Dear
ns-3-users community
,
I'm Alejandro, a Telecommunications Engineering MSc Student from Polytechnic University of Catalonia (Barcelona, Spain) currently deciding on a topic for my master thesis.
To summarize, I'm researching to test the implementation of IPSec tunnels (as stated in 3GPP), with code, for GTP-C in order to provide security for interfaces between SGW-PGW (S5 and S8) and SGW-MME (S11). I'm looking for an open source simulator with full EPC implementation in order to test this approach and later validate it with some performance KPIs: tput, latency, usage of resources, etc.
I'm completely new in this area, so I would like to discuss with you the composition of the code/simulator in order to see if ns-3 would be suitable for my thesis. Specially, I would like to know how the blocks are distributed for those nodes and interfaces and if it is possible to go deepon their implementing code.
I really appreciate so much any help.
Kindest regards,
Alejandro Ramiro Muñoz
Telecommunications Engineering MSc.
Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña (Barcelona, Spain)