A study of the short message service of a nationwide cellular network
Proceedings of the 6th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement
Characterizing the transport behaviour of the short message service
Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Mobile systems, applications, and services
Crafting a real-time information aggregator for mobile messaging
Journal of Computer Systems, Networks, and Communications - Special issue on lightweight mobile and wireless systems: technologies, architectures, and services
Control of information appliances using instant messaging
EUC'06 Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing
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Following the success of short messaging service (SMS), multimediamessaging service (MMS) is emerging as a natural but revolutionarysuccessor to short messaging. MMS allows personalized multimediamessages containing content such as images, audio, text and videoto be created and transferred between MMS-capable phones and otherdevices. By using IP and its associated protocols, MMS is able to interworkwith other messaging systems such as Internet messaging services. An important feature of MMS is the guaranteed delivery of messagesvia a store-and-forward mechanism which temporarily stores messagesin the network until successfully delivered. Unlike SMS, multimediamessaging service does not mandate any maximum size for amultimedia message. This enhanced flexibility of MMS requires acareful design of the network in order to avoid excessive messagedelays and losses. This paper develops a mathematical model forevaluating the performance of an MMS system. Using the model,closed-form expressions for major performance parameters such asmessage loss, message delay and expiry probability have been derived.Furthermore, a simple algorithm is presented to find the optimal temporary storage size for a given set of system parameters. The accuracy of the presented analysis is evaluated through simulations which shows a close agreement between analytic and simulation results.