A Testbed for Fixed Mobile Convergence Experimentation: ADRENALINE-LENA Integration

Conference: European Wireless 2014 - 20th European Wireless Conference
05/14/2014 - 05/16/2014 at Barcelona, Spain

Proceedings: European Wireless 2014

Pages: 6Language: englishTyp: PDF

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Authors:
Baldo, Nicola; Martinez, Ricardo; Dini, Paolo; Vilalta, Ricard; Miozzo, Marco; Casellas, Ramon; Munoz, Rauel (Centre Tecnologic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), 08860 Castelldefels, Barcelona, Spain)

Abstract:
In this paper we present an application of the Fixed Mobile Convergence approach developed in the EU COMBO project for the seamless delivery of fixed and mobile services using a common network infrastructure and set of functions. In particular, we apply this approach within a convergent multilayer packet-optical aggregation network in order to provide QoS support to the transport of packet services regardless of the access technology. As a proof of concept of our approach, we developed a Fixed Mobile Convergence testbed that integrates the LTE-EPC LENA emulator and the multi-layer ADRENALINE testbed. We describe and experimentally validate how this integration is done on the data plane to provide the end-to-end transport of LTE mobile services through the packet-optical aggregation network.