The Simplicity System Architecture

As of today, heterogeneous services, terminals and networks create a burden of complexity on the shoulders of final users. Concepts like personalization and ease of use of ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) services are fundamental features to unleash the full potential of beyond 3G systems and paradigms such as ambient intelligence, ubiquitous connectivity, context-aware services, pervasive computing and novel access technologies. The aim of the Simplicity project is to ease the user interaction with devices, services and functionalities. In more details our vision is to design and deploy a " framework " able to decouple user needs and user devices, as well as services deployment and fruition, from the underlying networking and service support technologies. With this goals in mind the Simplicity System will support the effective exploitation and user acceptance of the ICT facilities. This paper provides a description of the Simplicity System Architecture.