The IMS: IP Multimedia Concepts and Services [Hardcover]

Miikka Poikselkä (Author), Georg Mayer (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0470721960 | ISBN-13: 978-0470721964 | Publication Date: March 17, 2009 | Edition: 3rd

The 3^rd edition of this highly successful text builds on the achievement of the first two editions to provide comprehensive coverage of IMS. It continues to explore the concepts, architecture, protocols and functionalities of IMS while providing a wealth of new and updated information. It is written in a manner that allows readers to choose the level of knowledge and understanding they need to gain about the IMS.

With 35% new material, The IMS,IP Multimedia Concepts and Services, 3^rd Edition has been completely revised to include updated chapters as well as totally new chapters on IMS multimedia telephony and IMS voice call continuity. Additional new material includes IMS transit, IMS local numbering, emergency sessions, identification of communication services in IMS, new authentication model for fixed access, NAT traversal and globally routable user agents URI. Detailed descriptions of protocol behaviour are provided on a level that can be used for implementation and testing.

Key features of the 3^rd edition:

• Two new chapters on IMS multimedia telephony service and IMS Voice Call Continuity
• Updated information on Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Release 7 level, including architecture, reference points and concepts
• Substantially extended coverage on IMS detailed procedures
• Completely rewritten and extended chapters on IMS services 

Editorial Reviews

Review

"The excellent presentation of content will make this book appeal to a wide audience…an invaluable guide to IMS…" (Computing Reviews.com, August 11, 2006)

From the Back Cover

The 3^rd edition of this highly successful text builds on the achievement of the first two editions to provide comprehensive coverage of IMS. It continues to explore the concepts, architecture, protocols and functionalities of IMS while providing a wealth of new and updated information. It is written in a manner that allows readers to choose the level of knowledge and understanding they need to gain about the IMS.

With 35% new material, The IMS,IP Multimedia Concepts and Services,3^rd Edition has been completely revised to include updated chapters as well as totally new chapters on IMS multimedia telephony and IMS voice call continuity. Additional new material includes IMS transit, IMS local numbering, emergency sessions, identification of communication services in IMS, new authentication model for fixed access, NAT traversal and globally routable user agents URI. Detailed descriptions of protocol behaviour are provided on a level that can be used for implementation and testing.

Key features of the 3^rd edition:

• Two new chapters on IMS multimedia telephony service and IMS Voice Call Continuity
• Updated information on Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Release 7 level, including architecture, reference points and concepts
• Substantially extended coverage on IMS detailed procedures
• Completely rewritten and extended chapters on IMS services

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 560 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 3rd edition (March 17, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470721960
• ISBN-13: 978-0470721964
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 1.4 x 9.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #778,833 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The IMS: IP Multimedia Concepts and Services, March 16, 2007

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Niten Mohan "N Mohan" (India) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The IMS: IP Multimedia Concepts and Services (Hardcover)

This book stands out amongst the limited titles on IMS,which are really comprehensive in nature and would specially seem very well structured in terms of flow of information to those who have tried to go through endless revisions of 3GPP standards.But where this book disappoints is that it has only and only reffered to 3GPP standards and have got no referrence to 3GPP2 and some delta specifications by Cablelabs for cable service providers.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars definitive but riddled with jargon, February 19, 2008

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This review is from: The IMS: IP Multimedia Concepts and Services (Hardcover)

The book is dense with the acronym-ridden jargon of this field. To someone new to the Internet Protocol, this can be a practical impediment to understanding. What you have to do is grit your teeth and focus on the ideas beneath the terminology.

The subject itself is potentially quite promising. One possible direction for richer multimedia messages, in the limit of "convergence". The book also addresses mostly the prospect of wireless messaging, ie. cellphones. While IMS can certainly occur on the traditional landline connections to the Internet, it is the tie-ins to mobile networks that motivates much of the text.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good IMS Book, August 5, 2007

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Serdar Sahin (Maryland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The IMS: IP Multimedia Concepts and Services (Hardcover)

Good IMS book with satisfactory beginner to advanced content. Can benefit from some format enhancements and a better hierarchical approach to the IMS. Otherwise, I definitely recommend.