Summary

Recommendation ITU-T Q.3932.1 provides the first part of a multi-part deliverable covering the IP multimedia subsystem (IMS)/next generation networks (NGN) performance benchmark, as identified below:

Part 1:  Core concepts;

Part 2:   Subsystem configurations and benchmarks;

Part 3:   Traffic sets and traffic profiles;

Part 4:   Reference load network quality parameters.

This Recommendation describes the performance benchmark methodology for the IMS based services multimedia telephony (MMTel), video telephony and IMS/PES. The terminology and concepts are described in Recommendation ITU-T Q.3930.