Future Service Provision: Towards a Flexible Hybrid Service Supporting Platform

As the convergence between telephony systems and data systems at all levels of the stack, provision of hybrid services that span multiple networks have attracted much more attentions from both academic and industry communities. The Internet of Things (IoT) is a novel paradigm that is rapidly gaining ground which needs to pay special attention to. In this paper, we present the Flexible Hybrid Service Supporting Platform (FHSSP) leverages on Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Web services technologies. Aiming at the dynamic and flexible characteristics of the heterogeneous network environment, we introduced the template reuse based service creation, flexible service execution as well as resource adaptor methodologies, which ensure FHSSP to deliver “User-Centric” hybrid services in a rapid, cost-effective and highly scalable way. Specifically a typical communication Web services based multimedia conferencing system (MMCS) is presented as an illustrative example of applying FHSSP. Finally we conclude the paper with future work.