Mobile Messaging Technologies and Services

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Mobile messaging is practically the first data communicationservice in the wireless domain. It is a major advance on theconventional practice of providing only voice communication serviceover the wireless interface. Thus, mobile messaging is the initialstep to bring the Internet to wireless terminals and hasconsiderable importance both for mobile communication and theInternet. Mobile Messaging provides an in-depth description of messagingtechnologies supported by mobile networks. It covers the ShortMessage Service (SMS), Enhanced Messaging Service (EMS) through tothe more complex and emerging Multimedia Messaging Service(MMS). The Short Message System (SMS) has proved to be incredibly popularand is supported by most GSM, TDMA and CDMA mobile networks. Thisvolume focuses on the Short Message Service introduced by theEuropean Telecommunications Standard Institute (ETSI) for GSM andGPRS networks. On the basis of ETSI standard, the 3rd GenerationPartnership Project (3GPP) is currently the organisationresponsible for maintaining the SMS technical specifications. Inits most basic form, the Short Messaging Service allows users toexchange short messages composed of a limited amount of text and itis expected that up to 100 Billion short messages could beexchanged monthly by the end of 2002. The Enhanced Message Service (EMS), an application-level extensionof SMS, supersedes basic SMS features by allowing elements such asimages, animations, formatted text and monophonic melodies to beinserted in short or concatenated messages. Recently, the 3GPP has been focusing on the development of theMultimedia Message Service (MMS). MMS features include the exchangeof messages containing polyphonic melodies, large images, videoelements sometimes organised with a multimedia presentationlanguage such as SMIL or xHTML. MMS will be supported by 2.5 G and3G networks. MMS specifications have reached a fairly mature stageand MMS commercial solutions are appearing on the market. Unlike EMS, MMS has been specified by the 3GPP as a serviceindependent from the underlying network technologies. In parallelto the 3GPP standardisation process, other organisations havespecified network-specific implementations of MMS such as the WAPimplementation defined by the WAP Forum. In order to develop applications using Short, Enhanced andMultimedia messaging technologies, engineers have to becomefamiliar with the use of technical specifications produced byvarious standard development organisations such as the 3GPP, theWAP Forum and the IETF and this is the first book to pull this vastarray of material together. * Provides an in depth description of the different messagingservices and messaging technologies * Presents an introduction to mobile networks * Features numerous practical implementation examples * Provides a unique easy-to-follow presentation of messagingservices and mobile networks within a single publication Essential reading for content providers, service providers, networkoperators and telecommunications manufacturers, researchers,postgraduate students, marketing and standardisation personnel.

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Gwenaël Le Bodic

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"...an excellent introduction to the basic technologies of SMS andbeyond...a valuable reference for those working in the field..."(IEE Review, February 2003) "An in-depth description of existing and forthcoming messagingservices and underlying technologies, as well as a look at 3G-basedmessaging." (Computing, 29th September 2005
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