Air’n’gine Media Introduction To Multimedia Messaging Service (mms)

air’n’gine media Introduction to multimedia messaging service (MMS)

Overview 

MMS Technology  Architecture  Protocols  Message sequences  References

MMS reference architecture MMSE

MMS User Databases

Content Adaptation

6

LDAP ODBC

8

WIN CAP

9 STI/HTTP

MMS User Agent A

“Foreign” MMS Relay/Server 1

HLR

Billing

5

MAP IS-41

7

WAP 2.0

HTTP

MMSC Relay

1

2

Server

4 SMTP

3 HTTP/SMTP

WAP 2.0

MMS User Agent B

MMS VAS Applications

External Server #1 (E-Mail)

External Server #2 (Fax)

External Server #3 (UMS)

...

External Server #N

Definitions Multimedia messaging service Multimedia message: a message with one or more elements of text, images, audio, video & presentation  MMS characteristics 

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Non real-time

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Store-and-forward

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Store-and-retrieve

Person-To-Person and Application-To-Person messaging  Message size 

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Typical (text, audio, images): 10 – 100KB

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Video: 100 – 300KB

Addressing Address domains 

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MDN and short code 

E.g. MDN: 613 2614628

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E.g. Short Code: 3456

Email address on Internet, RFC-822 (RFC-2822) 

E.g. [email protected]

Message flow

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Transports and protocols Common transport bearers SMS: SIR (Session Initiation Request) & DeliveryReport  IP over 1xRTT, GPRS/CSD: payload 

Transport protocols WAP 2.0  WAP over WSP/WTP/WDP  HTTP over TCP  Payload encoded in binary  OMA MMS encapsulation protocol v1.0/1.1/1.2 

WSP/WTP/WDP

WAP G/W HTTP/TCP HTTP/TCP

MMSC

Content Common media elements Type  Text: ASCII, Unicode (UTF-8, UCS-2)  Image: JPEG, GIF, PNG  Audio: MIDI, AMR  Video: MPEG4/3GPP  Presentation: SMIL  Multiple media elements are encoded in MIME  multipart/related: presentation  multipart/mixed: attachment 

Display control 

SMIL (Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language)  Text style, Display sequence, Timing

MMS content sample MIME Header Content-Type: multipart/related

MIME Header Content-Type: multipart/mixed

Start Presentation Element 1 (jpeg)

Element 1 (jpeg)

Element 2 (text)

Element 2 (text)

Element 3 (video)

Element 3 (video)

SMIL sample <smil xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/SMIL20/CR/Language"> <seq> <par dur="25s">