Workload Characterization of Telecom Software

Abstract

Telecom software systems are a major aspect of telecommunications networks used for managing, administrating, auditing and monitoring purposes. One of the most significant features is the performance of the telecom software system, since there is a great variety of network elements in use within built systems through which the telecom software interacts. Workload characterization is an essential methodology for simulating load usage for a given infrastructure that is exposed to a production environment. Hence, exploring the characteristics of workloads well leads an increase on system efficiency and performance. Nevertheless, workload characterization has not been well examined yet for Telecom Software System. In this paper, a new workload characterization architecture is proposed and implemented to model the workload and simulate the behavior of the network element. This architecture provides information regarding the accuracy of the workload models for more precise performance testing. Additionally, we verify our workload characterization results obtained from our architecture in a real software system. Performance results show that proposed workload model-based simulation environment is promising to predict the performance of the software systems.