Good to see you here on the list! :)

I am also quite new here, because although I worked once on some core network stuff some years ago I just signed up for this list yesterday.

I think, as far as I remember the only virtual UE implementation I saw came from EURECOM/openAirInterface.

Maybe that is something worth checking out.

Otherwise a fake UE can be implemented even in Python with the help of libmich/pycrate I think.

I am still new in thr area of available open-source core networks. I know that a very lightweight and compact package is offeted by srsEPC - although it probably does not have the S8 interface you require. I need to have a closer look at nextEPC to see how exactly it looks like, so I won’t talk about that now.

(the guy from P3 ;) )

2019. júl. 10. dátummal, 10:21 időpontban Holtmanns, Silke (Nokia - FI/Espoo) <silke.holtmanns@nokia-bell-labs.com> írta:

Hi,

I’m part of security research and we are mainly interested in the core network part and not on the UE part.

What we want to do is have a PGW which has some the EPC “machinery” behind to get a TEID and have MME, HSS, SGW initialized and some not real UEs i.e. the fake UEs would sit in or next to the eNB.

In the end we are interested in plugging this EPC next to a real one with a real S8 connection.

We do not need real internet connection for the “fake UE” and user plane is also not that important for us.

So how can we get a “fake UE” into the eNB, so that is makes all the protocol runs for data communication set-up.

Any hints?

Greetings silke