Towards Reliable IMS-based Networks

The IP Multimedia Subsystem (commonly called IMS) seems to be the perfect fit for new cellular networks which have known a revolutionary transition towards an IP-based architecture. However this new architecture requires a massive work in order to enhance its reliability aspect. In this book Ed-daoui Mazri and Hmina represent technical challenges internal issues and external threats facing IMS-based systems. They provide a thorough and comprehensive classification of these issues and threats. They also explain the role of reliability in the pursuit of a complete transition. And they give the syntax and semantics of their model for reliability monitoring. The need of such a book is evident it provides a source for practitioners researchers and students. For practitioners this book explains best practices guiding selection for IMS-based systems reliability monitoring. For researchers this book provides a foundation for the development of more effective methods. For students it explains the tremendous evolution of cellular networks IMS the reliability concept and the proposed model for monitoring.