IMS: A Development and Deployment Perspective -- Contents -- Preface -- Author Biographies -- Part I Introduction -- 1 IMS Context -- 1.1 Drivers of Convergence -- 1.1.1 Origin of IMS -- 1.1.2 IMS - Convergence Enabler -- 1.2 IMS Misconceptions -- 1.2.1 IMS - A Replacement or New or Complementary Domain -- 1.2.2 IMS - Telecom Network over IP? -- 1.2.3 Intelligent Core versus Dumb Edge -- 1.2.4 IMS - Walled Garden? -- 1.2.5 IMS - An Integral Part of the Telecom Service Delivery Infrastructure -- 1.2.6 Architectural Concepts Related to Service Infrastructures -- 1.3 IMS Standards Status -- 1.3.1 3GPP -- 1.3.2 IETF-3GPP -- 1.3.3 TISPAN -- 1.3.4 PacketCable -- 1.3.5 Multiservice Forum (MSF) -- 1.3.6 IMS Forum -- 1.3.7 Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) -- 1.4 IMS Deployment Status -- 1.5 Future -- 1.5.1 The 2.0 Era: A Consolidated Trend -- 1.5.2 Immediate Future: Web-Telecom Convergence -- 1.5.3 Future Internet: The Next Landscape for Both Web and Telecom Worlds -- 2 IMS Technology -- 2.1 Evolution of Mobile Network Architecture -- 2.1.1 Transition Phases of Cellular Radio Access Technologies -- 2.1.2 Transition Phases of Mobile Core Network Architecture -- 2.2 IMS - A Standardized All-IP Infrastructure -- 2.2.1 IMS Components -- 2.2.2 IMS Protocols -- 2.2.3 Distinct Features of IMS -- 2.3 Evolution of Fixed Mobile Convergence -- 2.3.1 TISPAN NGN -- 2.3.2 PacketCable and IMS Integration -- Part II Convergence - Services and Deployment Perspective -- 3 IMS - A Service Perspective -- 3.1 The IMS Potential -- 3.1.1 IMS Essentials -- 3.1.2 SIP Strength -- 3.2 IMS-Enhanced Service Delivery Framework -- 3.2.1 IMS Service Architecture - Network Aspect -- 3.2.2 IMS Development Architecture - Application Aspect -- 3.2.3 Service Composition -- 3.2.4 IMS Service Creation - Generic Service Platform Aspects -- 3.3 IMS Services - Possibilities -- 3.3.1 Blended Service.

3.3.2 End-User Services -- 4 IMS Deployment -- 4.1 Deployment Concerns -- 4.1.1 IP Challenges -- 4.1.2 Devices Challenge -- 4.1.3 Operations and Management Issues -- 4.1.4 Security -- 4.2 Interoperability -- 4.2.1 Interoperator Interoperability -- 4.2.2 Interoperability of Services and Service Enablers -- 4.2.3 SIP Interoperability -- 4.3 IMS Deployment Strategies -- 4.3.1 End-User Requirements -- 4.3.2 Fixed Operator Requirements -- 4.3.3 Mobile Operator Requirements -- 4.3.4 Fixed Mobile Convergent Operator Requirements -- 4.3.5 Summary of Real Deployments -- 4.4 IMS Test Networks -- 4.4.1 The Need for IMS Test Networks -- 4.4.2 Building a Holistic IMS Test Facility -- 4.4.3 IMS Open-Source Initiatives -- Part III Convergence - The Road Ahead -- 5 WIMS 2.0: Convergence of Telcos with Web 2.0 Facilitated by IMS -- 5.1 Impact of the Web 2.0 Disruption on the IMS and Telecom Evolution -- 5.1.1 Web 2.0 Phenomenon -- 5.1.2 IMS and Telco 2.0 -- 5.1.3 Convergence Opportunity: WIMS 2.0 -- 5.1.4 Mission and Vision of the WIMS 2.0 Initiative -- 5.2 WIMS 2.0: The Service Focus -- 5.2.1 The WIMS 2.0 Strategies -- 5.2.2 WIMS 2.0 Ecosystem: Creating the WIMS-WIMS Relationship -- 5.2.3 WIMS 2.0 Services and Business Models -- 5.3 WIMS 2.0: The Technology Focus -- 5.3.1 Reference Model for the WIMS 2.0 Service Platform -- 5.3.2 Web Technology Map for WIMS 2.0 -- 5.3.3 Implementation Aspects -- 5.3.4 WIMS 2.0 Roll-Out -- 6 The Way Forward - Paths to Follow -- 6.1 Operators and Service Platforms -- 6.1.1 Open Capabilities -- 6.1.2 SDP and SOA -- 6.1.3 Digital Marketplace of Services -- 6.2 Developers and Service Creation -- 6.2.1 Opening Capabilities: REST -- 6.2.2 Application Framework: Ruby on Rails -- 6.2.3 Development Techniques: AJAX -- 6.2.4 Rich Internet Applications -- 6.3 Users and Service Creation -- 6.3.1 UGS Based on Data Mash-ups: Yahoo Pipes.

6.3.2 UGS Based on RIA: Microsoft Popfly -- 6.3.3 UGS Based on Telecom Convergence: OPUCE -- 6.4 Devices and Service Creation -- 6.4.1 Mobile Browser: Web-Based Applications -- 6.4.2 Mobile Widgets/Gadgets -- 6.4.3 Mobile RIA Applications -- 6.4.4 Android Environment -- 6.4.5 The iPhone Toolkit -- 6.4.6 Maemo -- 6.4.7 Linux-Based Devices -- 6.5 Research and Development -- 6.5.1 IMS Exposure to Browser -- 6.5.2 Future Session and Service Protocols for IMS -- 6.5.3 Web 3.0: from the Social Revolution to a More Usable Internet -- 6.5.4 Telco 3.0 -- 6.5.5 Future Internet -- 6.6 Concluding Remarks -- References -- Index.