GNSS-assisted vehicle navigation services are nowadays very common in most of the developed countries. However, most of those services are either delivered through proprietary technologies, or fall short in flexibility because of the limited capability to couple road information with real-time traffic information. This paper presents the motivations and a brief summary of a vehicle navigation service based on real-time traffic information, delivered through an open protocol that is currently under standardization in the Open Mobile Alliance forum.
This paper describes how it is possible to extend the functionalities provided by a Remote Access Service, by means of a Distributed Directory Service, to easily realize an "Internet Roaming" infrastructure, which may permit users to avoid paying international telephone costs when accessing e-mail or in general any InternetAntranet applications; this work has been developed by CSELT (on behalf of Telecom Italia) in cooperation with other Public Network Operators (
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