Application Developer's Handbook

Creating and Deploying

Innovative IMS Applications

IMS

Rogier Noldus
Ulf Olsson

Catherine

Mulligan

loannis Fikouras Anders

Ryde

Mats Stifle

AMSTERDAM PARIS

BOSTON

HEIDELBERG

LONDON

NEW YORK

OXFORD

SAN DIEGO

SAN FRANCISCO
an

SINGAPORE

SYDNEY

TOKYO

Academic Press is

imprint

of Elsevier

Contents
Foreword Preface
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xiii
xyi xvii

Acknowledgements
About the Authors

CHAPTER 1
1.1 1.2 1.3

Introduction Why Was

IMS

1 Developed? Simplify
1 2 2 4 5

Observations Network Vision: Enable and

1.3.1 Billions of Mobile Handsets 1.3.2 The Multi-Talented Mobile Handset 1.3.3

Extending Existing

Behavior

6
6 8 9 12 12 13 13 14 14 14 15 15 17 20 21 21
22

1.3.4 Voice-Over IP Over Broadband 1.3.5 The Mobile Phone, Boosted 1.4 IMS Architecture for Those That Don't Need to Know 1.4.1 Services 1.4.2 The Home Network 1.4.3 The Residential 1.4.4 The 1.5

Concept Opportunity Enterprise Opportunity

on

Setting

the Scene: The

1.5.1 IMS VoIP

Story So Far Existing IP Networks (RCS)

1.5.2 Rich Communication Suite 1.5.3 Push-to-Talk 1.6

Doing Useful Work: The Service Story

1.6.1 The Communication Service 1.6.2 IMS and Web 2.0

Layer

1.7 The 1.8

Concept Applied

Multimedia Telephony 1.8.1 Multimedia Telephony. What Is It? 1.8.2 Why MMTel
What
are

the

Driving Requirements? Origins

23 25 26

1.8.3 Multimedia Telephony: 1.9 Summary

The

CHAPTER 2
2.1 2.2

Business

Modeling for
Concepts

Digital

Planet

27
27 27 27 28 28 32

Introduction Basic Economic for

Developers

2.2.1 Economies of Scale 2.2.2 Transaction Costs 2.2.3

Open

APIs and Transaction Costs

2.2.4 Factors of Production

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Contents

2.2.5

Capital

Goods Software

32
33 33 35 37 38
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2.2.6 Consumer Goods Software

2.3 Value Creation and Capture in Modem Communications Industries

2.3.1 The Role of the Individual in
a

Digital

World

2.3.2 The Mobile Broadband Platform 2.4 The Business Case for IMS 2.4.1 Global 2.4.2 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8

Interoperable
and the
a

Standards

Developer's View

39 41 42 44 47 48

Regulation
a

Right to

Private Communications

Business Models for Toward

Digital

Planet

Diagramming Technique Examples

-

Practical

Application to IMS

Conclusions

CHAPTER 3
3.1

Service Deployment Patterns

Introduction
to

49
49 50 51 51 52 53 55

3.2 Back

Basics

3.3 Client-S ide

3.4 3.5

Application
Application

Server-Side End-Point Application

Web Server-Side End-Point

3.6 Web Client-Side End-Point Application 3.7 Mid-Point

Application 3.8 Client-Side Application, Building

3.9 To-DoList

on a

Standardized Service

56 57 58

3.10

Summary

CHAPTER 4
4.1 4.2

Applications
Introduction

in the IP Multimedia

Subsystem

59
59 60 60 61 62 64 64

IMS Service Creation 4.2.1 Service

Composition
Chaining
Architecture

4.2.2 Composition Through Chaining 4.2.3 IMS Service 4.3 IMS Service Composition 4.3.1 Initial Filter Criteria 4.3.2 Two-Tier Composition and the Service
4.3.3 Unified Web Services and IMS 4.3.4 Next-Generation

Capability Composition
and

Interaction

Manager

65 67

Intelligent Networks

Migration

to

IMS

68 69 69 75 77 80

4.4

IMS

Application

Servers

4.4.1 The 4.4.2 SIP 4.4.3

Converged SIP Servlet Container

Application Types SIP Application Composition in JSR116

4.5

Conclusions

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CHAPTER 5
5.1

Service

Development

81
82 83 83 87
93 93 95 98 102 104

Virtual Call Center Use-Case 5.1.1 Use-Case Architecture 5.1.2 Use-Case Business 5.1.3 Constituent SIP

Logic

Applications

5.2

Web-Based Do-Not-Disturb Use-Case 5.2.1 Use-Case Architecture 5.2.2 Constituent

Components
Logic

5.2.3 Use-Case Business

5.2.4 AJAX/S1P Interaction

5.3 Conclusions

CHAPTER 6
6.1 6.2

Introduction to IP-Based Real-Time Communications

Introduction Basics 6.2.1
of Voice Over IP

105
105 105 105 109

Digital Speech

Transmission

6.2.2 OSI Reference Model 6.2.3 Data Transmission 6.2.4 Real-time

Using

the Real-time

Transport

Protocol

Ill 118 118 129

Transport

Control Protocol

6.2.5 Control Plane Versus User Plane 6.2.6 6.3

Multi-Party

Communication Session

Registration
6.3.1 Initial 6.3.2 6.3.3 6.3.4

130
and Call Establishment 133

Registration De-registration Re-registration

136 136
137 137 141

6.4 6.5

Mobility Versus Nomadicity Locating the Registrar Regi stration Relationships

6.5.1 Subscriber Administered in VoIP

Network, but Currently

not

Registered

141 142 142

6.5.2 Subscriber Administered in VoIP Network and 6.6 Network Domains

Currently Registered

CHAPTER 7
7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4

Introduction to Session Initiation Protocol

Introduction

145
145 145 145 147 152 154 157 158

The SIP Standard

SIP Session Versus Media Session SIP Transaction Model 7.4.1 Command

Sequence

7.5 7.6

SIP Transaction State Models

Proxy

Roles

7.6.1 Stateless Proxy

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7.6.2 Stateful

Proxy

158 160 161 162 163 163 168

7.6.3 Back-to-Back User Agent 7.7 SIP Session Establishment 7.7.1 7.7.2

Request Message Response Message Request Message Routing

an

7.7.3 Initial 7.7.4 7.7.5 7.7.6 7.7.7 7.8 SIP

Response Message Routing Building

SIP

Routing

Path for

Exchanging Contact Addresses for

Subsequent SIP Requests Subsequent SIP Requests

173 179 181 183 185

Subsequent Request Message Routing

Transport Considerations Reliability

of SIP

7.8.1 Internal DNS Versus External DNS 7.8.2 7.9

Requests and SIP

Responses

185 194 197 201 205 206 209 215 219

Canceling a Dialogs
7.10.1

SIP Transaction

Request

7.10 SIP

Multiple Early Dialogs

Early
Media

7.10.2 Target Set 7.10.3 7.11 Media Transmission: Offer-Answer Model 7.1 L .1 A Closer Look at the SDP Structure 7.11.2 Some SDP

Examples

CHAPTER 8
8.1 8.2
8.3

Introduction to the IMS Network

Introduction Overview of IMS Standards and Releases
IMS Network Architecture 8.3.1 IMS Core Network 8.3.2 IMS Access Network
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223
223

223 224
227 229

A Global View

8.4

IMS Network Architecture

A Closer Look

232 232 242

8.4.1 Core Network Entities 8.4.2 Network Border Gateway Nodes

8.5

Registration
8.5.1

249
259

Registration Relationships Re-Registration

Set and

8.5.2 Periodic 8.5.3 8.5.4 8.5.5 8.6

De-Registration

260 262 266 268 270 284 285 286 288

Implicit Registration

Third-party Registration Application-initiated Registration Gating

Session Establishment 8.6.1 Media

8.7

Using

Phone Numbers

8.7.1 Number Normalization 8.7.2 ENUM

Query

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8.7.3 Public ENUM

versus

Carrier ENUM SIP URI

290
291 292 292 294 298

8.7.4 Phone Number

Representation Through Concept

8.8 Application Servers in IMS

8.8.1 Introduction and 8.8.2 The ISC Reference Point 8.8.3 Service

Chaining
as

8.8.4 SIP-AS

Proxy, B2BUA, UAC,

or

UAS

300 304 312 316 320 324 325 328

8.8.5 Public Services 8.8.6 Service-initiated Session Establishment 8.8.7 User Interaction 8.8.8 8.9

Unregistered
in IMS

Service Invocation

Messaging

8.9.1 Instant Message 8.9.2 Messaging Session

CHAPTER 9
9.1 9.2

MMTel and Other IMS Enablers

Introduction A More

329 329

In-Depth

Look into MMTel

329 330 331

334 334 335

9.3 Basic MMTel Architecture 9.4 9.5

Going Deeper and Wider Adding to MMTel

9.5.1 ISC

Chaining
to Extension
on

9.5.2 Northbound Interface 9.5.3

Forwarding

Logic

335 336 336 337

9.5.4 Web Interfaces

the Client Side

9.6 Use-Case: Calendar-Based 9.7 IMS Presence 9.7.1 Presence 9.7.2

as

Routing
OMA

Defined

by

338 340 343 345 346 349

Interacting

with the Presence Data Model

System

9.7.3 The

Presentity

9.7.4 XDM Data Management 9.8 Finding the right devices 9.9 Conclusion

CHAPTER 10

Charging
Ways
of

351
351

10.1 Introduction 10.2 Obvious and Not So Obvious 10.3

Getting Paid
a

352 352

Money Makes
10.3.1 10.3.2

the

App Go Around Through

Store

Selling Selling

to the End-user

352 353 354 354

Over and Over

Again

10.3.3 Pay-per-use 10.3.4 Advertising

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10.3.5

Letting

Someone Else do the Else

Heavy Lifting

355 356 356 356 357 358 359 362

10.3.6 Sell

Something
on an

10.3.7 Count

your Fellow Man

10.3.8 Benefit in

Entirely

Different Dimension

10.4 The Mechanics of Charging

10.4.1 Offline 10.4.2 Online 10.5

Charging Charging

Summary

CHAPTER 11

Interworking with Legacy Networks

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363
363
363

11.1 Introduction 11.2 The Bigger Picture 11.3.1 General 11.3.2

11.3.4 11.4 Video
Protocol

Connecting IMS

to

the Outside World

11.3 Interworking Through MGCF and IM-MGW

365
365 367 371 376 378 380 382

Mapping

11.3.3 MGCF SIP

Signaling Capability User-plane Interworking

Interworking

11.5 Supplementary Service Interworking 11.5.1 Calling Line Presentation and Calling Line Presentation Restriction 11.5.2 Connected Line Presentation and Connected Line Presentation
Restriction 11.5.3 Call Hold and Resume 11.5.4 Call

383 386 388 389

389 393 399

Forwarding
Starting
Point: VAS in the CS Network and VAS in the

11.6 Applying Legacy VAS in the IMS Network

11.6.1 The IMS Network

11.6.2 The Challenge: Safeguarding Legacy VAS Investment 11.6.3 Service

Capability

Interaction

Manager

CHAPTER 12 Rich Communication Suite

12.1 Introduction 12.2 The Basics of RCS 12.2.1 What is RCS?
12.2.2

401
401 402 402

Why

RCS?

402

12.3 Overview of RCS Release 12.4 RCS Release 1 12.4.1 Enriched Call 12.4.2 Enhanced

Functionality

404 405 406 414

417 418 418 419

Messaging

12.4.3 Enriched Phone Book 12.5 RCS Release 2 12.5.1 Broadband Access
12.5.2 Multi-Device Environment

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12.5.3 Enriched Call

Multi-Device

419

12.5.4 Network Address Book 12.5.5 RCS

420 420 421

422 423

Provisioning

12.6 RCS Release 3 12.7 RCS Release 4

12.8 RCS-e 12.8.1 12.9

Capability Discovery
to

in RCS-e

424 425

Using RCS Applications

Capture Value

12.10 Conclusions

4?0

CHAPTER 13 Evolved IP Multimedia Architecture and Services

13.1 Introduction 13.2 Overview of the Evolved IMS Architecture

431
43'
431 432 436

13.3 GSMA VoLTE

IMS Profile for Voice and SMS

13.4 VoLTE Considerations for Service

13.5

Designers

Single Radio Voice Call Continuity (SRVCC)

13.5.1 SRVCC Architecture in 3GPP Release 9 13.5.2 SRVCC

436 437
438 440 441 443 and CAMEL 444

High-Level

Use-case

Explained

13.5.3 SRVCC Architecture in 3GPP Release 10 13.6 IMS Centralized Services

(ICS)

13.6.1 ICS Solution with Evolved MSC 13.6.2 ICS Solution 13.6.3

Using Existing ISUP/Mg

Terminating

Access Domain Selection (T-ADS)

445 445

13.7 SRVCC and ICS Considerations for Service

Designers

CHAPTER 14 Future Outlook: Market and

14.1 What is Next in Store for IMS? 14.2 TV 14.3 14.4 Smart

Technology

449
449
449

Pipes

449 450 450

Home Networks

14.5 Web Clients 14.6 Machine

to

Machine (M2M)

450 450 450

451 451 453

14.7 Vehicle Automation

14.8 14.9

WAC and Other App Stores Secure, Non-Anonymous

Coinms: The Alternative Network

14.10 Conclusion References Abbreviations Index

455 463