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A new model for the simulation

of the LTE-EPC data plane


Nicola Baldo, Manuel Requena, Jaume Nin, Marco Miozzo

The LENA project (LTE/EPC Network Simulator)


CTTC working with Ubiquisys, the leading femtocell
manufacturer
Objective: develop a common platform for LTE femto/macro
cell vendors to evaluate their different solutions
e.g., make sure that large and small cells from different
vendors will work harmoniously before they are deployed
Open Source to foster adoption and contributions
Based on ns-3

Use case: LTE-based Self Organized Networks


Need to test SONs algorithms before deployment
Ubiquisys made extensive use of simulation to design its first
generation of WCDMA intelligent femtocells

Productoriented:
Real-world interfaces for SON algorithms
FemtoForum MAC Scheduler API specification
Allow testing real code in the simulator

Previous work
LTE PHY and MAC
FemtoForum Scheduler API
Adaptive Modulation and
Coding
Inter-cell interference
Only saturation traffic model
No interworking with IP stack
No support for realistic
applications

The new LTE-EPC model

LTE-EPC data plane protocol stack

Downlink data flow

Uplink data flow

LTE
NetDevice
model

RLC models
RLC Unacknowledged Mode (UM)

SDU Segmentation
SDU Concatenation
SDU Reassembly
Data PDU loss detection and SDU Discard

RLC Acknowledge Mode (RLC)

SDU Segmentation
SDU Concatenation
SDU Reassembly
Status PDUs
Data PDU retransmission

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Execution time performance

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Other new LENA features (not in the paper)


Buildings model
Presence of buildings in the topology
Propagation loss models
Different loss for indoor/outdoor cases
different shadowing
External & internal wall loss

Antenna models
Isotropic antenna model
Cosine antenna model
Parabolic antenna model

LTE PHY error model


Mutual Information Effective SINR Mapping (MIESM)
Block error curves from link-level simulations

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Example: dual stripe scenario

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Hexagonal cell grid topology

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Work in progress

MIMO model
HARQ
RRC
X2

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Check it out!
http://iptechwiki.cttc.es/LTE-EPC_Network_Simulator_(LENA)

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