Traffic aggregation based SIP over MPLS network architecture

The next generation communication system will provide high quality multimedia service in a more flexible and intelligent manner. In this paper, we propose a new SIP over MPLS network architecture to achieve this goal. To integrate SIP protocol with the traffic engineering (TE) function of MPLS network seamlessly and facilitate SIP call setup, the SIP-MPLS traffic aggregation server (TA server) is highlighted in this new architecture. Furthermore, the call admission and bandwidth renegotiation algorithms running on the TA server are investigated carefully. We rely on OPNET simulation to assess the performance of our network architecture and the capability of different call admission and bandwidth renegotiation algorithms. The simulation results show that the algorithm of TBCA-BP is a suitable candidate for accomplishing the call admission and bandwidth renegotiation task due to its satisfying performance, and our network architecture is able to shorten the SIP call setup delay greatly by using the TA server.