A VoLTE traffic classification method in LTE network

Abstract

With the emergence of the Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology, LTE based VoIP services are gaining more and more popularity in these days. Voice over LTE (VoLTE) is a VoIP based multimedia service on All-IP based LTE network, which was initially introduced and commercialized by Korea telecommunication companies in 2012. As more and more subscribers use VoLTE service, the VoLTE traffic volume increases, and this may in turn lower down the VoLTE quality; therefore to preserve QoS of VoLTE service, we need to periodically monitor VoLTE traffic among LTE traffic, and perform appropriate actions to LTE network. To be the first step of realizing this goal, in this paper, we propose a VoLTE traffic classification method and its distributed processing architecture to achieve high throughput. For the classification, we analyze SIP/SDP packets for VoLTE service and generate VoLTE tailored SIP packet signature using SIP User-Agent header field. Since the proposed classification method is relying on Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) method, the classification accuracy can be guaranteed, yet it suffers from the poor processing performance. Therefore, we further propose a distributed and parallel traffic processing architecture with the help of HTCondor.