Open Service Platform Research Articles

차세대 통합 커뮤니케이션 서비스 제공 시스템

본 논문은 차세대 통합 커뮤니케이션 서비스 시스템에 대하여 기술한다. 차세대 통합 커뮤니케이션은 기업 내 직원들의 의사 소통 및 정보 공유를 위하여 전화, SMS(Short Message Service), 이메일, 채팅과 같은 기본 통신 수단에 소셜 네트워킹 서비스를 새로운 통신 수단으로 결합하여, 하나의 통합된 인터페이스에서 제공하는 서비스를 의미한다. 본 논문의 차세대 통합 커뮤니케이션 시스템은 차세대 UC(Unified Communications) 응용서비스, 개방형 UC 서비스 플랫폼, UC 백엔드 서버로 구성된다. 응용서비스는 웹 응용과 스마트폰에 탑재되는 모바일 응용으로 구성된다. 개방형 UC 서비스 플랫폼은 UC 응용서비스가 아닌 써드 파티 응용서비스에게 기업 내의 기본 및 소셜 네트워킹 서비스에 접근할 수 있는 개방형 서비스 컴포넌트를 제공한다. 백엔드 서버는 기업내의 전화, SMS, 이메일, 채팅을 위한 서버 기능을 제공한다. This paper describes an advanced unified communication system. The advanced unified communications mean a service that integrates basic communications such as call, SMS, email, and chatting with social networking service considered as a new communication channel, presenting a unified user interface. The advanced unified communication system is composed of advanced UC(Unified Communications) applications, open UC service platform, and UC back-end servers. The advanced UC applications consist of web-based application and smart phone application. The open UC service platform provides a variety of service components that enable the third party applications to access basic communications and social network services within an enterprise. The UC back-end servers provide server functionalities for call, SMS, email, and chatting.

Design and implementation of open user model service platform

To build a common user model platform which can share data and provide more comprehensive and accurate user information to all sites accessed to the platform,the platform provided data interfaces and algorithm interfaces to interact with the third-party sites,focused on how to solve the conflict of user data from different data sources in order to form a unified user model,finally achieved sharing of algorithms,models and data.The experimental results show that it is more accurate and comprehensive to build user model on this platform.

Managed Ecosystems of Networked Objects

Small embedded devices such as sensors and actuators will become the cornerstone of the Future Internet. To this end, generic, open and secure communication and service platforms are needed in order to be able to exploit the new business opportunities these devices bring. In this paper, we evaluate the current efforts to integrate sensors and actuators into the Internet and identify the limitations at the level of cooperation of these Internet-connected objects and the possible intelligence at the end points. As a solution, we propose the concept of Managed Ecosystem of Networked Objects, which aims to create a smart network architecture for groups of Internet-connected objects by combining network virtualization and clean-slate end-to-end protocol design. The concept maps to many real-life scenarios and should empower application developers to use sensor data in an easy and natural way. At the same time, the concept introduces many new challenging research problems, but their realization could offer a meaningful contribution to the realization of the Internet of Things.

Sharing enriched multimedia experiences across heterogeneous network infrastructures

Today's consumers have a wide variety of interactive media and services at their disposal, for instance, through IPTV networks, the Internet, and in-home and mobile networks. A major problem, however, is that media and services do not interoperate across networks because they use different user identities, metadata formats, and signaling protocols, for example. As a result, users cannot easily combine media and services from different network infrastructures and share them in an integrated manner with their family and friends. In addition to limiting people's media experience, this also hinders the introduction of new services and business models as providers cannot easily develop and operate cross-network services. The goal of our work is to overcome this problem by means of an open and intelligent service platform that allows applications to easily combine media and services from different network infrastructures, and enables consumers to easily share them in an integrated way. The platform includes support for managing multi-user sessions across networks, context-aware recommendations, and cross-network identity management. While there has been prior work on platforms for converged media, our platform is unique in that it provides open, intelligent, and interoperable facilities for sharing media and services across network infrastructures. In addition, our work involves several specific innovations, for instance, pertaining to cross-network session management and synchronization. In this article we discuss the platform, its most important enabling services, and some of the applications we have built on top of it. We also briefly consider the new kinds of business models our platform makes possible.

오버레이 멀티캐스트 및 콘텐츠 전달 네트워크를 적용한 개방형 IPTV 플랫폼

일정 수준의 서비스 품질, 보안, 양방향성, 신뢰성 등을 제공하는 관리된 IP 기반의 네트워크에서 멀티미디어 서비스를 주로 수행하는 IPTV 서비스는 최근 상용화 서비스 제공으로 인해 그 중요성이 증가하고 있다. 그러나 IPTV 서비스 사업자들의 주요 서비스들이 폐쇄형 플랫폼에 의존하고 있어 개인형, 개방형 서비스를 통해 언제, 어디서나, 어떤 디바이스 환경에서도 콘텐츠를 생산하고 동시에 소비하는 IPTV 서비스의 본래 취지를 충족하지 못하고 있다. 본 논문에서는 개방형 IPTV 서비스 플랫폼을 제안하여 개인이나 소규모 사업자가 쉽게 콘텐츠를 생산하고 기존의 IPTV 망에 종속되지 않은 상태에서 서비스를 제공할 수 있는 방안을 제공하였다. 제안된 플랫폼은 제한적인 네트워크 및 프로세스 자원에서 서비스를 지원할 수 있는 오버레이 멀티캐스트 전송 방법과 콘텐츠의 품질을 보장하기 위해 사용하는 콘텐츠 전달 네트워크(Content Delivery Network)와 유사한 전송 방법을 동시에 적용하였다. 제안 IPTV 플랫폼은 성능 시험을 통해 전송되는 콘텐츠의 품질, 콘텐츠 전송량 및 채널 Zapping Time에서 개방형 서비스 플랫폼으로서의 가능성을 보여 주었으며, 향후 지속적인 기능 및 사용자 인터페이스의 개선을 통해 개방형 IPTV 플랫폼을 이용한 IPTV 서비스를 제공할 수 있음을 보여 주고 있다. Recently, the importance of IPTV providing multimedia service over IP based networks managed to provide the required level of quality of service and experience, security, interactivity and reliability has been gradually increasing by the commercialization of its service. However, the original purposes of IPTV service - contents are produced and consumed anytime, anywhere, and over any device at the same time - have not been satisfied by service providers because most services offered by service providers depend on closed IPTV platform. In this paper, we propose an open IPTV service platform that an individual or small company can easily produce contents and offer IPTV service independently from the existing closed IPTV platform.. The proposed IPTV platform exploits overlay multicast scheme to offer reasonable service under the environment where network bandwidth and processor resource are limited. It also uses CDN-like scheme to ensure the quality of transmitted contents. The performance evaluation shows that the proposed IPTV platform has the possibility of being an open IPTV platform considering its results such as the quality of transmitted contents, the transmission rate, the channel zapping time, and so on. It also shows that proposed IPTV platform could be applied to real IPTV service with continuous enhancement of its functions and user interfaces.

A service-layer diagnostic approach for the OSGi framework

The open service gateway initiative (OSGi) framework is to provide an open environment for home services, which can be deployed by different service providers. However, currently there is no total solution for the OSGi framework to diagnose and recover from unexpected faults, especially those generated by resource conflicts between services, which would require user intervention. This paper summarizes the requirements for diagnosis in the open service platform and proposes an integrated approach to detect service conflict faults, handle general exceptions, and diagnose service errors on OSGi platforms. By providing user friendly diagnosis messages, and suggestions to fix exceptions, users can operate home gateways without a heavy learning burden, and service providers can reduce the overhead associated with user requests for technical support. The implementation is packaged as a service bundle running on the service layer of the OSGi platform. This is the first attempt to diagnose and handle the service conflicts on the OSGi platform during runtime.

Supporting the OSGi Service Platform with Mobility and Service Distribution in Ubiquitous Home Environments

The OSGi service specification defines an open service platform for service delivery, composition and execution in networked environments. The specification, however, is limited to a single java virtual machine (JVM) and does not define the distribution and mobility of services across different OSGi platforms and devices. This paper first revisits the fundamentals of OSGi service distribution, clarifies and defines a terminology for OSGi service mobility and distribution. It then proposes to extend the current OSGi platform with service distribution and service mobility that aim to support three important requirements on ubiquitous applications, namely, spontaneous interoperability, mobility and software adaptability. The paper demonstrates these extensions through several prototype implementations. These extensions are supported through a common framework, which targets at ubiquitous environments and aims to facilitate the construction of OSGi applications that span multiple OSGi platforms, multiple JVMs and multiple devices. In addition, the proposed framework offers two special features: First, it supports automatic contextual management through a virtual global shared space whose content is automatically and dynamically adjusted to reflect the changes in the system and the mobile environment; Second, it supports different OSGi bundle and service mobility paradigms. The proposed framework blurs the distinction between local and remote services, where remote services can be accessed as if they were local, which greatly simplifies application development. We believe existing OSGi platform distribution solutions can also be supported by this framework.

OSA-based service platform for all-IPv6 network environments

The use of IP (Internet protocol) technology in the information and communications industry constitutes a major global trend. A highly efficient service architecture, enabling technologies and advanced applications are essential to rapid multimedia services in an all-IPv6 network environment. This work presents an all-IPv6 service platform based on open service architecture (OSA) to support a set of standard interfaces and applications. The all-IPv6 network environment was integrated using a network-processor-based IPv4/IPv6 translator and a mobile router (MR) supported IPv6 network mobility. The feasibility of the open service platform for all-IPv6 network environments and of the designed application programming interfaces was examined using three applications: e-commerce, video-on-demand, and on-line gaming. The performance analysis indicates that the system throughput increased from 10.5 to 60.5 Mb/s as the number of users increased from 1 to 80; the mean response time increased from approximately 1 to 10.5 ms, and the delay time increased from 0.1 to 1 ms.

Web communication services and the PacketIN® application hosting environment

Large telecommunication customers are migrating their network infrastructure to support new converged services, while containing their operating costs. Deploying converged services on the networks today represents great opportunities to network service providers for new revenue generation. It brings big challenges as well, due to the requirements for a service platform with high capability to deal with the complexity of the network infrastructure, the difficulty of interoperability between different service platforms, and the diversity of signaling protocols and application programming interfaces (APIs). The Lucent PacketIN® application hosting environment (AHE) provides a solution that empowers network service providers to deliver a wide variety of enhanced services over the converged (packet and circuit, wireline and wireless) networks. It enables the creation and deployment of enhanced services on converged networks via the open service platform with interoperability, programmability, scalability, and wide protocol compliance. In particular, a new class of services is presented to demonstrate the transformation of telecommunication services that is enabled through Web presence. This article gives an overview of the PacketIN AHE with the focus on the customer values, the architecture, and enabling capability to deploy advanced applications and services. A new service portal, enterprise communication, is presented as an example of the innovation and implementation enabled by the service enabling environment. The enterprise communication provides Web access to presence information, instant messaging, third-party call management, and location. This convergence of features is enabled by the PacketIN AHE integration of the public switched telephone network (PSTN), session initiation protocol (SIP), and H.323 protocols through standard open APIs. The voice communication protocols are combined with a Web access interface to establish a new Internet presence, while leveraging existing switching products and reusing deployed communication networks and services.