IMS application servers: Roles, requirements, and implementation technologies

IEEE Internet Computing

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 40-51

  Khlifi, Hechmi ^a   Grégoire, Jean Charles ^b  

^a Dialexia ^*

^b INRS EMT   (Canada)

Author keywords

API; Application server; Computer architecture; IMS; IP multimedia subsystem; IP networks; Logic gates; Media; Multimedia communication; Multimedia systems; Protocols; Session Initiation Protocol; SIP; Telephony

Indexed keywords

OPEN SERVICES ARCHITECTURE (OSA); SESSION INITIATION PROTOCOL; TELEPHONY;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; INTERNET PROTOCOLS; LOGIC GATES; SERVERS; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS;

EID: 44449179281     PISSN: 10897801     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MIC.2008.57     Document Type: Article

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