The 3G IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS): Merging the Internet andthe Cellular Worlds, Second Edition is an updated version ofthe best-selling guide to this exciting technology that will mergethe Internet with the cellular world, ensuring the availability ofInternet technologies such as the web, email, instant messaging,presence and videoconferencing nearly everywhere. In thisthoroughly revised overview of the IMS and its technologies, goals,history, vision, the organizations involved in its standardizationand architecture, the authors first describe how each technologyworks on the Internet and then explain how the same technology isadapted to work in the IMS, enabling readers to take advantage ofany current and future Internet service.
Key features of the Second Edition include:
* New chapter on Next Generation Networks, including an overviewon standardization, the architecture, and PSTN/ISDN simulationservices.
* Fully updated chapter on the Push-to-talk over Cellular (PoC)service, covering the standardization in the Open Mobile Alliance(OMA), architecture, PoC session types, user plane, and the TalkBurst Control Protocol.
* Several expanded sections, including discussion of the role ofthe Open Mobile Alliance in the standardization process, IPv4support in IMS, a description of the IMS Application Layer Gatewayand the Transition Gateway, and a description of the presence datamodel.
* Updated material on the presence service, session-based instantmessages with the Message Session Relay Protocol (MSRP), and theXML Configuration Access Protocol (XCAP).
* Supported by a companion website on which instructors andlecturers can find electronic versions of the figures.
Engineers, programmers, business managers, marketingrepresentatives, and technically aware users will all find this tobe an indispensable guide to IMS and the business model behindit.
Gonzalo Camarillo
Drahtlose Kommunikation Electrical & Electronics Engineering Elektrotechnik u. Elektronik Kommunikationsnetze Mobile & Wireless Communications Netzwerk