Wireless and Mobile All-IP Networks
Chapter One
Short Message Service and IP
Network Integration
Short Message Service (SMS) is a mature wireless communication service
[Lin 01b, 3GP04l, Nok 97]. Most modern digital cellular phone systems
offer SMS, which is considered a profitable added-value service. A natural
extension is to integrate SMS with electronic mail services, which provides
linkage between mobile networks and IP networks. Furthermore, several
Internet applications over SMS can be implemented on similar platforms.
This chapter uses the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSMC)
SMS as an example to illustrate SMS-Internet integration.
GSM SMS provides a connectionless transfer of messages with low-capacity
and low-time performance. Each message can contain up to 140
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