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Implementation Challenges in Rich Communication Suite-enhanced (RCS-e)

Authors:
Nishank Trivedi
Anurag Jain

Keywords: RCS-e; Mobile Phone Apps; Rich Communication Suite; Implementation Challenges in RCS-e; OTT apps; IMS

Abstract:
Everything is going mobile. This evolution is driven by video, cloud-based services, the Internet and machine-to-machine connectivity. It changes how people behave and how they leverage mobility to communicate and to improve their daily lives, through new and existing services. Users now demand connectivity anywhere and anytime with innovative services at minimal cost. Mobile service providers are exploiting the speed of 3G radio networks to offer new SIP-based interactive communications apart from basic Voice over IP (VoIP) services. One of these new emerging initiatives is Rich Communication Suite-enhanced (stated as RCS-e henceforth) which aims to seamlessly unify the communications experience by integrating traditional mobile telephony with new interactive services like presence, instant messaging and content sharing enabled by the enhanced address book of the mobile phone. This paper elaborates the challenges in implementation and roll-out of RCS-e technology, which includes combination of technical and business constraints. Finally, this paper not only compiles the unique challenges but it also touches upon the ways to deal with the implementation hurdles and using various studies and surveys it infers that RCS-e might well be the ideal combat technology against Over The Top applications (OTT apps) which are current leaders in the mobile telephony arena.

Pages: 132 to 136

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2013

Publication date: January 27, 2013

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4413

ISBN: 978-1-61208-245-5

Location: Seville, Spain

Dates: from January 27, 2013 to February 1, 2013