Computer Science Publications
Title
Evaluating QoS in SDN-Based EPC: A comparative analysis
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
6-1-2019
Journal
2019 15th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference, IWCMC 2019
First Page
1279
URL with Digital Object Identifier
10.1109/IWCMC.2019.8766706
Last Page
1286
Abstract
© 2019 IEEE. Software Defined Networking (SDN) is an emerging paradigm in networking and of high interest to the mobile network operators due to its potential benefit in improving network performance. The idea of integrating SDN in mobile network architecture, such as in LTE-evolved packet core (EPC), has already been proposed by many researchers. The SDN-based EPC network offers better Quality of Service (QoS) which is critical to the successful delivery of real-time multimedia applications in the mobile operator networks. In this paper, we provide state-of-the-art work to evaluate and analyze the QoS metrics in real-time services. We conduct a comprehensive comparison between the performance of EPC and SDN-based EPC regarding latency, jitter, and packet loss. We inject active probe packets in the networks to collect statistical data about the metrics. Various levels of workload are applied to test the robustness and stability of both EPC and SDN-based EPC designs. Our results show that SDN-based EPC significantly outperforms its legacy counterpart in all three QoS metrics. To the best of our knowledge, our study is the first comparative analysis that evaluates QoS in EPC and SDN-based EPC for real-time applications.