Virtual community management for enabling P2P services in the IMS network

Author

Radovanovic, I. ; Lukkien, J. ; Shudong Chen ; Molanus, C. ; Ozcelebi, Tanir

Author_Institution

Dept. of Math. & Comput. Sci., Eindhoven Univ. of Technol., Eindhoven

fYear

2008

fDate

10-12 Dec. 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

This paper addresses forming and management of a virtual community (VC) in the IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) network. A VC provides scope for mobile peer-to-peer (P2P) service sharing among end users and allows them control of sharing. The paper describes a number of services that enable forming and management of virtual communities and presents several service-oriented system architecture alternatives focusing on distribution of service access control and service discovery control between end users and operators as the owners of the IMS home-networks. Presented architecture alternatives are IMS compatible since they only introduce 5 additional services into the existing IMS architecture. A key service is an orchestrator that exposes new services composed of other services. A proof-of-concept realization of the IMS architecture in which control of mobile service sharing is distributed among end users and operators is shown.

Keywords

IP networks; computer network management; mobile computing; mobility management (mobile radio); multimedia communication; peer-to-peer computing; telecommunication services; IMS home network; IP multimedia subsystem network; P2P services; mobile peer-to-peer services; proof-of-concept realization; service access control; service discovery control; service-oriented system architecture; virtual community management; Access control; Access protocols; Computer network management; Control systems; IP networks; Mathematics; Technology management; Telecommunication control; Virtual colonoscopy; Web and internet services;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Internet Multimedia Services Architecture and Applications, 2008. IMSAA 2008. 2nd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Bangalore

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2684-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMSAA.2008.4753907

Filename

4753907