FUTURE CONVERGENT TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICES: CREATION, CONTEXT, P2P, QOS, AND CHARGING
Antonio Sánchez, Belén Carro, Vishy Poosala · 2010
his series is an attempt to provide a holistic view of telecommunications services (having covered previously both enterprise [1] and residential [2] segments). The current issue is the second part of the New Converged Telecommunications Applications for the End User feature topic. In the previous issue ([3]), two published articles described services that rely on IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) infrastructure (which is progressively being deployed by telcos), related to lookup services and vehicular technology. In this second part a total of eight articles complete the selection of material fulfilling the call for papers’ intention of providing an update and new insights into the applications and services a converged world is bringing, concentrating on application-only topics in the field of services for mass market users. The articles presented cover a variety of aspects including user-driven service creation, context awareness (four articles, including two related to eHealth), combination of peer-to-peer (P2P) and next-generation networks (NGN), quality of experience (QoE), and service charging. We hope these articles will provide readers with an overview on how new infrastructures can facilitate the existence of new applications and services that will, in the end, make our lives easier. The articles composing this special issue are organized as follows. The first article is “An Ontology-Based Context