Emerging Mobile Technologies and Issues

(Invited Talk)

S.R. Subramanya
Senior Research Scientist
LGE Mobile Research
10225 Willow Creek Road
San Diego, CA 92131

ABSTRACT
The emerging 3rd generation (3G) mobile systems are expected to provide a wide variety of voice and data services,
supporting data rates of up to 2 Mbps. The next generation mobile/cellular systems are being designed to operate on
a core IP (Internet Protocol) network, supporting all the popular operating systems and software applications. They
are expected to support mobile rates of 100 Mbps, and fixed rates of 1Gbps. Also, the mobile phones have been
transformed from mere voice communication devices to advanced communication devices (voice, text and video
messaging). In addition, they have acquired features of consumer electronics (with built-in cameras, MP3 players,
video capture and play), and computing (email, Web access, spread sheets). The emerging and future mobile
systems facilitate the provision of rich multimedia content services, such as TV broadcasts, video streaming, music,
video telephony, multimedia messaging, Web browsing, mobile commerce, and (multi-party) games, mobile
collaboration, and several location-based services. The worldwide mobile content market is expected reach $59
Billion by 2009, according to Juniper Research. The development and deployment of content, applications, and
services have been transforming from being technology-centric to being content-centric and user-centric. The
ultimate objective of mobile content and services is to provide the users with a rich experience in a convenient and
cost-effective manner, and to provide the mobile vendors, operators, and service providers with appropriate ROI
(return on investment).

In this presentation, we briefly outline the emerging mobile technologies and their features. Then the major
dimensions, which must be considered in the development of mobile technologies and the content, and in the
provision of applications and services to users (see Figure), are discussed. Several issues which need to be
addressed will be highlighted.

Technology Content User

Major dimensions to be considered

Content Content Content Content Content Content
Production Storage Transport Presentation Consumption Services

BIOGRAPHY
S.R. Subramanya received the Doctoral degree in Computer Science from George Washington University,
Washington, D.C. He was the recipient of Richard Merwin memorial award at George Washington University in
1996, and Grant-In-Aid of Research award from Sigma-Xi in 1997. He is currently a senior research scientist at LG
Electronics Mobile Research. He is the author of over 70 refereed technical papers and articles. His current
research interests include mobile multimedia services, mobile content management, and modeling user experience.
He has served as a reviewer, program committee member, and session chair of several International Conferences.
He has also been a reviewer for several journals and research grant proposals.

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