Key facts

Overview

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Description

This course gives an overview of the 3GPP IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS), which is based on the IETF Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and other protocols. After introduction to the IMS Architecture, the course focuses on the technical details of the SIP protocol and how it is applied within the IMS. Basic IMS procedures (registration, session establishment) as well as services (Presence, Messaging, Push-to-Talk) are introduced and essential details are highlighted.

All delegates will receive a free copy of "The IMS: IP Multimedia Concepts and Services in the Mobile Domain", by Georg Mayer, Hisham Khartabil (the course presenters).

Note that we also offer a one-day supplement to this IMS / SIP course, CS to IMS Migration and Integration, which can be taken on its own or as an add-on to this three-day course.

Programme details

Day 1: Basics and Registration

Session 1 SIP History and Principles (Hisham)

• SIP Background.
• SIP Architecture.
• UA Internal Architecture.
• SIP Message Format.

Session 2: IMS Overview, Architecture and Principles (Georg)

• History and Standardization.
• Network Entities.
• Convergence of Networks.
• Easy Service Deployment.
• Roaming Scenarios.
• One Service over all Networks.
• Differences between IMS and SIP.
• IMS Interworking with other Networks.

Session 3: SIP Registration, Routing and Security (Hisham)

• SIP Registration.
• Event Notification.
• SIP Routing.
• SIP Security.

Session 4: IMS Registration and Security (Georg)

• Discovery and Allocation of Network Elements.
• User Identities.
• Multiple Terminals / Multiple Registrations.
• Authentication (AKA).
• IPSec and Security Agreement.
• Network Initiated Re-Authentication / De-Registration.

Day 2: Access Technologies, Sessions, Media

Session 5: Media and Sessions (Hisham)

• Session Description Protocol.
• Real-time Transfer Protocol.
• Dialogs and Sessions.

Session 6: IMS Sessions (Georg)

• Routing in IMS.
• Long Session Establishment Procedure.
• SDP Extensions: Preconditions, m-line grouping.
• SIP Extensions: PRACK, UPDATE, P-headers.
• Forking in IMS.
• Session Release.

Session 7: Network Address Translation (NAT) (Hisham)

• NAT Traversal.
• Intereactive Connectivity Establishment (ICE).
• STUN.
• TURN

Session 8: IMS Access, Media, Charging and Handover (Georg)

• IMS Access Technologies (GPRS, I-WLAN, DSL).
• IMS Media Handling (SBLP, PCC).
• IMS Charging (FBC).
• IMS Voice Call Continuity (VCC – Rel-7).

Day 3: Advanced Principles and Services

Session 9: Advanced IMS Principles and Service Architecture (Georg)

• IMS Emergency Calls.
• IMS Client Configuration (OMA DM MO / CP AC).
• Network Address Translation (NAT) in IMS.
• IMS Topology Hiding.
• Policy and Charging Control
• Filtering / Filter Criteria.
• Service Identities (PSI)
• Identification of Services (ServiceID)
• Integration of IMS and CS (short overview)
• Voice Call Continuity and Session Continuity (short overview)
• InterUE Transfer (short overview)

Session 10: SIP Extensions and Services (Hisham)

• SIP Extension.
• Presence.
• Data Manipulation (XCAP).

Session 11: SIP Services (Hisham)

• Messaging.
• Conferencing.

Session 12: IMS Services (Georg)

• Multimedia Telephony (short overview)
• Presence
• Conferencing
• Messaging
• Push to Talk over Cellular (PoC)
• Multimedia Sharing
• Short Message Services over IP

Note that we also offer a one-day supplement to this IMS / SIP course, CS to IMS Migration and Integration, which can be taken on its own or as an add-on to this three-day course.

Staff

Mr Hisham Khartabil

Role: Presenter

Senior Principal Consultant,
Oracle

Hisham Khartabil is currently Senior Principal Consultant at Oracle. He previously worked...more as Customer Project Manager - Multimedia at Ericsson Australia and Vice President, Solution Development and Research, at Telio and was responsible for enhancing Telio's service and solution offering by researching and introducing new services, products and solutions. Hisham has many years of experience in VoIP and SIP related technologies having worked for Ericsson, Hotsip and for Nokia Mobile Phones as a SIP Senior Technology Specialist/Requirements Manager. He is the co-chair of the SIP for Instant Messaging and Presence Leveraging Extensions (SIMPLE) working group at the IETF and has contributed to many IETF standards related to SIP.

Hisham is the co-author of the book titled "The IMS: IP Multimedia Concepts and Services in the Mobile Domain".

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Mr Georg Mayer

Role: Presenter

Consultant, Senior Standards Manager,
Huawei

Georg Mayer joined Huawei as a consultant in 2009. Before that he has worked...more for Nokia Terminal Software and within Siemens Private and Mobile Telecommunication Networks divisions on ISDN, SIP and IMS related architecture, protocol standardisation and testing.

Since 2000 he has been attending the 3GPP IMS CN1 (stage 3) standardisation group, in which SIP and other IETF-based protocols are adopted for the usage within the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS). Since 2003 he has also been responsible for SIP and IMS interoperability testing with other vendors.

He is co-author of the book "The IMS. IP Multimedia Concepts and Services in the Mobile Domain".

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Certification

Participants who satisfy the course requirements will receive a Certificate of Attendance. The pdf sample above is an illustration only, and the wording will reflect the course and dates attended.

Level and demands

This course is for people who require knowledge about IMS, SIP, and communications over IP from an architecture or a protocol related view. This includes operators, people working in standardization as well as software architects.

Accommodation

Accommodation is available at the Rewley House Residential Centre, within the Department for Continuing Education, in central Oxford. The comfortable, en-suite, study-bedrooms are rated 3-star, and come with free high-speed internet access and TV. Guests can take advantage of the excellent dining facilities and common room bar, where they may relax and network with others on the programme.

Payment

Fees include course materials, tuition, refreshments and lunches. The price does not include accommodation.

All courses are VAT exempt.

Scholarships

Details of funding opportunities, including grants, bursaries, loans, scholarships and benefit information are available on our financial assistance page.

Fee options

Programme Fee

standard course fee: £1295.00

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Programmes including this module

This module can be studied as part of these programmes:

• Telecoms and mobile technologies