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
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.
