Scalability management for Virtualized IMS

Network virtualization has received a lot of attention, as it represents a promising way to diversify existing networks and ensure the co-existence of heterogeneous network architectures on top of shared substrates. Virtualization of IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) improves the system scalability, simplifies software upgrade and eases the implementation of security. There are several challenges that need to be considered when defining a solution for virtualized IMS architecture. Among them, we can list definition and validation of mechanisms that enable service-based resource scaling of virtualized IMS nodes to support dynamic, efficient and ondemand service provisioning over virtualized IMS systems while meeting the consumers, and the infrastructure provider performance objectives. This project aims to develop, demonstrate and evaluate a new mechanism for resource scaling for virtualized IMS systems based on SLAs. This mechanism will allow dynamic allocation of resources based on low-level (resources) and high-level service requirements.

Faculty Supervisor:

Nadjia Kara

Student:

Partner:

Ericsson Canada Inc (Montreal, QC);École de technologie supérieure

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Information and cultural industries; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

École de technologie supérieure

Program: