Name
Title | ||
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High-performance evolved packet core signaling and bearer processing on general-purpose processors |
Abstract | ||
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Telecommunications service providers are exploring the use of standard high-volume servers to reduce total cost of ownership while at the same time increasing flexibility, service velocity, and scalability of network functions. This article characterizes performance of general-purpose processors ??? specifically x86 architecture processors ??? for signaling and bearer processing representative of a wireless carrier???s call model for a Long Term Evolution Evolved Packet Core. A radio access network emulator was used to stimulate an Evolved Packet Core software stack running on an x86 server. The goal was to prove that standard high-volume servers can execute EPC functions per representative market call models, and that workloads can scale across bearer and control plane at line rate without acceleration technologies. A call model was developed to quantify the performance on Intel?? Xeon?? Processor based servers using an LTE traffic simulator and a commercial EPC software stack. The traffic models represent bidirectional real-world network traffic during different times of the day. The results were that the test EPC processed control and user plane traffic with 50,000 subscribers with a total payload of 10 Gb/s downlink + 4.8 Gb/s uplink traffic using five cores for the data plane and eight cores for the rest of the system; and the user plane throughput scaled in a single blade environment to 20 Gb/s per socket or 40 Gb/s for a dual socket blade. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2015 | 10.1109/MNET.2015.7113219 | IEEE Network |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
Computer architecture,Servers,Radio access networks,Virtualization,Network architecture,IP networks,Program processors,Telecommunication network management | Forwarding plane,Computer science,Network packet,Server,Computer network,Network architecture,Throughput,Telecommunications service,Radio access network,Operating system,Scalability | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
29 | 3 | 0890-8044 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
15 | 0.87 | 0 |
Authors | ||
7 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brent Hirschman | 1 | 15 | 0.87 |
| Pranav Mehta | 2 | 15 | 0.87 |
| kannan babu ramia | 3 | 16 | 1.21 |
| Ashok Sunder Rajan | 4 | 15 | 0.87 |
| Edwin Dylag | 5 | 15 | 0.87 |
| Ajaypal Singh | 6 | 15 | 0.87 |
| Martin Mcdonald | 7 | 15 | 0.87 |