A LOAD-BALANCED CALL ADMISSION CONTROLLER FOR IMS CLOUD

COMPUTING
ABSTRACT:
Network functions virtualization provides opportunities to design, deploy, and
manage networking services. It utilizes Cloud computing virtualization services that run on
high-volume servers, switches and storage hardware to virtualize network functions.
Virtualization techniques can be used in IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) cloud computing to
develop different networking functions (e.g. load balancing and call admission control). IMS
network signaling happens through Session Initiation Protocol (SIP). An open issue is the
control of overload that occurs when an SIP server lacks sufficient CPU and memory
resources to process all messages. This paper proposes a virtual load balanced call admission
controller (VLB-CAC) for the cloud-hosted SIP servers. VLB-CAC determines the optimal
call admission rates and signaling paths for admitted calls along with the optimal
allocation of CPU and memory resources of the SIP servers. This optimal solution is derived
through a new linear programming model. This model requires some critical information of
SIP servers as input. Further, VLB-CAC is equipped with an autoscaler to overcome resource
limitations. The proposed scheme is implemented in SAVI (Smart Applications on Virtual
Infrastructure) which serves as a virtual testbed. An assessment of the numerical and
experimental results demonstrates the efficiency of the proposed work.

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