Study of Admission Control Methods for IPTV Services

Abstract

The paper deals with admission control methods used in Internet Protocol (IP) Multimedia Subsystem. The purpose of implementing AC methods in IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) is to control the access of incoming connections to network resources. At the Institute of Telecommunications, we have built an experimental laboratory, which is used to test these methods. In this paper, we focus on Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) services; therefore, we have created a variable bit-rate IPTV traffic generator that is used as the input to the network, so we can test the behavior of selected AC methods. They are implemented in a simulated IPTV service provider access network, so we can examine the effects of variable bit-rate IPTV streams on the decisions made by those methods. To calculate the required bandwidth of an input stream, two simulation scenarios with different number of input packets were performed. One of these AC methods was modified where the peak input rate parameter of an IPTV stream was replaced by the average bit-rate of this stream. At the end of this paper, we discuss the achieved results.