Making the most of mobile service architecture

Once the preserve of the few, mobile technologies have grown in importance to assume a place at the heart of business, making their development a research priority. Enhancing and developing service architectures is a crucial element says No?´l Crespi of the IPTEM project .

 Mobile technologies are one of the great economic success stories of modern times. However, this is not to suggest that the potential for further technological innovation has been exhausted; in fact, the work of scientists like Noël Crespi, the coordinator of the IPTEM project, continues to push the development of mobile technologies even further forwards. “The primary technical goal of the IPTEM project is to develop a new framework for service architectures in order to deliver multi-media services in an open framework, services which can be delivered anywhere and at any time,” he says. The project also aims to establish partnerships between different teams from the industry in Asia.

This is an approach that directly reflects the realities of the modern marketplace, and indeed it is precisely the globalised, interconnected nature of today’s business landscape which makes the work of the IPTEM initiative so commercially relevant. While the potential of mobile technologies excites many, at this stage researchers in the field are keen to ensure that development follows an incremental, sustainable path. “The idea is to enhance existing architectures because we can’t build new service architectures from scratch”, stresses Crespi. “We cannot bring, from scratch, a completely new service architecture into being. However, a new paradigm called peer-to-peer is emerging in the field. Peer-to-peer does not involve a network infrastructure, and is a very hot topic at the moment. Our joint work has focused on developing proposals and prototypes which will run on these peer-to-peer systems.”

“We are keen to establish close links with the relevant standardisation bodies, which we have done in particular with 3GPP – the 3rd Generation Project Partnership. Within this initiative we have made a number of contributions which have been pushed and which have been accepted. In the future we aim to continue these contributions and further the development of mobile technologies through peer-to-peer network infrastructures.”

Contact Noel Crespi, Programme Director for the Core Network and Service Architecture Group, and Coordinator for the standardisation activities in ETSI and 3GPP, at noel.crespi@it-sudparis.eu

Published: Monday, 9th November 2009

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