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Implementation and performance evaluation for a ubiquitous and unified multimedia messaging platform

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As networking technology advances, more advanced message services are provided. Users may have one or more different message accounts and devices. Before sending messages, the sender must make sure which message service the receipt currently uses. Any misjudgement may delay the time when the messages are received. To make users be able to receive messages anytime and anywhere with any kind of devices, we propose a Ubiquitous and Unified Multimedia Messaging (UMM) platform. The UMM platform integrates different message services and provides a more efficient way for message delivery. Our design does not modify the existing protocols of message services and need not involve the network operators. An analytical model is proposed to evaluate the performance of the implemented platform. Our study shows that with a large number of message services the user subscribes and long message processing time in the network, the delayed message probability can be limited within 1.5%. This performance is considered satisfactory.

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, 106, R.O.C.

    Phone Lin & Shan-Hung Wu

  2. Department of Research Scientist, Telcordia Technologies-Applied Research, 1 Telcordia Drive, Piscataway, NJ, 08854, U.S.A.

    Chung-Min Chen

  3. Department of Computer and Communications Research Labs, Industrial Technology Research Institute, Hsinchu, Taiwan, R.O.C.

    Ching-Feng Liang

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This paper is an extension of the work that has won the second place of the Mobile Hero contest sponsored by Industrial Development Bureau of Ministry of Economic Affairs, Taiwan, R.O.C., and was awarded USD 15,000.

Phone Lin (M’02-SM’06) received his BSCSIE degree and Ph.D. degree from National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, R.O.C. in 1996 and 2001, respectively. From August 2001 to July 2004, he was an Assistant Professor in Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering (CSIE), National Taiwan University, R.O.C. Since August 2004, he has been an Associate Professor in Department of CSIE and in Graduate Institute of Networking and Multimedia, National Taiwan University, R.O.C. His current research interests include personal communications services, wireless Internet, and performance modeling. Dr. Lin is an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, a Guest Editor for IEEE Wireless Communications special issue on Mobility and Resource Management, and a Guest Editor for ACM/Springer MONET special issue on Wireless Broad Access. He is also an Associate Editorial Member for the WCMC Journal. Dr. Lin has received many research awards. He was a recipient of Research Award for Young Researchers from Pan Wen-Yuan Foundation in Taiwan in 2004, a recipient of K. T. Li Young Researcher Award honored by ACM Taipei Chapter in 2004, a recipient of Wu Ta You Memorial Award of National Science Council (NSC) in Taiwan in 2005, a recipient of Fu Suu-Nien Award of NTU in 2005 for his research achievements. Dr. Lin is listed in WHO’S WHO IN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING(R) in 2006. Dr. Lin is a Senior Member, IEEE. P. Lin’s email and website addresses are plin@csie.ntu.edu.tw and http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~plin respectively.

Shan-Hung Wu received the B.S. degree from Department of Information Management, National Central University, Jhongli, Taiwan, and M.S. degree from Department of Computer Science and Information, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate at Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan. His research interests include distributed data management, pervasive computing, wireless and sensor networks, and performance modeling.

Chung-Min Chen is Director of Telcordia Applied Research Center in Taiwan. His research interests span across areas in distributed computing, data engineering, telecommunication and network management. He received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, College Park and a B.S. in Computer Science and Information Engineering from National Taiwan University.

Ching-Feng Liang received M.S. degree in electronic engineering from National Taiwan University of Science & Technology (NTUST) in 1993 and joined the Information & Communication Laboratory (ICL) of Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) as an engineer. Liang has led more than 10 projects of Taiwan Ministry of Economic Affairs (MoEA) to study and develop the technologies of mobile network and services including GPRS/3G core network, WLAN/Cellular interworking and number portability service. Liang received the ITRI Award in 2005 and the Outstanding Project Award of Taiwan MoEA in 2003. Liang is currently the manager of the Core Network Department of ICL/ITRI.

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Lin, P., Wu, SH., Chen, CM. et al. Implementation and performance evaluation for a ubiquitous and unified multimedia messaging platform. Wireless Netw 15, 163–176 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11276-007-0019-8

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