Parlay / OSA

Andy Bennett is a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff of the Wireless Standards organization within Lucent Technologies. He has 15 years of experience in wireline and wireless technologies. Andy has held the position of Parlay Framework Working Group Chair and worked extensively in the 3GPP CN5 OSA and SA2 Working Groups.  Andy has authored a number of technical papers and presentations for journals and conferences and has several patents pending on service delivery and mediation.Musa Unmehopa is member of technical staff with the Wireless Advanced Technology Lab within Lucent Technologies Bell Laboratories. He has held several leadership positions in Parlay, including vice-chairmanship of 3GPP CN5 OSA. Musa has held the editorship of various parts of the Parlay specification set. Currently he serves on Parlay Technical Advisory Committee and Parlay Board of Directors. Musa has authored various technical papers for journals and conferences, and is co-author of the draft IETF SPIRITS RFC. He also holds the vice-chair position in the OMA Mobile Web Services working group.Kumar Vemuri is a member of technical staff in the Next Generation Evolution and Architecture department within Lucent Technologies Bell Laboratories Innovations. Kumar has worked on the research, design, architecture and prototyping phases of several projects, most recently on the Service Mediation Gateway. Kumar has authored several technical papers for conferences and journals, has two patents and several patents pending in the area of Internet and Telecommunications technologies.

• Trademarks and Permissions. Dedication.About the Authors.Foreword.A Note to the Reader.Acknowledgements.End-user Scenarios.Scenario 1: The Operator’s Perspective.Scenario 2: The Application Developer’s Perspective.Scenario 3: End-user Perspective.Scenario 4: Yet more perspectives.News Flash (Sometime During 2003–2004).Scenario 5: The Future.Part I   Background and Introduction.1    The Internet is Calling – Today’s Network Ecosystems and Their Evolution.2    The Need for New Technologies.3    Follow the Yellow Brick Road.4    Parlay and OSA.5    The Parlay Conceptual Architecture.Part II The Standards In Detail.6    Standards Capabilities and Directions.7    Standards Capabilities and Directions II – Scenarios and Details.8    Standards Capabilities and Directions III – The Lay of the Land.Part III Building a Service Mediation Gateway.9    Alternative Architectures.10      Considerations for Building ‘Carrier-Grade’ Systems.Part IV  Realizing Parlay.11  Deploying Parlay Gateways.12  Parlay and Legacy Systems – Handling Feature Interactions13  Application Implementation Perspectives.Part V  Advanced Topics and their Implementation.14  The Parlay Proxy Manager (*).15  Multi-Network Deployment Scenarios.16  Parlay/OSA and XML-based Technologies.Bibliography.List of Abbreviations and Acronyms.References.Index.