A New Approach of Instant Message Extended from Short Message Service with Jabber

Abstract

Nowadays, short message service has been very successful in carrier business. Instant message service also gains popularity through Internet. To bridge them is becoming a new promising niche because people really enjoy getting messages instantly, anywhere and anytime. However, there is still not a common, unified and open standard to communicate with each other. Hence, in this paper we propose a solution, based on XML-based protocol, Jabber, to simplify interconnections among Internet instant message systems and short message systems. Currently, several providers, such as AOL, MSN, Yahoo, and ICQ dominate Internet instant message systems via proprietary protocols. On the other hand, every carrier operator has been trying to refine its own homemade interface to short message application services with the intention to cover the complexity and security of the communication with its own short message service center. Since Jabber is an XML-based protocol, which is in human-readable format, it can be used to cover different underlying protocols and present a unified and easier interface to message applications and services. Obviously, it is much easier than SS7 or any other protocols of proprietary or binary data formats, to achieve message exchange and interoperability among different systems, such as GSM, PHS, CDMA and 3G. An XML-based protocol is also purely an IP-based solution, which comes out to be much cheaper than a telecommunication-based solution to adopt and upgrade. Furthermore, an IP-based protocol can be easily translated to and from any other IP-based protocol by way of modern programming languages.