The Open Mobile Alliance - Delivering Service Enablers for Next-Gen Applications

The book intends to provide a unique overview of the industry landscape for Service Enablers for Next-Gen Applications, as it is currently being developed by the Open Mobile Alliance(TM). The first part of the book provides an overall but concise introduction into the subject matter covered in this book, that is, service enablers for Next-Gen applications. It describes the problems that service enablers are attempting to solve. It chooses to use the horizontal services architecture developed by OMA as the framework to introduce and describe a judiciously selected sample of OMA service enablers. Part I wraps up with bringing to the fore the Open Mobile Alliance, an international specifications setting body that delivers open specifications for creating interoperable services that work across countries, operators, fixed and mobile terminals. Part II builds on the concepts introduced, and discusses a number of topics that are of horizontal interest in OMA. Part II then continues with in depth coverage of a carefully selected range of the OMA service enablers. Note that although the horizontal services architecture is used as a narration tool to help weave the OMA fabric, each chapter in Part III can be consumed as standalone coverage of an individual OMA service enabler. Readers interested only in one or a few specific enablers are invited to skip to the relevant chapters for the material of interest. Having said that, the main objective of the book is to provide the overview, to connect the dots, to give you the bigger picrue that the standards themselves do not provide. The book is aimed at technical professionals. This will be a technical book, though the book does not address the developed community. Protocol specifications are discussed, with a focus on the architecture and function of service enablers, developed beased on market-driven requirements.