Title: An analysis of current mobile services and enabling technologies

Authors: Ivar Jorstad, Schahram Dustdar, Thanh Van Do

Addresses: Department of Telematics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway. ' Distributed Systems Group (DSG), Information Systems Institute, Vienna University of Technology, Austria. ' Department of Telematics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway & Telenor R&D, Oslo, Norway

Abstract: This paper presents the major technology enablers for mobile services in a comprehensive way and in relation to each other. Mobile services are subject to requirements not only from end-users and mobile network operators but also from wireless application service providers, the content providers, and equipment manufacturers. Each technology enabler is usually aiming at only a subset of the requirements and can be incomplete, inconsistent and overlapping with other technology enablers.

Keywords: mobile services; mobile applications; mobile technology enablers; mobile service architectures; mobile networks.

DOI: 10.1504/IJAHUC.2005.008023

International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, 2005 Vol.1 No.1/2, pp.92 - 102

Published online: 10 Nov 2005 *

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