Mobile Messaging Technologies and Services: SMS, EMS and MMS, 2nd Edition

Contents

Preface

About the Author

Typographic Conventions

1 Basic Concepts

1.1 Generations of Mobile Communications Networks

1.2 Telecommunications Context: Standardization and Regulation

1.3 Global System for Mobile Communication

1.3.1 Cellular Concept

1.3.2 GSM Architecture

1.3.3 Mobile Station

1.3.4 Base Transceiver Station

1.3.5 Base Station Controller

1.3.6 Mobile Switching Center and Visitor Location Register

1.3.7 Home Location Register

1.4 General Packet Radio Service

1.4.1 GPRS Architecture

1.4.2 Serving GPRS Support Node

1.4.3 Gateway GPRS Support Node

1.5 Universal Mobile Telecommunications System

1.5.1 3G Services

1.5.2 First Phase UMTS

1.5.3 First Phase UMTS Architecture

1.5.4 User Equipment

1.5.5 UTRA Network

1.5.6 First Phase UMTS Core Network

1.5.7 Second Phase UMTS

1.6 Wireless Application Protocol

1.6.1 Introduction to WAP

1.6.2 WAP Architecture

1.6.3 Push Technology

1.6.4 User Agent Profile

1.6.5 WAP 1.x Legacy Configuration

1.6.6 WAP HTTP Proxy with Wireless Profiled TCP and HTTP

1.6.7 HTTP with Direct Access

1.6.8 WTP Segmentation and Reassembly

1.6.9 OMA Digital Rights Management

2 Standardization

2.1 Messaging Roadmap

2.2 MMS Standards

2.3 Third Generation Partnership Project

2.3.1 GPP Structure

2.3.2 3GPP Specifications: Release, Phase, and Stage

2.3.3 3GPP Specifications: Numbering Scheme

2.4 Third Generation Partnership Project 2

2.5 GSM Association

2.5.1 Working Groups

2.5.2 Regional Groups

2.6 Internet Engineering Task Force

2.6.1 IETF Documents

2.6.2 ...