OWL: a Reliable Online Watcher for LTE Control Channel Measurements

OWL is a software decoder of LTE control channel. It gives access to the main information carried in LTE Dowlink Control Information (DCI) and, in particular, to the modulation and coding scheme (MCS), the assigned resource block number and the transport block size. The software needs a software defined radio to smaple the LTE signal. We successfully tested OWL on different networks (Telefonica, Vodafone, Yoigo and Orange) in Spain and with different radios (Nuand BladeRF and Ettus USRP).

More information can be found in our paper [1] and in the software repository:

[1] Bui, Nicola and Widmer, Joerg (2016) OWL: a Reliable Online Watcher for LTE Control Channel Measurements. In: The 6th Workshop on All Things Cellular: Operations, Applications, and Challenges, in conjunction with the 22nd Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (ACM MobiCom 2016), 3-7 October 2016, New York, USA