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Performance assessment of open software platforms for 5G prototyping

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dc.affiliation.dptoUC3M. Departamento de Ingeniería Telemáticaes
dc.affiliation.grupoinvUC3M. Grupo de Investigación: Network Technologieses
dc.contributor.authorGringoli, Francesco
dc.contributor.authorPatras, Paul Horatiu
dc.contributor.authorDonato, Carlos
dc.contributor.authorSerrano Yáñez-Mingot, Pablo
dc.contributor.authorGrunenberger, Yan
dc.contributor.funderComunidad de Madrides
dc.contributor.funderEuropean Commissionen
dc.date.accessioned2019-03-26T12:58:58Z
dc.date.available2019-03-26T12:58:58Z
dc.date.issued2018-10
dc.description.abstractGiven the urgency of standardizing the fifth generation (5G) mobile systems to meet the ever more stringent demands of new applications, the importance of field trials and experimentation cannot be overstated. Practical experimentation with cellular networks has been historically reserved exclusively to operators, primarily due to equipment costs and licensing constraints. The state of play is changing with the advent of open source cellular stacks based on increasingly more affordable software defined radio (SDR) systems. However, comprehensive understanding of the performance, limitations, and interoperability of these tools is lacking. In this article we fill this gap by assessing, by means of controlled experiments, the performance of today's most popular open software eNB solutions in combination with different commodity UE and an SDR alternative, over a range of practical settings. Although these cannot underpin complete 5G systems yet, their development is progressing rapidly, and researchers have employed them for 5G-specific applications including LTE unlicensed and network slicing. We further shed light on the perils of open tools and give configuration guidelines that can be used to deploy these solutions effectively. Our results quantify the throughput attainable with each stack, their resource consumption footprint, and their reliability and bootstrap times in view of automating experimentation. Lastly, we qualitatively evaluate the extensibility of the solutions considered.en
dc.description.sponsorshipThe work of P. Serrano was partially supported by the European Commission in the framework of the H2020 5G-PPP 5G-MoNArch project (grant agreement no. 761445) and by the Madrid Regional Government through the TIGRE5-CM program (S2013/ICE-2919).en
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dc.identifier.bibliographicCitationIEEE wireless communications, 25(5), pp. 10-15en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1109/MWC.2018.1800049
dc.identifier.issn1536-1284
dc.identifier.publicationfirstpage10es
dc.identifier.publicationissue5es
dc.identifier.publicationlastpage15es
dc.identifier.publicationtitleIEEE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONSen
dc.identifier.publicationvolume25es
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10016/28244
dc.identifier.uxxiAR/0000022763
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisherIEEEen
dc.relation.projectIDinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/761445/5G-MoNArchen
dc.relation.projectIDComunidad de Madrid. S2013/ICE-2919/TIGRE5es
dc.rights© 2018 IEEE.en
dc.rights.accessRightsopen accessen
dc.subject.ecienciaTelecomunicacionesen
dc.subject.otherOpen source softwareen
dc.subject.otherThroughputen
dc.subject.other5g mobile communicationen
dc.subject.otherLong term evolutionen
dc.subject.otherUniversal serial busen
dc.subject.otherComputer peripheralsen
dc.subject.otherPerformance evaluationen
dc.titlePerformance assessment of open software platforms for 5G prototypingen
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