Everything about IP Multimedia Subsystem

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: IP Multimedia SubsystemA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Performability of Network Service Chains: Stochastic Modeling and Assessment of Softwarized IP Multimedia SubsystemInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Converging MGN wireline and mobile 3G networks with IMSThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Comparative Performability Assessment of SFCs: The Case of Containerized IP Multimedia SubsystemCited 29 times
5. Go sideways: IMS securityA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: IP Multimedia Services Identity ModuleA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Comparative Performability Assessment of SFCs: The Case of Containerized IP Multimedia Subsystem

  Mario Di Mauro, Giovanni Galatro, Maurizio Longo · 2021 · IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management · 29 citations

• Quality of protection analysis and performance modeling in IP multimedia subsystem

  An’an Luo, Chuang Lin, Kai Wang · 2009 · Computer Communications · 23 citations

• Challenges to Next Generation Services in IP Multimedia Subsystem

  Kai-Di Chang, Chi-Yuan Chen, Jiann-Liang Chen · 2010 · Journal of Information Processing Systems · 22 citations

• Policy-based QoS architecture in the IP multimedia subsystem of UMTS

  Wei Zhuang, Yung Sze Gan, Kok Jengloh · 2003 · IEEE Network · 22 citations

• Transaction-Pattern-Based Anomaly Detection Algorithm for IP Multimedia Subsystem

  Chi-Yuan Chen, Kai-Di Chang, Han-Chieh Chao · 2011 · IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security · 21 citations

• IP MULTIMEDIA SUBSYSTEM - The Operator's Response to P2P Service Demand

  Antonio Liotta, Ling Lin · 2007 · IEEE Communications Magazine · 19 citations

• An efficient end-to-end security mechanism for IP multimedia subsystem

  Chi-Yuan Chen, Tin-Yu Wu, Yueh-Min Huang · 2008 · Computer Communications · 19 citations

• Towards an innovation oriented IP multimedia subsystem [IP Multimedia Systems (IMS) Infrastructure and Services]

  Gonzalo Camarillo, Tero Kauppinen, Martti Kuparinen · 2007 · IEEE Communications Magazine · 15 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Performability of Network Service Chains: Stochastic Modeling and Assessment of Softwarized IP Multimedia Subsystem

  Mario Di Mauro, Giovanni Galatro, Fabio Postiglione · 2022 · IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing · 22 citations

• Call Failure Prediction in IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) Networks

  Amr Bahaa, Mohamed Shehata, Safa M. Gasser · 2022 · Applied Sciences · 10 citations

• Proactive and Intelligent Monitoring and Orchestration of Cloud-Native IP Multimedia Subsystem

  Rasel Chowdhury, Chamseddine Talhi, Hakima Ould-Slimane · 2024 · IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society · 5 citations

• The Ultimate Evaluation of Current Consumption and QoS Metrics in 5G Mobile Networks Over IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS)

  Jussif Junior Abularach Arnez, Walmir Acioli E. Silva, Wederson Medeiros Silva · 2025 · IEEE Access · 4 citations

• Performance Evaluation of VoWiFi (Voice over WiFi) Using IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem)

  Wagdy Anis Aziz · 2023 · International journal of simulation: systems, science & technology · 3 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• 📕Converging MGN wireline and mobile 3G networks with IMSRebecca Copeland, Mark Newman · 2008
• The 3G IP multimedia subsystem (IMS)Gonzalo Camarillo · 2005
• 📕Developing Sip and Ip Multimedia Subsystem (Ims) ApplicationsIBM Redbooks · 2007
• Mobile video with mobile IPv6Daniel Minoli · 2012

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🔗 Related topics

• IMS security The IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) is a set of specifications designed to deliver multimedia services over IP networks. IMS enables the integration of various…
• IP Multimedia Services Identity Module An IP Multimedia Services Identity Module (ISIM) is an application residing on the UICC, an IC card specified in TS 31.101. This module can be used in…
• SIP extensions for the IP Multimedia Subsystem The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is the signaling protocol for mobile telecommunications adopted by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP)…
• Service layer In intelligent networks (IN) and cellular networks, service layer is a conceptual layer within a network service provider architecture. It aims at providing…
• System Architecture Evolution System Architecture Evolution (SAE) is the core network architecture of mobile communications protocol group 3GPP's LTE wireless communication standard…
• UMTS security The Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) is a third-generation (3G) mobile cellular communication system. UMTS builds on the success of the…
• Session Initiation Protocol The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is a signaling protocol used for initiating, maintaining, modifying, and terminating communication sessions that…
• Subscriber location function The subscriber location function, or SLF is a function within an IP multimedia subsystem that provides information about the home subscriber server (HSS)…