Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #430835 in Books
• Published on: 2008-09-12
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 652 pages

From the Back Cover
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.

About the Author
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 coauthored several specifications used in the IMS. In particular, he is a co–author of themain SIP specification, RFC 3261. In addition, he co–chairs the IETF 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 Principal Research Engineer in the Networking Technologies Laboratory of the Nokia Research Center in Helsinki, Finland. Before joining Nokia Miguel was working for Ericsson in Spain, and then Ericsson in Finland. Miguel is an active participant of the IETF, and for a number of years has been a key contributor in 3GPP. Lately Miguel has also been participating in the specification of NGN in ETSI. 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.

Customer Reviews

An excellent refresher on state of the art 3G mobile and IP
Readers of the book "The 3G IP Multimedia Subsystem" by Gonzalo Camarillo and Miguel A. Garcia Martin will be pleasantly surprised to find not only a well documented description of the state of the art 3rd generation (3G) mobile networks but also a very up to date tutorial of SIP based IP multimedia communications used in these networks. The book is thus perfectly suited for all professionals in IP services and networks, as well as for professional in more traditional networks. The book is an excellent refresher on IP multimedia and newer services such as Presence services and security that are well documented, from that basic concept to more detailed call flows.
Internet oriented readers will also get acquainted with holdovers from the circuit switched world that are still in use in 3G networks, such as the notion of the Signaling Plane (Section II) in the IMS and the Media Plane in the IMS (section III) and several other 3G concepts that differ from the Internet practices.

The authors have thus done a through job of representing the convergence of two worlds: 3G mobile networks and the Internet.

Henry Sinnreich
MCI
Richardson, Texas,
USA

A must have for IMS
Possibly the best technical book I've ever read.

I work with IMS technology and we use the book in our department to introduce IMS to newcomers. But I also work in European projects on IMS and the book is the main reference for most of the other teams involved.

You just need this book and the 3GPP specifications for anything you want to do with IMS.