The 3G IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS): Merging the Internet and the Cellular Worlds, Third Edition

✍ Scribed by Gonzalo Camarillo, Miguel A. Garcia?Martin(auth.)

• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 625
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Third edition of this best-selling guide to IMS: fully revised, and updated with brand new material

The IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) is the technology that merges the Internet with the cellular world. It makes Internet technologies such as the web, email, instant messaging, presence, and videoconferencing available nearly everywhere at any time.

The third edition of this bestselling book is fully updated and provides comprehensively expanded content, including new chapters on emergency calls and on Voice Call Continuity (VCC). As well as this, The 3G IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) presents updated material including a comprehensive picture of Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) as well as its applicability to IMS. As most of the protocols have been designed in the IETF, this book explains how the IETF developed these protocols and describes how these protocols are used in the IMS architecture.

This is an indispensable guide for engineers, programmers, business managers, marketing representatives and technically aware users who want to understand how the IMS works and explore the business model behind it.

• New chapters on emergency calls, Voice Call Continuity (VCC), service configuration (XCAP, XDM), and conferencing
• Fully updated throughout, including Policy and Charging Control (PCC), QoS, Presence, Instant Messaging, Multimedia Telephony Services, and Push-to-talk over Cellular (PoC)
• Describes the IP Multimedia Subsystem from two different perspectives: from the IETF perspective, and from the 3GPP perspective.
• Provides details on the latest policy technology and security architecture
• Written by experienced professionals in the field.

Content:
Chapter 1 IMS Vision: Where Do We Want to Go? (pages 5–8):
Chapter 2 The History of the IMS Standardization (pages 9–23):
Chapter 3 General Principles of the IMS Architecture (pages 25–54):
Chapter 4 Session Control on the Internet (pages 59–109):
Chapter 5 Session Control in the IMS (pages 111–213):
Chapter 6 AAA on the Internet (pages 215–225):
Chapter 7 AAA in the IMS (pages 227–242):
Chapter 8 Policy and Charging Control in the IMS (pages 243–266):
Chapter 9 Quality of Service on the Internet (pages 267–270):
Chapter 10 Quality of Service in the IMS (pages 271–275):
Chapter 11 Security on the Internet (pages 277–292):
Chapter 12 Security in the IMS (pages 293–310):
Chapter 13 Emergency Calls on the Internet (pages 311–327):
Chapter 14 Emergency Calls in the IMS (pages 329–336):
Chapter 15 Media Encoding (pages 341–357):
Chapter 16 Media Transport (pages 359–365):
Chapter 17 Service Configuration on the Internet (pages 371–388):
Chapter 18 Service Configuration in the IMS (pages 389–403):
Chapter 19 The Presence Service on the Internet (pages 405–441):
Chapter 20 The Presence Service in the IMS (pages 443–452):
Chapter 21 Instant Messaging on the Internet (pages 453–476):
Chapter 22 The Instant Messaging Service in the IMS (pages 477–482):
Chapter 23 Conferencing on the Internet (pages 483–498):
Chapter 24 Conferencing in the IMS (pages 499–502):
Chapter 25 Push?to?Talk Over Cellular (pages 503–528):
Chapter 26 Multimedia Telephony Services: PSTN/ISDN Simulation Services (pages 529–558):
Chapter 27 Voice Call Continuity (pages 559–576):