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Assessment of VoIP Service Availability

Assessment of VoIP Service Availability. Wenyu Jiang Henning Schulzrinne IRT Lab, Dept. of Computer Science Columbia University December 2002. Overview. (on-going work, preliminary results, still looking for measurement sites, …) Service availability Measurement setup Measurement results

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Assessment of VoIP Service Availability

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  1. Assessment of VoIP Service Availability Wenyu Jiang Henning Schulzrinne IRT Lab, Dept. of Computer Science Columbia University December 2002

  2. Overview (on-going work, preliminary results, still looking for measurement sites, …) • Service availability • Measurement setup • Measurement results • call success probability • overall network loss • network outages • outage induced call abortion probability

  3. Service availability • Users do not care about QoS • at least not about packet loss, jitter, delay • rather, it’s service availability how likely is it that I can place a call and not get interrupted? • availability = MTBF / (MTBF + MTTR) • MTBF = mean time between failures • MTTR = mean time to repair • availability = successful calls / first call attempts • equipment availability: 99.999% (“5 nines”)  5 minutes/year • AT&T: 99.98% availability (1997) • IP frame relay SLA: 99.9%

  4. Availability – PSTN metrics • PSTN metrics (Worldbank study): • fault rate • “should be less than 0.2 per main line” • fault clearance (~ MTTR) • “next business day” • call completion rate • during network busy hour • “varies from about 60% - 75%” • dial tone delay

  5. Example PSTN statistics Source: Worldbank

  6. Measurement setup

  7. Measurement setup • Active measurements • call duration 3 or 7 minutes • UDP packets: • 36 bytes alternating with 72 bytes (FEC) • 40 ms spacing • September 10 to December 6, 2002 • 13,500 call hours

  8. Call success probability • 62,027 calls succeeded, 292 failed  99.53% availability • roughly constant across I2, I2+, commercial ISPs

  9. Overall network loss • PSTN: once connected, call usually of good quality • exception: mobile phones • compute periods of time below loss threshold • 5% causes degradation for many codecs • others acceptable till 20%

  10. Network Outages • sustained packet losses • arbitrarily defined at 8 packets • far beyond any recoverable loss (FEC, interpolation) • 23% outages • make up significant part of 0.25% unavailability • symmetric: AB  BA • spatially correlated: AB   AX • not correlated across networks (e.g., I2 and commercial)

  11. Network outages

  12. Network outages

  13. Outage-induced call abortion proability • Long interruption  user likely to abandon call • from E.855 survey: P[holding] = e-t/17.26 (t in seconds) •  half the users will abandon call after 12s • 2,566 have at least one outage • 946 of 2,566 expected to be dropped  1.53% of all calls

  14. Conclusion • Availability in space is (mostly) solved  availability in time restricts usability for new applications • initial investigation into service availability for VoIP • need to define metrics for, say, web access • unify packet loss and “no Internet dial tone’’ • far less than “5 nines” • working on identifying fault sources and locations • looking for additional measurement sites

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