Mobile Messaging Technologies and Services: SMS, EMS and MMS

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Building on the success of the first edition, Mobile Messaging Technologies and Services offers extensive new and revised material based upon the latest research and industry developments. While early implementations targeted person-to-person messaging, MMS has now evolved to facilitate such requirements as the mass delivery of time-sensitive messages for content-to-person messaging. This Second Edition exploits the technical maturity of MMS as it is poised to generate a wealth of new business opportunities across the mobile communications sector. The author provides the fundamental technical background required for SMS, EMS and MMS, and supports this with industry cutting-edge developments.

● Contains a revised section on the fundamentals of MMS, including an updated section on GPRS to explain current commercial implementations such as GRX applications.

● Presents the latest developments in MMS standardization, including the design of synchronized multimedia integration language (SMIL) presentations, Digital Rights Management (DRM), transcoding techniques, postcard service and support of advanced multimedia formats.

● Describes the processes for standardizing telecommunications services and technologies (3GPP, OMA, GSM Association, IETF and W3C).

● Provides updated sections on SMS, EMS and heavily revised coverage of the developments in MMS, including MMS interworking and the forthcoming MMS version 1.3.

This resource will be invaluable for application developers, manufacturers, operators and content providers involved in the design and deployment of messaging services. It will also be of interest to practitioners involved in the process of standardizing telecommunications services and technologies. Postgraduate students and researchers will benefit from having access to state-of-the-art findings backed by numerous illustrative real-world examples.

Includes a companion website featuring information on relevant standards, available phones and developers’ resources.

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"Mobile Messaging Technologies and Services provides an in-depth description of existing and forthcoming messaging services and underlying technologies. The Short Message Service (SMS) has been a tremendous success in the messaging roadmap and the recently introduced Enhanced Messaging Service (EMS), an application-level extension of SMS, is expected to offer a smooth transition to the forthcoming Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS). Identified as the most important service for 3GPP, MMS provides the potential for the realization of future-proof services by meeting the requirements of various business models as the Internet and the mobile telecommunications environment merges. Person-to-person messaging constitutes the principal reason for the introduction of MMS to the market and it will also provide the opportunity to carry out user trials in the machine-to-person scenarios. In this context, value-added service providers will take advantage of MMS to promote multimedia contents to a wide range of mobile devices (location-based services, mobile commerce, online photo albums, etc.). The provision of MMS value-added services will undoubtedly offer appealing business opportunities for content providers and service developers. Explains and illustrates existing services including the Short Message Service (SMS) and the Enhanced Messaging Service (EMS) Offers a complete description of the forthcoming Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) Illustrates the most common examples of messaging applications usage and covers advanced topics for operators involved in the deployment and configuration of mobile messaging systems Describes the processes involved in standardizing telecommunications services and technologies (3GPP, WAP Forum, IETF and W3C) This volume represents a stimulating practical reference book for operators, content providers, manufacturers and developers of messaging applications and will also appeal to researchers and students. "

Customer Reviews:

Worth a read..........2007-07-15

I would recommend this book to anybody who needs a survey level knowledge of MMS/SMS. I think it also has value for developers who want to better understand the whole ecosystem and not just their more narrow area of expertise. The quality of the descriptions were excellent, particulary when tables were used to simplify and contrast the relevant messaging profiles and specifications. If I had one complaint, it was that a bit too much detail was provided on the evolution of the standards, rather than using those pages to provide more use cases and detailed flow charts.

The reference book in mobile messaging technologies.......2003-02-07

Don't know what mobile messaging is about ? Read the first chapter and you will feel more comfortable about it ! You're an engineer in mobile communications but you lack expertise in EMS and MMS ? Go for this book !

To put it shortly, Le Bodic's book is first an excellent introduction to mobile messaging and then turns into a great reference manual for all those who work in this promising field. It is a must have !

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A comprehensive guide to building wireless and mobile networks and services. Based on advanced wireless and mobile network architectures, Personal Communication Services (PCS) offers the enterprise freedom of communication through mobility. This book gives network engineers and managers a window on the world of wireless and mobile networks, from the enabling technologies and protocols to creating and managing mobile services. Lin and Chlamtac use a unique sustained example approach to teach you how PCS concepts apply to real network operation. For example, they use location update to illustrate concepts in chapters on network signaling,
- Mobility management for different systems
- Wireless Application Protocol Network signaling for IS-41-based systems, PACS, and GSM
- Roaming procedures and international roaming
- Operational management
- VoIP service for mobile networks
- Mobile number portability
- GPRS
- Third generation (3G) mobile systems
- Wireless enterprise networks
- Wireless Local Loop
- And much more

Customer Reviews:

Fair good knowledge base for mobile networks.......2005-10-02

A simple, easy yet complete overview of the most important mobile network architectures. Can be used at the university as teaching material or as studying text.

Excellent Resource.......2001-12-12

I found the book to be very informative and well laid out for use as a reference. It has been a life saver in giving a good background on each technology. I have been asked by several of my wireless networking peers about the book and all have found it an excellent reference.

An excellent wireless and mobile networks text book for CS.......2001-09-10

I used this book as the textbook for an undergraduate course in our computer enginnering department last semester. Unlike its alternatives, this book does not require a signal and systems background which makes it the ideal choice for departments such as ours. If you are teaching a group of CS or mixed EE/CS undergraduate students, I strongly recommend the book. In general, the book is easy to read and gives the reader a broad understanding of the topic. Chapters are organized in a manner that the book will be useful for the North American, European or Far Eastern community as examplified in the inclusion of different signalling systems from different regions. Another property of the book which makes it attractive is the inclusion of very hot topics such as VoIP,GPRS,WAP, 3G services, wireless local loop which makes the book timely and complete.

Full of unexplained terms and confusing descriptions.......2001-04-02

The typesetting makes this book unpleasant to read. However, it is the writing style that makes the reading a frustrating experience: The author throws you piles of technical terms without clearly explaining their meaning, or the relation to and difference from related acronyms. It might be a book for you only if you are already a telecom expert. Otherwise, you would probably find yourself in a similar situation to mine--hoping someone can help you with tons of questions you cannot find answers for from this book.

Excellent book for system aspects of wireless networks.......2001-03-27

It is the personal opinion of the current reviewer that in order to understand the inside and out of wireless networking, you have to know not only the physical layer but also the high layer networking aspects. Some books do cover both physical layer and high layer, however, most of them lack the deepth on either one aspects or both. The reviewer understands the difficult task for both coverages, in the process of developing his new course on wireless networks, he took the following approach: use the best part on physical layer in one book, and switch to another book on high layer. The current reviewer chose this book to cover the high layer wireless networking aspects, this book provides most fundamental elements of wireless networking.

The nice thing about this book is that it is written by two individuals who have been extensively involved in developing the wireless networking technologies. It starts with the most important issue in wireless mobile networks: the mobility management in the general setting, detailing what call processes are involved, how handoff strategies are designed, how channel assignments affect the performance, how the control signaling among the commuincations entities are accomplished (IS-41 and GSM MAP). Then the authors shift their focus on the specific wireless systems: PACS, CDPD, GSM, GPRS and other applications. In distinction to other books, this book attempts to present the main ideas, and is a very good book for those who really want to know what is going on in wireless networking area, yet do not have time to figure out (do not care about) the details. It is also very excellent reference book for those technical experts who want to broad their horizon. The current reviewer finds the book very useful in his research when he wants to clear some doubts on certain topics.

Wireless Communications Security (Artech House Universal Personal Communications)
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Hideki Imai , Mohammad Ghulam Rahman , and Kazukuni Kobara
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Addressing the fast-growing need to integrate effective security features into wireless communication systems, this cutting-edge book offers a broad overview of wireless security, so engineers can choose the methods and techniques that are most appropriate for their projects. Professionals gain a solid understanding of critical cryptography techniques, such as private/public key encryption, digital signatures, and block and stream ciphers. The book provides expert guidance on how to evaluate cryptography deployment impact on current wireless network architectures and implement an effective cryptography architecture for any organization. This forward-looking resource offers the technical know-how practitioners need to understand and work with the security concepts and techniques used for 2nd, 3rd, and 4th generation mobile networks.

Third Generation Mobile Communication Systems (Artech House Universal Personal Communications Library)

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Wireless Ad Hoc Networking: Personal-Area, Local-Area, and the Sensory-Area Networks (Wireless Networks and Mobile Communications)

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What a Techie needs to Understand wireless

Wireless Ad Hoc Networking: Personal-Area, Local-Area, and the Sensory-Area Networks (Wireless Networks and Mobile Communications)

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ASIN: 0849392543

Book Description

The rapid progress of mobile, wireless communication and embedded micro-sensing MEMS technologies has brought about the rise of pervasive computing. Wireless local-area networks (WLANs) and wireless personal-area networks (WPANs) are now common tools for many people, and it is predicted that wearable sensor networks will greatly improve everyday life as we know it. By integrating these technologies into a pervasive system, we can access information and use computing resources anytime, anywhere, and with any device. Wireless Ad Hoc Networking: Personal-Area, Local-Area, and the Sensory-Area Networks covers these key technologies used in wireless ad hoc networks. The book is divided into three parts, each providing self-contained chapters written by international experts. Topics include networking architectures and protocols, cross-layer architectures, localization and location tracking, time synchronization, QoS and real-time, security and dependability, applications, modeling and performance evaluation, implementation and experience, and much more. The book is novel in its single source presentation of ad hoc networking and related key technologies and applications over the platforms of personal area, sensory area, and local area networks. It is a valuable resource for those who work in or are interested in learning about the pervasive computing environment.

Customer Reviews:

What a Techie needs to Understand wireless.......2007-05-31

Wireless Ad Hoc Networking: Personal-Area, Local-Area, and the Sensory-Area Networks by Shih-Lin Wu and Yu-Chee Tseng (Wireless Networks and Mobile Communications: Auerbach) The rapid progress of mobile, wireless communication and embedded micro-sensing MEMS technologies has brought about the rise of pervasive computing. Wireless local-area networks (WLANs) and wireless personal-area networks (WPANs) are now common tools for many people, and it is predicted that wearable sensor networks will greatly improve everyday life as we know it.
By integrating these technologies into a pervasive system, we can access information and use computing resources anytime, anywhere, and with any device. Wireless Ad Hoc Networking: Personal-Area, Local-Area, and the Sensory-Area Networks covers these key technologies used in wireless ad hoc networks. The book is divided into three parts, each providing self-contained chapters written by international experts. Topics include networking architectures and protocols, cross-layer architectures, localization and location tracking, time synchronization, QoS and real-time, security and dependability, applications, modeling and performance evaluation, implementation and experience, and much more.
The book is novel in its single source presentation of ad hoc networking and its key technologies and applications over the platforms of personal-area, sensory-area, and local-area networks. It is a valuable resource for those who work in or are interested in learning about the pervasive computing environment.
Features:
* Covers key technologies in wireless and ad hoc networks for personal-area, local-area, and sensory-area networks
* Presents state-of-the-art research and developments by an international team of experts
* Explores topics from networking architectures and protocols to implementation experience and measurements

Simulation and Software Radio for Mobile Communications (The Artech House Universal Personal Communications Series)

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An excellent book
Splendid
a good start for communications simulation

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Hiroshi, Harada , and Ramjee, Prasad
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Customer Reviews:

An excellent book.......2003-04-30

If you need simulation hints this is the book. I really recommend it.

Splendid.......2002-07-01

This book deserves my 5 stars due to its tremendous effort to illustrate how complex digital communications algorithms are actually put into "code" for applied research. Any newcomer to mobile communications will benefit extensively from reading and using this book. For practicing researchers and engineers, it provides a refreshing and often insightful revision of basic concepts, as well as exposure of newer technology such as OFDM and software radio.

I recommend this book to all digital communications engineers.

a good start for communications simulation.......2002-05-31

Harada & Prasad provide a very good working-level
understanding of how to simulate communication systems
using MATLAB. This book will appeal to advanced
undergraduate and beginning graduate electrical
engineers. It emphasizes nuts&bolts simulation, and
assumes a good working knowledge of communication
system analysis. Professionals who use MATLAB to
analyze communication systems for a living will find
the coverage fairly basic - even shallow - but the
authors well meet their goal of giving beginners a
better leg up on the process. Including their MATLAB
source code on a CD with the book may make the purchase
worthwhile all by itself.

Average customer rating:

The basics
Recommended for technical and non-technical people.

Wireless Broadband Handbook
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Broadband Telecommunications Handbook

ASIN: 0071371613

Book Description

Translate broadband wireless mumbo-jumbo into clear business terms

No guide tackles and clarifies the chaotic acronym-ridden world of broadband wireless better than Wireless Broadband Handbook. Best-selling telecom author Regis "Bud" Bates has the formula to give you the "instant expertise" you need to compete and win in this rapidly advancing area. He asks the logical, business-based questions that are important to you about this hot new technology, and he provides the answers-- minus the techspeak. You’ll find product photos and descriptions and analysis of key systems and options for profitable business, technical, and career decision making. You get lucid information on:

* Applications and implementations of technologies
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* Generic pricing and business models
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* GSM around the world
* What’s going on with WAP
* What changes to expect from 3G (and why it is sometimes called UMTS)

Customer Reviews:

The basics.......2002-03-13

If you do not have any technical experience in wireless and you are looking to get a grasp on the basic technology, applications, and market, I would recommend this book. Sit down read it through quickly then move on. If you have moderate wireless experience and are trying to get caught up on 2.5G and 3G technology and standards, this is NOT the book.

Beyond this point, I found that Bates repeated the same information time and time again without any new twist. I can not say that I will forget what he had to say, but he did not enrich the information. He also prognosticates based upon inspiration without any facts. After the latest "hockey stick market" bust, I would be careful basing any demand and penetration projections on historical information.

Finally, do not use the table of contents as an indicator of the depth of this book (like I did).

Recommended for technical and non-technical people........2002-02-19

This book covers broad range of wireless topics in a handbook
format. Naturally there is no deep analysis of any topic and
no mathematics inside. The book is not 500 pages but only 384
pages. Some parts of the book and some figures directly come
from the author's another famous book named "Broadband
Telecommunications Handbook" by the same publisher.

Book Description

Master mobile programming with this title! It demonstrates how to use the Microsoft .NET Framework and Visual Studio.Net to create applications for phones, Pocket PCs, and other portable devices. Focusing on ASP.NET and the .NET Mobile Web SDK, it shows how to deliver appropriately formatted content for diverse hand held clients from a single ASP.NET page, along with how to provide mobile email access with Microsoft Outlook Mobile Manager.

Customer Reviews:

ATROCIOUS!.......2004-06-30

#1 I have visual studio .net 2003 so don't waste my time telling me about hardcoding templates and device specific stuff before you go to the easier way. Please go into the details of the code AFTER the easier way.
#2 The entire chapter on list controls and onwards does NOT make sense and is really hard to understand. I have used j2ee and .net and I should not be having so much trouble understanding your work.
#3 please jump into the book rather than why use .net mobile
#4 Templates chapter is arduous to read.
#5 Openwave sdk 6.2 does not work with examples had to read in chapter 8 that you download updates from MS website before the examples work.
#6 don't take till chapter 11 and page 400 to tell me how to connect to the database! don't waste my time with arrays and list controls as "data collections" before you get to db connectivity etc. the entire lists chapters could have been written better.

Is this is a cultural gap? I went through the GCSE O Levels etc. and I KNOW that British authors and British textbooks are awesome , even better than their american counterparts but for this subject I will have to resort to SAMS books to get the details.

coolXterior.......2003-06-18

Although the title says .Net "Applications", it fails to
mention they are "Web" applications, meaning ASP.Net & WML Pages! Good thing I got this book from my U's library rather
than wasting my money on it. I was looking for "apps" that run
on mobile platforms, not "apps that run in a IE window"
on mobile platforms! Although, it has good descriptions
of resources like the various dev toolkits from different cell
phone vendors, there's not much else.

Well Written.......2002-06-30

I find the previous review completely in error.

While I'm only 5 chapters into the book, I'm finding it well organized and well written. Additionally, I'm working the examples and I'm finding that the "Mobile Internet Toolkit" technology works well over a variety of device emulators.

Having said this, you must also understand that I am a Microsoft basher, although my mind is open to the .Net technologies.

The only criticism that I have so far is that the examples are tending to be very buggy. This is not a problem for me as I learn lots by fixing them, but some readers will find this frustrating.

Don't Need the Marketing Speak.......2002-06-28

To tell the truth, I didn't read the whole book. I was turned off by the market speak right off the bat in chapter one. There's too many other books out there to explore, so please don't waste my time telling me how good .Net technology is; tell me how to use it. If your looking for a good book on Pocket PC programming, check out "Pocket PC, Handheld PC Developer's Guide with Microsoft Embedded Visual Basic". There's a lot of good, concise info in that book.
As a side note, I'm not a Microsoft basher. I make my bread and butter working with their products. I'm just sick of getting sales pitches everwhere I look.

Radiowave Propagation and Antennas for Personal Communications (Artech House Antennas and Propagation Library)

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Just discovered this..
A Unique collection, some info single sourced...
This book is terrible
Personal communications made easy by Siwiak
Practical design information rarely found in a single book

Radiowave Propagation and Antennas for Personal Communications (Artech House Antennas and Propagation Library)
Kazimierz Siwiak
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Gain a better understanding of the various propagation and antenna problems associated with personal communications with this updated and expanded version of the 1995 bestseller. As with its first edition, this new book quickly brings you up to speed on the personal communication radio channel, and demystifies the complicated engineering details behind fixed-site antennas, personal communications device (PCD) antennas near to the human body, and the radio propagation channel.

The book also contains brand new material, including propagation characteristics associated with various new protocols, expanded sections on multipath wave propagation, new sections covering RF exposure standards, new problem-and-solution sets, and much more. Valuable reading for radio design engineers and PCS system designers, mechanical engineers, and EE students.

Software Included! Accompanying software containing Mathcad version 6.0 and 7.0 Professional Edition templates guide you through chapter-end problems, and FORTRAN source code and executable code assist you in further study of loop and dipole antennas. One 3.5" IBM PC-compatible diskette; Mathcad templates compatible with IBM-PC and Macintosh versions of Mathcad.

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Just discovered this.........2002-12-04

An interesting find - antennas and propagation from the point of view of the practioner, rather than a rehash of academic generalities.

A Unique collection, some info single sourced..........2002-11-20

Its not quite organized like a college text, but flows like the radio system design itself. From a base, rippling through a cluttered city, to a user, a person. This is an "only source" for the "radio model" of man, detailed if somewhat belabored, but available no where else. At this date [2002] perhaps pagers and paging are not timeless, but the udates from the original edition do touch on wireless telephony -- and always timeless: radios near the body. Worth a 5* for the unique content!

This book is terrible.......2001-02-20

As a graduate student I was fortunate enough to fully experience this book in all its terrible glory. The book is FULL of errors and if you attempt the problems you will realize this. Moreover the conceptual content was very insufficient. Anyone who doesn't already know a lot about this subject, cannot hope this book will explain anything. The instructor told me that even the solution manual had errors. This is the worst textbook I have ever owned.

Personal communications made easy by Siwiak.......1999-02-09

The book is logically organized and well suited to the needs who want to be informed in areas of multipath propagation and antennas as they apply to modern personal communications. "Radiowave Propagation and Antennas for Personal Communications" is thorough and comprehensive enough to meet the needs of experienced practitioners, yet detailed and lucid enough to serve as a textbook for graduate students.

Practical design information rarely found in a single book.......1998-12-01

Some errors not withstanding, a book that will most certainly benefit a practicing engineer! All those who have not studied antennas in their course work, yet need to specify, test and deploy; all those who will never see an antenna, but must understand the path-loss mechanism in a fading environment will find it an invaluable resource. It describes the cellular/PCS propagation phenomena in down to earth terms, and ties them neatly to the handset/base-station requirements.

Mobile Telecommunications Networking With Is-41 (Mcgraw-Hill Series on Telecommunications)

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Excelent Book on IS-41
The book to get for IS-41
Excelente libro, fácil de comprender.
Great IS-41 Book
Must have for wireless communication network professionals

Mobile Telecommunications Networking With Is-41 (Mcgraw-Hill Series on Telecommunications)
Michael D. Gallagher , and Randall A. Snyder
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IS-41 is the North American standard for wireless telecommunications network signaling. This guide fully explains and annotates the IS-41 protocol, and graphically illustrates common signaling situations. Sections on all major IS-41 revisions feature coverage of the standard's support for analog and digital interfaces. Network implementation is simplified by extensive details on components, parameters, and procedures.

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Two contributors to the IS-41 standard explain the latest revisions, operational details, and protocol usage of the standard in easy-to-understand terms.

Customer Reviews:

Excelent Book on IS-41.......2000-06-20

I just read the authentication chapter, and I just left behind all my doubts about authentication. Anyway not just the Auth Chapter is excelent but the whole book.

The book to get for IS-41.......2000-05-18

Highly recommended book for IS-41... the networking standard between AMPS, TDMA and CDMA switches, HLR and VLRs. I'm relieved there's a book out there which explains everything in layman's term, yet goes through enough details to give a great grasp of the important concepts of mobile networking.

The authors give a great background of mobile telecommunications, the making of the IS-41 standard, mobility management, call processing (and most of the important feature procesing), and SMS. Concepts like authentication and mobile roaming are covered quite well.

The basic format of each section remains the same, so it's easy to follow. If you really want the details, like the IS-41 parameters, it's not in this book, but that's when you go to the actual standards document!

Kudos to Michael Gallagher and Randall Snyder for an awesome book!

Excelente libro, fácil de comprender........1999-04-13

Un excelente libro del protocolo IS-41, gradual en su presentación. No entra al detalle de los bytes. Mantiene un muy buen nivel, con claros ejemplos. He preparado un buen curso de este protocolo a partir de este y otros libros

Great IS-41 Book.......1999-01-06

This is a great IS-41 book. It is very instructional(going over the IS-41 protcol) and also as a reference(to view call flows for different features). This is a must for anyone involved with IS-41.

Must have for wireless communication network professionals.......1998-10-15

The book is an easily understood reference for anyone that works with SS7 and ANSI-41. The book is packed will drawings and pratical examples. It is detailed enough that most people could avoid buying the >$1000 ANSI publication

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