LTE IOT Event, March 15- 26, 2010

LOCATIONS

• Vodafone Test and Innovation Center in Dusseldorf, Germany
• China Mobile Research Institute in Beijing, China

LTE IOT 2010 WHITE PAPER

Vodafone: Dusseldorf Lab

LTE IOT Participants at the Vodafone Site	Peter Wild of Vodafone conducting tests
Participants testing at Dusseldorf lab	David Hutton (Vodafone), Naseem Khan (Verizon) and Peter Wild ( Vodafone)
Naseem Khan ( Verizon) and Peter Wild (Vodafone) in the lab	The Dusseldorf Lab

China Mobile: Beijing Lab

Participants at the China Mobile (CMCC) lab view a presentation	Participants at CMCC Lab in Beijing
China Mobile Participants	CMCC Representative with LTE IOT Participants, Beijing
Participants at CMCC, Beijing	Participants at CMCC, Beijing

LTE IOT 2010 Event White Paper: Executive Summary

The MultiService Forum (MSF)

The MSF is a global association with a membership that includes the world’s leading Internet Protocol (IP) communications companies. The MSF promotes the testing of interoperability based on open standards within a defined end-to-end architecture. The established Global MSF Interoperability (GMI) events are now being complemented by more technically focused test events. The LTE Interoperability Event being is the first example of a focused test event of this nature.

The LTE Interoperability Event

The LTE Interoperability Event is designed to test standards compliance of Evolved Packet Core network scenarios of interest to major Service Providers, and to gauge vendor support for this technology. Building on the success of previous Global MSF Interoperability (GMI) events, the LTE Interoperability event provided the first global “real network” multi-vendor trial of the Evolved Packet Core infrastructure. Extending the IMS compliant MSF R4 architecture, the MSF defined:

1. LTE Access Tile based on Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Release 8 (R8) Evolved Packet Core standards, and

2. eHRPD Access Tile based on Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Release 8 (R8) Evolved Packet Core standards,

Interoperability testing was conducted in 2 labs; the Vodafone Test and Innovation Centre in Düsseldorf and the CMCC Research Lab in Beijing. The two labs were interconnect6ed via a VPN. Conducting the tests in two interconnected labs made it possible to test more vendor combinations, and also allowed realistic testing of important roaming scenarios. A total of 95 test cases were written across 5 scenarios. The scenarios were as follows:

Scenario 1 – Basic Interoperability, Scenario 2 – Roaming, Scenario 3 – non-LTE access to the EPC, Scenario 4 - Handover, Scenario 5 – Robustness testing.

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