Triangle: 5G Applications and Devices Benchmarking

The FIRE project TRIANGLE is building a framework to help app developers and device manufacturers in the evolving 5G sector to test and benchmark new mobile applications, devices, and services utilizing existing and extended FIRE testbeds. Connected apps will be a dominant software component in the 5G telco domain. Ensuring a correct and efficient behaviour of the applications and devices becomes a critical factor for the mobile communications market to meet the expectations of final users. While radio related certification of mobile devices has a strong standards based ecosystem there is still a lack of consensus on the benchmarking or testing methods at the apps level. The project will identify reference deployment scenarios, will define new KPIs and QoE metrics, will develop new testing methodologies and tools, and will design a complete evaluation scheme for apps and devices. At the same time the methodology to be used in the design and development of the TRIANGLE test framework will ensure that the testbed end user is not overwhelmed by the complexity of the overall testbed by providing an intuitive high level configuration layer for the experiments and a flexible framework architecture to incorporate new 5G networking topologies as they become available.