The Development of Service Enablers in B3G Environments

Author

Masikos, M.N. ; Nikitopoulos, D.G. ; Axiotis, D.I. ; Theologou, M.E. ; Dessiniotis, C.

Author_Institution

Nat. Tech. Univ. of Athens, Athens

fYear

2007

fDate

3-7 Sept. 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

This paper deals with the design of systems that enable service provisioning in Beyond 3G (B3G) environments. The proposed systems are based on Service Enablers, entities that collect and process data from mobile terminals in order to form content for the provisioning of context-aware services. This content can be afterwards exploited by candidate applications. In this paper the main parameters that influence the design process are identified and the basic characteristics of service enablers are derived. Furthermore, we cite four basic operational structures according to our architecture and we present their special features. The MOTIVE system (MObile Terminal Information Value addEd Functionality) is used as a case study for the verification and validation of the proposed structures.

Keywords

4G mobile communication; telecommunication services; 4G communications; MOTIVE system; beyond 3G environment; context-aware service; mobile terminal information value added functionality system; service enabler; service provisioning; 3G mobile communication; Context; Context-aware services; Design engineering; Digital video broadcasting; Land mobile radio; Mobile communication; Process design; Telecommunication computing; Wireless LAN;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, 2007. PIMRC 2007. IEEE 18th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Athens

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1144-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1144-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PIMRC.2007.4394078

Filename

4394078