FLEX - FIRE LTE TESTBEDS FOR OPEN EXPERIMENTATION FUSION WORKSHOP 14 OCT 2014 Thanasis Korakis, FP7 FLEX Project Coordinator University of Thessaly, Greece Presenter: Nikos Makris, University of Thessaly, Greece www.flex-project.eu FLEX Project FIRE LTE testbeds for open Experimentation http://www.flex-project.eu FLEX objectives 3 FLEX project 4     FLEX: FIRE LTE testbeds for open experimentation Grant Agreement: 612050 Call Identifier: FP7-ICT-2013-10 Duration: 36 Months (Starting from Jan 2014) UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY FLEX contribution 5  Develop operational LTE testbeds using two approaches:  Setup 1: Based on commercial equipment   Setup 2: Open Source components    Provided by the industrial partners of the project (ip.access femtocells and SiRRAN EPC network) Developed by Eurecom (OpenAirInterface – www.openairinterface.org) LTE software and hardware will be fully integrated to the control and management framework of the testbeds. Monitoring, RF emulation and mobility (controlled, uncontrolled and emulated) frameworks will be developed. Testbed extensions 6 Status of testbeds available 7  The testbeds currently available are:  NITOS testbed by UTH (http://nitlab.inf.uth.gr)  w-iLab.t testbed by iMinds (https://www.wilab2.ilabt.iminds.be)  EURECOM OpenAirInterface testbed (www.openairinterface.org) NITOS testbed http://nitlab.inf.uth.gr NITOS testbed 9   NITOS is a heterogeneous remotely accessible testbed offered by University of Thessaly (UTH), supporting experimentation with cutting-edge wireless networking technologies. NITOS is comprised of:      Over 100 Wireless nodes for experimentation with wireless network technologies (WiFi, WiMAX, LTE, 3G, ZigBee). UTH has acquired 1 WiMAX/LTE Base Station, 2 commercial LTE femto cells, 4 open source LTE cells, 2 3G pico cells, one commercial and one Open Source EPC networks. A Software Defined Radio testbed based on 10 USRP devices. 30 High Definition Video Cameras for video related research. Software Defined Networking resources (4 hardware switches) for experimentation with the emerging OpenFlow protocol. Multiple Wireless Sensor Network deployments, utilizing ZigBee and WiFi technologies for monitoring agricultural installations. NITOS testbed 10  Two separate deployments  An indoor RF-isolated testbed  An outdoor prone to RF interference testbed  Each testbed is offering 50 nodes (100 in total). NITOS indoor (left) and outdoor (right) testbed deployments NITOS Testbed topology 11  The following topology has adopted for the needs of FLEX. Uncontrolled mobility setup (1/2) 12 Uncontrolled mobility setup (2/2) 13 w-iLab.t testbed https://www.wilab2.ilabt.iminds.be w-iLab.t testbed 15    w-iLab.t is an experimental, generic, heterogeneous wireless testbed deployed in the iMinds building and at a second, remote location. w-iLab.t provides a permanent testbed for development and testing of wireless applications via an intuitive webbased interface. w-iLab.t hosts different types of wireless nodes:     sensor nodes Wi-Fi based nodes sensing platforms cognitive radio platforms (that are limited to operating in the ISM bands due to license restrictions.) w-iLab.t testbed topology 16 Controlled mobility setup 17 EURECOM testbed https://www.openairinterface.org OpenAirInterface (OAI) testbed 19  Open-source (hardware and software) wireless technology platforms for deployment of reduced scale mock network    Current focus    3GPP LTE, LTE-A and IEEE 802.11p LTE mesh extension, 802.21 Objectives : LTE in the box     System approach with high level of realism SDR architecture and full GPP C Innovation in air-interface technologies and wireless networking through experimentation. Proof-of-concepts through real-time prototypes and scalable emulation platforms. Validation, experimentation, testing, performance evaluation, dissemination, teaching, and training. OAI can be configured as either an eNB or a UE. EURECOM OAI testbed 20 Application Server EPC and IMS cores Resource type C – OAI RF External Nettwork – Interconnection with NITOS facility – Remote Accessibility CM card Network OAI eNB OMF Control Network - Experimentation Node201 GPP HW OAI RF Wireless Experimentation Network OAI EPC Node202 GPP HW eth2 RF moduleSpartan 6 eth1 eth0 conect.eurecom.fr NITOS SCHED 1Gbit Switch OMF XMPP OAI LTE (FDD band 7) OAI eNB Node203 GPP HW RF moduleSpartan 6 FLEX LTE Equipment (1/2) 21  Commercial equipment setup:  ip.access LTE 245F femto-cells  SiRRAN EPC network  Several different UEs (eg. Huawei E398, Android Smartphones etc.) with Custom SIM cards. FLEX LTE Equipment (2/2) 22  Open Source setup:  Based on OpenAirInterface cells      Highly configurable FPGA-based platform Supporting advanced LTE experiments (like tuning the LTE Scheduler, etc.) Configurable as either an eNB or a UE Supporting most of the LTE and LTE-A standards OpenAirInterface EPC network  OpenSource EPC network FIRE tools adopted by FLEX 23  In general, the tools adopted by FLEX are: OMF framework: in charge of the control and management of the testbeds, orchestrating the experimentation  OML library – responsible for collecting measurements through the experiment lifecycle.  Broker Entity – enables resource discovery, reservation and provisioning through an SFA API.  NITOS Scheduler – allows multiple users to use the testbed resurces concurrently.  LTERF service – enables the configuration of the LTE specific parameters through a REST API.  FLEX Impact 25     Diversity in experimentation environment (macro-/ femto- cell setups) Variety of experimental scenarios supported (mobility, emulation, handover management, etc.) Fully open source 4G system platforms with LTE, LTE-Advanced and beyond LTE features Broader and more innovative use of the experimental facilities First FLEX Open Call 1st Flex Competitive Open Call for proposals 27  FLEX project is looking for two different types of proposals:  Novel experiments taking advantage of the LTE infrastructure  Testbed enhancements by means of testbed tools/equipment that will be fully integrated to the frameworks adopted by the FLEX project. FLEX Open Call 28  Budget: € 900,000  Number of experiments to be funded: up to 10  Maximum Commission Funding per experiment: € 150,000 for innovative experiments / € 200,000 for testbed enhancements  Total Budget foreseen for experiments: € 500,000  Total Budget foreseen for enhancements: € 400,000   Number of partners per experiment: The target number of participants per experiment are 1-2 Type of participants: The profile of participants is academics, industrial or SMEs active in the domain LTE research, that need to run experiments to further test, evaluate and optimize their solutions. The rules of participation are the same as for any FP7 project.  Duration of the experiment: The maximum allowed duration of each experiment is 12 Months  Language of the proposal: English  Call deadline: Friday, October 31, 2014 at 17:00h CET (Brussels time)  Contact for information on this call: Prof. Thanasis Korakis (UTH), email: [email protected] web: http://www.flex-project.eu Questions? FLEX Project Website: http://flex-project.eu email: [email protected]