Near Field Communication Network Services

Near Field Communication (NFC) provides means to close-range contactless identification and communication for mobile phones and other devices alike. NFC is a new technology but it is maturing fast as it is being standardized. The first NFC services have mostly been simple applications but with the expansion of NFC technology and its application areas there is an urgent need to move from stand-alone applications to operator driven service creation and delivery model. In this paper we present a new NFC gateway protocol for network driven services. It is designed to allow network based service creation and delivery for operators and lightweight applications for end users. We also demonstrate and evaluate our implementation of the proposed NFC gateway protocol.