TY - GEN
T1 - LoFi5G MAT
T2 - 9th IEEE Engineering Education World Conference, EDUNINE 2025
AU - Pastor, Ronny E.
AU - Vizcarra, Agustin J.
AU - Santivanez, Cesar A.
AU - Rodriguez, Jose V.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2025 IEEE.
PY - 2025
Y1 - 2025
N2 - This work presents a flexible and adaptable, Low-cost, high-Fidelity 5G Mobile network Academic Testbed (LoFi5G MAT) for use in undergraduate teaching and research projects. LoFi5G MAT is integrated with HAST, our department's OpenStack-based private cloud, which enables resource sharing between various workloads of our department while managing different priorities and fidelity requirements. LoFi5G MAT is designed to emulate mobile network elements for 4G and 5G core and RAN scenarios suited to undergraduate laboratories, as well as paradigms such as SBA, CUPS, network slicing, and emerging technologies such as Open-RAN. Through its use, students can acquire hands-on knowledge, understanding key functionalities and their relevance. This work also presents and analyzes our students' experiences using LoFi5G MAT at the end-of-career mobile networks course during the 2024-1 semester, showing a significant improvement (22%) in the associated students' outcomes, which demonstrate its value in undergraduate teaching.
AB - This work presents a flexible and adaptable, Low-cost, high-Fidelity 5G Mobile network Academic Testbed (LoFi5G MAT) for use in undergraduate teaching and research projects. LoFi5G MAT is integrated with HAST, our department's OpenStack-based private cloud, which enables resource sharing between various workloads of our department while managing different priorities and fidelity requirements. LoFi5G MAT is designed to emulate mobile network elements for 4G and 5G core and RAN scenarios suited to undergraduate laboratories, as well as paradigms such as SBA, CUPS, network slicing, and emerging technologies such as Open-RAN. Through its use, students can acquire hands-on knowledge, understanding key functionalities and their relevance. This work also presents and analyzes our students' experiences using LoFi5G MAT at the end-of-career mobile networks course during the 2024-1 semester, showing a significant improvement (22%) in the associated students' outcomes, which demonstrate its value in undergraduate teaching.
KW - 4G & 5G
KW - CUPS
KW - Educational testbeds
KW - Network Slicing
KW - Open RAN
KW - virtualization
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/105007429949
U2 - 10.1109/EDUNINE62377.2025.10981355
DO - 10.1109/EDUNINE62377.2025.10981355
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:105007429949
T3 - EDUNINE 2025 - 9th IEEE Engineering Education World Conference: Education in the Age of Generative AI: Embracing Digital Transformation - Proceedings
BT - EDUNINE 2025 - 9th IEEE Engineering Education World Conference
A2 - Brito, Claudio da Rocha
A2 - Ciampi, Melany M.
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 23 March 2025 through 26 March 2025
ER -