GeoEducator/sonica

Sonica: Software-defined Open NB-IoT Research Platform

Introduction

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Sonica provides an open-source NB-IoT testbed that is able to communicate with commodity off-the-shelf (COTS) devices. It implements NB-IoT version of eNodeB and an EPC with Cellular Internet-of-Things (CIoT) extensions. Thus it provides a platform for quick prototyping and/or verification on various layers of the NB-IoT network.

System Setup

Sonica runs on Linux environment. To set up a NB-IoT network that can communicate with COTS hardware, SDR RF hardware is necessary. The currently tested hardware include USRP B210 and X300.

Before building, you need to install dependencies packages. For example, on Ubuntu, the command is:

$ sudo apt-get install build-essential cmake libfftw3-dev \
   libmbedtls-dev libboost-program-options-dev libconfig++-dev \
   libsctp-dev

Besides, UHD (for communication with USRP) and ZeroMQ (for RF emulation) is also required.

Sonica's build system is based on Meson. To build, execute the following commands:

[sonica]$ meson builddir
[sonica]$ cd builddir
[sonica/builddir]$ meson compile

The two binary programs are located within 'builddir' directory:

• eNodeB: sonica_enb/sonica_enb
• EPC: third_party/srsepc_ciot/src/srsepc_ciot

For more details, see our documentation.

Join the Community

If you have any technical issue, please go to Issues. For any other question, please contact sonica.iotproject@gmail.com.

License

Sonica is licensed under AGPL 3.0. For the third party software used, the licensing information is listed in the third_party directory.