(Ebook) The IMS: IP Multimedia Concepts and Services, Second Edition by Miikka Poikselka, Georg Mayer, Hisham Khartabil, Aki Niemi(auth.) ISBN 9780470019061, 9780470031841, 0470019069, 0470031840

(Ebook) The IMS: IP Multimedia Concepts and Services, Second Edition by Miikka Poikselka, Georg Mayer, Hisham Khartabil, Aki Niemi(auth.) ISBN 9780470019061, 9780470031841, 0470019069, 0470031840

The IMS: IP Multimedia Concepts and Services in the Mobile Domain, Second Edition, builds on the success of the previous best-selling edition, providing comprehensive coverage of IMS -  its concepts, architecture, protocols and functionalities with a wealth of new and updated material.

Mobile telephony with the current technology has been hugely successful and demonstrates the immense value of communicating with peers while being mobile, and with increasingly available smarter multimedia terminals, the communication experience will be something more than just exchanging voice. These multimedia terminals need IP multimedia networks. Hence the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) has developed a standard for SIP-based IP multimedia service machinery known as 'The IMS' (IP Multimedia Subsystem). This completely up-to-date and informative guide explains everything you need to know about it...

Key features of the Second Edition include:

• Two new chapters on push-to-talk over cellular and group management.
• Additional new material includes: fixed and mobile convergence, interworking between IPv4 and IPv6 in the IMS, combined circuit-switched and IMS services (combinational services), IMS security and alternative session establishment procedures.
• More coverage of the benefits of IMS, particularly with regard to its role in fixed-mobile convergence.
• Special emphasis on services, featuring more detailed descriptions of presence, messaging, group management and push-to-talk over cellular (conferencing).
• Updates on Third Generation Partnership Project Agreement (3GPP) Release 6 level.
• New examples and case studies, including a variety of scenarios, how to handle multiple terminals and end-user preferences.

Written in a manner that allows readers to choose the level of knowledge and understanding they need to gain about the IMS, this volume will have instant appeal to a wide ranging audience including marketing managers, research and development engineers, network engineers, developes, test engineers and university students.

Content:
Chapter 1 Introduction (pages 1–9):
Chapter 2 IP Multimedia Subsystem Architecture (pages 11–41):
Chapter 3 IMS concepts (pages 43–116):
Chapter 4 Presence (pages 117–126):
Chapter 5 Messaging (pages 127–130):
Chapter 6 Push to Talk Over Cellular (pages 131–150):
Chapter 7 Conferencing (pages 151–154):
Chapter 8 Group management (pages 155–163):
Chapter 9 Introduction to Detailed Procedures (pages 165–169):
Chapter 10 An Example IMS Registration (pages 171–229):
Chapter 11 An Example IMS Session (pages 231–295):
Chapter 12 SIP (pages 297–331):
Chapter 13 SDP (pages 333–338):
Chapter 14 The Offer/Answer Model with SDP (pages 339–341):
Chapter 15 RTP (pages 343–347):
Chapter 16 DNS (pages 349–353):
Chapter 17 GPRS (pages 355–357):
Chapter 18 TLS (pages 359–361):
Chapter 19 Diameter (pages 363–374):
Chapter 20 MEGACO (pages 375–377):
Chapter 21 COPS (pages 379–383):
Chapter 22 IPsec (pages 385–388):
Chapter 23 Signalling Compression (pages 389–391):
Chapter 24 DHCPv6 (pages 393–394):
Chapter 25 XCAP (pages 395–396):
Chapter 26 Common Policy (pages 397–399):