Standards: Mobility

TECH TALK: Understanding Mobility Standards

The Motive Product Divison is committed to driving industry standards that promote mobile device management and interoperability and speed the adoption of next-generation mobile services. This commitment has been demonstrated through our work with the world's leading broadband and mobile device vendors, mobile operators and OEMs to deliver standards-based solutions that reduce costs and deliver a superior service experience, as well as providing revenue-generating opportunities to mobile operators.

More than a philosophy, our approach to evolving mobile industry standards is an important part of the company's product strategy. An active participant in organizations such as the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA), Motive implements the resulting specifications into its mobile service management solutions, as well as actively contributes to OMA-DM working group enablers such as DIAGMON, LAWMO and Converged Device Management BoF. As an example, Motive continues to successfully demonstrate interoperability of its Mobile Service Management Platform with a variety of mobile devices at events such as OMA TestFest, a forum for technology vendors to collaborate and test the interoperability of their product implementations against the OMA specifications.

Motive products support the following standards and enablers:

DM 1.1.2/1.2 with Generic Alert Support
FUMO 1.0: Firmware Update

Motive products support these future enablers:

LAWMO: Lock and Wipe
DIAGMON: DM Diagnostics and Monitoring
SCOMO: Software Component Management

The diagram below provides an overview of the technical requirements and working documents that relate to the broadband ecosystem. Each standard is explained below, and more information may be obtained by following the orange link in each definition.

Mobility Enablers Explained

FUMO	Firmware Updates
This enabler defines firmware updates Management Objects specifications leveraging DLOTA and OMA DM protocols. This specification provides an interface between client and server to support this firmware update, and enables mobile operators, service providers, infrastructure manufacturers, device manufacturers and software vendors to develop and deploy interoperable firmware update solutions. Motive's Mobile Service Management solution comprises firmware update package(s) life cycle, the download of update package(s) to mobile devices, the subsequent installation of the update package(s) to update firmware, and the reporting of success or error results and associated status information.
DIAGMON	DM Diagnostics and Monitoring
Diagnostics Policies Management: Support for specification and enforcement of policies related to the management of diagnostics features and data. Fault Reporting: Enable the device to report faults to the network as the trouble is detected at the device. Performance Monitoring: Enable the device to measure, collect and report key performance indicators (KPIs) data as seen by the device such as on a periodic basis. Device Interrogation: Enable the network to query the device for additional diagnostics data in response to a fault. Remote Diagnostics Procedure Invocation: Enable management authorities to invoke specific diagnostics procedures embedded in the device to perform routine maintenance and diagnostics. Remote Device Repairing: Enable management authorities to invoke specific repairing procedures based on the results of diagnosis procedures.
SCOMO	Software Component Management Object
Inventory Reporting: Support the query of software components. Software Component Delivery and Install: Enable device management servers to facilitate secure delivery and subsequent installation of software components. Update / Upgrade Software Components: Enable device management servers to update/upgrade software as components that may be either complete or part of the whole application. Uninstall and Removal of Software Components: Enable device management servers to remotely uninstall and remove software components from the device. Possibilities for Secure Software Component Deactivation and Activation: Enables device management systems to minimize the interference of external events while performing software component management. In addition, enables software component isolation. Security and Charging Analysis: This shall identify which security and charging aspects can be addressed as part of the specifications for this enabler (working within the constraints of DM1.2) and which aspects should be considered as enhancements for future DM release (e.g. DM1.3); the latter aspects will be captured in white papers.
LAWMO	Lock and Wipe
This enabler defines the requirements for Lock and Wipe Management functionality, which leverage OMA DM enabler and makes use of the functionalities provided by OMA DM protocol [DMPRO] to define Lock and Wipe functionalities to protect user data in the client device.