NGN Networks: A New Enabling Technology or Just a Network Integration Solution?

Spyridon L.  Tompros; Dimitrios D.  Vergados; Nikolaos  Mouratidis; Spyridon  Denazis

5th Annual ICST Workshop on Advances in IMS and related Services

Research Article

NGN Networks: A New Enabling Technology or Just a Network Integration Solution?

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    author={Spyridon L.  Tompros and Dimitrios D.  Vergados and Nikolaos  Mouratidis and Spyridon  Denazis},
    title={NGN Networks: A New Enabling Technology or Just a Network Integration Solution?},
    proceedings={5th Annual ICST Workshop on Advances in IMS and related Services},
    publisher={ACM},
    proceedings_a={ADVANCES IN IMS AND RELATED SERVICES},
    year={2010},
    month={5},
    keywords={IMS UMTS Next Generation Networks Mobility Management},
    doi={10.4108/ICST.MOBIMEDIA2009.7625}
}

Spyridon L. Tompros
Dimitrios D. Vergados
Nikolaos Mouratidis
Spyridon Denazis
Year: 2010
NGN Networks: A New Enabling Technology or Just a Network Integration Solution?
ADVANCES IN IMS AND RELATED SERVICES
ICST
DOI: 10.4108/ICST.MOBIMEDIA2009.7625

Spyridon L. Tompros¹^,*, Dimitrios D. Vergados²^,*, Nikolaos Mouratidis¹^,*, Spyridon Denazis³^,*

1: Keletron Ltd, 49 D. Glynou, GR-54352 Thessaloniki, Greece.
2: Department of Informatics, University of Piraeus, 80, Karaoli & Dimitriou St. GR-185 34, Piraeus, Greece.
3: Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Patras, Rio University Campus, GR-26500 Patra, Greece.

*Contact email: stombros@keletron.com, vergados@unipi.gr, nmo@keletron.com, sdena@upatras.gr

Abstract

The Next Generation Networks (NGN) technology has been launched by the some years ago by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) as a method for establishing convergence of IP communications. This paper analyses the dynamics of Next Generation Networks (NGN) technology in implementing network convergence. The focus is given on the IP Multimedia Sub-system (IMS), the first NGN implementation. Description pivots around analysis of IMS internals, aiming at providing evidence that IMS is not just an integration solution but has potential to play the role of an overlay network architecture for future applications, as enabling technology.

Keywords: IMS UMTS Next Generation Networks Mobility Management

Published: 2010-05-16
Publisher: ACM
Modified: 2010-05-16

: http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/ICST.MOBIMEDIA2009.7625