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Web Service for Tele-Communication
In this paper, we introduce WNET/WSIP, a web service enabled converged communication infrastructure that is integrated with VoIP SIP (Session Initiation Protocol). WNET/WSIP consists of a network of WSIP node and it is based on two-way, full duplex web service interaction. WSIP is a new class of IP communication endpoints. Each WSIP node is both a SIP endpoint that communicates in the SIP world through SIP signaling, and a web service SOAP node that provides an application protocol layer alternative to SIP and a generic service integration environment for binding SIP based communication in web services. From service perspective, WNET/WSIP is an application layer protocol overlay for resilient and versatile communication services over IP. It allows dynamic service discovery and binding that integrate SIP services as a SOA component in business transactions. It separates service integration/extension environment from SIP signaling. The ubiquitous service integration nature of web service provides a disciplined solution to monitor the WNET/WSIP network. It supports dynamic service monitoring, provisioning, endpoint discovery and update, etc. In particular, we introduce the approach of using WSSecurity [12] to provide end-to-end message level security over IP in WNET/WSIP. These new capabilities are essential to the success of reliable communication services. The proposed approach was implemented in a prototype research system. Advantages of WNET/WSIP were realized and observed.
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Web service enablement of communication services
In this paper, we introduce Web service application session services, WS-session, for Web service based application session management in communication. A two-way Web service framework is described. It supports the use of Web service in the situation of telecommunication where the communication endpoint can be both a client and a peer-to-peer server. We describe the interface design in two-way Web service interaction based on the concept of tightly coupled interface and loosely coupled interface solutions. The proposed approach provides full support of asynchronous outbound operations and event notifications in communication services. It is implemented in a research prototype system that provides both standard based (ECMA-348) services and Avaya service extensions. In addition, we investigated the integration of our proposed approach with BPEL4WS. It allows the user to create new services through a drag-n-drop based service creation environment (ECLIPSE/BPEL4WS). It leads to a paradigm of service creation through Web service composition. More sophisticated telecommunication services are created from composing the basic services.
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An Extensible Three-tier XML Dialogue System Architecture for Multimodal Interaction and Automated Agent Services
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An architecture of wireless Web and dialogue system convergence for multimodal service interaction over converged networks
This paper presents the software architecture for a new paradigm of wireless Web and dialogue system convergence and its corresponding approach to deliver multimodal multimedia enterprise communication services in the wireless environment. It uses an event-triggered service delivery method that separates service interaction and wireless web-based service delivery. A customized content presentation approach is adopted to transform the content of the service into a format suitable for presentation on the target devices. The system also contains a service delivery monitoring and backup mechanism, which is capable of sending the service content using other communication channels according to the user's preference and the channel conditions. A prototype system was implemented based on the proposed approach, which demonstrates the performance advantage of our method in the enterprise service application.
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Web Service for Communication Service Management
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A new verification-based fast-match for large vocabulary continuous speech recognition
Acoustic fast-match is a popular way to accelerate the search in large-vocabulary continuous-speech recognition, where an efficient method is used to identify poorly scoring phonemes and discard them from detailed evaluation. In this paper we view acoustic fast-match as a verification problem, and hence develop an efficient likelihood ratio test, similar to other verification scenarios, to perform the fast match. Various aspects of the test like the design of alternate hypothesis models and the setting of phoneme look-ahead durations and decision thresholds are studied, resulting in an efficient implementation. The proposed fast-match is tested in a large vocabulary speech recognition task and it is demonstrated that depending on the decision threshold, it leads to 20-30% improvement in speed without any loss in recognition accuracy. In addition, it significantly outperforms a similar test based on using likelihoods only, which fails, in our setting, to bring any improvement in speed-accuracy trade-off. In a larger set of experiments with varying acoustic and task conditions, similar improvements are observed for the fast-match with the same model and setting. This indicates the robustness of the proposed technique. The gains due to the proposed method are obtained within a highly efficient 2-pass search strategy and similar or even higher gains are expected in other alternative search architectures.
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WS-SLA: A Framework for Web Services Oriented Service Level Agreements
Service level agreements (SLA) becomes the prevailing business model for delivery of a large number of products and services in telecommunication and IT arenas. We presents an integrated service level agreement model applied to operating supporting system (OSS), on the basis of WfMC workflow reference model and service oriented architecture (SOA). And an application scenario instance of SLA system architecture is described by a set of operations models by Business Process Execution Language (BPEL)
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Adaptive spectrum-based variable bit truncation of discrete cosine transform (DCT) for energy-efficient wireless multimedia communication
This work presents a new adaptive scheme to reduce the computation energy of the discrete cosine transform (DCT) architecture for image/video coding. The scheme employs the noise masking effect of quantization and the spectral difference of the quantization factors. Spectrum-based variable bit truncation is used to allocate more energy for the computations that affect the low frequency DCT coefficients more. We propose a benchmark driven search mechanism based on energy and distortion weight to find the optimal truncation sets for different quality constraints and quantization tables. They are stored in a look-up table (LUT) for the on-line reconfiguration. Simulation results show that significant energy saving is achieved with negligible quality degradation.
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A Measurement and Modeling Study of P2P IPTV Applications
P2P IPTV applications start to be very popular on the Internet. Previous work on measuring and analyzing P2P IPTV traffic mostly focuses on a specific type of P2P applications or the behavior characteristics of P2P IPTV nodes acting as a client. In this paper, we have undertaken an in-depth measurement and modeling study of the most common P2P IPTV applications, specially focusing on the behavior characteristics of peers acting as a server. We measure and model the distributions of flow inter-arrival time, arrival rate, duration and size. Our results show the following. The statistics can fit equally well into distributions. Due to the different strategies, there exhibit some differences in the traffic characteristics. But, because of P2P IPTV users behaving similarly, they mainly have similar distributions and the traffic of them all have heavy-tailed phenomenon. Insights obtained in this study will be valuable for the identification of P2P IPTV traffic.
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Impulsive control of bifurcations
In this paper, an impulsive control of bifurcations method is developed. Sufficient conditions for the asymptotical stability of an impulsive control system are derived. Comparison has been made between it and a typical feedback control method. Numerical simulations are cited to illustrate the methodology and to verify the theoretical results.
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Transform BPEL Workflow into Hierarchical CP-Nets to Make Tool Support for Verification
Availability of a wide variety of Web services over the Internet offers opportunities of providing new value added services by composing existing ones. Service composition poses a number of challenges. A composite service can be very complex in structure, containing many temporal and data-flow dependencies between the component services. It is highly desirable therefore to be able to validate that a given composite service is well formed: proving that it will not deadlock or livelock and that it respects the sequencing constraints of the constituent services. In this paper, we propose an approach of composition analysis and verification based on Colored Petri nets (CP-nets), which is an extended version of Petri Nets, which have a sound mathematical semantics and a number of existing analysis tools. We provide translation rules of web composition language into CP-nets and a technique to analyze and verify effectively the net to investigate several behavioral properties. Our translation technique is essentially independent of which language we describe composition. As an example, to show the effectiveness of our technique, we pick up BPEL and translate the BPEL specification into CP-nets in a constructive way. These nets are analyzed and verified as prototypes of the specification.