The Development of Service Enablers in B3G Environments
Michail N. Masikos, D. Nikitopoulos, Dimitrios I. Axiotis, M. Theologou, C. Dessiniotis · 2007
This paper deals with the design of systems that enable service provisioning in Beyond 3G (B3G) environments. The proposed systems are based on Service Enablers, entities that collect and process data from mobile terminals in order to form content for the provisioning of context-aware services. This content can be afterwards exploited by candidate applications. In this paper the main parameters that influence the design process are identified and the basic characteristics of service enablers are derived. Furthermore, we cite four basic operational structures according to our architecture and we present their special features. The MOTIVE system (MObile Terminal Information Value addEd Functionality) is used as a case study for the verification and validation of the proposed structures.