This course presents the new service architectures emerging with the deployment of the IP technologies in the Telecom network (UMTS). A Lab on a real platform illustrate the concepts presented in this course.

This course objective is to present the emerging service architectures deployed in the UMTS Telecom network for consumer markets also called IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS). The main objective of the IMS is to provide a core architecture to execute and offer to end-user convergent services involving internet and multimedia (web, mail, chat, presence, conferencing) services from anywhere.
• IMS introduction and positioning into the history of UMTS Standards
• IMS architecture
• Service Execution core model
• Authentication & Authorization in IMS
• IMS and the Quality of Service
• IMS services examples
• Different models of service orchestration (web2.0, mashup etc ..)

2nd year courses on data networks
2nd year courses on large telco networks
2nd year courses on “SIP & VoIP”

• The 3G IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS): Merging the Internet and the Cellular Worlds, Second Edition by Gonzalo Camarillo and Miguel-Angel García-Martín
• Wikipedia IMS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_Multimedia_Subsystem
• TS 23.218: IP Multimedia (IM) session handling; IM call model
• TS 23.228: IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS)

Written examen 1.30h + labs

N1 = 2/3*E1 + 1/3*TP