16.6 Open Mobile Alliance


16.6 Open Mobile Alliance

The Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) was formed to promote global user adaptation of mobile services and applications by ensuring seamless interoperability. It was established on June 12, 2002. The work done by the Open Mobile Architecture and WAP fora laid the foundation of OMA. Later on Location Interoperability Forum (LIF), SyncML, Multi-Media Messaging Services Inter-Operability (MMS-IOP), Wireless Village, and Mobile Wireless Internet Forum (MWIF) joined the alliance by consolidating their efforts with the OMA. These fora were working individually in the same problem space of mobile services and applications. The LIF is promoting and working industry common solutions for the location based services. The SyncML is working on specifying an open standard for establishing a protocol between devices, applications and networks to ensure a consistent set of data available on any device or application at any time. The MMS-IOP is facilitating and coordinating MMS interoperability testing and problem solving. The Wireless Village is specifying the Internet based mobile instant messaging and presence services, all fully interoperable and leveraging existing web technologies. The MWIF was specifying an open mobile wireless and Internet architecture that is independent of the wireless access technology. OMA harmonizes all these efforts and provides a common platform for the development of all these mobile services and applications.

OMA is developing global open standards for services and applications independent of underlying wireless access technology, e.g. cdma2000, and WCDMA. It intends to provide seamless inter-technology and inter-generation roaming for services and applications across the globe. OMA has achieved its first milestone by developing specifications for OMA Download Feature Set. The specification enables distribution and download of content data to mobile devices independent of vendor and content. It is an over the air protocol and features enhanced download reliability. The specification also provides protocols for associating Digital Rights Management (DRM) with content. DRM allows control of use and distribution of media content.

OMA is a new organization compared to the other organizations discussed in this chapter, such as 3GPP, and 3GPP2. They have taken a mission that is very much needed to promote data services on wireless. OMA could play a key role in promoting the data over wireless in the future. The mobile services and applications is an important part of the wireless data industry, since it has direct interaction with the end users. Development of this part can help boost wireless data usage. Currently, OMA is working on simplifying data application and content development for a mobile user. This includes work on the specifications related to the MMS. It is looking into providing a global standard for email notification on the wireless devices. OMA is working on script language for browsing environment. It is also working on the implementation of interoperability process and testing between its members .



IP in Wireless Networks
IP in Wireless Networks
ISBN: 0130666483
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 164

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