Performance Evaluation and Elastic Scaling of an IP Multimedia Subsystem Implemented in a Cloud
Muhammad Basit Umair · 2013
Network (NGN) technology which enables telecommunication operators to provide multimedia services over fixed and mobile networks. All of the IMS infrastructure protocols work over IP which makes IMS easy to deploy on a cloud platform. The purpose of this thesis is to analysis a novel technique of “cloudifying” the OpenIMS core infrastructure. The primary goal of running OpenIMS in the cloud is to enable a highly available and horizontally scalable Home Subscriber Server (HSS). The resulting database should offer high availability, and high scalability. The prototype developed in this thesis project demonstrates a virtualized OpenIMS core with an integrated horizontal scalable HSS. Functional and performance measurements of the system under test (i.e. the virtualized OpenIMS core with horizontally scalable HSS) were conducted. The results of this testing include an analysis of benchmarking scenarios, the CPU utilization, and the available memory of the virtual machines. Based on these results we conclude that it is both feasible and desirable to deploy the OpenIMS core in a cloud.