MxRAN Functional Architecture Performance Modeling

IP-based networks will more and more become the preferred method of transport for both voice and data. The IPonAIR/MxRAN project [1} aims at a flexible radio access architecture that supports multi-band, multi-standard radio systems integration and the usage of existing and future IP-based protocols. In this paper we propose a simulation environment to analyze alternative network architectures and protocol stacks with respect to signaling performance. Thereby we perform a use case approach to construct a general event driven signaling protocol performance model using OPNET Modeller.