved significant improvements in terms of latency, data rates, spectral efficiency, mobility and number of connected smart mobile devices. Therefore, they have marked the beginnin...

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015 refers to 17 Sustainable Development Goals in almost every aspects of life which would further bring peace and prosperity for people and planet. Although most of these goals seem very ambitious the rapid advancements of mobile networks may play a major...

1 Abstract-The development of the telecommunication networks observed in present and future time is impressive. Today we witness rapid implementation of 5G networks. We can say that this actually is the moment when (artificial intelligence) AI enters at small door but in the beyond 5G world it is expected to have the prime role in smart operation,...

The development of the telecommunication networks observed in present and future time is impressive. Today we witness rapid implementation of 5G networks. We can say that this actually is the moment when (artificial intelligence) AI enters at small door but in the beyond 5G world it is expected to have the prime role in smart operation, management...

Design of each successor mobile technology assures improved and advanced functionality features compared to its predecessor. Machine Learning and generally Artificial Intelligence (AI) is becoming necessity for further expansion of the beyond 5G mobile world. AI-assisted IoT services, data collection, analytics and storage should become native in t...

Design of each successor mobile technology assures improved and advanced functionality features compared to its predecessor. Machine Learning and generally Artificial Intelligence (AI) is becoming necessity for further expansion of the beyond 5G mobile world. AI-assisted IoT services, data collection, analytics and storage should become native in t...

This paper covers technological and business aspects of 5G mobile networks at their initial targeted year for acceptance, 2020. It gives a high level view beyond 5G, toward the next generation which is referred to here as 6G. The 5G introduces New Radio (NR) in sub-6 GHz bands and also in mm Wave bands above 24 GHz. The paper analyzes 5G novelties...

Network neutrality is directly related to the appearance of the Internet. It refers to the principle that all Internet traffic should be treated equally. There are two general types of services over broadband access networks: internet access service (IAS) and specialized services. Network neutrality refers directly to IAS and therefore the main reg...

This chapter expresses that the long‐term goal of networking is to design a network that has the flexibility and low cost of the Internet and at the same time can provide the end‐to‐end quality of service guarantees of the telephone network. Internet protocol (IP) is the main communication protocol in the IP stack. Internet networking is based on n...

The main legacy telecommunication services from the twentieth century are telephony and television. Quality of service (QoS)‐enabled mobile voice over internet protocol (VoIP) in the next‐generation network uses service control functions, mobility management and control functions, network attachment control functions, and resource and admission con...

This chapter covers the quality of service (QoS) regulatory framework and its applicability in different networks and in different countries. The part of the service level agreement (SLA) which defines the QoS is referred to as the QoS agreement. Overall, the SLA plays an important role in QoS regulation because it includes the main key performance...

Quality of service (QOS)is equally important for both main types of access networks, fixed and mobile. This chapter covers the fixed access network technologies which are developing toward ultra‐broadband access as the first wave of broadband access. The fixed access networks can be copper‐based or fiber‐based. For provision of ultra‐broadband fixe...

Broadband and ultra‐broadband access networks provide capabilities for delivery of various services toward end‐users, which can have different quality of service (QoS) and quality of experience (QoE) requirements. The relationship between network layer QoS and the obtained QoE is strongly dependent on the given service and its application. The QoS...

This chapter summarizes the evolution of mobile networks through the generations. The development of the mobile network architectures has direct influence on the quality of service (QoS) in the given mobile network. Initially, the third generation partnership project (3GPP) mobile internet protocol network architectures were introduced in general p...

The quality of service (QoS) is always defined end‐to‐end. The QoS in telecommunications networks at the beginning of the twenty‐first century is directly linked to the standardization of the next generation network (NGN) by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU)‐T. NGN networks implemented by telecom operators provide the base for interop...

Because of the increased computing and intelligent networking demands in 5G network, cloud computing alone encounters too many limitations, such as requirements for reduced latency, high mobility, high scalability, and real-time execution. A new paradigm called fog computing has emerged to resolve these issues. Fog computing distributes computing,...

Pushing computing, control, data storage, and processing into the cloud has been a key trend in the past decade. However, the cloud alone encounters growing limitations, such as reduced latency, high mobility, high scalability, and real-time execution in order to meet the upcoming computing and intelligent networking demands. A new paradigm called...

This paper presents a novel QoS and mobile cloud and fog computing framework for future fifth generation (5G) of mobile and fixed nodes with radio network aggregation capability. The proposed 5G framework is leading to high QoS provisioning for any given multimedia service, higher bandwidth utilization, traffic load sharing, mobile cloud plus fog c...

Next generation of mobile networks are expected to assure super fast data transfer with very low delay. The initial 5G standardization is expected to be finalized around 2020. Enhanced mobile broadband with its corresponding demand of higher capacity and end user data rates represents the key driver of 5G network development. The transport protocol...

5G network will enable new future Internet of Services paradigms such as Anything as a Service, where devices, terminals, machines, also smart things and robots will become innovative tools that will produce and will use applications, services and data. However, the emerging applications in the context of the Internet of Everything introduce high m...

In this paper we present a novel QoS framework on the network layer for 5G terminals with vertical multi-homing and multi-streaming capabilities by using radio networks aggregation. The proposed framework is leading to high performance utility networks with QoS provisioning for real-time multimedia services by achieving low packet delays, stochasti...

Pushing computing, control, data storage and processing into the cloud has been a key trend in the past decade. However, in order to meet the computing and intelligent networking demands in 5G network and IoT, the cloud alone encounters growing limitations for the requirements such as reduced latency, high mobility, high scalability and real time e...

5G networks are expected to be all-IP networks, similar to their predecessors 4G mobile networks, but with higher bit rates in the access and core parts, and delays less than 1 ms in the mobile terrestrial network, that requires continuing work on the Internet networking protocol stack, which is consisted of IP on the network layer and TCP and UDP...

Motivated by the tremendous development of telecommunication world in the recent years, especially the area of wireless and mobile networks, in this chapter we present several advanced mechanisms, concepts, performance analysis for QoS (Quality of Service) provisioning in future fifth generation (5G) terminals. The advanced QoS provisioning module,...

5G will enable new future Internet of Services (IoSs) paradigms such as Anything as a Service (AaaS), where devices, terminals, machines, also smart things and robots will become innovative tools that will produce and will use applications, services and data. However, 5G will have to support huge mobile traffic volumes, and will also have to deal w...

5G will enable the future Internet of Everything (IoE) paradigm, where devices, terminals, machines, and also smart things and robots will become innovative tools that will produce and use applications, services and data. However, future Internet will exacerbate the need for improved QoS/OoE, supported by services that are orchestrated on-demand an...

In this paper we present novel transport protocol designed to assure efficient data usage in future 5G mobile networks which are expected to be standardized around 2020. This unique transport protocol is designed to prevent congestion collapses of the backhaul network traffic and to assure ultra-high data rates up to 400Gbps.

The past two decades TCP development was elevated at higher level mainly because of its poor performances in high speed networks. The Congestion Avoidance phase was studied and identified as the main reason for this behavior. A variety of TCP proposals were developed with the aim to improve protocol utilization in a high speed environment, most of...

The letter presents a novel framework for 5G nodes with vertical multi-homing capabilities by using radio access technology aggregation on the network protocol layer and using Lyapunov optimization. The proposed 5G node framework leads to high performance utility networks with QoS provisioning for any given service, high average throughput, and mul...

In this paper, we perform the analysis of cost effective capacity expansion strategies with incremental deployment aspects of the forthcoming mobile heterogeneous networks from beyond 4th and 5th generation. We consider different over time (up to year 2025) increasing traffic volumes in order to determine the most cost-effective capacity expansion...

TCP development was elevated at higher level mainly because of poor performances in high speed networks. Congestion Avoidance phase was identified as main reason for this behavior. Numbers of TCP proposals were developed with aim to improve protocol utilization in high speed environment. Several issues should be adequately addressed during protocol...

In this paper we present an advanced QoS provisioning module with vertical multi-homing framework for future fifth generation (5G) mobile terminals with radio network aggregation capability and traffic load sharing in heterogeneous mobile and wireless environments. The proposed 5G mobile terminal framework is leading to high performance utility net...

TCP congestion control protocols have low performances in high speed wide area networks mainly because their slow response with large congestion windows. This TCP behavior has initiated new design phase of alternative protocols that provide improved traffic utilization in high bandwidth delay product networks. The paper presents survey of various h...

This article originally presents a conceptual model to assess the business performance of the future advanced wireless and mobile heterogeneous network aiming to preserve enormous broadband demand of the so called “TERA age” in which a monthly usage will be expressed in terabytes and average data rates of 1.0 Gbps per single user. During the assess...

In this paper we develop “state-of-the-art” cost model of the heterogeneous wireless networks in order to determine the most cost effective radio network deployment as a function of extreme demand levels of more than 100 GB per user and month. We perform comparative analysis by consideration of the advanced radio access technologies like LTE-Advanc...

The article outlines a conceptual cost-capacity model to evaluate the business profitability of the forthcoming wireless access heterogeneous network (WA-HetNet) which aims to maintain excessive user demands. For that purpose, we originally introduce a techno-economic analysis for the use of hierarchical cell structures and spectral efficiencies of...

IPTV is an essential new technology in ICT, which changes the perspective of the way end users consume TV services, but also serves as a platform for new ideas and concepts in other areas, such as medicine, science and industry. It is considered as a technology that brings significant contribution in different scientific areas, as well as medicine...

The mobile broadband is becoming reality with 4G mobile networks, which include LTE-Advanced and Mobile WiMAX 2.0. This chapter covers LTE-Advanced regarding the standardization in access and core networks, including System Architecture Evolution (SAE), carrier aggregation in the radio access part, home eNodeB and Self-Optimizing Networks (SON). Fu...

Introductory chapter provides fundamentals of traditional telecommunication networks and their evolution from the 19th century until the 21st century. It covers the Public Switched Telephone Networks (PSTN), including the switching systems and transmission, as well as Signaling System 7 (SS7) with its logical architecture and the protocol model. Ad...

NGN is designed to have capabilities for all telecommunication services, either provided within the NGN or via third-party service providers. In that manner, this chapter covers QoS-enabled VoIP as successor of traditional voice in PSTN. Also, it includes IPTV services over NGN including multicast-based and unicast-based ones. Since the NGN support...

The world is becoming more and more dependent on broadband access to Internet due to its importance for economic growth and development. The ITU has highlighted the importance of “broadband” by identifying the broadband as a key target initiative in the second decade of the 21st century. This chapter covers ITU's work on broadband, as well as ADSL...

Transition to NGN from traditional PSTN/ISDN is inevitable process. Hence, this chapter covers the transition to NGN from PSTN/ISDN by using emulation and simulation. On the other side, the chapter includes migration of best-effort Internet to NGN, including best-effort access to Internet as well as QoS-enabled services. Further, it describes the N...

This chapter covers main drivers to NGN which include fixed and mobile broadband access to Internet, convergence towards IP-based networks and services. Further it provides view into the main ITU-T NGN standards, as well as synergy among ITU, IETF, 3GPP and IEEE in such standardization process. Chapter 3 explains the all-IP network concept for NGN...

Contrary to the past century where telecommunication networks were service-centric, the NGN is created to be a service-independent network with well-standardized interfaces to different applications and services. This chapter describes open service architecture in NGN as well as Managed Delivery Services (MDS) framework, which provides new business...

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The convergence towards the NGN is based on the Internet technologies, and therefore this chapter covers the Internet fundamentals of today, including architectures and fundamental protocols such as IPv4, IPv6, UDP, TCP, and SCTP. It also includes Internet addressing and numbering principles, including IPv4 addressing, dynamic address allocations b...

Different services in over NGN have different Quality of Service (QoS) requirements, therefore crucial part of the NGN is QoS provision with aim to provide desired level of QoS for certain services as well as certain Quality of Experience (QoE) from the end user's point of view. This chapter describes QoS solution in NGN based the QoS framework fro...

In this paper, we propose applicable and comparative cost-capacity analysis of the heterogeneous wireless networks in order to determine the most cost effective radio network deployment strategies as a function of an extreme demand levels of even more than 100 GB per user and month. We perform the modeling by considering of the unit cost drivers re...

Internet has developed into dynamic network where users use wired/wireless access technologies. The diversity of bandwidths, delays and error rates observed on Internet have increased. TCP is the common denominator for many services therefore by modifying TCP the need of applying solutions locally can be reduced. We focus on making TCP more efficie...

In this paper we introduce a novel design concept for advanced mobile terminals with radio network aggregation capability and enhanced QoS provisioning for multimedia services in heterogeneous wireless and mobile networks. We establish a new module that provides the best QoS and lowest cost for any given multimedia service by using simultaneously a...

LTE (Long Term Evolution) networks have been introduced in 3GPP (Third Generation Partnership Project) release 8 specifications, with an objective of high-data-rate, low-latency and packet-optimized radio access technology. The QoS for multimedia services are defined in LTE specification. However the scheduling algorithms for supporting real time a...

IEEE 802.16 standard supports five different service classes in order to support different needs of the mobile users with different QoS criteria. But, this standard doesn't specify admission control and scheduling mechanisms and so far many solutions are proposed in the science world. In this paper we propose priority based uplink scheduling scheme...

Decisions for vertical handovers from WWAN to WMAN or WLAN access technologies are very challenging issue because it needs to deal with different radio access networks and make smart decisions for vertical handover calls between them. Especially the decisions for vertical handovers from WWAN to WLAN hotspots in heterogeneous mobile and wireless net...

LTE (Long Term Evolution) networks have been introduced in 3GPP (Third Generation Partnership Project) release 8 specifications, with an objective of high-data-rate, low-latency and packet-optimized radio access technology. This paper analyses the possibilities, capabilities and features of EstiNet Network Simulator and Emulator that can be used fo...

Mobile users connected to the WiMAX technology can use five different service classes according to their different needs. In this paper we propose priority based uplink scheduling scheme for IEEE 802.16 standard that improves the QoS performances of the WiMAX service classes, especially when the number of connections gets higher. Essential QoS para...

In this paper we introduce a priority based uplink scheduling scheme for IEEE 802.16 standard that maximizes the QoS performances of the real time service classes, especially of the ertPS service class. Simulation experiments are done using the ns-2 simulator and wimax patch and they evaluate and compare the proposed uplink scheduling scheme changi...

Decisions for vertical handover in heterogeneous mobile and wireless networks are very important because they impact the QoS of the mobile users and they are also dependent upon the mobility. Choosing the right radio interface at a given moment when mobile terminal has more than one available wireless or mobile network can be based on various facto...

This paper describes and makes an analysis of performance of Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) compared with Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and User Datagram Protocol (UDP) over Mobile IP (MIP) using Network Simulator (NS-2). This new transport layer protocol has recently been accepted by Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) as a p...

Since Quality of Service (QoS) provisioning for multimedia traffic in integrated Wireless and Mobile Networks is becoming increasingly important objective, in this paper we are introducing a novel concept of adaptive QoS cross-layer framework. The Adaptive QoS framework is proven via novel simulation results in integrated environment with UMTS and...

Current mobile devices are equipped with several network interfaces, which may be of different access technologies such as WLAN, WiMAX, UMTS etc. Different wireless networks can cooperate with each other, if their coverage areas overlap, in order to improve service quality. Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) is used to provide multiple con...

The admission control in 4G and 5G heterogeneous mobile and wireless networks will be more complex because it will need to deal with many different networks and decide to admit not only new calls and horizontal handovers, but also vertical handover calls. In this paper we propose a mobile sensitive algorithm for admission control in heterogeneous n...

In this paper we propose a new design solution for network architecture of future 5G mobile networks. The proposed design is based on user-centric mobile environment with many wireless and mobile technologies on the ground. In heterogeneous wireless environment changes in all, either new or older wireless technologies, is not possible, so each solu...

Achieving acceptable level of QoS cross-layer provisioning for multimedia services in integrated heterogeneous UMTS/WLAN networks is from significant importance. In this paper, an adaptive QoS cross-layer module that provides the best QoS and lower cost for any given multimedia service (by using one or more wireless interfaces at a given time) is p...

The need for evolution, change and constant communication are the forces that drive the advancement of the modern telecommunications. All IP networks with centralized management are reality. TCP is the most important and most used protocol in the todays wired and wireless communication. If we want to improve the throughput of the network then we ha...

In this paper we introduce adaptive QoS provisioning for multimedia services in heterogeneous wireless networks. The concept is proven via novel simulation analysis in integrated environment with UMTS and IEEE 802.11 networks. We introduce our novel adaptive QoS Cross-Layer Module that provides the best QoS performances and the lower cost for a giv...

In this paper we propose novel network architecture for next generation 5G mobile networks. The proposed architecture is based on user-centric mobile concept in heterogeneous wireless environment. The implementation of the proposed architecture is performed in the service stratum, while the radio access technologies belong to the transport stratum...

Wireless heterogeneous environments are a common reality today and will be so even more in the future. This paper is focused on providing a wireless access selection method for the future mobile terminals that will use naturally inspired algorithms for best network selection. The novel algorithm uses mobile terminal measurements from different radi...