SHINE: Simulation platform for Heterogeneous Interworking Networks

The interworking of different radio access technologies aimed at providing always the best service to mobile users is the future of wireless communications. Many researchers are already investigating appropriate architectural solutions, coexistence problems, common radio resource management algorithms and other topics concerning this issue. In this paper we illustrate a simulation platform developed in our research group to investigate the performance and to test new management strategies of such interworking networks. Our purpose, however, is not to show the details of our tool, that would be useless for the reader; we aim, on the contrary, at providing those researchers who are facing the realization of a similar simulation tool with the main general criteria to develop a flexible and efficient simulation platform.