Mobile multimedia instant messaging and presence services: The architecture and protocols

Mahfuzur Rahman, Bin Hu, John Buford, Alan Kaplan

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Abstract

Instant Messaging and Presence service is emerging as a major killer application in the telecommunications industry. Hence in the wireless industry there is a need for an initiative of mobile multimedia instant messaging and presence service (IMPS) architecture and protocol standard that takes mobile requirements into account and ensures interoperability between different mobile terminals, operators and fixed Internet service providers. In the current 2G and 2.5G mobile networks, the Wireless Village initiative provides a standard architecture and protocol suite to build interoperable IMPS service covering multimedia content sharing, group chat and presence notification, and addresses the privacy and access control issues. However with the gaining popularity of SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) in the 3G network, it is anticipated that the mobile multimedia IMPS architecture and protocol standard will converge and align with the SIP family. SIP is currently being adopted as the core call control protocol in 3G IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) networks. It is expected that the Wireless Village standard will eventually integrate with the SIP approach. In this paper we introduce the common IMPS service architecture, analyze the state-of-art IMPS protocol standards, and envision the IMPS evolution in the mobile arena.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2004 IEEE International Symposium on Consumer Electronics - Proceedings
Pages208-213
Number of pages6
StatePublished - 2004
Externally publishedYes
Event2004 IEEE International Symposium on Consumer Electronics - Proceedings - Reading, United Kingdom
Duration: Sep 1 2004Sep 3 2004

Publication series

Name2004 IEEE International Symposium on Consumer Electronics - Proceedings

Conference

Conference2004 IEEE International Symposium on Consumer Electronics - Proceedings
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityReading
Period9/1/049/3/04

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • General Engineering

Keywords

  • Client Server Protocol (CSP)
  • Command Line Protocol (CLP)
  • IMPS
  • Instant Messaging
  • Open Mobile Alliance
  • Presence
  • SIMPLE
  • Server-Server Protocol (SSP)
  • Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)
  • Wireless Village

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