The IMS: IP Multimedia Concepts and Services

by Aki Niemi, Hisham Khartabil, Miikka Poikselka, et al.

Book Overview

The 3rd 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0470721960
• ISBN13: 9780470721964
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 536 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.8" x 9.7"

Customer Reviews

Good book on IP Multimedia subsystem

It is a very good book on the next generation evolution of Telecom and that is IMS. This book has almost everything written on the concepts of IMS and it's evolution. Citing good examples with pictorial diagram and call flows.Which will definitely help a beginner to an experienced person to understand IMS.Well defined call flows,well defined architecture,well defined IMS interfaces and some of the latest features that can be implemented by following the concept of IMS are well written. But I think the price of this book is little at a higher side.That is the only thing. But still if you have a hunger to learn IMS,I think purchasing this book is worthy. Thanks, Debashis

definitive but riddled with jargon

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.

Good IMS Book

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.

The IMS: IP Multimedia Concepts and Services

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.