Ubiquisys has teamed with the Spain-based Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC) to develop the world’s first open source product-oriented LTE network simulator.
The Swindon-based developer of femtocell basestations is aiming to create a common platform to help interoperability issues when operators source LTE femtocells from different manufacturers.
Ubiquisys already has WCDMA femtocells which form self-organising networks (SONs)commercially deployed in the market.
“Just like femtocells, the true value of LTE small cells is in their Intelligence, which minimises OPEX and maximises scalability,” said Will Franks, CTO and co-founder, Ubiquisys.
“We have been conducting research and contributed to relevant projects for the preparation of LTE systems since 2004. It is now a great honour to support Ubiquisys in the ambitious objective of leading the LTE femtocell revolution,” said Prof. Miguel Ángel Lagunas, Director of CTTC, a government-funded research centre.
In WCDMA networks, femtocells and macro cells work independently, but in LTE all cells work together as a single SON.
As a result the adaptive behaviour of femtocells and macro cells is interdependent. Simulators are important because they can evaluate product behaviour in a network.
The open source LTE simulator is based on the popular ns-3 network simulator for internet systems. The development of the LTE simulator will be open to the community in order to foster early adoption and contributions by industrial and academic partners.
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