5th Annual ICST Workshop on Advances in IMS and related Services

Research Article

Cloud computing and EPC / IMS integration: new value-added services on demand

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/ICST.MOBIMEDIA2009.7495,
        author={Fabricio  Gouveia and Sebastian  Wahle and Niklas  Blum and Thomas  Magedanz},
        title={Cloud computing and EPC / IMS integration: new value-added services on demand},
        proceedings={5th Annual ICST Workshop on Advances in IMS and related Services},
        publisher={ACM},
        proceedings_a={ADVANCES IN IMS AND RELATED SERVICES},
        year={2010},
        month={5},
        keywords={Cloud Computing IP Multimedia Subsystem Next Generation Networks Integration Evolved Packet Core Federation Panlab},
        doi={10.4108/ICST.MOBIMEDIA2009.7495}
    }
    
  • Fabricio Gouveia
    Sebastian Wahle
    Niklas Blum
    Thomas Magedanz
    Year: 2010
    Cloud computing and EPC / IMS integration: new value-added services on demand
    ADVANCES IN IMS AND RELATED SERVICES
    ICST
    DOI: 10.4108/ICST.MOBIMEDIA2009.7495
Fabricio Gouveia1,*, Sebastian Wahle1,*, Niklas Blum1,*, Thomas Magedanz2,*
  • 1: Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS, Kaiserin-Augusta-Allee 31, 10589 Berlin, Germany.
  • 2: Technische Universität Berlin, Franklinstraße 28-29, 10587, Berlin, Germany.
*Contact email: fabricio.gouveia@fokus.fraunhofer.de, sebastian.wahle@fokus.fraunhofer.de, niklas.blum@fokus.fraunhofer.de, tm@cs.tu-berlin.de

Abstract

Cloud computing is a challenging and promising paradigm shift in IT world. Examples of cloud services like Google Apps and Microsoft Azure represent a new paradigm for the provision of computer infrastructure, diminishing the costs for creating and maintaining software and hardware for users with infrastructural needs. Next Generation Networks (NGN) decouple services from the transport plane in order to provide flexibility with a common control architecture. This NGN approach offers faster integration of subsequent applications with the advantage of reusing the current deployed infrastructure. The integration of cloud technology with Telecommunication infrastructures provides new revenue streams for Telecom operators through their converged fixed, mobile and data services and by offering “cloud computing data” services with the features from the NGN infrastructure. This paper analyses interconnection scenarios for combining cloud and Evolved Packet Core (EPC) to offer new value-added applications in a unified architecture. The use of the EPC and IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) is described as possible vehicles for the integration.