Traffic Model of IMS/NGN Architecture with Transport Stratum Based on MPLS Technology

Authors

  • Sylwester Kaczmarek Gdansk University of Technology Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics 11/12 Gabriela Narutowicza Street, 80-233 Gdańsk-Wrzeszcz Country
  • Magdalena Kosek Technical University of Denmark Department of Electrical Engineering Frederiksborgvej 399 Building 776, room 18 4000 Roskilde
  • Maciej Sac Gdansk University of Technology Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics 11/12 Gabriela Narutowicza Street, 80-233 Gdańsk-Wrzeszcz

Abstract

Growing expectations for a fast access to information create strong demands for a universal telecommunication network architecture, which provides various services with strictly determined quality. Currently it is assumed that these requirements will be satisfied by Next Generation Network (NGN), which consists of two stratums and includes IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) elements. To guarantee Quality of Service (QoS) all NGN stratums have to be correctly designed and dimensioned. For this reason appropriate traffic models must be developed and applied, which should be efficient and simple enough for practical applications. In the paper such a traffic model of a single domain of NGN with transport stratum based on Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) technology is presented. The model allows evaluation of mean transport stratum response time and can be useful for calculating time of processing requests in the entire NGN architecture. Results obtained using the presented model are described and discussed. As a result of the discussion, elementary relationships between network parameters and transport stratum response time are indicated.

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