Ahmed Sabah

Background: Telecommunications has been rapidly moving from legacy systems to highly flexible modern architectures to accommodate the expanding demand on its services. This evolution is critical in providing the capacity needed for new technologies like 5G, IoT, and applications powered by AI. Objective: The study aims at establishing a literature review on the evolution from the more or less obsolete telecommunication structures to new generation digital structures, opportunity factors, technologies that facilitate this change as well as the value addition by this evolution. Methods: The literature review was followed by an examination of industry case studies of 50 telecommunications firms across the globe. The study looked at best practices including network resource utilization, operational price, and service delivery effectiveness, pre and post implementation of technologies like software-defined networking (SDN), network function virtualization (NFV), and cloud-native architectural strategies. Results: The analyses brought out the fact that with the new architectures, network scale up capabilities were enhanced by 70%, operation costs were brought down by up to 30% and service delivery rates were boosted by 40%. Nonetheless, 85% of the firms that implemented the software upgrade faced issues with system integration, which took fifteen months on average before the new system was fully incorporated, and the firms incurred an additional 20% in implementation costs in accommodating integration issues. Conclusion: Extension of telecommunication architectures towards digital landscape improves performance, capacity, and affordability thereby allowing the providers to address next generation applications. However, while making this transition, there are a number of risks that organizations have to face and it is very important to manage them in order to have maximum benefits from using new digital technologies.

Background : The increasing demand for flexible, resilient, and high-performance telecommunication systems—especially in dynamic environments—has led to growing interest in the use of autonomous drones. Their mobility and adaptability make drone swarms a promising solution for enhancing communication networks, particularly in 6G and edge computing applications. Objective : This study explores the application of drone swarms to improve network formation, synchronization, and resilience in both urban and rural telecommunication scenarios, with an emphasis on their feasibility, robustness, and adaptability. Method : A series of simulations were conducted using multi-agent coordination algorithms and network optimization models under varying conditions. Key performance indicators including Packet Delivery Ratio (PDR), latency, energy efficiency, and system reliability were evaluated across different deployment scenarios. Results : The findings indicate that drone swarms achieved a 92% PDR, a significant improvement over the 75% observed in static wireless network (WN) bases. Additionally, average latency decreased by 35%, while energy efficiency increased by 28%. The swarm-based system maintained robust performance even with up to 20% node loss, demonstrating strong fault tolerance and adaptability. Conclusion : The study confirms the potential of drone swarms as a scalable and resilient solution to address critical telecommunication challenges such as disaster response, rural connectivity, and real-time data transmission. Future work should focus on addressing remaining deployment barriers, including regulatory concerns and seamless integration with existing telecommunications infrastructure.