Digital media and entertainment service delivery platform

ABSTRACT

The emergence of broadband networks, for mobile and fixed environments, has stimulated the multimedia market for the delivery of enriched digital media and entertainment services. A key problem for institutions attempting to capitalize on these new channels for service delivery is a capability to deploy many multimedia services rapidly and cost effectively. The naïve technique is to deploy such solutions independently as so called point solutions. The strategic approach is the development of an environment that acts as a service delivery platform for a range digital media and entertainment services. We present our reference architecture that enables the delivery of multiple digital media and entertainment services in fixed and mobile broadband networked environments. This may be for a telecom operator or a virtual network operator. A fundamental characteristic of our architecture is the capability to deliver multiple services with observed reductions in elapsed effort to bring these services online; with a concomitant reduction in cost and speed to market. The architecture is based upon several experiences globally, is refined further here, and presented as a blueprint.

REFERENCES

• 1: Pavlovski, C.J. Reference Architecture for Mobile Internet Service Platform. In Proceedings of the 2nd Asian International Mobile Computing Conference (AMOC 2002), Langkawi, Malaysia, May 2002.
• 2: Rudolf Pailer , Johannes Stadler , Igor Miladinovic, Using PARLAY APIs over a SIP system in a distributed service platform for carrier grade multimedia services, Wireless Networks, v.9 n.4, p.353-363, July 2003 [doi>10.1023/A:1023699327890]
• 3: Lozinski, Z. Parlay/OSA - a New Way to create Wireless Services. In Proceedings of Mobile Wireless Data, International Engineering Consortium, 2003.
• 4: ESTI Standard. Open Service Access; Application Programming Interface (API); Part 1: Overview (Parlay 5). ES 203 915-1 v1.11. European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), France, 2005.
• 5: ESTI Standard. Open Service Access (OSA); Parlay X Web Services; Part 1: Common. ES 202 391-1 v1.11. European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), France, 2005.
• 6: The Parlay Group and British Telecommunications. Parlay for Broadband Services. The Parlay Group, 2005. Available at http://www.parlay.org/. Accessed July 2005.
• 7: 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP). Technical Specification Group Services and System Aspects; IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS); Stage 2 (Release 7). Technical Specification TS 23.228 v7.0.0 (2005-06). Valbonne, France, 2005.
• 8: 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP). 3rd Generation Partnership Project; Technical Specification Group Services and Systems Aspects; Combined CS Calls and IMS Sessions; Stage 1 (Release 7). Technical Specification TS 22.279 v1.0.1 (2005-03), Valbonne, France, 2005.
• 9: T. Magedanz , D. Witaszek , K. Knuettel, The IMS Playground @ Fokus - An Open Testebed for Next Generation Network Multimedia Services, Proceedings of the First International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the DEvelopment of NeTworks and COMmunities (TRIDENTCOM'05), p.2-11, February 23-25, 2005 [doi>10.1109/TRIDNT.2005.35]
• 10: Magedanz, T., Witaszek, D., Knuttel, K. Service Delivery Platform Options for Next Generation Networks within the national German 3G Beyond Testbed. In Proceedings of South African Telecommunication Networks Architectures Conference (SATNAC04), Stellenbosch, South Africa, Sep. 2004.
• 11: Amjad Akkawi , Sibylle Schaller , Oliver Wellnitz , Lars Wolf, A mobile gaming platform for the IMS, Proceedings of 3rd ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Network and system support for games, August 30-30, 2004, Portland, Oregon, USA [doi>10.1145/1016540.1016542]
• 12: Liberty Alliance Project. Liberty ID-FF Architecture Overview (Version 1.2-errata-v1.0). Piscataway, NJ, USA, 2005. Available at http://www.projectliberty.org/. Accessed July 2005.
• 13: Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS). Authentication Context for the OASIS Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) V2.0. OASIS Standard. March 2005. Available at http://www.oasis-open.org/. Accessed July 2005.
• 14: World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Multimodal Interaction Requirements, W3C Note 8 January 2003. Available at http://www.w3.org/TR/mmi-reqs/. Accessed July 2005.
• 15: 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP). Technical Specification Group Services and System Aspects; Multicall; Service description; Stage 1 (Release 1999). Technical Specification TS 22.135 V3.2.0 (2000-03), Valbonne, France, 2005.
• 16: Jingwen Jin , Klara Nahrstedt, On exploring performance optimizations in web service composition, Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IFIP/USENIX international conference on Middleware, October 18-22, 2004, Toronto, Canada
• 17: Xiaohui Gu, Klara Nahrstedt. Distributed Multimedia Service Composition with Statistical QoS Assurances. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 2005.
• 18: Ion Stoica , Robert Morris , David Liben-Nowell , David R. Karger , M. Frans Kaashoek , Frank Dabek , Hari Balakrishnan, Chord: a scalable peer-to-peer lookup protocol for internet applications, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), v.11 n.1, p.17-32, February 2003 [doi>10.1109/TNET.2002.808407]

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.5 INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION (I.7)
      H.5.1 Multimedia Information Systems

General Terms:
Design

Keywords:
IP multimedia systems, digital media, reference architecture, service delivery platform, tripleplay, web service gateway