Automated Service Management for Semantic IP Multimedia System [S-IMS]

Kidd S. C. Toh, S. M. F. D. Syed Mustapha

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Faculty of Information Technology Universiti Tun Abdul Razak, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

DOI: 10.4236/cn.2013.53025                

Abstract

Next Generation Network (NGN) has drawn great attention by the researchers and telecommunication industries as the future generation in the communication technologies and services. The interest covers all aspects on NGN from the global standards, architecture and services. The management of services provided in the NGN environment has posed great challenges due to the heterogeneity of the service protocols, service requirements and specifications and service functionalities. The research proposes enhancement of the automated service management through embedding the semantic service descriptions that can be referenced to the service ontology for service creation and management into the Next Generation Network, which will become Semantic Next Generation Network (SNGN).

Keywords

IP Mutimedia System; Web Service; Session Initiated Protocols; Service Oriented Architecture; Semantic Next Generation Network

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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