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Open-LTE: An Open LTE Simulator For Mobile Video Streaming: Qinghua Zheng, Haipeng Du, Junke Li, Weizhan Zhang Qingyu Li
Open-LTE: An Open LTE Simulator For Mobile Video Streaming: Qinghua Zheng, Haipeng Du, Junke Li, Weizhan Zhang Qingyu Li
Qingyu Li
MOEKLINNS Lab
Department of Computer Science and Technology
Xian Jiaotong University, China
{qhzheng,duhaipeng,jkli,zhangwzh}@mail.xjtu.edu.cn
Researches on mobile video streaming cannot be fully supported. Constrained by the universal simulator framework, it
is costly to generate coded video bitstream, which contains
a substantial amount of temporal and spatial dependencies.
The lack of support to decode a reconstructed video stream
after transmission over the virtual LTE network makes codec
based optimization impossible. Eventually, only transport layer
optimization can be evaluated with these simulators. These
limitations, which are caused by the closed nature of the
simulator framework, affect the research scope and reduce the
credibility of the experiment results.
In light of this, we present an LTE simulator to simulate an
open virtual LTE network with the ability to connect actual
hosts over real wired link in realtime. The simulator works
on the network layer and is transparent to upper layers. The
transport and application layer related logics of video streaming can now be deployed on remote hosts and will no longer
be constrained by the simulator framework. The coded video
bitstream from the source is transmitted to the receiver through
the virtual LTE network with any required transport protocol
and can now be decoded on the receiver host. Open-Sim is
thus compatible with a variety of experiments on mobile video
streaming. For example, Quality of Experience(QoE) based
research on mobile video streaming over LTE network can
now be accepted. Open-LTE is also easy to use by providing
a unied conguration le to set up the LTE channel fading
scenarios and interconnect real trafc and the virtual LTE
network. For example, the uplink and downlink bandwidth,
the distance between the end user and the base station, the
moving speed and direction of the end user, etc.
In fact, interfacing a simulator with real-world through devices and/or software modules is usually called Emulation.
However, Open-LTE is rather a simulator than an emulator.
For an emulator, the imitation of the behavior of LTE network
is usually performed with a standalone hardware device. The
main objective is to obtain better simulation delity and efciency. For Open-LTE, the core of the virtual LTE network is
fully imitated with a software simulator. The main contribution
is to solve the restrictions, which are caused by the closed
nature of the simulator framework, on the expansibility of
transport protocols and applications to support more kinds of
experimental studies especially for mobile video streaming.
Fig. 1.
Architecture of Open-LTE
Fig. 3.
Experiment scene
Fig. 2.