Techno-economic Assessment in Communications: Models for Access Network Technologies

Abstract

This article shows State of the Art of techno-economic modeling for access network technologies, presents the characteristics a universal techno-economic model should have, and shows a classification and analysis of techno-economic models in the literature based on such characteristics. In order to reduce the gap detected in the literature, the author created and developed a Universal Techno-Economic Model and the corresponding methodology for techno-economic assessment in multiple domains, currently available for industry stakeholders under specific licence of use.