3G Multimedia Network Services, Accounting, and User Profiles

Here’s a cutting-edge book that offers you a comprehensive understanding of 3G multimedia network services and related architectures. This practical resource guides you in developing the services, charges and customer use data that will allow maximum profitability for your company. Covering both mobile and fixed networks, the book thoroughly explains 3G network standards, implementation architectures, charging principles, user profiles, and QoS and security considerations.

Presentinga very wide portfolio of current and future service possibilities, the bookexplains how to increase user awareness and facilitate the service usage bymeans of customization, self-learning user profiles and the community concept.From the evolution towards multimedia, the virtual home environment, andsolutions for service provisioning, to charging and settlement relationships,logical user profile models, and end-to-end quality of service assurancemechanisms, this unique resource covers the critical areas you need tounderstand to be successful in today’s increasingly competitive marketplace.

Contents:

Preface.Acknowledgements.

3GMultimedia Services - Introductions and Definitions. Mobile Services, RelationFixed And Mobile Services, Messaging, Picture Services, Multimedia Services,E-commerce, M-commerce, micro-payments, Entertainment Services, ServiceDiscovery, Remote Services, Ambient Intelligence, Communities, Value AddedServices Technology Evaluation. Service Architecture, Business Model, 3GNetwork Architecture, Service Architecture Challenges, 3GPP Standard TriggeringMechanism, OSA-Parlay Gateway, Business Model For Content Distribution.

Charging/Accountingfor Multimedia Services - Revenue Generation. Charging Methods andConsequences. Standardized Charging Models and Protocols.

UserProfiles in 3G Fixed and Mobile Networks - Introduction. Rationale. . ModelingConcepts and User Model as Root for UP.Logical Model, Data Description Methods,Ownership of UP. UP Access Server Architectures, Use Case, Resilience of UP.Management of UP. . UP Access Charging. Integration of different Networks andtheir UP, Migration Paths from 2G to 3G Networks, Examples of 3G Applications in UP. References and Standards.

Appendices.Glossary. About the Authors. Index.

Freddy Ghys is an expert systemarchitect at Alcatel in Antwerp, Belgium. He holds an engineering degree inelectronics from the Technicum in Antwerp and a post-graduate degree ininformation technologies from Alcatel University.

Marcel Mampaey is an expert systemarchitect at Alcatel in Antwerp, Belgium. He holds an M.Sc. in electricalengineering from Université Libre de Bruxelles.

Michel Smouts has retired from hisposition as director of system design and architecture at Alcatel in Antwerp,Belgium. He holds a civil engineering degree in mechanics and electronics fromthe University of Louvain, Belgium.

ArtoVaaraniemi is a senior systemsarchitect at Alcatel in Stuttgart, Germany. He received his M.Sc. inTelecommunications from the Technical University of Helsinki in Finland.