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Hyper Heterogeneous Cloud-based IMS Software Architecture: A Proof-of-Concept and Empirical Analysis

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing 2015-09-21 v2

Abstract

The IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) defined by the 3GPP has been mainly developed and deployed by telephony vendors on vendor-specific hardware. Recent advances in Network Function Virtualisation (NFV) technology paved the way for virtualized hardware and telephony function elasticity. As such, Telecom vendors have started to embrace the cloud as a deployment platform, usually selecting a privileged virtualization platform. Operators would like to deploy telecom functionality on their already existing IT cloud platforms. Achieving such flexibility would require the telecom vendors to adopt a software architecture allowing deployment on many cloud platforms or even heterogeneous cloud platforms. We propose a distributed software architecture enabling the deployment of a single software version on multiple cloud platforms thus allowing for a solution-based deployment. We also present a prototype we developed to study the characteristics of this architecture.

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@article{arxiv.1507.04039,
  title  = {Hyper Heterogeneous Cloud-based IMS Software Architecture: A Proof-of-Concept and Empirical Analysis},
  author = {Pascal Potvin and Hanen Garcia Gamardo and Kim-Khoa Nguyen and Mohamed Cheriet},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1507.04039},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

12 pages, 9 figures, 1 table. Accepted for oral presentation at S2CT 2015 in Toronto. Latest Version is Camera Ready

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