ASI – the Ambient Network Service Interface

Markus Kampmann; Stefan Bleiholder; Adnan Tariq; Kerry Jean; Zhaohong Lai; Mirko Cano Soveri; Kazimierz Bałos; Martin Stiemerling

2nd International ICST Conference on Communications and Networking in China

Research Article

ASI – the Ambient Network Service Interface

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/CHINACOM.2007.4469495,
    author={Markus Kampmann and Stefan Bleiholder and Adnan Tariq and Kerry Jean and Zhaohong Lai and Mirko Cano Soveri and Kazimierz Bałos and Martin Stiemerling},
    title={ASI -- the Ambient Network Service Interface},
    proceedings={2nd International ICST Conference on Communications and Networking in China},
    publisher={IEEE},
    proceedings_a={CHINACOM},
    year={2008},
    month={3},
    keywords={Ambient Networks reference points service negotiation IMS IPTV},
    doi={10.1109/CHINACOM.2007.4469495}
}

Markus Kampmann
Stefan Bleiholder
Adnan Tariq
Kerry Jean
Zhaohong Lai
Mirko Cano Soveri
Kazimierz Bałos
Martin Stiemerling
Year: 2008
ASI – the Ambient Network Service Interface
CHINACOM
IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/CHINACOM.2007.4469495

Markus Kampmann¹^,*, Stefan Bleiholder¹, Adnan Tariq¹, Kerry Jean²^,*, Zhaohong Lai²^,*, Mirko Cano Soveri³^,*, Kazimierz Bałos⁴^,*, Martin Stiemerling⁵^,*

1: Ericsson Research Herzogenrath, Germany
2: Dept. of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University College London, London, U.K.
3: División de arquitecturas de referencia de plataformas para nuevas redes Telefónica I+D Valladolid, Spain
4: Dept. of Computer Science, University of Science and Technology (AGH-UST), Krakow, Poland
5: Network Laboratories, NEC Europe Ltd Heidelberg, Germany

*Contact email: markus.kampmann@ericsson.com, kjean@ee.ucl.ac.uk, zlai@ee.ucl.ac.uk, mdcs266@tid.es, kbalos@agh.edu.pl, stiemerling@netlab.nec.de

Abstract

Within the European research project Ambient Networks three reference points have been defined that determine the interactions and services an Ambient Network provides and fully describe it from an external perspective. In this paper, one of these reference points, the Ambient Service Interface (ASI), is described in detail. The ASI is used for connecting external services to the Ambient Control Space (ACS) of an Ambient Network and provides uniform access to Ambient Networks functionality from upper layers. After introducing the ASI main concepts, the new Ambient Networks service provisioning role model is presented. Examples of ASI primitives are given and a proposal for the realization of the ASI framework using web services is presented. The usage and implementation of the ASI in an IPTV usage scenario is given. Finally, the integration with IMS is discussed.

Keywords: Ambient Networks reference points service negotiation IMS IPTV

Published: 2008-03-07
Publisher: IEEE
Modified: 2011-07-14

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CHINACOM.2007.4469495

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