Mobicents

 Diameter  
Progress,  Use  Cases  and  Roadmap  
 
Alexandre  Mendonça  &  Bartosz  Baranowski  
8th  December  2011  @  Sochi,  RU  
Agenda  
•  Overview  
•  IntroducKon  to  Diameter  
•  Architecture  
•  Use  Cases  
•  Roadmap  
•  2010/2011  Roadmap  Review  
•  Community  
•  Overview  
•  Releases  
•  Roadmap  
•  2011/2012  Roadmap  Preview  
•  Releases  
 
Introduction  to  Diameter  
•  Born  as  the  Next  GeneraKon  AAA  Protocol  to  replace  RADIUS  
•  ..but  much  more  than  just  that,  being  widely  used  for  several  
other  purposes  
•  Base  protocol  defines  the  message  format,  peer  connecKon  
related  operaKons  and  basics  for  AccounKng  and  
AuthenKcaKon/AuthorizaKon  
•  Base  (or  any  other  ApplicaKon)  is  easily  extended  by  adding  
new  messages  and/or  AVPs  
•  So  easy  everybody  is  having  their  own  customized  ApplicaKons,  
with  barely  no  standard  ApplicaKons  usage  
•  Byte-­‐oriented  messages,  consisKng  of  header  and  payload  
(AXribute-­‐Value-­‐Pair,  AVPs)  
Architecture:  Overview  
Architecture:  HA/FT  
Node  1   Node  2  
…  
Supports  X  &  Y   Supports  Y  

Cache  
Session-­‐Id:  1   Session-­‐Id:  2     Session-­‐Id:  3  
Type:  X   Type:  Y     Type:  X   …  
…Data…   …Data…     …Data…  
 
Architecture:  HA/FT  
•  Selected  Session  Data  is  replicated  to  cache  a_er  processing  
the  received  iniKal  Request  
•  At  any  Kme,  any  node  can  pick  and  resume  any  session,  by  
invoking  proper  method  in  stack  for  reconstrucKng  session  
locally  
•  Ideally  allow  by  configuraKon  to  prefer  to  choose  the  node(s)  
which  already  have  session  locally  
•  Once  session  is  reconstructed,  session  data  is  kept  locally  to  
avoid  the  overhead  of  recreaKng  it  every  Kme  
•  Once  session  is  terminated,  all  nodes  are  noKfied  and  clear  
their  local  session  data  
Use  Cases:  Online  Charging  
Roadmap:  2010/11  Review  
•  “Improve  Stability  and  Performance”  
•  Jenkins  soak  test  job  running  weekly  at  750  requests/second  for  
2.5  hours  in  Mobicents  JAIN  SLEE  
•  Total  of  7.000.000  Requests,  usually  with  no  missed  requests.  
•  Last  year  Performance  goal  was  set  to  1000  requests/second.  Got  
up  to  9000  requests/second  !  
•  Using  an  iMac  Core  2  Duo  @  3.06  GHz  /  4GB  RAM,  no  special  setup.  
•  Eventually  with  a  beXer  setup,  the  numbers  may  go  quite  higher.    

10000   9000  

2009  
5000  
2010  
150   800  
2011  
0  
Requests/s  
Roadmap:  2010/11  Review  
•  “Support  more  applicaKons,  by  request”  
•  Added  support  for  Gx,  Gq’,  Rx,  S6a  ApplicaKons  
•  ContribuKons  included  Diameter  Stack  support  and  JAIN  SLEE  
Resource  Adaptors  as  well  
•  All  of  them  were  contributed  by  community  users  
•  Some  were  only  parKally  developed,  to  fit  the  users  needs…  we  
implemented  the  remaining  
•  Gx  was  a  collaboraKve  contribuKon  between  two  different  users,  
from  Free  Mobile  and  Smilescom  
•  Great  to  see  community  work  together!  
•  All  were  reviewed,  fixed  and,  when  possible,  sent  back  to  the  
authors  for  validaKon  in  their  working  environment  
Roadmap:  2010/11  Review  
•  “Support  of  other  funcKonal  nodes  besides  client  and  server:  
Redirect,  Relay  and  Proxy”  
•  Redirect  and  Relay  support  integrated  into  stack  
•  Proxy  support  through  applicaKon  
•  Already  tested  and  used  (with  bugs  found)  by  community  users  
(from  Free  Mobile)  

•  “Extend  testsuite”  
•  Greatly  increased  the  testsuite  for  both  Diameter  Stack,  Diameter  
RAs  and  funcKonal  tests  for  replicaKon  scenarios  
•  Currently  Diameter  Testsuite  contains  594  JUnit  tests,  and  
increase  of  100%  from  last  year.  
Roadmap:  2010/11  Review  
•  Some  shortcomings:  
•  Missed  the  goal  to  support  TLS  /  IPSec  
•  Failed  the  “More  Examples”  target  
•  Mainly,  no  B2BUA  integraKon  example  with  JAIN  SLEE  or  SIP  Servlets  
•  Projected  Roadmap  not  followed  
•  More  1.3.x  releases,  less  1.4.x  releases  
•  Haven’t  yet  reached  the  1.4.0.FINAL  release  
•  No  pluggable  Diameter  Load  Balancing  algorithms  and  no  
integraKon  with  Mobicents  Load  Balancer  
•  No  improvement  on  DocumentaKon  regarding  development  with  
stack  
•  No  progress  on  JAIN  SLEE  HSS  work  or  SIP  Presence  integraKon  
Diameter  Charging  Server  
•  Standalone  applicaKon,  started  as  a  test  project  for  our  own  
tesKng,  Diameter  Charging  Server  Simulator  
•  Made  source  and  binary  available  to  public  for  using  with  
Mobicents  SIP  Servlets  Ro  (Online  Charging)  Example  
•  600  Downloads  for  the  first  version  (since  May  2010).  It’s  now  
deprecated  and  not  available  for  download  
•  Updated  at  May  2011  with  some  scenario  improvements  and  
some  fixes  requested  by  community  
•  300  Downloads  for  the  new  version  so  far  
•  Migrated  to  JAIN  SLEE  as  for  a  requested  customized  
development,  but  with  public  availability  in  mind  
•  Not  yet  available  for  public.  To  be  soon.  
Community:  Overview  
•  Growing  User  Base  
•  Increasing  traffic  on  public  mailing  list  
•  Over  40  User  Reported  Issues  from  11  different  users/companies  
•  Last  year  we  had  12  issues  reported  by  2  users  
•  Many  small  patches  submiXed  by  users  

•  Several  users/companies  using  Mobicents  Diameter  for  

Interoperability  TesKng  (IOT)  successfully  and  contribuKng  
components  (not  all  complete):  
•  Rx  ApplicaKon  Stack  Support  and  Resource  Adaptors  
•  Gx  ApplicaKon  Stack  Support  and  Resource  Adaptors  
•  Gq’  ApplicaKon  Stack  Support  and  Resource  Adaptors  
•  S6a  ApplicaKon  Stack  Support  and  Resource  Adaptors  
Community:  Releases  

Rx  
7x  
Gq’  PAA
pplicaKon  
• Compliance,  
Performance  
erformance  
pplicaKon  SSupport  
Performance  
Improvement:  
Improvement:  
upport  &  Stability  
~8500  
7000+  
ER
nhancements  
equests/second  
Requests/second  
 
Improved  
Gx  
•  Diameter   ApplicaKon  
ApplicaKon  
AO
Cgent  
luster   Session  
nline/Offline  
Support  
Support  
Support   MG
Charging  
(Fine   anagement  
raining  
API   Replicated  Data)  
1000+  
DicKonary/Validator  
Reworked  
•  Extended   requests/second  
DicKonary/Validator  
testsuite   available  
(100+   JUnit  tTo  
Fests  
ormat  
applicaKons  
added)  
Community:  Overview  
•  2300  downloads  since  last  year  

1.4.0.BETA1  
1.3.2.FINAL  

1.4.0.BETA2  

1.4.0.CR1  
1.3.3.FINAL  
Roadmap:  2011/12  Preview  
•  No  major  concerns  with  stack  performance,  good  enough!  
•  Try  to  improve  the  performance  os  SLEE  RAs,  which  is  not  so  
good  
•  Support  TLS  and  IPSec  security  
•  Integrate  with  Mobicents  Load  Balancer  
•  Create  integraKon  example  with  B2BUA  both  for  JAIN  SLEE  
and  MSS,  in  single  node  and  clustered  environment  
•  Improve  Agent  support,  integraKng  proxy  as  stack  feature  
instead  of  support  through  applicaKon  
•  Support  SCTP  transport  
Roadmap:  Releases  
•  1.4.0.CR2  _  December  2011  
•  Diameter  S6a  Support  (Stack  and  JAIN  SLEE)  
•  Diameter  Agent  ConfiguraKon  
•  1.4.0.FINAL  _  March  2012  
•  IPSec/TLS  Support  
•  Stack  Development  DocumentaKon  
•  1.4.1.FINAL  _  June  2012  
•  Integrate  with  Mobicents  Load  Balancer  
•  IntegraKon  with  JAIN  SLEE  B2BUA  (eventually  MSS  too)  
•  1.4.2.FINAL  _  September  2012  
•  Pluggable  Diameter  Load  Balancing  algorithms  
•  HSS  
Questions?