A Testbed for Fixed Mobile Convergence Experimentation: ADRENALINE-LENA Integration

In this paper we present an application of the Fixed Mobile Convergence approach developed in the EU COMBO project for the seamless delivery of fixed and mobile services using a common network infrastructure and set of functions. In particular, we apply this approach within a convergent multilayer packet-optical aggregation network in order to provide QoS support to the transport of packet services regardless of the access technology. As a proof of concept of our approach, we developed a Fixed Mobile Convergence testbed that integrates the LTE-EPC LENA emulator and the multi-layer ADRENALINE testbed. We describe and experimentally validate how this integration is done on the data plane to provide the end-to-end transport of LTE mobile services through the packet-optical aggregation network.