Ns-3-based real-time emulation of LTE testbed using LabVIEW platform for software defined networking (SDN) in CROWD project

Rohit Gupta; Bjoern Bachmann; Russell Ford; Sundeep Rangan; Nikhil Kundargi; Amal Ekbal; Karamvir Rathi; Maria Isabel Sanchez; Antonio De La Oliva; Arianna Morelli

doi:10.1145/2756509.2756516

Ns-3-based real-time emulation of LTE testbed using LabVIEW platform for software defined networking (SDN) in CROWD project

Rohit Gupta, Bjoern Bachmann, Russell Ford, Sundeep Rangan, Nikhil Kundargi, Amal Ekbal, Karamvir Rathi, Maria Isabel Sanchez, Antonio De La Oliva, Arianna Morelli

Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Abstract

In this paper, we present initial results on how the NS-3 LTE LENA stack is used to build a LTE testbed in an indoor lab network. We have extended the NS-3 MAC/PHY layer architecture to interface with a LabVIEW implementation of the LTE Physical layer and also extended NS-3 core modules to enable real-time performance. We present how this testbed can be used for prototyping a novel Software Defined Networking (SDN) scheme for interference management within dense heterogeneous deployments of cellular wireless networks. We provide an example case study for a Distributed Mobility Management (DMM) implementation using this testbed, where we demonstrate mobility of a emulated User Equipment device between LTE and WiFi networks. We plan to use this testbed for validation and demonstration of various SDN-based algorithms proposed within the framework of the EU FP7 CROWD (Connectivity management for eneRgy Optimised Wireless Dense networks) Project. We believe the proposed testbed is especially valuable for studying the cross-layer performance of cellular PHY/MAC algorithms in a realistic environment and shows how NS-3 can be used as a unified prototyping and simulation framework for wireless networks. Copyright is held by the owner/author(s).

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	WNS3 2015 - Workshop on Network Simulator-3
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	91-97
Number of pages	7
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450333757
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2756509.2756516
State	Published - May 13 2015
Event	2015 Workshop on NS-3, WNS3 2015 - Castelldefels, Barcelona, Spain Duration: May 13 2015 → May 14 2015

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Name	ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

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Other	2015 Workshop on NS-3, WNS3 2015
Country/Territory	Spain
City	Castelldefels, Barcelona
Period	5/13/15 → 5/14/15

Keywords

Hardware emulation
LTE
LabVIEW
NS-3
Simulation
Software-Defined Networking
Software-Defined Radio

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Software
Human-Computer Interaction
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Computer Networks and Communications

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Gupta, R., Bachmann, B., Ford, R., Rangan, S., Kundargi, N., Ekbal, A., Rathi, K., Sanchez, M. I., De La Oliva, A., & Morelli, A. (2015). Ns-3-based real-time emulation of LTE testbed using LabVIEW platform for software defined networking (SDN) in CROWD project. In WNS3 2015 - Workshop on Network Simulator-3 (pp. 91-97). (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/2756509.2756516

Ns-3-based real-time emulation of LTE testbed using LabVIEW platform for software defined networking (SDN) in CROWD project. / Gupta, Rohit; Bachmann, Bjoern; Ford, Russell et al.
WNS3 2015 - Workshop on Network Simulator-3. Association for Computing Machinery, 2015. p. 91-97 (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Gupta, R, Bachmann, B, Ford, R, Rangan, S, Kundargi, N, Ekbal, A, Rathi, K, Sanchez, MI, De La Oliva, A & Morelli, A 2015, Ns-3-based real-time emulation of LTE testbed using LabVIEW platform for software defined networking (SDN) in CROWD project. in WNS3 2015 - Workshop on Network Simulator-3. ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 91-97, 2015 Workshop on NS-3, WNS3 2015, Castelldefels, Barcelona, Spain, 5/13/15. https://doi.org/10.1145/2756509.2756516

Gupta R, Bachmann B, Ford R, Rangan S, Kundargi N, Ekbal A et al. Ns-3-based real-time emulation of LTE testbed using LabVIEW platform for software defined networking (SDN) in CROWD project. In WNS3 2015 - Workshop on Network Simulator-3. Association for Computing Machinery. 2015. p. 91-97. (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series). doi: 10.1145/2756509.2756516

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