Sponsored by the National Science Foundation1GEC 23 – 17 June 2015www.geni.net Applying GENI Principles to LTE Networks Abhimanyu Gosain and Ivan Seskar 23 rd GENI Engineering Conference 17 June 2015

Sponsored by the National Science Foundation2GEC 23 – 17 June 2015www.geni.net AGENDA Intro to Long Term Evolution (LTE) 5G Foreseen Architecture How/Where do we apply GENI principles ? (Ivan) Open Source EPC (Ivan) GENI Wireless Campus Deployment GENI Wireless Monitoring and Operating Procedures

Sponsored by the National Science Foundation3GEC 23 – 17 June 2015www.geni.net Intro to Long Term Evolution (LTE) Application Research Areas: Public Safety/Emergency Services Backhaul M2M (machine 2 machine) Vehicular safety and in-vehicle applications Carrier Aggregation in Mobile Networks

Sponsored by the National Science Foundation4GEC 23 – 17 June 2015www.geni.net 5G Foreseen Architecture Source: The vHGW Use Case and Beyond, Pedro Miguel Neves, PT Inovacao,2015

Sponsored by the National Science Foundation5GEC 23 – 17 June 2015www.geni.net Challenges for software based 5G networks(1/2) The end to end Architecture and Design of a software based network What is the Infrastructure for a software based network? Who owns it and where is it located? Combining OpenStandards and OpenSource to deliver value (NGMN,PaaS,IaaS,OPNFV) How to ensure the Security of a new network design

Sponsored by the National Science Foundation6GEC 23 – 17 June 2015www.geni.net Challenges for software based 5G networks (2/2) Quality of Experience (QoE) improvement by Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) - User data transactions are processed in local edge network with the computing and cache servers. - Those functions are moved "Closer" to the edge depending on the service application, mobility, traffic volume and delay Source:” Mobile-Edge Computing – Introductory Technical White Paper” Sep.2014, by ETSI ISG Mobile-Edge Computing” Issues Core network technologies SDN technologies NFV technologies Ultra- large capacity U-plane ✓ ✓ Load increase in C-plane ✓ ✓ ✓ Ultra low latency ✓ Ultra large scale disaster/ ✓ ✓ congestion/failure resilience Various types of terminal and NW mgt. ✓ ✓ ✓ Inter-working with other RATs ✓ ✓ Issues on transport layer ✓

Sponsored by the National Science Foundation7GEC 23 – 17 June 2015www.geni.net GENI Wireless 2015 Uniform experimenter experience using yellow nodes, GENI Racks Sliced, virtualized and interconnected through AL2S/Internet2 26 Wimax Base Stations in 13 Sites 90 android handsets available to experimenters 36 wireless (yellow) nodes

Sponsored by the National Science Foundation8GEC 23 – 17 June 2015www.geni.net GENI Wireless Campus Deployment Airsynergy Femtocell Located closer to the end user, providing much higher aggregate data rates TDD LTE Max Transmit Power: 30 dBm per Tx 2 x 2 MIMO: SM and TxD Operational Frequency Bands: 7 and 41 (2.6 GHz),12, 13, 14 and 17 (700 MHz), 20 (800 MHz), 40 ( GHz), 42 and 43 ( GHz) Air4G Macrocell Air4G provides the outdoor Micro layer of a LTE network deployment TDD LTE Max Transmit Power: 2x40 dBm 2 x 2 MIMO Operational Frequency Bands: 1, 2, 3, 7, 9, 12, 17, 20, 38, 40, 41,42 and 43 4G Base Station Hardware

Sponsored by the National Science Foundation9GEC 23 – 17 June 2015www.geni.net GENI Wireless Campus Deployment 4G Clients Netgear 341U USB Modem Linux Driver Test SIM LG Nexus 5 Android 5 Test SIM

Sponsored by the National Science Foundation10GEC 23 – 17 June 2015www.geni.net LTE Campus deployment GPS Antenna EPC eth0 EMS IP MME IP SGW IP PGW IP HSS IP Eth1 Netspan IP (eNBs Management) IP eth1: / IPeth0 : UEs IP range (For EPC Config,) EPC eth1 PDN IP /24 GW to Internet (for UEs) VLAN X EPC VM GENI Rack Campus Network AL2S Netspan

Sponsored by the National Science Foundation11GEC 23 – 17 June 2015www.geni.net LTE Campus deployment GPS Antenna EPC eth0 EMS IP MME IP SGW IP PGW IP HSS IP Eth1 Netspan IP (eNBs Management) IP eth1: / IPeth0 : UEs IP range (For EPC Config,) EPC eth1 PDN IP /24 GW to Internet (for UEs) VLAN X EPC VM GENI Rack Campus Network Netspan AL2S

Sponsored by the National Science Foundation12GEC 23 – 17 June 2015www.geni.net LTE Campus deployment GPS Antenna EPC eth0 EMS IP MME IP SGW IP PGW IP HSS IP Eth1 Netspan IP (eNBs Management) IP eth1: / IPeth0 : UEs IP range (For EPC Config,) EPC eth1 PDN IP /24 GW to Internet (for UEs) VLAN X OpenEPC VM GENI Rack Campus Network AL2S Netspan

Sponsored by the National Science Foundation13GEC 23 – 17 June 2015www.geni.net LTE Campus deployment GPS Antenna UEs IP range (For EPC Config,) PDN IP /24 GW to Internet (for UEs) VLAN X VNF 1 Campus Network AL2S/Multiple Campuses VNF 2 SDN Controller

Sponsored by the National Science Foundation14GEC 23 – 17 June 2015www.geni.net Site Task Checklist Help determine Location for LTE BS deployment. Negotiate Installation Quote from Facilities Engineering Dept. Provide Ethernet/Fiber network drops for BS. Provide Power outlets for BS. Configure VLAN(s) on campus network for backhaul network to Control Server. Configure Netspan Server ( if not already in place) Configure EPC VNF VM(s) on GENI Rack Configure VLAN on GENI Rack to connect BS to GENI L2 AL2S Network. Provide a public IP subnet from Control Server to allow Internet access from User Devices.

Sponsored by the National Science Foundation15GEC 23 – 17 June 2015www.geni.net GENI Monitoring and Operations Procedures  Compliance with Sprint Master Frequency Agreement  Monitoring tx_power,tx_freq of GENI Wireless BS  GMOC tickets and response to events/incidents- no more calling Ivan  OperationsWorkflow defined at

Sponsored by the National Science Foundation16GEC 23 – 17 June 2015www.geni.net GENI Monitoring and Operations Procedures Install OMF/OML Monitoring service. Report Statistics to Central GENI Wireless datastore. GENI Monitoring server polls central datastore. Site Work Items