A service framework for carrier grade multimedia services using PARPLAY APIs over a SIP system
WMI '01 Proceedings of the first workshop on Wireless mobile internet
Difficulties in simulating the internet
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
BT Technology Journal
IEEE Internet Computing
An OSA/Parlay-Based Middleware Architecture for Location-Based Services
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
International Journal of Communication Systems
Mobile agent and CORBA technologies in the broadband intelligent network
IEEE Communications Magazine
Opening the networks with Parlay/OSA: standards and aspects behind the APIs
IEEE Network: The Magazine of Global Internetworking
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The convergence, between fixed, mobile (circuit- or packet-switched) and Internet systems in the service plane, is nowadays an imperative need, for Next Generation Networks. Service homogenization becomes a big challenge since each network features specific characteristics and exposes its own peculiarities. Novel open architectures and approaches correlate with the tension of decreasing divergence between networks while trying to verify that advanced applications and services can operate successfully across different networks. Within the paper, a suggested middleware architecture, based on open and technology-independent Application Programming Interfaces, which could constitute the potential foundation for fruitful networks' homogenization and openness in service level, is described and analyzed. In addition, a distributed implementation of such an approach is presented, examining deep technical aspects for call-related and location-based services.