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Flexible 4G/5G Testbed Setup for Mobile Edge Computing Using OpenAirInterface and Open Source MANO

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Web, Artificial Intelligence and Network Applications (WAINA 2020)

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Setting up a working 4G/5G mobile network development testbed can be a highly complicated and error-prone task. In this paper, we therefore introduce our open source Virtual Network Function (VNF) for an OpenAirInterface-based Evolved Packet Core (EPC) for deployment with the Open Source Management and Orchestration (Open Source MANO, OSM) framework. By using our VNF as basis, it will be easily possible to create own testbeds and extend them with further functionality, particularly – but not limited to – Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) setups. In a simple proof of concept, we demonstrate a basic transport protocol performance evaluation in a deployed test network.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    OpenAirInterface: https://www.openairinterface.org.

  2. 2.

    Linux kernel compiled with the option CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT.

  3. 3.

    Open Source MANO: https://osm.etsi.org.

  4. 4.

    Juju: https://jaas.ai.

  5. 5.

    NetPerfMeter: https://www.uni-due.de/~be0001/netperfmeter/.

  6. 6.

    OAI HSS and MME: https://github.com/OPENAIRINTERFACE/openair-cn.git.

  7. 7.

    OAI SPGW-U and SPGW-C: https://github.com/OPENAIRINTERFACE/openair-cn-cups.git.

  8. 8.

    OAI eNodeB: https://gitlab.eurecom.fr/oai/openairinterface5g.git.

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  1. Simula Metropolitan Centre for Digital Engineering, OsloMet–storbyuniversitetet, Pilestredet 52, 0167, Oslo, Norway

    Thomas Dreibholz

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  1. Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Fukuoka, Japan

    Leonard Barolli

  2. Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, University of Naples “Frederico II”, Naples, Italy

    Flora Amato

  3. Department of Political Science, University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Caserta, Italy

    Francesco Moscato

  4. Faculty of Business Administration, Rissho University, Tokyo, Japan

    Tomoya Enokido

  5. Department of Advanced Sciences, Hosei University, Tokyo, Japan

    Makoto Takizawa

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Dreibholz, T. (2020). Flexible 4G/5G Testbed Setup for Mobile Edge Computing Using OpenAirInterface and Open Source MANO. In: Barolli, L., Amato, F., Moscato, F., Enokido, T., Takizawa, M. (eds) Web, Artificial Intelligence and Network Applications. WAINA 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1150. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44038-1_105

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