Open End-to-End Emulation Environment for Service Prototyping in 5G and Emerging 6G Networks

Fifth generation (5G) and emerging sixth generation (6G) cellular networks support diverse applications with significantly different requirements in terms of throughput, latency, and reliability. Such diversity makes pre-deployment evaluation essential. However, existing approaches to service evaluation face several limitations, such as time-consuming process of prototyping on experimental testbeds, high cost of specialized network equipment, insufficient evaluation of the impact of new services on existing network mechanisms, and others. We propose an end-to-end network emulation environment that integrates both radio access network (RAN) and core network and enables the automatic generation of signaling message sequence diagrams. The proposed framework is demonstrated on an AI-Enhanced Calling service