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This paper introduces the concept of the so-called virtual Set-Top Box (vSTB). The idea of the vSTB represents a novel and fundamental change in the creation and delivery of media services as IP Television (IPTV), by shifting most of the service execution environment — e.g. the Web browser — to a Cloud infrastructure. This paper describes the overall approach of this idea, addresses and identifies...
Technology advances are making available huge amounts of processing, storage, networking capabilities at the edge (i.e., up to End-Users premises) of current networks. It is argued that these trends, coupled with new emerging paradigms such as Software Defined Networks, will impact deeply the evolution of future networks, allowing to design highly flexible architectures at the edge capable of creating...
Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) are currently facing challenging times. With flat revenues and intense competition from ‘Over The Top’ (OTT) providers, they are searching for new opportunities that will enable revenue growth. The impending migration towards LTE presents a number of challenges as well as opportunities, especially in the area of Policy Control. The Evolved Packet Core (EPC) architecture...
WebRTC is a solid initiative for building a standardized and interoperable real-time multimedia communication technology fully integrated on the WWW. Opportunity or threat, WebRTC is relevant enough to catch the attention of all market stakeholders. In this paper, we analyze the current status of WebRTC and show how creating a number of server-side enablers could push this technology beyond just peer-to-peer...
WebRTC, browser-to-browser communication technology, has on short term a desktop strategy, which will unleash its potential in 2013/2014. It is a great opportunity for Telco's to achieve a promise of service continuity for the RCS standard. But general disintermediation patterns and WebRTC going mobile and being an API of its own, are a serious mid-term challenge for operators.
In this paper, we propose a new cloud platform architecture that enables telco services to be provided in an available anywhere, specific device not required use form. This architecture enables users to use the interactive services developed through use of WebRTC and other web technologies; it only requires users to have an HTML5-powered device and network reachability. Web developers can develop...
The WebRTC technology is gaining more and more attention in the Telco world. After having detailed this technology and its stakes, we remind in this paper some limits of the current architectures for conversational services, and we expose how webRTC could be used by Telcos. Two scenarios are possible: Extending the IMS footprint and introducing a new control plane.
Cloud computing offers remote resources on top of which users can deploy their own services, as well as ready to use services. Computing resources located in different sites and belonging to multiple providers can be used for a service. One requirement for the user to get access to cloud services is being connected with the remote computing resources. Similarly, interworking between computing resources...
In Distributed Cloud Computing, applications are deployed over thousands of geographically distributed cloud sites. This new deployment approach promises not only improved application's quality of service but enables deploying network-critical applications otherwise not possible. A previously settled, static allocation of enough resources at each site is expensive. Adapting resource allocations during...
The availabilty of future-prove information infrastructure is widely associated with economic growth and social prosperity. However, migrating legacy information infrastructures to the future is said to come along with high investment costs. In this paper we assess how cross-industry cooperation between utility and telecommunication companies can contribute to the utilization of synergies in information...
Many fixed-line carriers are providing online storage service, which stores user data through their broadband access network, as a typical application service that utilizes their network's advantages such as wide bandwidth. However, many of these services are not providing unique use cases that are different from over-the-top (OTT) personal online storage services. To facilitate the creation of new...
Collaborative Web Browsing (cobrowsing) becomes more and more popular in commercial solutions. Cobrowsing allows different users to share a synchronized common view on a web page as well as sharing the interactions, such as mouse movements, highlighting text or mouse clicks, on this web page with each other. This makes it interesting for a wide range of use cases, such as customer relationship management,...
We propose a web synchronization method that shares the same webpage and operations (e.g. button click) by browsers among users in not only real-time but also non-real-time to remotely support operations in various scenes. This method also synchronizes the output time of a scene in streaming content (e.g. voice and video) and the output time of other content (non-streaming content including the output...
Mobile Money is growing in the developed world while cars are becoming much smarter. Combine the two — and you get cars that ‘own’ a wallet. We propose not a user-centric, but a car-centric service that enables cars to have Pre-Pay subscription accounts for car-related purchases and for linking to financial services. The solution uses advanced car communications capability and securely stored car...
Since the early days of smartphones, there has been a phenomenal increase in the quantity and quality of mobile applications. Most of these applications aim to answer one specific need (like SMS for messaging) but do not coordinate their execution as most of the time they are made by separate developers. Composing and coordinating these applications should increase their benefit especially if the...
The European Commission (EC) mandates that from July 1, 2014, Mobile network operators (MNO) shall offer the possibility to other parties, referred to as Alternative roaming provider (ARP), to offer ‘roaming services’. When a subscriber of a national MNO, referred to as Domestic service provider (DSP) in this context, travels abroad, that person should be entitled to receive voice, data, SMS and MMS...
In order to realize a viable business ecosystem in the Internet of Things (IoT), we investigated how a smart horizontal IoT service platform can bring value and economies of scale to all required ecosystem stakeholders. By means of an example application domain case, this paper constructs a multi-sided business model illustrating how such viable business ecosystem can be achieved leveraging the key...
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