LTE Mobile Networks Research Articles

A Fuzzy Inference Model for Evaluating Data Transfer in LTE Mobile Networks via Crowdsourced Data

A Fuzzy Inference Model for Evaluating Data Transfer in LTE Mobile Networks via Crowdsourced Data

Performance Evaluation of Scheduling Algorithms of LTE and LTE-A Mobile Networks using Vienna Simulator

Performance Evaluation of Scheduling Algorithms of LTE and LTE-A Mobile Networks using Vienna Simulator

Phased Array System Toolbox Pack Overview for New Course «5G Smart Antennas Technologies»

In the field of smart antenna technologies, approaches based on simulation modeling in special Matlab software, including the Phased Array System Toolbox extension package, deserve special attention. This package provides the implementation of algorithms and methods for modeling antenna arrays (AA) and beamforming (BF) systems in various applications, including radio communication, radar and radio navigation systems. Using the capabilities of this extension package, you can analyze the performance of active and passive AAs of various geometric configurations, including complex AAs formed from composite arrays of elements. The simulation models built with this expansion package allow the formation and processing of signals using models and methods of beamforming, when working on transmission and reception. For LTE and 5G NR mobile networks, satellite systems and WLANs, the PAST extension package allows modeling multipath AAs, including those operating in the adaptive BF mode. The extension package includes models of digital and hybrid BF algorithms that operate as part of massive MIMO spatial signal processing systems in the mmWave. Simulation capabilities in the extension package include, but are not limited to, reproducing fading conditions in a multipath radio channel and evaluating their impact on communication systems with an AP; algorithms and methods for determining signal direction of arrival (DOA). In this paper, we review the coordinate systems used in the PAST extension package. Subject of study. The article is devoted to an overview of the PAST extension package for use in the new 5G Smart Antenna Technologies training course. Method. The study of the possibilities of the PAST extension package is carried out by the simulation. Main results. The result of this work is an overview of the coordinate systems in basic software tools of the PAST extension package for use in the new course "5G Smart Antenna Technologies". Practical significance. This review introduces the capabilities of the PAST extension package and is the foundation of methodological support in the implementation of algorithms and methods for modeling antenna arrays and beamforming systems within the framework of the new training course “5G Smart Antenna Technologies”.

Improving QoS for Real-time Traffic using Multiple Low Latency Queueing Scheduling Mechanisms

In this work, a Multiple Low Latency Queuing scheduling mechanism model is developed to improve the QoS performance for real time and critical mission data traffic in LTE mobile networks. The main objective of this model is to achieve minimum delay and improve the QoS for real time applications (like Live Video and Voice over LTE). In addition, issues likestarvation of lower priority queues and bandwidth allocation are addressed. The model is composed of four components, first, classifier to classify the incoming traffic in router interface. Second, four Class Based Weighted Fair Queues (CBWFQ) scheduling mechanisms, with activation of strict priority feature in the first two queues. Third, two separate rate limiters (policers), one for each strict priority queue. Two scenarios are designed and simulated using Optimized Network Engineering Tool (OPNET). The results show that, in the case of Multiple Low Latency Queuing scheduling mechanism model, the real time traffic suffers less delay compared to the case of existing scheduling mechanisms like (Custom Queuing, Priory Queuing, CBWFQ and Low Latency Queuing). On the other hand, the model also addressed the starvation of lower-priority queuesproblem.

DEVELOPMENT OF SMART CAMPUS APPLICATIONS BASED ON WIRELESS TECHNOLOGIES USING OPEN-SOURCE PLATFORMS

Malaysian National Center for Education estimates that students' enrolments will increase to 17.2 million by 2028. The conventional way of managing things around campus work can be improved by applying the smart campus concept. This study showcases the potential smart campus applications with different wireless IoT technologies and their application; LoRa for Internet of Bicycle (IoB), Sigfox for water quality monitoring, IEEE 801.11p for campus active safety application, and NB-IoT for remote mangrove conservation. The prototypes consist of various sensors and online dashboards to demonstrate the open-source IoT ecosystem. For IoB, a 0.5 km radius centered at LoRa gateway’s location, proved reliable for real-time e-bicycles location monitoring. It offers locking system security to avoid bicycles steal. The SigFox-based water quality monitoring system received signal performance is adequate (RSSI -80 to -90 dBm) with a tower location approximately 3 km from the lake area. For active safety application based on IEEE 801.11p, communication of braking force, car speed, and position of cars ahead of an obstacle make this application feasible to improve road safety around campus, with the real implementation expected to be achieved in the next five to ten years. Lastly, the application of remote mangrove conservation monitoring using NB-IoT on LTE mobile network from Celcom as an independent wireless platform. It allows researchers and students from the university to use this application for their research on sustainable conservation at remote mangrove sites worldwide. The results have shown that all the wireless IoT is promising for future smart campus deployment.

EVALUATION OF VOICE TRANSMISSION QUALITY IN THE LTE NETWORKS

Background. LTE mobile networks combine packet network technology and radio technology. Parameters of packet and radio subsystems significantly affects the quality of all traffic types transmission, especially telephone traffic, as the most demanding to such parameters of network transmission as delay, jitter and packet loss rate. The recommendations of the International Telecommunication Union and the documents of the partner organization of telecommunications operators (3GPP) contain hypothetical reference models, targets for end-to-end connection quality, and lists the factors that affect the quality (QoS) of VoLTE services. In addition, the network points are shown where you need to measure the quality of telephone traffic and tools for quality assessment. The quality of telephony services is assessed according to the E-model using the method of determining the mean opinion score (MOS). However, this technique is intended primarily to determine the MOS during the network planning. To calculate the MOS in a working network, you have to measure such network performance first such as voice delay and packet loss rate. This article presents the method of calculating MOS in the LTE network based on the E-model and presents the results of practical quality studies.
 Objective. The purpose of this article is research the impact of delay and packet loss ratio and voice codec characteristics in the real LTE network on quality of telephone services.
 Methods. Analysis of factors affecting on telephone services quality and analysis MOS assessment methods. Practical studies of the delay and packet loss ratio affect the MOS level in various conditions of radio coverage and network load.
 Results. Practical results of delay and packet loss ratio influence on the telephone services quality in the LTE network. Calculated MOS based on the practically measured delay and packet loss ratio.
 Conclusions. The combination of packet technologies, modern AMR-WB codecs and QoS support mechanisms in the LTE networks provides high quality perception of voice messages at the level of not less than 4 on the MOS scale. With a delay not exceeding 180 ms, a sufficiently high quality of voice transmission is ensured (MOS ≈ 4). VoLTE technology using the AMR-WB codec is quite resistant to packet loss and provides high quality perception of voice messages at a packet loss ratio of up to 1%.

Navigation system for unmanned vessels using a navigation buoy

Nowadays the floating aids to navigation are being actively developed for remote control of the buoy location. The modern technical level allows building a buoy with the functions of monitoring the environment and transmitting the received information to coastal services. This task is becoming more urgent in connection with the development of unmanned vessels. The paper considers the results of field tests of an operating navigation buoy with special navigation equipment. The buoy is designed for information support during field tests of unmanned vessels and water transport facilities in the test water area in the Volga-Baltic basin of the inland waterways of the Russia Federation. Full-scale tests of special navigation equipment were carried out in accordance with the developed program and test procedure. The tests included the validation of the receipt of data from special navigation equipment to an external server via LTE mobile networks, assessment of the accuracy of positioning by means of navigation equipment, assessment of the percentage of data loss during transmission and validation of data visualization on an interactive map displayed in an Internet browser.

Live Migration of Virtual Machine and Container Based Mobile Core Network Components: A Comprehensive Study

With the increasing demand for openness, flexibility, and monetization the Network Function Virtualization (NFV) of mobile network functions has become the embracing factor for most mobile network operators. Early reported field deployments of virtualized Evolved Packet Core (EPC) - the core network component of 4G LTE and 5G non-standalone mobile networks - reflect this growing trend. To best meet the requirements of power management, load balancing, and fault tolerance in the cloud environment, the need for live migration for these virtualized components cannot be shunned. Virtualization platforms of interest include both Virtual Machines (VMs) and Containers, with the latter option offering more lightweight characteristics. The first contribution of this paper is the implementation of a number of custom functions that enable migration of Containers supporting virtualized EPC components. The current CRIU-based migration of Docker Container does not fully support the mobile network protocol stack. CRIU extensions to support the mobile network protocol stack are therefore required and described in the paper. The second contribution is an experimental-based comprehensive analysis of live migration in two backhaul network settings and two virtualization technologies. The two backhaul network settings are the one provided by CloudLab and one based on a programmable optical network testbed that makes use of OpenROADM dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) equipment. The paper compares the migration performance of the proposed implementation of OpenAirInterface (OAI) based containerized EPC components with the one utilizing VMs, running in OpenStack. The presented experimental comparison accounts for a number of system parameters and configurations, image size of the virtualized EPC components, network characteristics, and signal propagation time across the OpenROADM backhaul network.

Influence of various application types on the performance of LTE mobile networks

Modern mobile internet networks are becoming heavier and denser. Also it is not regularly planned, and becoming more heterogeneous. The explosive growth in the usage of smartphones poses numerous challenges for LTE cellular networks design and implementation. The performance of LTE networks with bursty and self-similar traffic has become a major challenge. Accurate modeling of the data generated by each connected wireless device is important for properly investigating the performance of LTE networks. This paper presents a mathematical model for LTE networks using queuing theory considering the influence of various application types. Using sporadic source traffic feeding to the queue of the evolved node B and with the exponential service time assumption, we construct a queuing model to estimate the performance of LTE networks. We use the performance model presented in this paper to study the influence of various application categories on the performance of LTE cellular networks. Also we validate our model with simulation using NS3 simulator with different scenarios.

NETWORK CALCULUS. PART 2. PRACTICAL USE

The frst part of the article provided an overview of the basic principles of the promising direction of modeling and analysing infocommunication networks and systems - Network Calculus theory. The second part of the article considers examples of practical application of Network Calculus theory to the analysis of infocommunication networks and systems. A qualitative comparison was given of trafc delays estimates in the queuing system obtained using the methods of queuing theory, network calculus theory and simulation, with delays in a real system. The results of using network calculus to assess the boundary characteristics of the service trafc quality in the most promising infocommunication networks are presented. The features of the use of deterministic network calculus for estimating end-to-end delays in sensor networks and the upper queues boundaries in the bufers of the controller and switches of software-defined networking are described. Application of the theory of stochastic network calculus to obtain boundary estimates of end-to-end delays in LTE mobile networks for trafc fows of real and unreal time is shown.

Analisis Hasil Pengukuran Performansi Jaringan 4G LTE 1800 MHz di Area Sokaraja Tengah Kota Purwokerto Menggunakan Genex Asistant Versi 3.18

The implementation of 4G LTE network and its advantages gave us faster speed of mobile network. We need to know the performance of LTE mobile network in Sokaraja Tengah – Indonesia, which deployed by Telkomsel network provider by comparing its RSRP, SINR, RSRQ, and throughput using drive test method of Genex Probe. Signal performance was measured by drive test dedicated mode on the streamed videos and analyzed with Genex Assistant. The result shows that generally Telkomsel’s 4G LTE network in Sokaraja Tengah has 99.7% of (-70) – (-90) dBm RSRP value, 85.09% of 1-15 SINR value, 99.23% of (-15)-0 dBm RSRQ value, average uplink 2575 kbps and downlink 1530 kbps of throughput.

Approach for the Design of a Broadband Microwave Power Amplifier in Microstrip Technology for Mobile Communications Systems

This work presents a broadband power amplifier in S-band in microstrip technology. The proposed power amplifier is modeled with a single-stage architecture based on a field effect transistor ATF13786 of Agilent Technologies (hp) ® . The used transistor has been polarized with transmission lines and it has been adapted with matching networks in the form of λ /4 transformers filters at the input and at the output. This amplifier has been studied and optimized using the Advanced Design System (ADS ® ) software. The simulation results of the output power and S parameters show excellent characteristics with a satisfactory gain greater than 10.9 dB, low reflections, a saturated output power of 16.4 dBm with a 1 dB compression point at an input power level of about 5 dBm, a maximum PAE of 25.3% and unconditional stability in the desired frequency band. The modeled amplifier can be integrated into mobile communications systems namely LTE mobile networks (2500 to 2690 MHz) and wireless networks using Wi-Fi protocol (2400 to 2485 MHz).

Fair Channel Allocation Scheme for Base Station Cooperative Communication in LTE Mobile Network

Unjust provision of channels by base station greatly affects Mobile subscribers. A standard cluster, would be able to serve Many User Equipments (UEs). A typical cluster would contain 3, 7 19, or 21 cells. An issue of ambiguity exist in the demarcation boundary of adjacent cells, thus, radio transmission in a cell from a particular eNode Base Station (eNBs) may leak into neighbouring cells, which causes interferences. Furthermore, the eNBs geographical location is sensitive to obstructions such as towering buildings. The absence of line of sight has a major impact on radio signals, as this would amplify the loss of propagated radio signals, leading to weaken signal strength at the transmitter, that ultimately affecting current the Fixed Channel Allocation (FCA) technique. Despite the effort for fair channel through the current mechanism, users on the edge of the cell experience unfairness. The primary cause for this can be traced to poor received signal power. There are two considered UEs clustered in this simulation scenarios, which is proposed in this paper: (i) random fixed UEs and (ii) 5 step move UEs. A combination of static and dynamic clustering is proposed, thus leading to enhanced channel allocation. From the results, there is a drastic reduction in inter-cell interference, which would increase the performance of the cellular network to become ideal.

An Efficient and Secure Authentication and Key Agreement Protocol of LTE Mobile Network for an IoT System

An Efficient and Secure Authentication and Key Agreement Protocol of LTE Mobile Network for an IoT System

Techniques For Offloading LTE Evolved Packet Core Traffic Using Openflow: A Comparative Survey & Design Reference

Cellular users of today have an insatiable appetite for bandwidth and data. Data-intensive applications, such as video on demand, online gaming and video conferencing, have gained prominence. This, coupled with recent innovations in the mobile network such as LTE/4G, poses a unique challenge to network operators in how to extract the most value from their deployments while reducing their Total Cost of Operations(TCO). To this end, a number of enhancements have been proposed to the “conventional” LTE mobile network. Most of these recognize the monolithic and non-elastic nature of the mobile backend and propose complimenting core functionality with concepts borrowed from Software Defined Networking (SDN). In this paper, we will attempt to explore some existing options within the LTE standard to address traffic challenges. We then survey some SDN-enabled alternatives and comment on their merits and drawbacks.

Multipath and Doppler Characterization of an Electromagnetic Environment by Massive MDT Measurements From 3G and 4G Mobile Terminals

This paper describes an innovative approach to radio channel characterization in UMTS and LTE mobile networks. In place of traditional drive tests (DT), which employ a single test mobile, a massive collection of georeferenced radio measurements is made from a wide population of user equipment (UE). This is possible with new 3GPP features, called “minimization of DTs” (MDT), which are implemented in the last generation UEs and enable the reporting of additional periodical measurements, including GPS position and estimated UE distance (i.e. delay) over the radio path. This opens to new fields of investigation in the mobile radio channel, unreachable with the legacy DT approach, such as multipath and Doppler analysis. The UE MDT data of UMTS and LTE RAN of Telecom Italia Mobile, in the Italian midsized city of Bologna, have been statistically analyzed. The big data elaboration has been performed with the Nokia proprietary system “GeoSynthesis.” The results give a high-resolution geographical view of the above-mentioned channel phenomena affecting the quality and user experience. They are in good accordance with network performance indicators: the higher the multipath time, the worse the decoding performance of radio blocks (block error rate). The estimated Doppler shift also fits the known mobility patterns in the urban environment.

Compact dual‐band bandpass filters with stub resonating lines

AbstractSeveral new compact microstrip dual‐band bandpass filters using admittance inverters and open‐ended resonating stubs are introduced. Operating at the center‐band frequencies of 1.8 and 2.4 GHz, with moderate bandwidth passbands, the proposed devices are suitable for LTE mobile cellular networks and Wi‐Fi technologies. The design procedure includes the use of simple equations to extract the lumped element values of the circuit model. Next, the equivalent distributed layout which consists of 3 admittance inverters and 4 shunt‐connected stubs (two λg/2 and two λg/2) is presented. The design is adjusted to attain further enhancement in the electrical and physical characteristics. These include spurious passband suppression, layout miniaturization, and reduction in the capacitive coupling between stubs. Measured responses are compared with simulated results, and very good agreement is observed. These features make the proposed filters suitable for integration into various microwave planar technologies.

Exploiting Mobile Big Data: Sources, Features, and Applications

The worldwide rollout of 4G LTE mobile communication networks has accelerated the proliferation of the mobile Internet and spurred a new wave of mobile applications on smartphones. This new wave has provided mobile operators an enormous opportunity to collect a huge amount of data to monitor the technical and transactional aspects of their networks. Recent research on mobile big data mining have shown its great potential for diverse purposes ranging from improving traffic management, enabling personal and contextual services, to monitoring city dynamics and so on. The mobile big data research has a multi-disciplinary nature that demands distinct knowledge from mobile communications, signal processing, and data mining. The research field of mobile big data has emerged quickly in recent years, but is somewhat fragmented. This article aims to provide an integrated picture of this emerging field to bridge multiple disciplines and hopefully to inspire future research.

LTE 4600 MIMO Antenna: Design and Optimization

The design and optimization of MIMO antenna for LTE 4600 band applications is reported in this paper. This low profile nature and UWB characteristics is performed at the resonant frequency of 4.6GHz with low cost substrate FR4 epoxy material is utilized in this research work. The proposed MIMO antenna with size of 24x18mm and radiation size of 8x6mm for single element is designed in this work which is compact size compared with existing work. This proposed antenna exhibit at the return loss of -18.37dB and -21.17dB for the S11 and S22 parameters also satisfy the VSWR<2. In this paper the overall antenna characteristics and simulation result analysis with high frequency structure simulator tool (HFSS). The overall radiation efficiency is 76.47% and peak gain at 10 dB normalize is -6.3dB is displaying in this work also radiation pattern appear nearly omni directional pattern. This modified rectangular shape, compact size, wider bandwidth is recommended for LTE mobile network, WLAN and WiMAX applications.

Follow-Me Cloud: When Cloud Services Follow Mobile Users

The trend towards the cloudification of the 3GPP LTE mobile network architecture and the emergence of federated cloud infrastructures call for alternative service delivery strategies for improved user experience and efficient resource utilization. We propose Follow-Me Cloud (FMC), a design tailored to this environment, but with a broader applicability, which allows mobile users to always be connected via the optimal data anchor and mobility gateways, while cloud-based services follow them and are delivered via the optimal service point inside the cloud infrastructure. FMC applies a Markov-Decision-Process-based algorithm for cost-effective, performance-optimized service migration decisions, while two alternative schemes to ensure service continuity and disruption-free operation are proposed, based on either Software Defined Networking technologies or the Locator/Identifier Separation Protocol. Numerical results from our analytic model for FMC, as well as testbed experiments with the two alternative FMC implementations we have developed, demonstrate quantitatively and qualitatively the advantages it can bring about.