• NNI IOT Event 2013 White Paper
  Date: March 2013

• RCS VoLTE Interoperability Event 2012 White Paper
  Date: November 2012

• MSF VoLTE Interoperabiity Event Robustness Report
  Date: January 2012

• MSF VoLTE Interoperability Event 2011 White Paper
  Date: November 2011

• MSF Performance Management Reporting IOT Event White Paper
  Date: February 2011

• MSF White Paper on QoS over the Network-to-Network Interface
  Date: June 2010

• LTE IOT Event White Paper
  Date: June 2010

• White Paper on Priority Emergency Telecommunications Services
  Author: John Wullert, NCS
  Date: May 2010

• MSF Whitepaper on Location Services in LTE Network
  Author: Shedman Tam, Alcatel-Lucent
  Date: April 2010

• Update on MSF Whitepaper on Service Continuity (IUT)
  Author: JongChoul Yim, ETRI
  Date: February 2010

• Amendment to MSF Whitepaper on Personalized Converged Services
  Author: Eung-Ha Kim, ETRI
  Date: February 2010

• MSF Whitepaper on Blended/Converged IPTV Services
  Author: Taniguchi, Kunihiro & Ishikawa, Kazushige, NEC
  Date: January 2010

• GMI 2008 White Paper
  Date: December 2008

• GMI 2006 White Paper
  Date: December 2006

• Network Engineering to Support the Bandwidth Manager Architecture
  Author: John Evans, Cisco Systems
  Date: May 2006

• NGN Control Plane Overload and its Management
  Author: Ian Jenkins, BT
  Date: January 2006

• Testability in the NGN
  Authors: Boris Ratner, Spirent Communications; Andy Huckridge, Spirent Communications
  Date: September 2005

• Bandwidth Management in Next Generation Packet Networks
  Authors: Chris Gallon, Fujitsu; Olov Schelén, Operax
  Date: August 2005
  

• IMS Reconciliation White Paper
  Date: May 2005

• The Global MSF Interoperability (GMI) 2004 Executive Summary
  Date: October 2004

• Service Solutions in Next-Generation Networks
  Authors: Chris Daniel, Leapstone Systems; Stuart Walker, Leapstone Systems
  Date: April 2003

• MSF R2 Service Architecture
  Authors: Chris Daniel, Leapstone Systems; Mike Bick, BT; Ron Egan, Qwest Communications; Ken Mills, BT; Stuart Walker, Leapstone Systems; Satoru Furukawa, NTT Corporation
  Date: June 2003

• Global MSF Interoperability (GMI) 2002 Event White Paper
  Date: March 2003

• Next-Generation VoIP Network Architecture
  Authors: Paul Drew, MetaSwitch; Chris Gallon, Fujitsu
  Date: March 2003

• Management for Next Generation Multi Service System Networks
  Authors: Avri Doria, Mobile Communications and Security Research Labs; Matthew Milford, Leapstone Systems
  Date: February 2003

• Quality of Service for Next Generation Voice Over IP Networks
  Author: Chris Gallon, Fujitsu
  Date: February 2003

Advisory Report
Advisory Reports examine issues under discussion within the industry as they relate to work in progress by the MSF. Without the binding authority of approved Implementation Agreements, Advisory Reports provide an early indication of the technical direction being considered by the MSF.

• Strategic and Technical Plan for 2005-2006
  Author: Avri Doria et al, MSF Leadership
  Date: October 2004

Tutorials
Tutorials provide non-experts with in-depth technical explanations of aspects of the MSF Architecture and protocols.

• ENUM Tutorial
  Date: 27 June 2006
  
  • Infrastructure ENUM (.PPT)
    Presenter: David Seaton, Ericsson
  • ENUM Tutorial (.PPT)
    Presenter: Jim McEachern, Nortel
    

• Interconnect and the Role of Session Border Controllers in the Next Generation Networks
  Date: 4 April 2006
  
  • Listen to the audio as you follow along with the presentations (.ZIP of .MP3 file)
  • Interconnect and the Role of Session Border Controllers in the Next Generation Networks Introduction (.PPT)
    Presenter: Satya Parimi, NexTone (Moderator)
  • Introducing - Session Border Controllers (.PPT)
    Presenter: Mark Carroll, Cisco Systems
  • SBC in NGN Architectures (.PPT)
    Presenter: Jonathan Cumming, Data Connection
  • Session Border Controller Applications (.PPT)
    Presenter: Seamus Hourihan, Acme Packet
  • Interconnects - SBC Tutorial (.PPT)
    Presenter: Larry Schessel, NexTone
  • Security and Quality Control at the Network Border (.PPT)
    Presenter: John Holdsworth, Newport Networks
  
  
• Optimising End to End QoS to Develop Better Targeted Service Offerings
  Date: 17 January 2006
  
  • End to End QoS for Voice Services in NGNs
  (.PDF)
  Author: Ian Jenkins, Chief Voice Technologies, BT Group
  • Bandwidth Managers in NGN/IMS (.PDF)
    Author: Olov Schelén, CTO, Operax
    
    
• IMS: Enabling Services, Wherever the Customer and Whatever the Access
  Authors: Duncan Mills, Vodafone; Stuart Walker, Leapstone Systems
  Date: 19 July 2005