Enter Once, Share Everywhere: User Profile Management in Converged Networks

User Profile Management in Converged Networks (Episode II): "Share your Data, Keep your Secrets"

Privacy-Enhanced Data Management for Next-Generation e-Commerce

Electronic commerce is becoming pervasive. Convergence of wireless, wireline, and telephony networks enables a new level of web services. Will these services be a benefit, or a new avenue for spam? Extensive profiling and information sharing is needed to ensure that people get the services they want, and only what they want. We must ensure this personal, private information is used properly – t...

Context Management In Virtual Home Environment Systems

The emerging 3 generation services are provided through various types of networks and terminals. Roaming users rely on new kinds of wireless networks and terminals to offer mobility and make services available everywhere. The users’ requirement for continuous access to personalized services from any place, transparently and independently of the underlying network technology and the terminal or ...

Decentralized Self-management of Trust for Mobile Ad Hoc Social Networks

The construction of social networks over mobile devices in the events or at locations has emerged as a new network paradigm. These new mobile social networks enable people to communicate and share their experiences without the need to have Internet access and with minimum required infrastructure. However, the functionality and security of such networks would be potentially undermined without an...

How IMS Enables Converged Services for Cable and 3G Technologies: A Survey

The IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) is a service control overlay standardized by the 3GPP. The IMS is based on session initiation protocol (SIP) to establish, modify, and terminate the sessions. It provides a clean separation between services, signaling, and media with the potential to enable control and management of services over multiple transport technologies. In the scope of fixed-mobile con...