Encountering smartphones in network simulation: a preliminary result on multi-radio multicast

This paper presents the design and implementation of how to incorporate smartphones into a network simulator. In such a network simulation environment, a real smartphone's network stack can interact with a simulated network and thus, new network protocols programmed to work on top of a real smartphone can easily be tested within a controllable simulated network with corresponding new network entities. We give an exemplary case study exploiting this smartphone-cum-simulator network environment in the area of LTE eMBMS.