OpenLEON: An End-to-End Emulator from the Edge Data Center to the Mobile Users

Carlos Andrés Ramiro; Claudio Fiandrino; Alejandro Blanco Pizarro; Pablo Jiménez Mateo; Norbert Ludant; Joerg Widmer

doi:10.1145/3267204.3267210

OpenLEON: An End-to-End Emulator from the Edge Data Center to the Mobile Users

Carlos Andrés Ramiro, Claudio Fiandrino, Alejandro Blanco Pizarro, Pablo Jiménez Mateo, Norbert Ludant, Joerg Widmer

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Abstract

To support next generation services, 5G mobile network architectures are increasingly adopting emerging technlogies like software-defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV). Core and radio access functionalities are virtualized and executed in edge data centers, in accordance with the Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) principle. While testbeds are an essential research tool for experimental evaluation in such environments, the landscape of data center and mobile network testbeds is fragmented. In this work, we aim at filling this gap by presenting openLEON, an open source muLti-access Edge cOmputiNg end-to-end emulator that operates from the edge data center to the mobile users. openLEON bridges the functionalities of existing emulators for data centers and mobile networks, i.e., Mininet and srsLTE, and makes it possible to evaluate and validate research ideas on all the components of an end-to-end mobile edge architecture.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental Evaluation & Characterization
Place of Publication	New York, NY, USA
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	19–27
Number of pages	9
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450359306
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3267204.3267210
Publication status	Published - 1 Oct 2018
Event	The 12th ACM International Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental evaluation & CHaracterization, 2018 - New Delhi, India Duration: 2 Nov 2018 → 2 Nov 2018 Conference number: 12 https://sigmobile.org/mobicom/2018/workshops/wintech/

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Name	WiNTECH '18
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery

Workshop

Workshop	The 12th ACM International Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental evaluation & CHaracterization, 2018
Abbreviated title	WiNTECH 2018
Country/Territory	India
City	New Delhi
Period	2/11/18 → 2/11/18
Internet address	https://sigmobile.org/mobicom/2018/workshops/wintech/

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mobile networks
data center networks
network architectures

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Andrés Ramiro, C., Fiandrino, C., Blanco Pizarro, A., Jiménez Mateo, P., Ludant, N., & Widmer, J. (2018). OpenLEON: An End-to-End Emulator from the Edge Data Center to the Mobile Users. In Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental Evaluation & Characterization (pp. 19–27). (WiNTECH '18). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://doi.org/10.1145/3267204.3267210

Andrés Ramiro, Carlos ; Fiandrino, Claudio ; Blanco Pizarro, Alejandro et al. / OpenLEON: An End-to-End Emulator from the Edge Data Center to the Mobile Users. Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental Evaluation & Characterization. New York, NY, USA : Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2018. pp. 19–27 (WiNTECH '18).

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Andrés Ramiro, C, Fiandrino, C, Blanco Pizarro, A, Jiménez Mateo, P, Ludant, N & Widmer, J 2018, OpenLEON: An End-to-End Emulator from the Edge Data Center to the Mobile Users. in Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental Evaluation & Characterization. WiNTECH '18, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York, NY, USA, pp. 19–27, The 12th ACM International Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental evaluation & CHaracterization, 2018, New Delhi, India, 2/11/18. https://doi.org/10.1145/3267204.3267210

OpenLEON: An End-to-End Emulator from the Edge Data Center to the Mobile Users. / Andrés Ramiro, Carlos; Fiandrino, Claudio; Blanco Pizarro, Alejandro et al.
Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental Evaluation & Characterization. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2018. p. 19–27 (WiNTECH '18).

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Andrés Ramiro C, Fiandrino C, Blanco Pizarro A, Jiménez Mateo P, Ludant N, Widmer J. OpenLEON: An End-to-End Emulator from the Edge Data Center to the Mobile Users. In Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental Evaluation & Characterization. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). 2018. p. 19–27. (WiNTECH '18). doi: 10.1145/3267204.3267210

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