CN103973686A - Mobile communication system test platform based on computer software virtualization technology - Google Patents
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A mobile communication system test platform based on a computer software virtualization technology comprises a simulation access network and a simulation core network. The simulation access network comprises an MS simulation functional entity and a BS simulation functional entity. The MS simulation functional entity and the BS simulation functional entity carry out information interaction with each other. The simulation core network comprises an MSC/VLR simulation functional entity, an SMC/SMG simulation functional entity and an HLR/AuC simulation functional entity. All the simulation functional entities of the simulation core network entity carry out information interaction with one another. The BS simulation functional entity and the MSC/VLR simulation functional entity carry out information interaction with each other. According to the mobile communication system test platform based on the computer software virtualization technology, all the simulation functional entities are virtualized through a PC, and local area network transmission is adopted as a carrier for simulation interfaces between all the simulation functional entities; the construction cost of test equipment is reduced, the renewal cost of the test equipment is also reduced, stability and reliability are improved, and the maintenance workload of the test platform is reduced.
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Technical field
The present invention relates to a kind of method of utilizing computer software virtual emulation communication system, a kind of mobile communication system experiment porch based on computer software virtual technology that relates in particular to the teaching emulation of colleges and universities' communication and relevant speciality, belongs to modern communications course teaching emulation practise area.
Background technology
Over nearly twenty or thirty year, the communication technology and communications industry development are very fast, and colleges and universities' communication education is also greatly developed.Information And Communication subject belongs to industry science class subject, practice in its teaching is for helping student fast understanding to absorb subject knowledge and to enrich teachers ' teaching means etc. particularly important, add under the guiding energetically and current employment situation of the Ministry of Education, each colleges and universities more and more pay attention to practice, and experiment is the very important part of practice.
Present colleges existing laboratory facilities and mode that for mobile communication, teaching adopts mainly contain two kinds: the electronic communication l-G simulation test case equipment of one, experimental box equipment---a kind of miniaturization; Two, large commercial equipment---what a kind of communication equipment business produced can be used for business-like Large Real body communication equipment.The a pair of student of mode understands local knowledge point good effect.But test chamber often at every turn can only to a certain independently, local communication point knowledge carries out emulation experiment, the understanding of communication system overall architecture and function mode is helped little, lack systematicness and globality, the understanding of communicating knowledge is loseed to the situation of woods in only seeing trees after causing present most student to finish test.Mode two is better associated to the total system between professional technique course.But due to the technology closure of business machine, most experiments can only be to do the elementary experiment of some system parameters configurations, system illustrative, student is difficult to be deep into concrete know-why aspect, there are some can be deep into the experiment of signaling aspect, again because actual communication networks too relates to details of operation, too complexity is also not easy to offer student experimenting, is unfavorable for understanding and the absorption of student to Principle of Communication; The concrete setting of each producer business machine is different again, and some bring too many difficulty with the irrelevant redundant details of know-why to student experimenting, hinder carrying out smoothly of testing.And above-mentioned two kinds of modes all exist experimental facilities maintenance workload is large, do not catch up with modern communications development rhythm, the very high defect of renewal of the equipment replacement cost.
More existing virtual experiment porch patterns of present stage do not form complete Experiment Teaching System to modern communications teaching field mostly, and operation interface and mode of operation be abstract complexity often, especially lack for the emulation to each functional entity (as travelling carriage/MS, base station/BS, mobile switching centre/MSC, Visited Location Registor/VLR, attaching position register/HLR etc.) in mobile communication, lack the detailed emulation to details such as virtual signaling and service link interfaces.
Summary of the invention
The object of this invention is to provide a kind of mobile communication system experiment porch based on computer software virtual technology.Use exemplary functions and the signaling process of computer virtual technology artificial actual mobile communication system, help student holds the overall structure of communication system, deeply understands internal work flow process and the signaling process of communication system.
The technical solution adopted in the present invention is: a kind of mobile communication system experiment porch based on computer software virtual technology, under local area network (LAN) networked environment, utilize software virtual emulation for the each functional entity in mobile communications network each PC, wherein every independent PC is virtualized as one or more functional entitys, information interaction between each functional entity realizes by software programming on PC, and virtual signaling and packet are by local area network (LAN) transmission and reception.
Concrete, described experiment porch comprises emulation Access Network and emulation core net two parts; Described core net part comprises MSC/VLR copying entity, HLR/AuC copying entity and SMC/SMG copying entity; Wherein, switch and VLR Visitor Location Register in MSC/VLR copying entity simulation mobile communication system, attaching position register and authentication center in HLR/AuC copying entity simulation mobile communication system; Sms center and Short Message Service Gateway in SMC/SMG copying entity simulation mobile communication system; Between described MSC/VLR copying entity, described SMC/SMG copying entity and described HLR/AuC copying entity, carry out each other information interaction.
Described emulation Access Network comprises MS copying entity and BS two class copying entities, wherein signaling and the business function of the mobile phone in MS copying entity simulation mobile communication system, signaling and the business function of the base station in BS copying entity simulation mobile communication system.Between described MS copying entity and described BS copying entity, carry out information interaction.
Between described BS copying entity and described MSC/VLR artificial physical, carry out information interaction.
Emulation interface between each functional entity adopts local area network (LAN) transmission as carrying, and the protocol stack of emulation interface starts to comprise successively custom protocol, UDP, IP, MAC, PHY from top layer.
Preferably, electromagnetic broadcast characteristic in the true mobile communication system of " LAN broadcast " technology emulation of described emulation Access Network employing udp protocol.
Preferably, described emulation core net adopts signaling link and service link in UDP point-to-point transmission technology emulation real system.
Preferably, between described MS copying entity, described BS copying entity, described MSC/VLR copying entity, described SMC/SMG copying entity or described HLR/AuC copying entity, mutual signaling information is presented on the screen of PC in real time mutually.
Preferably, the quantity of described MS copying entity is at least two.
Preferably, the quantity of described BS copying entity is one or more.
Beneficial effect of the present invention has:
(1) the present invention adopts computer virtual simulation technology, has reduced the construction cost of experimental facilities, has reduced the renewal cost of experimental facilities, has improved stability and the reliability of equipment simultaneously, has reduced the maintenance workload of experiment porch;
(2) the present invention has good normalization, directly perceived in operation, convenient, be consistent on collocation method, parameter signalling with actual mobile communication system, help student in experiment, effectively to grasp overall structure and the interior signaling flow process of communication system;
(3) the present invention has highly scalable, easily upgrades.In the situation that not needing to upgrade hardware, both can carry out software upgrading, the cycle is short, for new communication system, can be very fast build Platform of Experimental Teaching;
(4) between the each entity of experiment porch of the present invention (PC), communication protocol is open, and student can realize according to open protocol oneself programming the emulation of each functional entity;
(5) experiment porch of the present invention is supported the operator scheme of multi-user, multitask.Can support multiple student's Attended Operations, independent experiment simultaneously;
(6) experiment porch of the present invention is supported secondary development, and second development interface is provided.Develop note encoding and decoding experiment in mobile communication system related experiment, Short Message Service Gateway experiment, channel coding/decoding experiment etc. as supported.
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The structural representation of Fig. 1 a kind of mobile communication system experiment porch based on computer software virtual technology of the present invention;
The emulation interface protocol stack structure of Fig. 2 a kind of mobile communication system experiment porch based on computer software virtual technology of the present invention.
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This experiment porch implementation environment is local area network (LAN) (wired or WLAN all can) and the PC of windows operating system is installed.The general frame of experiment porch as shown in Figure 1.With reference to actual mobile communication network structure, experiment porch is divided into (emulation) Access Network and (emulation) core net two large divisions.Emulation Access Network comprises MS, BS (BTS-BSC) two class copying entities.The wherein signaling capability of MS emulation mobile phone (start registration, shutdown registration, voice calling and called continue, note calling and called continue etc.) and business function (voice call, note etc.); The signaling of BS simulation base station and business function.Air interface between MS and BS is most important interface in mobile communication system, is called " (emulation) air interface ", the signalling interactive process that emulation is important in this experiment porch.(emulation) core net comprises the copying entities such as MSC/VLR, HLR/AuC, SMC/SMG.Switch and VLR Visitor Location Register in MSC/VLR Simulated movable communication system; Attaching position register and authentication center in HLR/AuC Simulated movable communication system; Sms center and Short Message Service Gateway in SMC/SMG Simulated movable communication system.Each emulation interface adopts local area network (LAN) transmission as carrying, and protocol stack structure as shown in Figure 2.On (emulation) wave point, MS and BS all adopt electromagnetic broadcast characteristic in the true mobile communication system of udp protocol " LAN broadcast " technology emulation, that is: the signal of BS transmitting, in community, all travelling carriages can be received, otherwise, the signal of travelling carriage transmitting in community, adjacent perimeter BS also can receive.By the emulation of this broadcast characteristic, allow student deeply understand MS important function of " user ID " in work that holding state is done and air interface signaling message.Other emulation interface adopt signaling link and service link in UDP point-to-point transmission technology emulation real system.Be " custom protocol " at the top layer of protocol stack, according to real system signalling interactive process and service data interaction process, define different emulation signaling formats.HLR and VLR are exactly Database Systems in real system, therefore in this experiment porch, just adopt database to realize (such as MySQL, SQLServer etc.).
In the time specifically setting for this platform, a PC operation HLR functional entity simulated program; At least one PC operation MSC/VLR functional entity simulated program (configurable multiple MSC/VLR copying entities); At least one PC operation BS functional entity simulated program (can configure multiple BS copying entities); At least two PC move respectively two MS functional entity simulated programs.Under laboratory environment, configurable multiple BS and multiple MS.Wherein the number of MS copying entity can be consistent with the student's number that participates in experiment.Whether each entity of this experiment porch (PC) can be configured separately, and configure correct according to real system prompting.
Move successively HLR, MSC/VLR, the each copying entity of BS, MS, and configure relevant parameter.BS copying entity starts the basic configuration information of " broadcast " base station.MS copying entity receives after " broadcast " information of base station, starting position enrollment process.Then be MS copying entity start location register successively, the registration of BS copying provider location, the registration of MSC/VLR copying provider location, the registration of HLR copying provider location.After the success of MS start location register, the communication standard (such as GSM, LTE) of the instruction of display intensity and institute's emulation on the title bar of screen, can carry out now the experiment that voice call is dialed, after continuing successfully, the both sides that continue can carry out voice call by headset and microphone.
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1. the mobile communication system experiment porch based on computer software virtual technology, is characterized in that, described experiment porch comprises emulation Access Network and emulation core net;
Described emulation Access Network comprises MS copying entity and BS copying entity; Between described MS copying entity and described BS copying entity, carry out information interaction;
Described emulation core net comprises MSC/VLR copying entity, SMC/SMG copying entity and HLR/AuC copying entity; Between described MSC/VLR copying entity, described SMC/SMG copying entity and described HLR/AuC copying entity, carry out each other information interaction;
Between described BS copying entity and described MSC/VLR artificial physical, carry out information interaction;
It is virtual that described MS copying entity, described BS copying entity, described MSC/VLR copying entity, described SMC/SMG copying entity or described HLR/AuC copying entity all use PC to carry out;
Emulation interface between described MS copying entity, described BS copying entity, described MSC/VLR copying entity, described SMC/SMG copying entity and described HLR/AuC copying entity adopts local area network (LAN) transmission as carrying.
2. the mobile communication system experiment porch based on computer software virtual technology as claimed in claim 1, is characterized in that, each independent described PC is virtualized as one or more copying entities.
3. the mobile communication system experiment porch based on computer software virtual technology as claimed in claim 1, is characterized in that,
Switch and VLR Visitor Location Register described in described MSC/VLR copying entity simulation in mobile communication system;
Attaching position register and authentication center described in described HLR/AuC copying entity simulation in mobile communication system;
Sms center and Short Message Service Gateway described in described SMC/SMG copying entity simulation in mobile communication system.
4. the mobile communication system experiment porch based on computer software virtual technology as claimed in claim 1, is characterized in that,
Signaling and the business function of the mobile phone described in described MS copying entity simulation in mobile communication system;
Signaling and the business function of the base station of mobile communication system described in described BS copying entity simulation.
5. the mobile communication system experiment porch based on computer software virtual technology as claimed in claim 1, is characterized in that, the protocol stack of described emulation interface starts to comprise successively custom protocol, UDP, IP, MAC, PHY from top layer.
6. the mobile communication system experiment porch based on computer software virtual technology as claimed in claim 1, is characterized in that, described emulation Access Network adopts described in LAN broadcast's technology emulation of udp protocol electromagnetic broadcast characteristic in mobile communication system.
7. the mobile communication system experiment porch based on computer software virtual technology as claimed in claim 1, is characterized in that, described emulation core net adopts signaling link and the service link in mobile communication system described in the emulation of UDP point-to-point transmission technology.
8. the mobile communication system experiment porch based on computer software virtual technology as claimed in claim 1, it is characterized in that, between described MS copying entity, described BS copying entity, described MSC/VLR copying entity, described SMC/SMG copying entity or described HLR/AuC copying entity, mutual signaling information is presented on the screen of PC in real time mutually.
9. the mobile communication system experiment porch based on computer software virtual technology as claimed in claim 1, is characterized in that, the quantity of described MS copying entity is at least 2.
10. the mobile communication system experiment porch based on computer software virtual technology as claimed in claim 1, is characterized in that, the quantity of described BS copying entity is one or more.
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