Open-Source 4G Experimental Setup (Report)

Creators: Boussad, Yanis; Naoufal Mahfoudi, M; Legout, Arnaud; Dabbous, Walid; Lizzi, Leonardo; Ferrero, Fabien

Others:: COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA); Design, Implementation and Analysis of Networking Architectures (DIANA) ; Inria Sophia Antipolis - Méditerranée (CRISAM) ; Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria); University of California [San Diego] (UC San Diego) ; University of California (UC); Laboratoire d'Electronique, Antennes et Télécommunications (LEAT) ; Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (1965 - 2019) (UNS) ; COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA); Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); Inria & Université Cote d'Azur, CNRS, I3S, Sophia Antipolis, France; ANR-15-IDEX-0001,UCA JEDI,Idex UCA JEDI(2015)

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In this work, we show how to set up a cellular LTE network for wireless experimentation and measurement, relying on commodity hardware and open-source software. We first deploy a complete LTE network on a single laptop and an SDR hardware. Then, we use it to evaluate the reception performance of a commercial smartphone. In the end, we propose a calibration technique which allows using a smartphone as a wireless power measurement tool by reducing the root-mean-square error of the RSSI, with respect to a reference power measured with a specialized spectrum analyzer, from 6.4 dBm to 2.4 dBm.

Open-Source 4G Experimental Setup (Report)

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