New, attractive services for communications systems areversatile and promise to make the next generation of communicationsa success. Yet, as the systems grow more complex and diverse, so dothe challenges of managing them.
Service management derives from technologies used in fixedtelephony systems and has evolved towards supporting packet-basedservices in an increasingly open environment. It is common beliefthat 3G (and later 4G) services will change the way we communicateand interrelate. The user will be put at centre stage and systemswill be able to handle intelligent user profiles, proactive serviceselection, context-aware service provisioning and ubiquitouscomputing. Managing, charging for, and controlling these servicesrender traditional business models inadequate and demand newsolutions.
Managing Mobile Services
* Covers challenges, solutions and technologies for implementingIP-based services in a mobile environment, with special attentionto security, flexibility and charging.
* Discusses business models, service management architectures andstandardization efforts.
* Considers requirements and characteristics of services, andservice modelling.
* Includes two case studies illustrating the challenges,technologies and solutions involved with real-world servicemanagement.
This book gives telecommunications/data engineers, operators andservice providers as well as students and academics an in-depthunderstanding of the issues involved in implementing and managingnew value-added services.
Ulla Koivukoski
Communication Technology - Networks Drahtlose Kommunikation Electrical & Electronics Engineering Elektrotechnik u. Elektronik Kommunikationsnetze Mobile & Wireless Communications