Digital Business. First Iternational ICST Conference, DigiBiz 2009, London, UK, June 17-19, 2009, Revised Selected Papers

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WOICE: A Decentralized System for Ubiquitous VoIP Services

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-11532-5_9,
        author={Costas Kalogiros and Costas Courcoubetis and Panayotis Antoniadis},
        title={WOICE: A Decentralized System for Ubiquitous VoIP Services},
        proceedings={Digital Business. First Iternational ICST Conference, DigiBiz 2009, London, UK, June 17-19, 2009, Revised Selected Papers},
        proceedings_a={DIGIBIZ},
        year={2012},
        month={5},
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        doi={10.1007/978-3-642-11532-5_9}
    }
    
  • Costas Kalogiros
    Costas Courcoubetis
    Panayotis Antoniadis
    Year: 2012
    WOICE: A Decentralized System for Ubiquitous VoIP Services
    DIGIBIZ
    Springer
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-11532-5_9
Costas Kalogiros1,*, Costas Courcoubetis1,*, Panayotis Antoniadis2,*
  • 1: Athens University of Economics and Business
  • 2: Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris6/LIP6
*Contact email: ckalog@aueb.gr, courcou@aueb.gr, panayotis.antoniadis@lip6.fr

Abstract

We propose WOICE (Wireless vOICE), a fully distributed architecture capable of supporting and offering ubiquitous voice services over wireless IP-based data networks. Existing WiFi infrastructure - deployed by enterprises or even individuals - will be supplemented with software modules based on open standards in order to support VoIP. Furthermore, a new breed of VoIP providers by aggregating these currently isolated access networks will be able to offer alternative and advanced services to reachable end-users. These services would in certain cases completely bypass traditional telephony and cellular providers and in others smoothly cooperate with them. We will describe the overall architecture and the necessary modules that should be in place for realizating a system that creates a marketplace for communication services.