News Description

The  evolution of mobile communications and the  Internet has  lead  to  the third generation of cellular  networks
(3G), known as Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS). With the launch of this new generation of  mobile
communication,  users are now truly able  to  access  the Internet from mobile terminals, allowing them to enjoy  a
large variety of added value services.

In  this  context, UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access  Network (UTRAN)   modelling  and  traffic  characterisation   are
important steps of the research. The goal of this project has  been to provide a representative Linux-based testbed
which  emulates  a real UTRAN segment supporting  typical IPv6  traffic  samples  based on significant  statistical
properties. This gives a tool able to emulate real  UTRAN behaviours   with  more  realism  and  less   theoretical
hypotheses than time- and event-driven network simulators and less costs than a real UTRAN deployment.

The  main  objective  of this thesis  is  to  demonstrate through  comparison of results from the open  literature,
that  a  testbed consisting of a dozen personal computers and open source software is able to realistically emulate
the  UTRAN.  Based  on  this testbed infrastructure,  the second  objective  of this project is  to  improve  Radio
Resource  Management (RRM), Call Admission Control  (CAC) and/or  scheduling  algorithms in  order  to  fulfil  the
Quality   of  Service  (QoS)  requirements  for  upcoming applications  and  services, and  Quality  of  Experience
(QoE) of users.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THE THESIS

http://www.info.fundp.ac.be/~hvp/rech/doc/index_en.html