A novel design of instant messaging service extended from short message service with XMPP
Heng-Te Chu · Fifth IEE International Conference on 3G Mobile Communication Technologies (3G 2004) The Premier Technical Conference for 3G and Beyond · 2004
Short message service has been growing tremendously in the last few years. Meanwhile, instant messaging service has been getting more and more popular, too. To bridge them is becoming a new promising niche because people really enjoy getting messages instantly, anywhere at any time. However, there is still not a common, unified and open standard to communicate with each other. Big instant message providers, such as AOL, MSN, Yahoo, and ICQ dominate Internet instant message systems via proprietary protocols. Although, major handset manufactures, e.g., Ericsson, Motorola, and Nokia, formed the Wireless Village Initiative to ensure interoperability of instant message service particularly; it requires buying their new handsets to support. However, people don't change handsets often. On the other hand, every carrier operator has been trying to refine its own homemade interface to short message application services with the intention to cover the complexity and security of the communication with its own short message service center. Hence, in this paper we propose an infrastructure, based on the XML-based protocol, XMPP, not only to simplify interconnections among Internet instant message systems and short message systems, but also to support legacy handsets for instant message service. Besides, most operators' short message service centers do not guarantee delivery in order. Therefore, we are also going to introduce a mechanism inside our servers in order to make in-order delivery sensitive services applicable on top of this infrastructure.