Crafting a Real-Time Information Aggregator for Mobile Messaging

Abstract EN

Mobile messaging is evolving beyond SMS (Short Message Service) text messaging with the introduction of MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service).

In the past, such a scheme is used for peer-to-peer communication.

Messages are generally displayed on a cellular phone with a limited-sized screen.

However, such a visualizing process is not suitable to broadcast real-time SMS/MMS messages to people in public.

To facilitate the instancy and publicity, we develop a real-time information aggregator—Visualizing SMS and MMS Messages System (VSMMS)—to realize the concept by integrating SMS and MMS messaging over GSM/GPRS/UMTS onto a remote display device.

The device exhibits messages on a larger display device in public.

VSMMS features a revolutionized variation of mass media broadcasting.

In this paper, we practically illustrate how to design and implement VSMMS and use a M/M/1 model to conduct a theoretical analysis about the message delay in the system queue.

Meanwhile, we make an empirical performance evaluation about the message transmission time over different networks.