The changes in the lifestyle of the people, new applications, technological developments and the telecommunication market drive the adoption Next Generation Network (NGN) as the new network architecture. NGN has a service-centric architecture which promotes agile creation of services and then maintenance of these services with end-to-end QoS support. In the current era, every internet user is a potential electronic resource user. Due to the transition from the traditional mode of collections to the electronic resources and the heterogeneity and distributed nature of the electronic resources, a state of the art communication infrastructure is the key component of electronic resource providers. In this regard, NGNs can offer numerous advantages to the electronic resource providers. In this paper the use of NGNs for delivering distributed electronic resources is investigated. The opportunities and challenges are presented.
Next generation networks IP multimedia subsystem Distributed electronic resources Opportunities Challenges.
Primary Language | English |
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Journal Section | Review/Survey Papers |
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Publication Date | November 22, 2014 |
Published in Issue | Year 2014 Volume: 2 Issue: 2 |