Title
A structured framework for federation between 4G-service platforms
Author
Bargh, M.S.
Laarhuis, J.H.
Plas, D.J.
TNO Telecom
Publication year
2003
Abstract
Service platforms are gradually becoming common functional entities in the next generation networks, i.e., in 4G-environments. By providing value-added capabilities to networks and end-users, and facilitating service provisioning for 3rd party service providers, the service platforms will prove indispensable in the near future. However, with this increased importance, the need for cooperation between service platforms also increases. The use of the well-known concept of federation results in a structured framework to this cooperation. The proposed framework carefully defines the notion of service platform domain, applies the concepts of domain federation and service federation to these service platform domains, and prescribes the construction of federations between these domains. The benefits of the resulting service platform federation for all involved parties (end-user, network operator and service provider) are explained by the example of the home environment capability. ©2003 IEEE.
Subject
Informatics
End users
Home environment
Network operator
Next generation network
Service platforms
Service provider
Service provisioning
Radio communication
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1109/pimrc.2003.1259203
TNO identifier
429771
Publisher
IEEE, Piscataway, NJ
Source
14th IEEE 2003 International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, PIMRC2003, 7-10 September 2003, Beijing, China, 3, 2626-2630
Document type
conference paper