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Research and design of distributed testing framework for 5G network

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CNIOT '23: Proceedings of the 2023 4th International Conference on Computing, Networks and Internet of Things

May 2023

Pages 554 - 561

https://doi.org/10.1145/3603781.3603878

Published: 27 July 2023 Publication History

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As the 5G network continues to evolve with micro-services, the protocol implementation in the network is decentralised to individual network elements, with multiple network elements collaborating to provide services to the terminals. The functional testing of the network therefore requires the simultaneous testing of multiple network elements.The current test system cannot test multiple network elements simultaneously and has the problem that test anomalies are difficult to locate.This paper proposes a distributed testing framework for 5G networks, which is based on the TTCN-3 testing framework as a prototype and designed using keyword-driven technology and remote procedure call (RPC) technology based on C/S architecture.The framework has proven to have the following advantages: good scalability of the test nodes, the ability to test multiple network elements simultaneously, and the ability to locate test anomalies at the element signalling level.

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Mondal NNiggemeyer MWelzel SKlingler F(2024)Poster: Decentralized Framework for Measuring End-to-End Performance in 5G Networks2024 IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC)10.1109/VNC61989.2024.10575962(265-266)Online publication date: 29-May-2024
https://doi.org/10.1109/VNC61989.2024.10575962

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Research and design of distributed testing framework for 5G network
1. General and reference
  1. Cross-computing tools and techniques
    1. Reliability
    2. Verification
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Designing software
      1. Software design engineering

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CNIOT '23: Proceedings of the 2023 4th International Conference on Computing, Networks and Internet of Things

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DOI:10.1145/3603781

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CNIOT'23: 2023 4th International Conference on Computing, Networks and Internet of Things

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Xiamen, China

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Mondal NNiggemeyer MWelzel SKlingler F(2024)Poster: Decentralized Framework for Measuring End-to-End Performance in 5G Networks2024 IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC)10.1109/VNC61989.2024.10575962(265-266)Online publication date: 29-May-2024
https://doi.org/10.1109/VNC61989.2024.10575962

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