Demo: Experimentation in Controlled and Operational LTE Settings with FLEX-MONROE

ABSTRACT

This demo paper presents FLEX-MONROE, a platform that facilitates better understanding of the status of current Mobile Broadband (MBB) networks (e.g. 3G and 4G/LTE) and enables performance improvements by allowing experimentation with controllable LTE parameters. The platform enables the investigation of the impact of low-level tweaks in network parameters in the LTE infrastructure on the application performance. We argue that FLEX-MONROE is crucial to provide guidelines on how to improve the application performance both in the current and future MBB networks.

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Index Terms

• Networks

  • Network performance evaluation

    • Network experimentation

    • Network performance analysis

  • Network types

    • Mobile networks

• Software and its engineering

  • Software organization and properties

    • Contextual software domains

      • Operating systems

        • Process management

          • Scheduling