MONROE FELICIA Experiment code

Experiment code from the MONROE FELICIA project.

In the FELICIA project we conducted a feasibility study of latency-critical connected vehicle applications in today’s 3G/4G cellular networks. We used the MONROE mobile broadband measurement testbed to perform a series of multi-access measurement experiments on buses. The objective was to understand what network performance connected vehicles can expect in today’s mobile networks, in terms of transaction times and availability. The goal was also to understand to what extent access to several operators in parallel can improve communication performance. 

In our experiments, mobile MONROE nodes on buses repeatedly uploaded warning messages to a stationary server. We measured transaction time and availability for three different protocols: UDP, TCP, and HTTPS. We always triplicated the messages and performed three transactions in parallel over three different cellular operators. This created a dataset with which we could compare the three operators in an objective way and with which we could study the potential for multi-access. For each transaction we also collected meta-data and studied how the transaction times correlated with access technology (LTE/3G) and signal quality. 

The experiment design and the measurement results are described in the following papers:

• Ben Abdesslem, Fehmi, Henrik Abrahamsson, and Bengt Ahlgren.
  "Measuring Mobile Network Multi-Access for Time-Critical C-ITS Applications" 
  Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference (TMA'18), Vienna, Austria (2018).
• Ben Abdesslem, Fehmi, Henrik Abrahamsson, and Bengt Ahlgren.
  "Cellular Network Multi-Access Measurements on the Roads of Värmland, Sweden." 
  arXiv preprint arXiv:1805.06814 (2018).
• Henrik Abrahamsson, Ben Abdesslem, Fehmi, Bengt Ahlgren, Anna Brunstrom, Ian Marsh and Mats Björkman.
  "Connected Vehicles in Cellular Networks: Multi-access versus Single-access Performance" 
  2nd Workshop on Mobile Network Measurement (MNM’18), Vienna, Austria (2018).

A dataset is also availble: “Network Measurements while Uploading 5.6 KB Files from Moving Buses to Cellular Networks in Varmland, Sweden”, DOI10.5281/zenodo.1287751