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4G Mobile Technology: Services with Initiative
Find out how the exciting new developments towards 4G mobile services and technologies will put the user at centre stage.
Towards 4G Technologies provides a comprehensive explanation of future networking and service delivering technologies for next generation mobile systems. The authors explain how personalization, mobile middleware, peer-to-peer
services, semantic computing, and content-awareness fit into this new concept and why they will become a necessity for future mobile services. The book presents the latest challenges and opportunities of Next Generation Mobile Systems, explaining new paradigms of service provisioning that include flexible and adaptable services. Towards 4G Technologies:
* Gives a comprehensive description of future networking and service delivering technologies.
* Covers hot topics such as intelligent user profiling, proactive service selection, context-aware service provisioning and ubiquitous computing.
* Introduces seemingly diverse technologies to show how they will play together to create a new user experience.
* Includes case studies to illustrate the theory.
This invaluable guide will provide telecoms engineers in R&D departments, CTOs, and telecoms managers as well as academic researchers in electrical, electronic engineering and telecommunications with a comprehensive understanding of next generation mobile system technologies and services.
CONTENTS:
1 Introducing 4G Mobile Adventure
1.1 The User Takes Center Stage
1.2 Business Model Considerations - The Need for an Open Programmable Architecture
1.3 Ubiquitous Service and Network Environment
1.4 Context Awareness
1.5 Personalization
1.6 Mobile adventure
Part I - The Pillars of a New Architecture
2 Mobile Communication Networks
2.1 Wireless Technologies at a Glance
2.2 Wireless Networking at a Glance
2.3 Next Generation IP-based Mobile Networks
2.4 Ubiquitous Communication and Ad Hoc Networking
2.5 Programmable Networks
2.6 Summary
3 Mobile Service Systems
3.1 Service Platforms at a Glance
3.2 Next Generation Service Architectures
3.3 Ubiquitous Services Example: Session Mobility
3.4 Summary
4 Extension to Ubiquitous: Mobile Peer-to-Peer
4.1 P2P Systems Definition and Main Classes
4.2 Some Problems with DHTs
4.3 Mobile Peer-to-Peer
4.4 Summary and Conclusion
5 Mobile Middleware
5.1 Mobile Middleware Technologies
5.2 Architecture Components
5.3 Dynamic Service Delivery Pattern
5.4 Smart Devices Supporting Mobile Middleware
6 Cross-Layer Design - a New Paradigm for Optimization of Mobile Communication Systems
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Cross-Layer Functional Architecture
6.3 Implementing Cross-Layer Optimization
6.4 Cross-Layer Optimization of Video Streaming Systems
6.5 Wireless Video Streaming Cross-Layer Architecture
6.6 Summary
7 Ontologies
7.1 Description Logics
7.2 Web Ontology Language
7.3 Ontology Engineering
7.4 Discussion
8 Semantic Services
8.1 Introduction: Challenges and Opportunities
8.2 Finding a Train: an Hands on Experience
8.3 Web Services
8.4 Beyond XML: Using Ontologies
8.5 Using the Semantic Web to Represent Services
8.6 Service Invocation: OWL-S Process Model and Grounding
8.7 Other Proposals toward Semantic Web Services
8.8 Applications of Semantic Web Services
8.9 Future challenges
8.10 Discussion
9 Dynamic Adaptation
9.1 Effective Modells and Living Specifications
9.2 Dynamic Systems and Late Binding
9.3 Modularity and Variation Points
9.4 Adaptation Dimensions and Techniques
Part III: Services and their intelligent embedding in the environment
10 Context-aware Mobility Management
10.1 Mobility management and context information
10.2 The context collection problem
10.3 An Agent-based approach for context-aware hand-over
10.4 Implementation architecture
11 Contextual Intelligence
11.1 A user-centric view of context and services
11.2 Context-oriented Programming
11.3 Proactive Service Discovery and Selection
11.4 Intelligent Service Composition
11.5 Research prototypes
12 From Personal Mobility to Mobile Personality
12.1 Future user profiling and personalization
12.2 Enablers of a mobile life style
12.3 Preference patterns for proactive service discover
12.4 Towards a mobile personality
Conclusion
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