Diameter Binding Repository for Signaling Router Coordination
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Solution Overview
Problem
In distributed architectures for telecommunication networks, there is a challenge in effectively sharing Diameter binding data across multiple nodes, which is essential for efficient routing and processing of Diameter messages, especially in scenarios where load balancing and redundancy are implemented.
Innovation Solution
The implementation of a Diameter binding repository (DBR) system that allows for the sharing of Diameter binding data between Diameter signaling routers (DSRs) through binding records, enabling collaboration in routing messages and maintaining awareness of processing elements' identities, either through distributed or centralized DBR configurations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a distributed architecture is implemented for processing and routing Diameter message traffic, then load balancing and redundancy are improved, but sharing Diameter binding data across multiple nodes becomes difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a Diameter Binding Repository (DBR) as an intermediary component that mediates between multiple Diameter signaling routers (DSRs) in the distributed architecture. The DBR stores and manages binding data, allowing DSRs to query and share binding information without directly maintaining synchronized local copies. This intermediary repository enables load balancing and redundancy across multiple nodes while ensuring all nodes can access current binding data, thus resolving the contradiction between distributed architecture benefits and binding data sharing challenges.
2Ease of operation
If binding data is maintained locally at each node in a distributed architecture, then node autonomy is improved, but routing efficiency deteriorates due to lack of visibility into processing elements' identities across nodes
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a mechanism where binding data is copied from the central Diameter Binding Repository to local caches at each Diameter signaling router. Each DSR maintains a local copy of binding data that includes information about processing elements' identities across the distributed system. This copying approach allows nodes to operate autonomously with local data while ensuring routing efficiency by providing visibility into processing elements' identities without requiring continuous centralized queries for each routing decision.
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AI summary
According to one aspect, the subject matter described herein includes a method for sharing Diameter binding data. The method includes receiving, by a first Diameter signaling router (DSR), a first Diameter message requiring processing. The method also includes selecting, by the first DSR, a processing element to perform the required processing from a plurality of processing elements. The method further includes routing, by the first DSR, the received first Diameter message to the selected processing element. The method further includes creating, by the first DSR, a binding record associating the selected processing element with information associated with the received first Diameter message. The method further includes communicating, by the first DSR, the binding record to a second DSR.