Khalid Al-Begain & Chitra Balakrishna 
IMS [PDF ebook] 
A Development and Deployment Perspective

Providing an holistic approach to IMS technologies, IMS: A
Development and Deployment Perspective explores service
architecture for development and delivery of IMS services.
Approaching IMS from the perspective of the user and the service
provider it examines both the current state of deployment and
future trends. The book offers a realistic view of IMS deployment
to operators and service providers, giving practical examples,
application cases and business models. It also presents IMS
deployment strategies based on real-life deployment statistics from
a live IMS test bed connected to an operator network and
proof-of-concept applications including inter-operability trials
and results.

Focusing on IMS potential in terms of service creation, service
composition and service provision the book discusses the ability of
IMS to act not only as a service delivery framework, but also as a
service integration framework. It presents the possible future of
IMS in terms of convergence with Internet services, including
discussions about integration with web technologies including the
WIMS 2.0 initiative. The book enables a better understanding of how
web technologies can complement the IMS service architecture and
pioneer the post-IMS progress and success.

* Presents a novel service-oriented approach to IMS services and
applications from a deployment perspective

* Places IMS in the context of the current telecom environment
providing business models through WIMS 2.0 initiative

* Predicts the trends and potential future for the IMS
evolution

* Provides a technical foundation to IMS principles and
architecture

* Gives examples and solutions to the challenges of service
creation and implementation and analyses deployment hurdles and
interoperability trials

* Describes trends of convergence based on IMS and Web
technologies

Tabella dei contenuti

Preface.

Author Biographies.

Part I Introduction.

1 IMS Context.

1.1 Drivers of Convergence.

1.2 IMS Misconceptions.

1.3 IMS Standards Status.

1.4 IMS Deployment Status.

1.5 Future.

2 IMS Technology.

2.1 Evolution of Mobile Network Architecture.

2.2 IMS – A Standardized All-IP Infrastructure.

2.3 Evolution of Fixed Mobile Convergence.

Part II Convergence – Services and Deployment
Perspective.

3 IMS – A Service Perspective.

3.1 The IMS Potential.

3.2 IMS-Enhanced Service Delivery Framework.

3.3 IMS Services – Possibilities.

4 IMS Deployment.

4.1 Deployment Concerns.

4.2 Interoperability.

4.3 IMS Deployment Strategies.

4.4 IMS Test Networks.

Part III Convergence – The Road Ahead.

5 WIMS 2.0: Convergence of Telcos with web 2.0 Facilitated by
IMS.

5.1 Impact of Web 2.0 Disruption on the IMS and Telecom
Evolution.

5.2 WIMS 2.0: The Service Focus.

5.3 WIMS 2.0: The Technology Focus.

6 The Way Forward – Paths to Follow.

6.1 Operators and Service Platforms.

6.2 Developers and Service Creation.

6.3 Users and Service Creation.

6.4 Devices and Service Creation.

6.5 Research and Development.

6.6 Concluding Remarks.

References.

Index.

Circa l’autore

Khalid Al-Begain is Professor and Director of the Integrated Communications Research Centre at the Faculty of Advanced Technology at the University of Glamorgan. He has written or been involved in more than 150 publications including 10 edited books and conference proceedings, 35 chapters in books and more than 70 international conference papers. He has also been the guest editor for 4 special issues of international journals and is a regular keynote speaker at international conferences and meetings.

Chitra Balakrishna is a Research Assistant working with Professor Al-Begain at the Integrated Communications Research Centre at the Faculty of Advanced Technology at the University of Glamorgan. She is currently working on a project on ‘Adaptive Multimedia Multicast over Heterogeneous Wireless Mobile Networks’.