3g Multimedia Network Services, Accounting, and User Profiles (Artech House Mobile Communications Series) - Hardcover

Marcel Mampaey; Freddy Ghys; Michel Smouts; Arto Vaaraniemi

9781580536448: 3g Multimedia Network Services, Accounting, and User Profiles (Artech House Mobile Communications Series)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1580536441 ISBN 13: 9781580536448

Publisher: Artech House Publishers, 2003

A cutting-edge book that offers you a comprehensive understanding of 3G multimedia network services and related architectures. This practical resource guides you in developing the services, charges and customer use data that will allow maximum profitability for your company. Covering both mobile and fixed networks, the book thoroughly explains 3G network standards, implementation architectures, charging principles, user profiles and QoS and security considerations. book explains how to increase user awareness and facilitate the service usage by means of customization, self-learning user profiles and the community concept. From the evolution towards multimedia, the virtual home environment and solutions for service provisioning, to charging and settlement relationships, logical user profile models and end-to-end quality of service assurance mechanisms, this resource covers the critical areas you need to understand to be successful in today's increasingly competitive marketplace.

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About the Author:

Freddy Ghys is an expert system architect at Alcatel in Antwerp, Belgium. He holds an engineering degree in electronics from the Technicum in Antwerp and a post-graduate degree in information technologies from Alcatel University.

Marcel Mampaey is an expert system architect at Alcatel in Antwerp, Belgium. He holds an M.Sc. in electrical engineering from Universit� Libre de Bruxelles.

Michel Smouts has retired from his position as director of system design and architecture at Alcatel in Antwerp, Belgium. He holds a civil engineering degree in mechanics and electronics from the University of Louvain, Belgium.

Arto Vaaraniemi is a senior systems architect at Alcatel in Stuttgart, Germany. He received his M.Sc. in Telecommunications from the Technical University of Helsinki in Finland.

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