Mobile Messaging Technologies and Services: SMS, EMS and MMS

By Gwenaël Le Bodic

Book Overview

Building on the success of the first edition, Mobile Messaging Technologies and Services offers extensive new and revised material based upon the latest research and industry developments. While early implementations targeted person-to-person messaging, MMS has now evolved to facilitate such requirements as the mass delivery of time-sensitive messages for content-to-person messaging. This Second Edition exploits the technical maturity of MMS as it is poised to generate a wealth of new business opportunities across the mobile communications sector. The author provides the fundamental technical background required for SMS, EMS and MMS, and supports this with industry cutting-edge developments.

● Contains a revised section on the fundamentals of MMS, including an updated section on GPRS to explain current commercial implementations such as GRX applications.

● Presents the latest developments in MMS standardization, including the design of synchronized multimedia integration language (SMIL) presentations, Digital Rights Management (DRM), transcoding techniques, postcard service and support of advanced multimedia formats.

● Describes the processes for standardizing telecommunications services and technologies (3GPP, OMA, GSM Association, IETF and W3C).

● Provides updated sections on SMS, EMS and heavily revised coverage of the developments in MMS, including MMS interworking and the forthcoming MMS version 1.3.

This resource will be invaluable for application developers, manufacturers, operators and content providers involved in the design and deployment of messaging services. It will also be of interest to practitioners involved in the process of standardizing telecommunications services and technologies. Postgraduate students and researchers will benefit from having access to state-of-the-art findings backed by numerous illustrative real-world examples.

Includes a companion website featuring information on relevant standards, available phones and developers' resources.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0470011432
• ISBN13: 9780470011430
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.8" x 9.9"

Customer Reviews

Excellent coverage of SMS and MMS technology

A really good technical introduction to SMS and MMS technology. Explains in easy to understand terms how SMS works, what protocols are involved etc... The author currently works for Airwide, one of the 2 main players in the SMSC space, so he knows his stuff.

Worth a read...

I would recommend this book to anybody who needs a survey level knowledge of MMS/SMS. I think it also has value for developers who want to better understand the whole ecosystem and not just their more narrow area of expertise. The quality of the descriptions were excellent, particulary when tables were used to simplify and contrast the relevant messaging profiles and specifications. If I had one complaint, it was that a bit too much detail was provided on the evolution of the standards, rather than using those pages to provide more use cases and detailed flow charts.

The reference book in mobile messaging technologies

Don't know what mobile messaging is about ? Read the first chapter and you will feel more comfortable about it ! You're an engineer in mobile communications but you lack expertise in EMS and MMS ? Go for this book !To put it shortly, Le Bodic's book is first an excellent introduction to mobile messaging and then turns into a great reference manual for all those who work in this promising field. It is a must have !I particularly liked the way he turned the boring "standardization" stuff into clear figures and tables. Le Bodic made 3GPP litterature accessible and that was quite a challenge !!