Cloudifying mobile network management: Performance tests of event distribution and rule processing

Sumit Dawar, Sven van der Meer, John Keeney, Enda Fallon, Tom Bennet

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Abstract

With the ever increasing number of devices, nodes and the events they create, scalability and performance become important aspects for Operation Support Systems (OSS). One solution is to distribute the work load, i.e. ‘cloudify’ the formerly centralized monitoring and decision functions. This requires remodeling Complex Event Processing (monitoring) and Policies (decision making) towards a distributed yet coordinated system. This paper describes an extended architecture, implementation and performance tests for a policy-based event processing system. The main advantage of our approach is that we use policies for event pattern matching (an advanced form of Complex Event Processing) and for the selection of corrective actions (called Distributed Governance). Policies are (a) distributed (over multiple components) and (b) coordinated (using centralized authoring). The resulting system can deal with large numbers of incoming events, as is required in a telecommunication environment. Peak load will be well above 1 million events per second, combining different data sources of a mobile network. This paper presents the motivation for such a system, along with a comprehensive presentation of its design, implementation and evaluation.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMobile Networks and Management - 5th International Conference, MONAMI 2013, Revised Selected Papers
EditorsDirk Pesch, Bernd-Ludwig Wenning, Andreas Timm-Giel, Ramón Agüero Calvo, Pentikousis Pentikousis
PublisherSpringer-Verlag GmbH and Co. KG
Pages94-107
Number of pages14
ISBN (Print)9783319042763
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2013
Event5th International Conference on Mobile Networks and Management, MONAMI 2013 - Cork, Ireland
Duration: 23 Sep 201325 Sep 2013

Publication series

NameLecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, LNICST
Volume125 LNICST
ISSN (Print)1867-8211

Conference

Conference5th International Conference on Mobile Networks and Management, MONAMI 2013
Country/TerritoryIreland
CityCork
Period23/09/1325/09/13

Keywords

  • Complex event processing
  • Distributed processing
  • Performance
  • Rule system

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