Title: Enhancing the serviceability of IMS-based multimedia services: preventing core service failures

Authors: M. Boucadair, P. Morand, I. Borges, M. Tomsu

Addresses: France Telecom R&D, 42 Rue des Coutures, 14066 Caen Cedex, France. ' France Telecom R&D, 42 Rue des Coutures, 14066 Caen Cedex, France. ' Portugal Telecom Inovacao, SA Rua Eng Jose Ferreira Pinto Basto, 3810-106 Aveiro, Portugal. ' Bell Laboratories Alcatel-Lucent, Lorenzstr. 10, 70435 Stuttgart, Germany

Abstract: The delivery of highly available and robust service offerings is a critical objective for Service Providers. Despite current deployment of IMS-based architectures assumes a vertical integration, IMS-based services can be offered without having a control on the underlying IP network. This paper introduces a solution to enhance the robustness of IMS-based architectures without assuming a vertically integrated system. The paper focuses on failures experienced by core service nodes and describes an autonomic solution to allow customers access to the service during failures.

Keywords: availability; core service failures; robustness; IMS; IP multimedia subsystems; serviceability; QoS; VoIP; voice over IP; telephony; multimedia services; internet protocol; core service nodes; customer access.

DOI: 10.1504/IJIPT.2008.023771

International Journal of Internet Protocol Technology, 2008 Vol.3 No.4, pp.224 - 233

Published online: 10 Mar 2009 *

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