Projecte R+D+i amb finançament extern

Project Call identifier F4Fp-01 UP-ORCA

Unified Platform for Benchmarking 3GPP Unlicenced LTE Flavors in ORCA

Funder: Interuniversitair Micro-Electronica Centrum vzw

Duration: from 01 February 2018 to 01 January 2019 (11 months) Finished

Of European scope.

This extension proposes to enable the ORCA platform with the three unlicensed LTE flavors specified by the 3GPP. To this aim, we will implement LTE-WLAN Radio Aggregation (LWA) and LTE-WLAN Radio Level Integration (LWIP) in ns-3 and interface these along with the existing implementation of Licensed Assisted Access (LAA) to ORCA SDR platforms. The objectives of this extension also include the comparison among these unlicensed LTE approaches. Importantly, thanks to the SDR interfacing, this comparison will be performed under real network conditions, which have been shown to differ from common analytical and simulation assumptions when LTE devices coexist with WiFi nodes in the same frequency band. The results of this comparison will enable researcher and practitioners to devise which approach works best under given network conditions. These results, using the ORCA framework, will also be the basis of a new line of work on unlicensed LTE protocol orchestration in real-time.

Call: ORCA - 1st Open Call for Extension (Interuniversitair Micro-Electronica Centrum vzw)

Program: ORCA Orchestration and Reconfiguration Control Architecture