What is the future of mobile services? In order for mobile services to achieve the scale, scope, and agility required to keep them relevant and successful, a number of fundamental technical and business challenges need to be addressed. The Fabric of Mobile Services provides readers with a solid understanding of the subject, covering short-and long-term considerations and future trends that will shape thistechnological evolution.
Beginning with an introduction that brings readers up to speed on the mobile services environment, the book covers:
- The business of mobile services
- Mobile user location as a service enabler
- Simplicity and user experience
- The always-on infrastructure challenge
- Underpinnings of mobile opportunism
- Design patterns for mobile services
- Advanced services of today and tomorrow
Complemented with case studies and end-of-chapter summaries that help facilitate readers' comprehension, The Fabric of Mobile Services is essential reading for researchers, engineers, software engineers, students, and anyone working in the mobile services industry.
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1.2 Ubiquitous Computing and Next Generation Mobile Services. |
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1.4 Emerging Mobile Services Environments - Network View. |
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1.5 The Mobile Device Environment. |
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1.6. Putting it all Together in an Example. |
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1.7 The Fabric of Mobile Services. |
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1.8 The Focus of This Book. |
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Chapter 2: The Business of Mobile Services. |
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2.1 The Ecosystem and the Value Chain. |
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2.3 Innovative Business Models. |
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2.4 Case Study: Personalized Navigation Devices. |
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Chapter 3: Mobile User Location as a Services Enabler. |
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3.2 LBSs - The Killer Enabler. |
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3.3 Positioning Technology. |
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3.4 LBS Architectures and Middleware. |
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3.5 Search, Context, and Social Filtering. |
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Chapter 4: Simplicity and User Experience. |
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4.1 New Services and User Experience. |
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4.2 User Centered Simplicity and Experience. |
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4.3 Methodologies for Simplicity and User Experience. |
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4.4 Case Studies: Simplifying Paradigms. |
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Chapter 5: The Always-on Infrastructure Challenge. |
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5.1 Always-on Service Properties. |
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5.2 Architecting for Always-on Mobile Services. |
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5.3. Business Impact of Always on. |
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Chapter 6: Underpinnings of Mobile Opportunism. |
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6.1 Managing Complexity and Opportunities. |
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6.2 Technologies supporting Opportunism. |
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6.3 Design of Opportunistic Systems - Examples. |
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Chapter 7: Design Patterns for Mobile Services. |
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7.2 Architectural patterns. |
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7.3 User Interface Design. |
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7.4 Distribution and resource management. |
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7.6 Use Case: Voice-based Content Management. |
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Chapter 8: Advanced Services of Today and Tomorrow. |
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8.1 Emerging Mobile Application Areas. |
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8.2 Advanced and Emerging Mobile Technologies and Services. |
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8.3 Getting Personal - What it Takes and Why it’s Important. |
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Chapter 9: Concluding Remarks. |
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Shoshana Loeb, PhD, is Executive Director and Chief Scientist at Telcordia Technologies, Piscataway, New Jersey. She has a proven track record in creating, financing, operating, and growing innovative technology organizations and businesses. Ben Falchuk, PhD, is a Senior Research Scientist in the Software & Applications Lab at Telcordia Technologies. He has a long and diverse background of innovation in practical R&D related to the areas of mobile, multimedia, HCI, and middleware. Euthimios Panagos, PhD , is a Senior Scientist at Telcordia Applied Research. His expertise lies in the areas of distributed data management, strategic planning, engineering, marketing, and client engagement.
