Testbeds and Research Infrastructures. Development of Networks and Communities. 6th International ICST Conference, TridentCom 2010, Berlin, Germany, May 18-20, 2010, Revised Selected Papers

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OpenEPC: A Technical Infrastructure for Early Prototyping of NGMN Testbeds

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-17851-1_13,
        author={Marius Corici and Fabricio Gouveia and Thomas Magedanz and Dragos Vingarzan},
        title={OpenEPC: A Technical Infrastructure for Early Prototyping of NGMN Testbeds},
        proceedings={Testbeds and Research Infrastructures. Development of Networks and Communities. 6th International ICST Conference, TridentCom 2010, Berlin, Germany, May 18-20, 2010, Revised Selected Papers},
        proceedings_a={TRIDENTCOM},
        year={2012},
        month={10},
        keywords={Open EPC Testing Testbeds Next Generation Mobile Network Operator core network EPC},
        doi={10.1007/978-3-642-17851-1_13}
    }
    
  • Marius Corici
    Fabricio Gouveia
    Thomas Magedanz
    Dragos Vingarzan
    Year: 2012
    OpenEPC: A Technical Infrastructure for Early Prototyping of NGMN Testbeds
    TRIDENTCOM
    Springer
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-17851-1_13
Marius Corici1,*, Fabricio Gouveia1,*, Thomas Magedanz1,*, Dragos Vingarzan1,*
  • 1: Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS
*Contact email: marius-iulian.corici@fokus.fraunhofer.de, fabricio.gouveia@fokus.fraunhofer.de, thomas.magedanz@fokus.fraunhofer.de, dragos.vingarzan@fokus.fraunhofer.de

Abstract

The challenging and ever increasing requirements of future applications demand new concepts for better control and management of network resources. The Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) introduced in their latest specifications the Evolved Packet Core (EPC) architecture for transparently unifying the parameters of different technologies, like the UMTS, WLAN, non-3GPP access technologies and a future Evolved Radio Access Network, called Long Term Evolution (LTE), with the use of multiple application platforms such as IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) and the Internet. This paper describes a testbed implementation of the Evolved Packet Core named OpenEPC which provides a reference implementation of 3GPP’s EPC developed by the Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS. OpenEPC is a set of software components offering advanced IP mobility schemes, policy-based QoS control, and integration with different application platforms in converging network environments. This initiative, in addition to fostering research and development, enables academic and industry researchers to rapidly realize state-of-the-art NGMN infrastructures and application testbeds.