LiveRAN

LiveRAN

Technical Overviews

High-fidelity, affordable, and flexible modeling and simulation for 4G/5G mobile networks

 

CACI’s Live Radio Access Network (LiveRAN) - powered by the Keysight EXata™ platform, is a wireless network modeling and simulation solution. It is ideal for testing mobile and network-enabled internet of things (IoT) devices, handsets, supervisory control and data acquisition/industrial control systems (ICS) modems, iOS and Android™ operating systems, and applications that require a high level of fidelity. Testing scenarios include terrain-specific network performance analysis, cyber testbeds and network planning, upgrades, testing, and evaluation.

 

With its ability to make certain mobile network elements live and simulate others, LiveRAN provides a unique environment for testing, training, and creating exercise scenarios for mobile networks used by commercial and government/defense organizations in the following situations:

 

Analyzing resiliency of critical communications in sub-optimal conditions (commercial networks, cyber warfare, kinetic/non-kinetic situations).

 

Testing and exercise development for facility and force protection missions such as:

 

  • Protection of facilities, embassies, and their critical communications

  • Protection of ships while docked   

  • Coordinating and interfacing with air-enabled cyber operations

  • Training for network managers, users, warfighters, and cybersecurity specialists

 

The CACI LiveRAN solution includes the following:

 

  • Consolidated smartphone graphic user interface to control multiple devices from a single touchscreen workstation

 

  • Standard 3GPP eNodeBs and gNodeBs to provide real-world cellular access including hand-off control and functionality

 

  • Integration with commercial evolved packet core (EPC) emulation packages via software modules to simulate the mobility management entity (MME), signaling gateway/PDN gateway (SGW/PGW), and home subscriber server (HSS) network elements and provide access to the internet.

 

 

Support services include:

 

  • Customized hardware configurations and eNodeB/gNodeB selection

  • EPC hardware substitution of simulated EPC components for seamless live-tosimulated           interaction (LiveEPC-NE)

  • Software maintenance