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Summary
Summary
Building on the success of the first edition, Mobile Messaging Technologies and Services offers extensive new and revised material based upon the latest research and industry developments. While early implementations targeted person-to-person messaging, MMS has now evolved to facilitate such requirements as the mass delivery of time-sensitive messages for content-to-person messaging. This Second Edition exploits the technical maturity of MMS as it is poised to generate a wealth of new business opportunities across the mobile communications sector. The author provides the fundamental technical background required for SMS, EMS and MMS, and supports this with industry cutting-edge developments.
● Contains a revised section on the fundamentals of MMS, including an updated section on GPRS to explain current commercial implementations such as GRX applications.
● Presents the latest developments in MMS standardization, including the design of synchronized multimedia integration language (SMIL) presentations, Digital Rights Management (DRM), transcoding techniques, postcard service and support of advanced multimedia formats.
● Describes the processes for standardizing telecommunications services and technologies (3GPP, OMA, GSM Association, IETF and W3C).
● Provides updated sections on SMS, EMS and heavily revised coverage of the developments in MMS, including MMS interworking and the forthcoming MMS version 1.3.
This resource will be invaluable for application developers, manufacturers, operators and content providers involved in the design and deployment of messaging services. It will also be of interest to practitioners involved in the process of standardizing telecommunications services and technologies. Postgraduate students and researchers will benefit from having access to state-of-the-art findings backed by numerous illustrative real-world examples.
Includes a companion website featuring information on relevant standards, available phones and developers' resources.
Author Notes
Gwenaël Le Bodic is a messaging architect for the Vodafone Group, located in Germany. In the scope of his activities for Vodafone, he is involved in the design of messaging solutions for large multi-operator environments. He also contributes to the development of system interworking to enable the exchange of multimedia messages between operators.
Previous Gwenaël Le Bodic was a messaging and standardization expert for Alcatel's mobile phone division, located in France. His activities of Alcatel included participating and contributing to the development of messaging services and technologies in the scope of the 3GPP and OMA standardization forums. He has been responsible for the design of the software architecture of the embedded multimedia messaging solution for Alcatel's first two MMS phones.
A certified engineer in computer sciences, Gwenaël Le Bodic obtained a PhD in mobile communications from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. He is the author of many research publications in the field of Mobile Messaging, Technologies and Services (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, November 2002) and also a book focusing on MMS, Multimedia Messaging Service, an engineering approach to MMS (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, October 2003.
Gwenaël Le Bodic can be contacted at gwenael@lebodic.net
Table of Contents
| Foreword |
| Preface |
| Notational Conventions |
| 1 Basic Concepts |
| Generations of Mobile Communications Networks |
| Telecommunications Context: Standard and Regulation |
| Global System for Mobile |
| General Packet Radio Service |
| Universal Mobile Telecommunications System |
| Wireless Application Protocol |
| 2 Standardization |
| Messaging Road Map |
| Third Generation Partnership Project |
| WAP Forum Specifications |
| Internet Engineering Task Force |
| World Wide Web Consortium |
| 3 Short Message Service |
| Service Description |
| SMS Use Cases |
| Architecture of the GSM Short Message Service |
| Short Message Basic Features |
| Technical Specification Synopsis |
| Short Message Layers and Protocols |
| Structure of a Message Segment |
| Storage of Messages and SMS Settings in the SIM |
| Message Submission |
| Message Submission Report |
| Message Delivery |
| Message Delivery Report |
| Status Report |
| Command |
| User Data Header a n d User Data |
| Network Features for Message Delivery |
| SMSC Access Protocols |
| SIM Application Toolkit |
| SMS Control via a Connected Terminal Equipment |
| SMS and Email Interworking |
| Index of TPDU Parameters |
| Pros and Cons of SMS |
| 4 Basic EMS |
| Service Description |
| Basic EMS Compatibility with SMS |
| Formatted Text |
| Pictures |
| Sounds |
| Animations |
| User Prompt Indicator |
| Independent Object Distribution Indicator |
| EMS Features Supported by Existing Handsets |
| Content Authoring Tools |
| Pros and Cons of Basic EMS |
| 5 Extended EMS |
| Service Description |
| Extended EMS Compatibility with SMS and Basic EMS |
| Extended Object Framework |
| Extended Object Reuse |
| Compression of Extended Objects |
| Extended Objects |
| Pre-defined Sound |
| iMelody Melody |
| Black-and-white Bitmap Picture |
| 4-Level Greyscale Bitmap Picture |
| 64-Colour Bitmap Picture |
| Predefined Animation |
| Black-and-white Animation |
| 4-Level Greyscale Animation |
| 64-Colour Animation |
| vCard Data Stream |
| vCalendar Data Stream |
| MIDI Melody |
| Vector Graphics |
| Support of Colour for Text Formatting |
| Hyperlink |
| Exchange of Capability Information |
| Guidelines for the Creation of Extended Objects |
| Pros and Cons of Extended EMS |
| 6 Multimedia Messaging Service |
| Service Description |
| MMS Use Cases |
| The MMS Architecture |
| MMS Centre - MMS Relay/Server |
| The MMS User Agent |
| User Databases |
| MMS Interfaces |
| WAP Forum Technical Realizations of MM1 |
| Technical Specification Synopsis |
| Structure of a Multimedia Message |
| Elements of a Multimedia Message |
| Scene Description with SMIL or XHTML |
| Summary of Supported Formats |
| Addressing Modes |
| Message Submission and Reports |
| Message Notification, Immediate and Deferred Retrieval |
| Message Forward |
| MMS Value Added Services - Submission, Replacement and Reports |
| MMS Value Added Services - Message Delivery and Errors |
| Capability Negotiation and Content Adaptation |
| Persistent Network-based Storage |
| Settings for MMS-capable Devices |
| USIM Storage of MMS Settings |
| Streaming in MMS |
| Charging and Billing |
| Message Size Measurement |
| Security Considerations |
| Digital Right Management in MMS |
| Technical Realization of Interfaces |
| MM1 Interface MMSC - MMS User Agent |
| MM2 Interface MMS Relay-MMS Server |
| MM3 Interface MMSC-External Servers |
| MM4 Interface MMSC-MMSC |
| MM5 I |
