4GOPEN

In a global European perspective, it is important to play a commanding role in the evolving information market, to be able to offer new technologies and services at a competitive price, whilst opening the door for future markets to ensure continuous economic growth. In addition, wireless trends have suggested that a focal part of the so called "Next Generation Networks (NGN)" will be seamless interoperability between network operators and access technologies in a bid to provide ubiquitous coverage, and cost-effective communications in an era where spectral resources are a premium. The drive for ubiquitous, cost-effective communication in unison with new service provisioning opportunities provided the impetus for the 4GOpen project. This collective consortium have a common interest to design, implement and validate a heterogeneous network simulation platform- for NGNs systems where the key actors (service providers, operators, and manufacturers) will be able to test new deployment and optimization strategies in a heterogeneous networking environment.

The application of existing commercial tools for evaluating network performance, in a telecommunications society where we have heterogeneity in terms of operators and network, will provide limited results leading to non-optimal usage of radio resources in an era where communications must be cost-effective. The key goal of 4GOpen is to go beyond state-of-the-art on existing dynamic system level tool technologies to facilitate the global optimization of the radio network where we infer the network can encompass several RATs and operators.

The scope of the project is to interconnect two simulators (3DTruEM - Network Simulator) working on different communication layers (Physical and Network) and demonstrate the combined accuracy achieved by the simulators compared with real measurements. The final result would be a service, where a user will request the simulation and analysis of a WiFi or WiMAX communication scenario on 4GOPEN simulation platform, by configuring the parameters of the scenario of interest. 4GOPEN simulation platform will assist users in planning their networks in terms of access points, routers, repeaters, etc. Utilization of the tools will allow the best network deployment for maximum wireless coverage and performance.In a global European perspective, it is important to play a commanding role in the evolving information market, to be able to offer new technologies and services at a competitive price, whilst opening the door for future markets to ensure continuous economic growth. In addition, wireless trends have suggested that a focal part of the so called "Next Generation Networks (NGN)" will be seamless interoperability between network operators and access technologies in a bid to provide ubiquitous coverage, and cost-effective communications in an era where spectral resources are a premium. The drive for ubiquitous, cost-effective communication in unison with new service provisioning opportunities provided the impetus for the 4GOpen project. This collective consortium have a common interest to design, implement and validate a heterogeneous network simulation platform- for NGNs systems where the key actors (service providers, operators, and manufacturers) will be able to test new deployment and optimization strategies in a heterogeneous networking environment.

The application of existing commercial tools for evaluating network performance, in a telecommunications society where we have heterogeneity in terms of operators and network, will provide limited results leading to non-optimal usage of radio resources in an era where communications must be cost-effective. The key goal of 4GOpen is to go beyond state-of-the-art on existing dynamic system level tool technologies to facilitate the global optimization of the radio network where we infer the network can encompass several RATs and operators.

The scope of the project is to interconnect two simulators (3DTruEM - Network Simulator) working on different communication layers (Physical and Network) and demonstrate the combined accuracy achieved by the simulators compared with real measurements. The final result would be a service, where a user will request the simulation and analysis of a WiFi or WiMAX communication scenario on 4GOPEN simulation platform, by configuring the parameters of the scenario of interest. 4GOPEN simulation platform will assist users in planning their networks in terms of access points, routers, repeaters, etc. Utilization of the tools will allow the best network deployment for maximum wireless coverage and performance.