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Comprehensive 3GPP Cellular Internet of Things testing

Mobileum’s dsTest offers server emulation and client simulation capabilities for comprehensive testing of 3GPP Cellular Internet of Things (CIoT) network interface functionality and performance, by using client simulators or provisioning a server emulator with the interfaces necessary to support end-to-end testing. Our tests support the Control Plane and User Plane optimizations that have been specified for CIoT, including those for the S1, S5/S8, and S11 interfaces such as Robust Header Compression (RoHC).

dsTest is known for its capacity and performance testing capabilities, providing stateful, standards-based applications that react appropriately to both expected and unexpected events, simplifying the performance testing process of the signaling core. 

Machine-type communications testing

Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications, or Machine-Type Communications (MTC), are a key segment in future cellular mobile packet data networks. Forecasts show that the MTC analytics industry will grow robustly over the next several years, with revenue segmentation for the five components that together enable analytics to be used in M2M services: data integration, data storage, core analytics, data presentation, and associated professional services. Mobileum's dsTest:
  • Supports the Control Plane and User Plane optimizations that have been specified for Cellular Internet of Things (CIoT), including those for the S1, S5/S8, and S11 interfaces. 
  • Supports the MTC Diameter (client and server) interfaces on the following MTC network entities in 3GPP LTE and 5G core networks.
  • Can surround a CIoT Serving Gateway Node (C-SGN) with all the interfaces needed to verify the MME, SGW, and PGW functions required of the C-SGN.
machine type communications testing

Cellular Serving Gateway Node testing 

Mobileum’s dsTest supports C-SGN Testing in the Machine Type Communications (MTC) network segment, key in future cellular mobile packet data networks.   MTC specifications provide the ability to differentiate MTC devices, allowing operators to selectively handle these devices in congestion/overload situations.  3GPP has added specifications to integrate Cellular Internet of Things/Narrowband Internet of Things (CIoT/NB-IoT) communications into the overall network. 

4G and 5G interface supported by MTC/CIoT testing

Mobileum’s dsTest provides support for MTC/CIoT and C-SGN testing with the following 4G and 5G interfaces:
  • OmA RESTful Network APIs (SCS/AS ↔ SCEF). 
  • Nu Interface (SCEF ↔ PFDF)
  • Nt Interface (SCEF ↔ PCRF
  • S6m/S6n Interface (HSS (server) ↔ MTC-IWF/MTC-AAA(client))
  • S6t Interface (SCEF (client) ↔ HSS (server)
  • T4 Interface (MTC-IWF (client) ↔ SMS
  • SC/GMSC/IWMSC (server))
  • T6a/T6b Interface (MME/SCSN (client) ↔ SCEF (server))
  • Tsp Interface (SCS (client) ↔ MTC-IWF (server))
  • SGd/Gdd Interface (MME/SGSN ↔GMSC)
  • Rf Interface (MTC-IWF OFCS)
4G and 5G interface supported by MTC CIoT testing

6 key capabilities of Mobileum’s 
Cellular IoT testing

Application and interfaces
Applications and Interfaces
Supported applications and interfaces can be mixed to create different testing scenarios with emulated and real network nodes. 
User friendly scripting
Interactive subscriber database
Monitor, modify, trigger any subscriber in the DB, change subscriber policies, APN, events.
Scalable solution for Core Network Testing
Scalable and build
for performance
Supports hundreds of millions of simulated subscribers. Supports up to one million simulated gNBs within a single instance. 
continuous monitoring
Continuous
monitoring
Log subscriber actions continuously or only on error and capture real-time events. 
fully automated
Fully
automated
Lab Core Network test interfaces can be fully automated, e.g with SITE Automation Framework, using REST or XML APIs or CLI.
high performance
High-Performance Packet capture
Capture all incoming and outgoing packets at rates exceeding 200,000 packets per second.

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