The Mobile Application Server (MAS): An Infrastructure Platform for Mobile Wireless Services

There has been a surge of interest in developing advanced mobile voice and data services. One of the biggest challenges faced by service providers is to create new services efficiently and rapidly. We describe the motivation, architecture and design of the Mobile Application Server (MAS), a Java mid...

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Published inInformation systems frontiers Vol. 6; no. 1; pp. 23 - 34
Main Authors Jain, Ravi, Puglia, Stefano, Wullert, John, Parmeswaran, Kirthika, Bakker, John-Luc
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York Springer Nature B.V 01.03.2004
Subjects
Adaptation
Alliances
Computer industry
Computer service industry
Enterprise resource planning
Extensible Markup Language
Information systems
Infrastructure
Java
Market segments
Middleware
Mobile communications networks
Servers
Service introduction
Software
Studies
Telecommunications systems
Unified messaging
User profiles
Wireless networks
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Summary:There has been a surge of interest in developing advanced mobile voice and data services. One of the biggest challenges faced by service providers is to create new services efficiently and rapidly. We describe the motivation, architecture and design of the Mobile Application Server (MAS), a Java middleware prototype platform for mobile services which provides basic common building blocks required by mobile wireless applications, such as user profile management, location handling, device detection, content adaptation and e-wallet functions. The MAS is modular, flexible, and provides an open API for 3rd party service creation. Users can thus utilize a variety of access technologies (CDPD, cellular, 802.11, SMS, etc.) and delivery mechanisms (HTML, WML, VoiceXML, etc.) while application developers are spared the details of this heterogeneity. The MAS also interfaces to traditional telecommunications system (A/IN) elements such as SCPs as well as Next Generation Network (NGN) or converged-network elements such as Call Agents. We present application examples of the use of MAS, initial performance measurements and discuss some lessons learned from this experimental system. We conclude with directions for further work. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
ISSN:1387-3326
1572-9419
DOI:10.1023/B:ISFI.0000015872.20136.76