THE 3G IP MULTIMEDIA SUBSYSTEM: MERGING THE INTERNET AND THE CELLULAR WORLDS

If you need to know the IMS vision you need to read this book....

The IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) is the exciting new technology that will merge the Internet with the cellular world. It will make Internet technologies such as the web, email, instant messaging, presence, and videoconferencing available nearly everywhere.

The 3G IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) provides a thorough overview of the IMS and its technologies. Throughout, the authors first describe how each technology works on the Internet and then explain how the same technology is adapted to work in the IMS, enabling readers to take advantage of any current and future Internet service.

• Presents an introduction to the IMS - its goals, history, vision, the organizations involved in its standardization and architecture
• Discusses the signalling plane of the IMS including protocols, such as SIP and Diameter, used between the IMS architectural entities. Also describes how the IETF developed these protocols and how they are used in the IMS architecture
• Describes the media plane of the IMS and discusses Internet protocols that are not currently used in the IMS but may be in the future
• Provides SIP-based service examples such as presence, instant messaging and Push-to-Talk

Engineers, programmers, business managers, marketing representatives, and technically aware users will all find this book invaluable as it will help them to understand how the IMS works and the business model behind it.

Gonzalo Camarillo leads the Advanced Signalling Research Laboratory of Ericsson in Helsinki, Finland. He is an active participant in the IETF, where he has authored and co-authored several specifications used in the IMS. In particular, he is a co-author of the main SIP specification, RFC 3261. In addition, he co-chairs the IEFT SIPPING working group, which handles the requirements from 3GPP and 3GPP2 related to SIP, and the IETF HIP (Host Identity Protocol) working group, which deals with lower-layer mobility and security. He is the Ericsson representative in the SIP Forum and is a regular speaker at different industry conferences. During his stay as a visitor researcher at Columbia University in New York, USA, he published a book entitled “SIP Demystified”. Gonzalo received an M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain, and another M.Sc. degree (also in Electrical Engineering) from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. He is currently continuing his studies as a Ph.D. candidate at Helsinki University of Technology, in Finland.

Miguel A. García-Martín is a Senior Expert in IP Multimedia technologies at Ericsson in Helsinki, Finland. He is an active participant of both IETF and 3GPP. In the IETF, he has authored and co-authored several specifications related to the IMS. In 3Gpp, he has been a key contributor to the development of the IMS standard. Miguel is also a regular speaker at different industry conferences. Miguel received a B. Eng. Degree in Telecommunications Engineering from Universidad de Valladolid, Spain.