Call For Papers
IEEE Communications Magazine
Feature Topic
IP Multimedia Systems (IMS) Infrastructure and Services
IP Multimedia Systems (IMS) is a standardized Next Generation Network (NGN) architecture developed to provide a common service delivery mechanism and reduce development cycle for service creation across wireline and wireless networks. Being standardized by the third generation Partnership Project (3GPP) and 3GPP2, IMS promises to reduce capital and operational expenditures for service providers along with operational flexibility and simplicity. Extensive IP-based feature rich services such as Voice over IP (VoIP), online gaming, videoconferencing, and content sharing will be offered on one infrastructure. Switching between services will be seamless. IMS is access agnostic. Users of GPRS, UMTS, CDMA2000, WiMAX, DSL and Cable will be able to access services provided over the IMS infrastructure. Core IMS components such as Call/Session Control Function (CSCF), Home Subscriber Server (HSS), Media Resource Function (MRF) and Application Server (AS) must be scalable and built with at least five nine reliability.
To keep its promises, IMS need to overcome many obstacles including implementations. Although early IMS trials and deployments are underway, various challenges in architecture, protocols, and operations are being worked in the industry. This feature topic is intended to include papers that will address these challenges at the infrastructure and service levels. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers that are not under review in any other conference or journal in any of, but not limited to, the following or related topic areas:
- IMS architectures for wireline and wireless networks
- Status of IMS standards
- IMS Service architectures, killer applications and services
- Security issues with IMS
- IMS Signaling
- IMS Performance and Service Reliability
- IMS Network and Service Management
- Status of, and experiences with, IMS implementation and deployment
Papers should be of tutorial in nature and authors must follow the IEEE Communications Magazine's guidelines for preparation of the manuscript. Please refer to "Information for Authors" on the IEEE Communications Magazine web site (http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/commag/sub_guidelines.html) for further detail. Manuscripts should be submitted by September 15, 2006 through Manuscript Central at http://commag-ieee.manuscriptcentral.com/. Please select "March 2007/IMS Infrastructure and Services" in the drop down menu.
Important Dates
Manuscript Submission:
September 15, 2006
Acceptance Notification: November 15, 2006
Final Manuscript Due: December 31, 2006
Publication Date: March 2007
Guest Editors
Mehmet Toy
Intel Inc. USA
mtoy044@sbcglobal.net
Heinrich J Stüttgen
NEC Europe Ltd,, Germany
stuttgen@netlab.nec.de
Mehmet Ulema
Manhattan College, USA
mehmet.ulema@manhattan.edu