MOCHA: modular and configurable handset software architecture

This paper describes Mocha, an open mobile S/W platform and application developed by Samsung Electronics. Mocha´s key features are its efficiency (it fits in regular phones), its portability (it covers different stack/OS/chipsets for CDMA, EV-DO, GSM/GPRS, and UMTS), its modularity and configurability (it meets customers´ varying needs), its extensibility (it can he adapted to include new features and interfaces), its interoperability based on de-facto standards such as OMA, 3GPP, 3GPP2, CDG; and its security (it can withstand the attack of malicious applications). Among these key features, in this paper, we outline the multimedia messaging service (MMS) that inspired this system and then describe its design, architecture, and prototype implementation.