Multimedia Messaging Service Architecture. Users and providers may refer to such a message as a pxt, a picture message, or a multimedia message. The multimedia messaging service (mms) can be seen as the “best of the breed” of several messaging services such as the short message service (sms), the enhanced messaging service (ems), and the internet mail.
Interface and signalling flow : The standard consists of a number of interfaces between components found in the mobile network:. The first sms short text message is believed to have been exchanged in 1992.
Existing multimedia messaging service(mms) environment does not consider these characteristics of multimedia stream.
Multimedia messaging service (mms) is a communications technology developed by 3gpp (third generation partnership project) that was developed to enable the transmission of multimedia content via text message. Set of content to subscribers in a messaging context. In section ii an overview of the multimedia messaging service is presented which covers the network architecture, operations and protocols involved in an mms. Therefore, this may carry a heavy burden on the whole network and mms system and deteriorate the overall service quality.