Advanced service provisioning based on mobile agents

Service provisioning is currently a challenging issue to offer future telecommunication services efficiently and at the same time in a flexible and user-friendly manner. As a contribution of the ACTS CAMELEON [CAMELEON project: http://www.comnets.rwth-aachen.de/~cameleon and CLIMATE ACTS cluster for...

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Published in:Computer communications 2000-04, Vol.23 (8), p.754-760
Main Authors: Farjami, P., Görg, C., Bell, F.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Mobile agents
Mobile communications
Networks
Service provisioning
Service roaming
Universal mobile telecommunication system
Virtual home environment
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Summary:Service provisioning is currently a challenging issue to offer future telecommunication services efficiently and at the same time in a flexible and user-friendly manner. As a contribution of the ACTS CAMELEON [CAMELEON project: http://www.comnets.rwth-aachen.de/~cameleon and CLIMATE ACTS cluster for intelligent mobile agents in telecommunication environments: http://www.fokus.gmd.de/cc/ima/climate/] project to the VHE (Virtual Home Environment) concept of UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunication System) [ETS ITS 22.70 Universal Mobile Telecommunication System (UMTS), service aspects: Virtual Home Environment (VHE). UMTS Draft Version, 3.00, 1998], this paper describes an advanced approach for service execution and service provisioning based on agent technology. The mobile and autonomous agent paradigm is a promising new approach for flexible service provisioning as well as automatic feature updates in terminals and network nodes. This paper describes an Adaptive Profile Manager, which is an agent-based mechanism that allows a telecommunication user access to his personalised services independent of the used end device (mobile phone, Laptop, PDA, among other devices). The service presentation is adapted to the corresponding end device considering its capacity and system features as well as the specific user profile.
ISSN:0140-3664
1873-703X
DOI:10.1016/S0140-3664(99)00235-2