After months of work and preparation, the TRIANGLE testbed now has a set of exciting new features for our experimenters.

This release of the testbed features a user-friendly, web-based interface that allows App developers to manage their own applications, while configuring and running experiments and campaigns with an initial set of pre-defined network configurations. While the functionalities of the web interface are still in the development phase, including a result viewer now enabled for a basic set of raw data, behind the hood runs a powerful orchestration and scripting engine that the experimenters can have access to, if needed, with the help and support of the TRIANGLE team.

The testbed, powered by a 4G Rel’12 LTE eNB emulator, a Rel’8-compliant S1 interface, and a 4G Rel’12 Evolved Packet Core, enables experimenters to test Applications on a small device cloud, measuring a set of performance characteristics including a time synchronized device power consumption. This is a particularly interesting capability when combined with the support for LTE Rel’13 Cat.M2 devices support, i.e. the new cellular IoT 3GPP standard.

More exciting features are in the pipeline for the next version of the testbed, with a release date of October 1st 2017. The Release will be then available to the winners of the newly launched Open Call OC3.

Release 2 of the testbed will have an increased degree of automation, allowing the App developers to choose from an increased number of network scenarios and pre-specified test cases. The testbed will allow the experimenters to enjoy the broad bandwidth of a 5G-like heterogenous connectivity, a bigger device cloud, and the possibility to benchmark against a set of reference applications, such as Facebook, YouTube, Spotify. The presence in the testbed of a robotic arm and a GPS signal emulator will enable the testing of Virtual and Augmented Reality applications, while the development of an analytics engine will facilitate the evaluation of QoS and QoE metrics, providing aggregated, user-friendly metrics. The network side will also be upgraded towards 5G with a Rel’13 compliant S1 interface, a Virtualized Network Function testing support, and dynamic, QoE-driven, QoS profiles. The virtualization of the network component will also allow the dynamic emulation of transport network-originated imperfections.

New exciting features in the TRIANGLE testbed

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