Title: CCL OSA: a CORBA-based open service access system

Authors: Chia-Ming Chou, Shih-Feng Hsu, Hsin-Yi Lee, Yung-Chun Lin, Yi-Bing Lin, Jen-Shun Yang

Addresses: Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan. ' Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan. ' Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan. ' Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan. ' Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan. ' Computer and Communications Research Laboratories, Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taiwan

Abstract: Open Service Access (OSA) is a flexible and efficient approach for mobile service creation and deployment. OSA allows network operators and enterprises to increase revenues via third party applications and service providers. In OSA, network functionality offered to applications is defined by a set of Service Capability Features (SCF). Services can be implemented by applications accessing the Service Capability (SC) through the standardised OSA Application Programming Interface (API). This paper designs and develops a Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) based OSA system. We show how OSA API interfaces and functions can be implemented by CORBA clients, stubs, servants and skeletons and how CORBA POA and ORB are set up for our OSA implementation. Then we use the authentication procedure for initial access to illustrate how CORBA mechanism works for our OSA implementation.

Keywords: API; CORBA; OSA; SCF; application programming interface; common object request broker architecture; open service access; service capability features; mobile services; wireless networks.

DOI: 10.1504/IJWMC.2006.012563

International Journal of Wireless and Mobile Computing, 2006 Vol.1 No.3/4, pp.289 - 295

Published online: 22 Feb 2007 *

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