Objective
Main Objective
MOVE aims to combine voice and data based services in a single environment. Future personal communicators, i.e. Personal Digital Assistants (PDA) with wireless communication facilities, will allow harmonisation of voice and Internet services on a single network such as UMTS. The MOVE middleware and application programming interface (API) for such terminals and 3rd generation networks will enable operation, adaptation and re-configuration of voice and data calls for a variety of applications. These include announcement services for weather, travel, help desks, call centres, and so called 'What's-On' information retrieval, which are today voice-based. This functionality will be available for UMTS terminals in a highly heterogeneous environment. Although mobile data services, which, for example, allow mobile access to the Internet, exist in current 2nd generation communications, they are not integrated with the speech services that are still seen as the core services for the medium term future.
Thus the overall objectives of MOVE are
-to define and prototype a voice enabled mobile middleware architecture that integrates voice and data services for small user terminals
-to derive a common interface for voice enabled mobility support as an enhancement of today's networks and part of the UMTS service.
MOVE will address these issues by developing a middleware architecture called Voice Enabled Mobile Application Support Environment (VE-MASE) that provides support for multimedia applications running on mobile devices. This architecture includes a voice/data application programming interface (V/D-API), which allows an application programmer to design voice and data applications without regard to the nature of the underlying networks. Functions like Voice over IP (VoIP) allow the provision of a customised service for the user.
Technical Approach
MOVE will investigate network requirements in terms of quality of service limitations of voice over packet-switched networks, such as the Internet and over different mobile networks, such as Wireless LANs and GSM. An architecture, the VE-MASE, will be developed to support integrated voice and data applications. The VE-MASE will adapt to the specific transport capabilities of the underlying networks and supply a set of mobility and voice related management functions:
-Service Session Management, which will give the service provider access to user-specific context information (e.g. to a history of events preceding an information access).
-Call set-up based on an existing IP connection : Either a call is placed from the client terminal or call set-up information is delivered to the proxy gateway where the connection is set up to a Voice over IP based terminal, e.g. a call-centre.
-Multi-sensitivity adaptations: A Location Manager will support applications handling location-dependent information, and a System Adaptability Manager will provide information about device capabilities, user preferences and/or network capabilities.
-Mobility Gateway approach to support Voice over IP (VoIP) over mobile networks. Examples are the harmonisation of new voice sessions and ongoing data sessions and bandwidth adaptation from fixed networks to mobile networks (e.g. GSM).
-A Voice/Data Application Programming Interface, V/D-API, will be defined to allow application programmers to instantiate voice and data connections and service providers to offer voice enabled mobile services. We will specify the V/D-API formally having in mind the relevant standardisation bodies, and will allow our results to be used by industrial developers and researchers. A demonstration service will be developed that consists of both a mobile client part and a peer entity operated by a service provider. This unique approach of a distributed support function and application allows reaction to the context-specific needs of a user in the best possible way. The demonstration service set will be integrated with the VE-MASE prototype and a demonstration will be used to validate the approach.
Summary of Trial
The MOVE trial makes use of the developed Demonstration Service and the mobile support environment, to demonstrate the VE-MASE architecture and evaluate the benefits to mobile users of services integrating voice and data functions. The Testbed will use GSM and Wireless LANs and evaluate parameters such as end-to-end network performance and quality of voice transmission (i.e. VoIP) over mobile networks.
Expected Achievements
The achievements expected during the first year of the project are:
-The definition and rapid prototyping of a middleware architecture (VE-MASE) designed to provide support for voice-enabled multimedia applications running on mobile devices,
-The specification of a voice/data application programming interface - called V/D-API - to be provided by the VE-MASE as the basis for the development of such applications,
-The definition of a demonstrator application - called NAVIS, for Navigation Assistant with Voice Integrated Services - based upon the VE-MASE architecture, and designed to exercise the voice/data integration functionality through the V/D-API,
-The planning of the integration of the demonstrator service and the VE-MASE.
The final version of VE-MASE, the implementation of the demonstration service and the demonstrator will be available during the second project year.
Expected Impact
-Support for new mobile devices and new range of mobile voice enabled services,
-Strengthening the European industry by contributing to industry and international standards from an European perspective,
-New business opportunities for independent service providers offering integrated mobile voice/data services by open standards.
Main contributions to the programme objectives:
Main deliverables
A prototype voice-enabled mobile middleware architecture that integrates voice and data services for small user terminals, deriving a common interface for voice-enabled mobility support as an enhancement of today's networks and part of the future UMTS service.
Contribution to the programme
The project work is relevant to the recent developments in mobile communications networks and the introduction of IP services to mobile clients.
Key Issues
-To design an architecture that supports strong integration of voice and data over UMTS for interactive mobile multimedia services and applications.
-To offer an open voice enabled application programming interface (Voice/Data V/D-API) to content and service providers for rapid and flexible deployment and operation of voice/data services, supporting on-line user contextual assistance.
-To specify and prototype a demonstration service that demonstrates the benefits of the V/D-API.
-To define a demonstration on advanced personal digital assistants or notebooks to demonstrate the V/D-API and middleware architecture, and to show the value of the approach for service providers.
-To promote the adoption of the V/D-API by the computer industry, application and service developers, and standardisation bodies.
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