Description
Book SynopsisFind 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.
Table of ContentsIntroducing 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
1.4Context Awareness
1.5 Personalization
1.6 Mobile adventure
Part I- The pillars of a new architecture
2 Mobile Communications 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
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 towards Ubiquity: Mobile Peer-to-Peer
4.1 P2P application scenarios
4.2 Challenges
4.3 Unstructured P2P
4.4 Structured P2P
4.5 Hierachical P2P
5 Mobile Middleware
5.1 Smart Devices
5.2 Mobile Middleware Platforms
6 Cross Layer Design – a new Paradigm for Optimization of Architectures
6.1 Cross-Layer Architectures
6.2 Cross Layer Awareness: Abstracting Layer Parameters
6.3 Cross Layer Optimization: The Cost Function
6.4 Performance and Cost Analysis 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
