International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering (IJRTE)

ISSN: 2277-3878 (Online), Volume-9 Issue-2, July 2020

A Simulator for Reporting Performance Data from

Network Element To Network Management System
Manjunath K Gowda, Priya D

Abstract: Now a days, the biggest challenge for Mobile Network Each and every node provides different counter values are
Operators is to provide broadband service with high stored in the node and network management system [5].
performance.4G(VoLTE) has been developed to meet user
Based on the intervals values of counter which are specific to
requirement by offering high speed data transfer services using
IMS network. The key performance indicators (KPI) are used to cscf (call session control function). It is the first point of
monitor and optimize mobile network performance in order to contact to IMS network which handles crores of calls on the
provide high quality services using counters. The indicators are network with high speed.
standardized by third-generation partnership project(3GPP).
Simulators are used in network element so that we can check the
capacity of each VM and calculated using counters from element
management system to network management system.
Keywords: Key Performance Indicators, Voice over Long Term
Evolution, third Generation Partnership Project, IP Multimedia
Subsystem.

I. INTRODUCTION

The generation of telecom industry starts from landline, 2G,

3G & 4G to provide communication between one person to
another person to exchange their messages and voice data.
The technology and methodology differ from generation to
generation to give best of best to customers in the daily Figure 1: KPI Registration Success Rate Measurements
evolving innovations [1]. In this modern era, 4G is the The speed of the network was calculated by KPI, where KPI
technology which gives better voice quality and internet stands for key performance indicators there are many KPI
speed. So many customers in the market which gives their across access network and core network. Volte IMS control
better quality still peoples go with their own thinking to plane KPI, Packet core 4G network LTE KPI and Radio volte
choose best but all others vendors are started with 2G or 3G KPI. But in these papers, we are discussing about call session
then moved 4G services but jio takes very vital role in the control function KPI which helps easy to understand the
market and highest subscribers in India because its start with network behavior in the network element. All operators are
4G(LTE) service later it upgrades to 4G(VoLTE) which decided which operators to set KPIs for monitoring based on
provides very good voice quality and internet speed. Where the market situations and network state. The KPIs are based
two channels are created based on internet protocols one for on so many metrices such as accessibility, Retainability,
voice and one for internet [2]. So, the speed distributes equal Integrity, availability, utilization, mobility etc.,[6].
for voice and internet. Any network which provides very KPIs related to speech quality in the core network of IMS are
high-quality voice calls then their KPI (Key Performance  RSR-Registration Success Ratio (%)
Indicators) rates are 99.99%. The 4G service is provided by  CSSR-Call Setup Success Rate (%)
using IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) network. Basically,  CST-Call Setup Time (s)
the mobile originating means user entity send request to LTE  ACD-Average Call duration (s)
[3] network it is IP connectivity based network transfer the
 Mute Rate (%)
data to IMS network for facilitating mobile receiver accepts
 MOS Score
the message that spoken by the user. while the message come
 RTP Packet Loss (%)
across many internal nodes inside IMS network.
 One-way Calls (%)

II. RELATED WORK

Manuscript received on May 25, 2020.
Authors Domini, Abhishek [7][8] both made research on KPI
Revised Manuscript received on June 29, 2020.
Manuscript published on July 30, 2020. optimization for 4G wireless technology which they use LTE
* Correspondence Author network handle multiple nodes to provide better wireless
Manjunath K Gowda, Student, R V College of Engineering, Bangalore connection for communication. Network element with LTE
Priya D, Assistant Professor, R V College of Engineering, Bangalore enhance the radio side and core side.
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Which makes changes in the network element behavior with Applications set the counter values using the APIs provided
more performance than previous architecture so KPI rate is by the counter management of the TSP. The producer writes
good in IMS network, so the updates are made network the counters and their values to KAFKA at regular intervals.
elements improve the performance of node in network This interval is fixed at 60 seconds. In case the producer fails
management side. to write into KAFKA for any reason, Producer halts any
Authors Ayman and Mohamed [9][10][11] are further reading or collection of measurement values until the
experimentally proven that new counters give better KPI rate time Producer is able to write to KAFKA layer successfully.
to improve the voice quality by taking action against the The previously collected measurement values are retained
network behavior. This paper given the full information about and retried before giving up. Any failure to write to KAFKA
the experimental performance analysis of Volte. Based on this is logged. In case Producer goes down for any reason after
data analysis evaluates by different conditions of radio and reading the values from TSP without writing the data to
volte voice quality in terms of KPIs. Also, they provide basic KAFKA, the data will be lost.
procedure to carry out performance management of collected KAFKA
data from each or multiple network elements. Kafka cluster is used as the message bus between counter
Author Pawel Biskupski [12] measure the KPI which user can management, which acts as producer and Processor, which
make and maintain calls by evaluating call initiation and call acts as consumer. The VM is primary while the other two
drop rate (%). Verifying latency delay during a call using VMs are secondary. Only the aggregator on primary VM
latency, jitter metrices. In network elements this proven high reads all the incoming messages on the message bus. The
KPI rate for high speed voice rate. The special thing of messages written to KAFKA can only be deleted by KAFKA
considered research paper are more concentrated on voice after specified timeout. The timeout is configured
drop and migrates to 2G/3G if 4G signal is not able to get in appropriately to ensure no surge in the memory used.
the network those KPI are giving good results. Performance manager
Author Alessandro, Fabrizio [13] are estimated the network The PM reads the measurement data from KAFKA at the end
side KPIs and simulated counters using opnet performance of every granularity period. Since the Producer interval is
measurement tool. which is used simulate different conditions different than the granularity period, the PM collects the
of counter to reach NMS. The hardware implementation used multiple instances of same measurement and sum the values
is higher version as compare to above paper so the plenty of of all these instances before sending the values to aggregator.
counters can send at a time. Where common configuration of This summation is mandatory for all measurements unless the
node as capacity of 32GB ram, 30GB heap size etc., but in value received by the aggregator is already an absolute value.
this paper, authors introduce new hardware implantation with After collecting the measurement values from all the VMs,
48GB Ram and 42GB heap size, So the counter reach the PM Aggregator aggregates the measurements as per defined
destination from network level is better measurement. aggregation rules. The aggregation rules are defined for each
Author Smita Lonkar and Reddy [14] are did research on counter to specify the appropriate aggregation operations to
voice and video call of volte in core network to performance be performed on the measurement values before sending the
both should give good quality then end user of the product value to EMS. The supported aggregation operations are
should be happy and continue the same. So market will always SUM, AVG, MIN and MAX.
changes its current technology to provide best for users. Here
Authors are more concentrated on video and voice call issues
in the network. So they created new counter to verify the KPIs
values from node to network system which their information
gives better quality of volte and voip services for customers.
Author Wasi Ahmad [15] presented paper on LTE technology
with problem statement finding difficulty in reaching the
customers with good quality is a big task. But later 4G service
come up with dashboards with to see exact KPI values in all
over the regions. Here used simulator called TSP is integrated
into volte to increase the mobile voice accuracy and this
changes the business and marketing services. But this is not
sufficient to verify voice quality and TSP has some drawbacks
in case node hardware specification is not sufficient and
developed simulator needs check in new configuration
specification node to evaluate the analysis of volte network Figure 2: Producer and Consumer communication via
efficiency. topic
The node specific counters, there would exist only one
III. COMPONENTS OF SIMULATOR instance of the value. Since the producer interval is different
than the time period, there would be more than one value
This simulator is developed to report performance data from
written into KAFKA by the producer. The Processor
network element to network management system. The
calculates the value of the counter as described in
component consists to build up of simulator are Kafka,
Aggregation Methodologies.
producer, consumer, performance manager and hardware
resources.
Producer

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IV. IMPLEMENTATION V. CONCLUSION

The general procedure to implement simulator in network In the paper, we proposed new simulator for reporting
element as follows: performance data from network element to IMS network with
 First required software and library application needs the support of some new counter to verify voice quality. Also,
to be installed in the node. As any IDE can be used for we have found out the trendlines with the high correlation that
development using java programming. Then which are described by the help of the graphs. It is observed that
counter needs to verify present in the node. And classify VoLTE provides high voice quality, excellent network
the measurement type according to core network performance. Hence network reliability can be achieved by
components. activating various VoLTE related counter features in network.
 Creation of unique topic name for all VM in network for
communication purpose to send and request counter as FUTURE ENHANCEMENT
each component. The collected data is stored in database operators and their
 The communication between each node is carried out by analysis on comparison of actual values with the numbers
topic name using kafka broker. It has two parts such that from the past (ex - to compare registration success rate with
producer and consumer. Producer write the data to the data from yesterday, previous week, previous month). The
specific topic and consumer request the counter for same values can be also used as feeds for artificial intelligence
topic. systems providing decision making support.
 For each producer and consumer dedicated ports are
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AUTHORS PROFILE

Manjunath K Gowda pursuing MTech in

Information Technology branch in RV College of
Engineering, Bengaluru. Working as an intern in Nokia
Solutions and Network pvt lmt company, Bengaluru.
Working for AT & T, Verizon clients to deliver 4G/5G
feature to customers. And also working for Information
Science and Engineering department as Student Placement Co-Ordinator for
RVCE placement cell.
Industrial Visit: 27th Nov 2018 to Green Data Center at EGL Business park
,IBM India Pvt Ltd., IBM coordinator: Makala V Reddy.
Attended Webinar: TCS Cisco WebEx Events 29th November 2018 Hosted
by Abhishek and Dhruv Sharma on Evolution of business 4.0 and Impact on
software quality engineering.

Priya D is a professor of Information Science and

Engineering Department at RV college of Engineering,
Bengaluru. And their research work is
1. Faculty Advisor for RVCE “Coding Club”. As a part
of coding club, many consultancy projects were
executed and hackathons were also organized by the club under the
supervision of faculty advisors. The Club is working on many consultancy
projects in the field of Machine Learning, IoT and Android app
development.
2.Team member of IoT Application development under Cisco Center of
Execellence.
3.Completed and awarded Certificate for the course on “FUNDAMENTALS
OF ACCELERATED COMPUTING WITH CUDA C/C++” by NVIDIA.
4.Resource person for “Machine Learning & IoT” for VTU college students
across Karnataka. About 80 participants were present. It was held on 22nd &
23rd July 2019.
5.Resource Person for “IoT Application development” for M.Tech students
of Mechanical department, RVCE held on 08/03/19.
6.Resource Person for “IoT Application development using Nodemcu
ESP8266” for BCA students of National college, 10th Jan 2019, Jayanagar.
7. Guiding students in various AI related UG and PG projects.

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