SIGNAL SYSTEM MANAGEMENT LLC — Department of Homeland Security SBIR Phase I: DHS231-005

Description

The Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) defines Mission Critical Services and server-to-server test cases in TS 36.579-3, but the 3GPP has no plans to create conformance test tools for these tests. In Phase I we propose to develop a process for executing the conformance test cases found in 3GPP TS 36.579-3 and answer key questions about the feasibility of creating the test equipment to conduct these test cases.We propose to create a steel-thread prototype within our existing 5G lab answering key questions about feasibility of our solution. We will use this steel-thread to define a testing process and it will be the basis for our test equipment which we will fully realize in Phase II and Phase III. Our proposed innovation is to leverage state of the art open-source implementation of end-to-end 3GPP solutions to develop the processes and create testing tools to test MCS server-to-server interactions and test MCS server-to-client interactions. We propose a containerized and virtualized solution. Being containerized and virtualized, our solution has the adaptability to be deployed purely in the cloud, as part of a hybrid cloud solution, or as a physical solution. The lab environment and testing tools will support realization of all five forms of commercialization with both government and commercial customers. These customers can purchase our test equipment for use in their own labs for conformance and interoperability tests; use our processes in their labs; and use our lab for conformance or interoperability testing; or use our product as a SaaS solution.