Radio access network simulator

摘要

A simulation platform for early evaluation of the performance of a cdma2000 radio access network uses a generic network simulator as the core simulation engine. The simulation platform includes a mobile device simulation module configured to simulate communications between mobile devices and radio access networks, and a network application simulation module configured to simulate network application functionality. In one embodiment, the network simulation engine, mobile device simulation module and the network application simulation module are linked to emulate end-to-end network communications.

主权项

1. A method for evaluating radio access network performance comprising:
configuring a network simulation engine to simulate radio access network communications, wherein the network simulation engine is further to simulate reverse link mobile access control, and wherein further the network simulation engine is to include a base station controller module for simulating a base station controller and a base station module for simulating a base station; configuring a mobile device simulation module to simulate communications between mobile devices and radio access networks; configuring a network application simulation module to simulate network application functionality; linking the network simulation engine, mobile device simulation module and the network application simulation module to emulate end-to-end network communications; simulating soft handoffs, by at least one of the network simulation engine and mobile device simulation module, between a plurality of mobile devices and base stations; and generating expected network performance information based on outputs from one or more of the network simulation engine, mobile device simulation module and the network application simulation module, wherein the expected network performance information includes inter-cell hand-off performance information.